by Ninetails Derpfox 25th February 2016, 3:00 pm
As dmitry said with the concept for a reward system for joining... anything, doing so is sketchy. While you may have a few people who join because they want to, you'd have a flock joining just for that reward. Once the reward is obtained, OR once it's no longer available, they'd leave. Or maybe they'll stay because they're too lazy to leave.
Joining a group just for the bonuses doesn't promise activity, and making high activity required would make people do the bare minimum just to keep activity up instead of RP'ing because they want to.
At the moment, bonuses aren't an issue. Look at guildless, we do just fine as a faction.
Our benefits?
We can do dark, neutral, and legal jobs... just like Neutral Guilds.
We can apply for CS/Sinner and RS/WS positions... just like Neutral Guilds...
We can form teams with anyone we want... except... Legal... mages
We have NO aces
We have NO place on the scoreboard
We have only 1 way of attaining H Rank (VIP)
We get NO guild bonuses
We have no benefits really. Guildless is kind of shafted by staff, but we have quite a population and quite a few are active.
The thing is, Dark mages aren't given any attention at all aside from being a peon to some supposedly evil person leading an event where it's predetermined they'd lose. Every time you see a bad guy they get at least 1 win under their belt before losing; but here all the darks just lose. There's no draw, and no minor winning when you're dark. You just lose every single time. This is one of the main reasons no one wants to be dark, cause no one wants to constantly lose. It's like playing a shooter where your team NEVER wins. Either the enemy has higher rank weapons, or they have more players, or you have the worst connection, or your team is garbage and the only thing that replaces them when they finally rage quit is another low level terrible player.
See? The odds are stacked against you in that lobby. So what do YOU do as a dark guilder? Get out the lobby, and find one where you stand a chance. Which just so happens to be neutral or legal lobbies.
What we need is a dark event for dark mages. OR a site wide event where dark mages do something weird and unheard of... WIN -hears the shouts of horror in the crowd-
We've had legal only events several times. We've had legal and neutral only events as well. We should have a dark only, or dark and chaotic neutral only event. Also, for such an event, for the love of all that is unholy... WE SHOULD NOT MAKE THE DARKS THE PEON OF SOME STUPID NPC THEY HAVE NO REASON TO BE COMMANDED BY.
This is my opinion. thanks if you've read this far.