THE PROPOSAL FOR GUILD TREASURY USAGE

[mamarita]

After much consideration of all the awesome ideas, we have come up with this concise list of proposed items. We may not have included everything, but it's as close as we can get, and actually have a chance of getting done.

Panagrammic,

This is our well thought out proposal for use of Guild Treasuries. It's time that the guilds got a major upgrade, and one that we have been clamoring for since day one on Gaia. Please remember, guilds are just specialized forums, but we have been ignored while the actual forums have gotten upgrades over time. It's our turn now.


-Cleaning out / deleting forums in one action- actually we want to sell back forums to the bank for 1/2 price; just like we sell items back to stores. Wiping out all posts on a forum would be GREAT!. This would include the main forum.

-Rearrange forums- right now we can't arrange order(.-actually you should have this programmed already but don't... just saying)

-Set up subforums within the forums

-Payout directly by Captain/Vice Captain for contests. Set this up on the moderator's panel the same as it is now for buying forums. We have to go there to do withdrawals and that way the log is automatically made on the crew log already in place on Gaia.

-Customizing guild banners/ colors/ layouts

-Setting up guild hall/home in towns with access to more than 1 room and allow multiple users in at one time- it would be run similarly to the way Rally is.(This was a frequently asked option)

-Crew tipping posts- in fact, we want tipping of posts in guilds like in forums!!!- Actually, just enhance guilds so we can tip anyway!

-New shop for guilds to use to buy items for guilds- this is a biggie, we know that! It is also a good gold sink for Gaia and would have items that we could use on the guild only, We will work with you on items! We suggest Leon as the NPC for that. He used to be NPC for Captain's Guild before it closed, and we took over much of that guild's business. This goes along with the item below about how to stop abuse- only let the guild mule spend the gold. Items are soulbound to a guild and cannot be sold on Marketplace. Things could include banners, shields, awards.. things of that nature.

-Ability to move threads on forums, and in long haul, be able to move between guilds- especially helpful on RP guilds

-Advertising- buy billboard to advertise on home pages- just one idea of advertising

------------ Ideas to limit abuse -----------
- IN ANY CASE, WE WANT THE USE OF TREASURY TO BE LOGGED AND VISIBLE TO ALL MEMBERS. Either the way it is on trade pages or under the Moderator's panel. That is a see only for anyone except C/VC/Crew and the only item on the Moderator's panel that anyone outside of crew can look at.

-Establish a guild Bank so that when donations are made to the guild, it goes to the Gaia run Bank to monitor the usage- withdrawals can be listed like on Trade pages or in the guild's homepage under the Moderator Panel. Something like this exists already where the all actions by crew are listed. So, make it visible to entire membership. Only Captain/Vice Captain/Crew can make withdrawals, and automated private message goes to Captain for each transation also

-Make the Guild Mules official. In every guild, there would be a special crew position, called Guild Mule. That account would have all the Vice Captain abilities, and the words Guild Mule showing under its name in the guild forums. And the mule's house would be the Guild house, and the mule's gold would be the guild's gold, and the mule could shop in the guild shop.

Other ideas that won't cost gold but were suggested:

-One thing that came up that doesn't cost gold but would help us a lot- We want to have new administrative positions created = especially helpful in RP guilds where a non-crew member can actually moderate the forum. Gaia has site/omni moderators for forums, we want them in guilds

-Captain can set a public guild to block outside posters.

-Group chats for guilds only

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[GGN Vice Captain]

Here here!  

[Amensu Saje]

It looks great! I think we have a great chance of getting this well-deserved, and long past due upgrade! I really hope we do, anyway!  

[Ebania]

------I especially like the concept of being able to ban people within a public guild. T'would be super helpful during a public event.  

[Amensu Saje]

I wish I would have thought of this before. It might take too much coding / work, though, but I dunno:

I'd like it if we could ban individual users from certain threads if they're disobeying rules or something. That would be very helpful [in my opinion]. What do you guys think? Just curious as to whether or not that's something that would be good for me to mention to Panagrammic in the future or not?

mamarita

Ebony the Peacian

 

[God-the-almighty]

That looks good  

[l-Silk-l]

These are good idea's i like very much.  

[mamarita]

Amensu Saje

I wish I would have thought of this before. It might take too much coding / work, though, but I dunno:

I'd like it if we could ban individual users from certain threads if they're disobeying rules or something. That would be very helpful [in my opinion]. What do you guys think? Just curious as to whether or not that's something that would be good for me to mention to Panagrammic in the future or not?

mamarita

Ebony the Peacian

Whereas we want all the members to feel free to give is ideas, Pan has requested that we go through the guild. We have had a great working relationship with the developers in the past, and we cherish that. The fact that Pan is actually considering doing this for us is phenomenal in itself. Once he gets this proposal, he will be in contact with us to streamline it and add/subtract from what we want. That would be the time to propose that to him.  

[Amensu Saje]

mamarita

Amensu Saje

I wish I would have thought of this before. It might take too much coding / work, though, but I dunno:

I'd like it if we could ban individual users from certain threads if they're disobeying rules or something. That would be very helpful [in my opinion]. What do you guys think? Just curious as to whether or not that's something that would be good for me to mention to Panagrammic in the future or not?

mamarita

Ebony the Peacian

Whereas we want all the members to feel free to give is ideas, Pan has requested that we go through the guild. We have had a great working relationship with the developers in the past, and we cherish that. The fact that Pan is actually considering doing this for us is phenomenal in itself. Once he gets this proposal, he will be in contact with us to streamline it and add/subtract from what we want. That would be the time to propose that to him.

I figured that probably would be the best time. Thanks for the advice.  

[Kaput Cards]

Looks good to me, can't wait to see how much of it the developers do. Just the subforum deletion/rearrangement would be a godsend.  

[Regenki]

Could we also suggest that crew be able to mass-select members on the member list so that those members can be simultaneously promoted, demoted, banned, or removed in the guild. I'd really like to see that available in the guilds I own. It helps to speed things up a little with the whole process of dealing with members.  

[Bobby Dillon]

Just one thing. The Guild Treasury shouldn't be needed; But the ability to ban someone from a guild, or a certain forum(s) for a period of time. Like a punishment. There is a full image of this idea in the Suggestions thread on page 17 I think.  

[engineer-of-doom]

Speaking as the Captain of a guild with 14 million in the bank... bravo!

I would love to be able to use it to run contests. Thanks to everyone for doing all the hard work to put this proposal together.

heart heart heart  

[kouri-chan_xx]

It looks great...! whee

Also, I agree with the idea to mass-select and remove/promote/whatever options are available guild members.