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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Lineage II communism was my favorite. 100% of crafting resources given to Clan Bank by everyone and then clan upgrades everyone over time. With everyone contributing, new gear was made daily that would take an individual weeks or months to try on their own.
Probably could be implemented similarly in EQ with membership dues.
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DaP did something similar to this whereas they leveled a tailor to max with members providing the resources for one character to be developed. They also have a rezzing cleric to use by trusted officers.
Unfairly, DaP is always thought of as some sort of evil corporation holding the servers porting system down with a thumb.
In reality they are quite the opposite, inviting all members of the P99 community to drink from the DaP well, not just guild members either. This is apparent by their community service of porting they provide for ALL players of the P99 community!
More guilds should follow the lead of DaP, their members would be much happier working together to build one another up as DaP does.
Internally, DaP are spiritually free, and connected to one another unlike any other guild on P99.
Why, you may ask? It's easy to answer this; The guild lacks any competitive drive between one another, instead the members help eachother by telling when someone needs a port, or someone needs help on a CR, etc.
In DaP, it's all about HELPING one another, AND helping those who are not in the guild, yet are requesting assistance from the noble knights of DaP.
Instead it seems the majority of members in raid guilds work to inadvertently tear eachother down by gobbling up all the pixels for themselves so no others can get them.
It's no wonder such a negative vibe exists in raid guilds, how could it be any different?
In essence this only weakens the guild overall, particularly in the spiritual sense, strengthening only a select coterie of players who are blessed with pixels in that guild due to nefarious methods of attaining them.
This alone breeds envy and animosity throughout the raid guild, particularly in the ranks of the "fringe" players of the raid guild. Sadly, the "fringe" players view this system as the only one availlble, and the need to get uber pixels erases any sense of dignity they might have once had. At this point it's safe to say that they have started "drinking the koolaid".
I guess that's all that is needed though.
As long as a core group of 6-10 super-nerds are running around Norrath in uber-pixels and have a zerg of 50-70 other players to follow their instructions, that makes for a "successful" raid guild on P99.