Eragon's Guild Guide
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What Are Guilds
A guild is a group of players that quest together, run dungeon, raid, and help each other out. In this guide I will tell you about guilds, how to form them,and how to manage them. It will take time to form your guild and you will run into quite a few problems. This guide will give you helpful tips for your guild.
Guild Naming
The name is the most imporant part of the guild. It is what attracts players the most. People want a cool name that they have to run around all the time right under thier name. Be cool with you guild names! Get creative! If you're having trouble naming let me give you some possible names: The Sniper Council, The Warrior League, Darkness, Wolf Brotherhood, We Don't Wipe, Kamoflogue. Names that will be cool.
Your Guild Charter
The guild charter is the hardest part in any guilds life. It consists of going around asking random people to sign your charter. 60% or the time they will decline the charter. To get people to sign your charter spam up the trade chanel a little, forget to "Guild Recruitment" channel it's useless.There's two types of spammessages the ones people read and the ones people do not. One some one would not ready is "Brother Vodo is (signing charter)!!!! We want to-be a big guild soon enough and just hang out n' stuff.........." all the stuff like (), --> <--, ......., etc. doesn't help, it just makes it hard to read, boring, and unattractive. One someone would read is "Ol' Timers wants you! We are a new guild signing charter. We can't wait to get our guild up and running and we already have as site. Whisper for details or to sign." It was intresting, inforative, and easy on the eyes.
New Guild
Okay you just now turned in your charter and your now in you guild. About 5 people are online and your all differnt levels. The first thing you need to do is open guild and click "Guild Contol". Customize teh ranks and what they say. You should have 4 ranks: Member for new people, Veteren for those who have been in for a little while, Officer (try to keep only a few) to manage your guild when your gone and to help enforce to guild rules. Second thing to do is to set the Message Of The Day (MOTD) you should keep it as something like " Welcome to Insane League.We will be running Strath on Friday. Our site is www.Insane_League.net." Finally start a conforsation with everyone. something like hey have you noticed people go to Redridge more than Duskwood? The three thing to make sure is not discussed is: Religion, Sex, and Other Members. That's the fastest way to lose members.
Guild Website
You have started your guild but your making no money off of it and you have no programming knowledge then you have two recommended options: freewebs.com or guildportal.com! I recommend Freewebs. For both all you need is a EMail adress.
Guild Recruitment
Your guild is up and running. You have a steady donation fund, member flow is good, and everyone is helping each other... Well now you need to get even more members! Now you are in the race you are up against some guilds with 300 maybe 400 people. You have to recruit as much as possible. You need to make sure people know everthing about your guild while recruiting. Recruit people you know, people your running dungeons with, or just type a recruit message on the trade channel. One more thing, Guild Recruit channel isn't noone uses it 
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You're Ready!
Now you are ready to be a successful guild! Get out there, recruit, have some fun, and grow as a guild. I hope you learned alot from this guide thank you for your time.
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Errm, the reason people
Errm, the reason people don't use Guild Recruitment Channel is because they hate guilds spamming ads, which makes it even more annoying when they spam general and trade channels. A successful guild doesn't mean it has to be a big guild. I'd much rather be in a guild with 20-30 high(ish), active, friendly and experianced players than a guild with 100's of 1-30's who know diddly squat about the game and who beg for 'boosts' every second of the day. Luckily, i've never been in a guild like that, and i hope i never will be.
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I agree, the other thing is
I agree, the other thing is that if you get to big to fast without planing and control will get out of hand very quickly, you need to ensure that rules are in place for many things, still make the game fun yet having ground rules down so everyone knows whats what and what is done in different situations,
A good Guild website should contain these things,
- An easy to use website layout, now if you are lucky enough to have a website domain and a webserver, then I would suggest "smf" and "Tinyportal" for the forums now im not much of a programmer but i have found things all over the net that im able to add to be able to make peoples forum viewing easier and want them to come back,
- For Raiding guilds, its essential to have a raid manager, now there is a few of these available and can all be integrated with the website in various ways,
* Group Calender (requires wow addon & plugin for wowroster to view on the website)
* Guild Event Manager (requires wow addon & plugin for wowroster to view on the website)
* Phpraider (stand alone website calender which can use the authentication system from your forums if its supported)
- Ventrillo/Teamspeak - even with WOW's Voip system in game its still something that needs a lot of work, (sorry blizard it really sucks atm) so most guilds say 99% of the raiding guild its a requirement to use the guilds venty or Ts server you need a mic and headphones/speakers to use and it costs nothing to use, but with our guild we have a paypal donations or clanpay account which helps support and keep everything running,
There is a tonne more things you can do at low cost or no cost, but you have to put the hard work in as a gm to get anywhere,
We have a Guild for levelers and pvpers, once they hit level 70 they are to work on their gear to be at least kara ready, and the other guild is for Raiding, lvl 70 only and we are moving on nicely so take the advice if you think its easy, then dont do it, it takes a lot of work and time,