New Guild in Wayfinder: Your Part Time Guild

[Nuclear_Elvis]

Greetings to all Full- and Part-Time players of server Wayfinder. I am a prior Turbine game veteran of many years and have shifted to playing DDO. After initially buying in during the Black Friday sales event, I tried to take note of the many aspects of new player build, growth, and social dynamics here in DDO. I quickly noticed the differences on Wayfinder, and not just the server population. There were many lower level characters, but few who were in a guild. Most that I chatted with seemed to be only temporarily playing Wayfinder to either generate Favor, or just checking it out. Thus sprung my idea - start a Part-Timer's Guild!

"Your Part Time Guild" is a sincere effort on my part to breathe some life and support into the smaller Wayfinder server. The concept I am using is toward that of a Clearinghouse. I do not primarily seek full-time Wayfinder players, and my goal is to help players find a full-time Guild, whether on Wayfinder or elsewhere. There are no expectations for log-in minimums, nor donation minimums -- none of that. This guild will simply be a place to socialize, "hang out" and chat, but also to help organize those who do pass through. In a way, I hope that this Clearinghouse of a guild helps people connect who otherwise would not while they are on server.

Guild leadership will also be part time. My time in Wayfinder will vary, as I will be exploring all servers over the next year. Guild Officers will only be comprised of the alt characters for Guild Leaders in Wayfinder or elsewhere. As result, I hope that this guild also serves as a hub for Guild leaders around the game to gather when desired for various purposes, which has great potential to network and discuss the game. If you are a Guild Leader and would like to discuss further, feel free to PM me here in Forum or find my main "Kyll" in game in Wayfinder.

Specifically toward existing Wayfinder Guild Leaders/Officers, I am not here to compete with you. Rather, look at me as a potential Training Guild that can offer up players to your guilds should they choose to stay longer term in game. I will not recruit any players who are current guild members in Wayfinder, and any transfer into my guild will first incur a discussion with the prior Guild leader. I discourage full-time Wayfinder players from "jumping ship" to join me.

As for Airships: Plat donations have already begun flowing into the guild, and we are capitalized to buy Airships when we reach our initial thresholds. We will grow the guild, purchasing each ship as it becomes available.

As for Guild rules, simply follow the game's EULA. We expect a varied and diverse membership given the theme of this guild, and I am not turning anyone away who wants in. Given the history of the server, I especially want to reach out to European players who would like to bridge the gap across our different language-based guilds (i.e. would be great to have at least a few German typing/speaking members!).

All in all, I recognize that by myself I cannot change the player-base of an entire server, but I hope to have a positive impact on the community of the Wayfinder server, and over time look forward to chatting/talking to many other passionate MMO players who find DDO as their home.

[Tscheuss]

Welcome to Wayfinder. We are all about the Fun.

[Nuclear_Elvis]

Welcome to Wayfinder. We are all about the Fun.

Thanks Tscheuss. We just crossed over level 10, have bought the first/smallest Airship and filled it up with buffing amenities. For part-timers on server, it's a nice addition.

[Nuclear_Elvis]

Level 15 and growing; Floating Rock Garden amenity purchased and hooked, although a trade given our small Airship.
New guild leaders have joined from several other servers, become officers, and our growth is accelerating at a nice pace.
Thanks to Wayfinder TeaBags who provided some plats for guild purchases.
As reminder to Wayfinder guild leaders - I will encourage/push full-time players in the guild to seek full-time guilds elsewhere on the server, so if you have not yet sent me a private message here, or in-game mail, please do so, as it helps me gain insight into the types of players you are looking for and I can appropriately refer them out.
For non-Wayfinder guild leaders, same thing - please PM me here or in-game mail so that we network and I give players options for their DDO play outside Wayfinder. All guild leaders have an open offer to become an officer in the guild and then help bring in your guild members and help frame our future as a clearinghouse guild.

New-to-game players, you are especially welcome to join in and test out not just Wayfinder but you get a chance to communicate with several guild leaders before you make your choice where your full-time gameplay will end up. Some may wonder why a new-to-game, new installation player would log in to Wayfinder. I can't say there's one single reason, but Wayfinder always sits at the bottom of the server list for your choice of login server. Perhaps that is a draw to some players newly installing the game, but for varying reasons I have been bringing in many new-to-game players in the last couple weekends.

Last, and especially if you enjoy helping new-to-game players, new installations out - know that some players have their new computers defaulting to Direct X 11 (DX11) and they need to go ESC(Main Menu)>Options>Graphics>Check box labeled "Detect Optimal Settings" to get their PC better aligned, reverted to DX9 (this has worked with many new installation players). I hope the dev's change the default new installation so that this box is checked already, so your system reverts automatically, but perhaps there's some code issue. I put this here because I have helped three players with this problem already, and one had a newer premium gaming PC and was facing issues until doing this procedure. Get the word out!
NE

[Nuclear_Elvis]

Your Part Time Guild has upgraded to a Daedalean Kraken, and looks forward to even more growth in our guild going forward. We have a growing group of part-timers on server, and some who simply choose to stay full-time with us. Send me a note here or in-game mail if you want to join us and help raise the Guild Level and fill up the ship with new Amenities.

[Tscheuss]

Congratulations on your new acquisition. I hope it serves you well.

[cru121]

Your Part Time Guild has upgraded to a Daedalean Kraken

Envious! Gratz.