What to do with all these guild buffs...

[knightgf]

One problem I think a lot of guilds may face when it comes to putting guild buffs on their airship is they don't seem to have enough space to put all the buffs they desire to have on their airship. To help make the situation fair for everyone though, one solution is to 'cycle' the airship buffs every x amount of days(Where x is a number). However, the problem with this solution is that someone has to go by every x number of days and redo it again, and this number is fairly small(1-3 days, maybe.) It can be a pain to end up having to stop by the airship every 3 days just to put in a new buff in a certain slot, and its usually more than one slot you have to do it to.

Fortunately, there is a solution to this situation. There are several things that can be done about this situation. First, I believe the whole system of putting guild amentities in should be redone. Rather than having to end up going to every slot to put a item in, all you should have to do is speak to the first mate, and he can show you a map of the guild airship. This map contains information about every guild slot, such as type, current amentity in slot(if any) and other information that will be discussed later. Redesigning the guild amentities placement to this method will allow convienence in adding guild slots, as well as allowing a certain level of customization to what occurs in that slot, which will be explained in detail later.

Second, and the most important suggestion: Allow us to create a schedule of 'amenities' in a slot for up to 30 days. What do I mean by this? Well, if one were to implement the suggestion above, you could speak to the first mate, have the mate show you the airship map, and then you could click on a slot to modify its features. There, you can purchase various amenities in that slot and 'line them up' so that after a certain time, they are automatically replaced with another amenity. You can line up a total of 31 amenities for a 31 day's worth of guild buffs. In addition, this system could also draw funds from the guild's platinum account in the airship showroom for further convienence in paying for the amenities. While you will no longer be able to directly purchase amenities with your own plat, it is more convienent to simply dump a large guarenteed ammount of money into a account so that the player does not have to worry about suddenly being short on cash from buying something and not being able to maintain the guild amenities.

And third, at the appropriate levels, it would be nice to have certain amenities unlockable at certain guild levels that combine features of already existing guild amenities into one slot. For example, you could add a "Lesser Elemental Shrine" at guild level 32 that is basically a tower which combines all the features of the lesser sonic, cold, acid, lightning and fire resistance shrines into one small slot. Or, at level 35, you could add a "Shrine of Abilities" which basically is a altar that combines all of the ability shrines into one small guild slot. There are several potental ways to be able to combine several guild buffs into one slot at higher guild levels to make way for other guild buffs.

Overall, to be honest, guild space is pretty cramped on the airships for sure. It's fair to have to cycle your guild buffs so everyone gets a shot at what they desire, but it would be nice for many guilds if they had the convienent ability to simply assign a schedule of amenities to appear on their airship using the guilds platinum account at the Airship Showroom so that not only are payments convienent in a way, but also, anyone in the guild can contribute funds to help keep the guild amenities going! It would be nice to see this update implemented for Update 8 or 9 if possible.

Comments? Suggestions? Rants? Post away!

[Monsoon28]

Or you can wait until you have a larger ship, I think that's part of the point with the Guild rankings.

Granted it would be nice if one anchor spot was set up to change every 3 days between Cha/Int shrines to keep both the Wizards and the Sorc/Bard's happy.

But when we hit lvl 50/55 we'll have more spots to work with, same in the coming months with we reach the large ship options.

[Tomalon]

I'd be happy if they would just let us pay for the amenities with the plat in the guild coffer.

Oh and if we could set it up to auto pay from the coffer too, that would rock!