Guild colors

[Finlander]

My suggestion is simple, make guilds allowed to have unique guild colors (not some pigment color) down below is a rule considering the suggestion of the colors and explaining about how the system would work.
This system is in use on server whats +4 years old and has a playerbase of couple hundred players. Iam saying this, cause that proves this is fully functional and bullet proof system. Ive changed some stuff to fit the aspects of this shard better, as well as the economy.




Guilds can apply for a unique color, to do so your guild must have at least 5 active members on 5 different accounts (active members are players who put a lot of time and effort into the game)
Then the staff has to vote weather or not they believe your members are/can live up to the requirement .
If the application is accepted the guild master will be allowed to buy a guild color for 2,000.000 gold, this can only be bought from an Admin. The guild master will be send to an area with all guild color left in the color pool, he is then allowed to select one of the unused colors.
The color must NOT be used for any trading purposes, nor must it be granted players not in your guild.
The guild color will be locked down in the guild masters’ bank box, and he will have full responsibly for any kind of abuse.
Abuse of the color, or failing to uphold to the requirements will result in removal of the tub and all dye items. Should your guild member list decrease to 2 or lower your tub will automatic be removed.
For the price of 50.000 gold, all colored items can be recolored to color 0.


Using or storing items with a guild color of which you are not a member off are illegal.
You are of course allowed to have the items in your backpack after you have looted them from someone, but be sure to recolor them as soon possibly.
Items breaking this rule will either be re-colored OR destroyed by a GM.




If you answer no to the poll, please write why, or we cant really keep it as proper no.



Thank you.

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[Death]

It's a nice idea, but it would have to be automated (As in, a script that automatically detects these things). It's also quite a task to code in a functional system that's automated. To prevent other people from using the same guild colors, there could also be a flag that checks what guild you're in. If you try to equip the item and you aren't in the same guild, it wouldn't work.

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[Dumples]

The idea is kind of cool, and I'm for the concept. The problem would be trying to find a wide range of colors that could be unique and reserved just for guilds in the hue file. The other part would be the enforcement and monitoring of this system. With that said, I still like the concept.

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[Finlander]

make a file with custom hues, what you can download at the website, i belive there are some of those readymade custom hue files what are in use at most of the custom shards. (if you want more hues that is)

Good thign with hues is that you dont have to download it to play, only if you want to see them guild colors.


About monitoring, well i personaly think this wouldnt take too much monitoring as the guild leaders do it for you, noone would want to lose the guild color / items dyed with it.

About coding, i dont think this would be tpp hard to code, if you dont want to make this automated, which isnt really needed

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[Death]

The way I would plan is have some kind of vendor sell the pigment to you that would work like pigment of tokuno/fel. This pigment would be a special bottle that would have unlimited charges, but each charge would subtract X amount of gold from your bank when it is used.

Second method I thought of which would be a lot cooler but subject to controversy is an automatic hue changer.

The way it would work is the guild leader would access a special option (Either from a purchased item or guild system) that would allow the leader to pick numerous colors (maybe around 7). Each of these colors would correspond to an area of the player (Player's weapon, player's helm, player's chestplate/tunic, player's footwear).

When 2 colors are picked, the guild leader can "accept" the colors. When the colors are accepted, whenever a guild member comes online, they would get a gump window that says "The guild leader is requesting you to change your guild colors". There would be a yes and no option for you to choose from and possibly a color description for each item (So you can see that footwear would be red for example). If you choose the "no" option, you would keep your current color scheme. If you chose the "yes" item, all the armor and weapons you are holding would be colored to the guild colors. I think this would be a more complex system to code but be a lot more automated.

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[Finlander]

When 2 colors are picked, the guild leader can "accept" the colors. When the colors are accepted, whenever a guild member comes online, they would get a gump window that says "The guild leader is requesting you to change your guild colors". There would be a yes and no option for you to choose from and possibly a color description for each item (So you can see that footwear would be red for example). If you choose the "no" option, you would keep your current color scheme. If you chose the "yes" item, all the armor and weapons you are holding would be colored to the guild colors. I think this would be a more complex system to code but be a lot more automated.

This sounds pretty nice, only problem is that thing with guild colors is that they should be unique only to be used by that certain guild and its members.

The system i suggested would be alot easier to put in.

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[Red Squirrel]

The concept sounds cool, but I don't really see it being feasible. What if later on theres over 100 guilds, we'd run out of hues. Sure that probably wont happen, but have to still consider the what if. I also don't want to make stuff require to change client files, as it adds a layer of complexity to be able to play here and fully see everything properly.

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[Death]

Ya, the restricting guild hues thing is a little iffy. Many people like the black VS red option, but only 1 guild getting it? Doesn't seem fair to be honest.

The layer I'm thinking of with the different colors for each piece is a better idea. With over 8 different wearable items, chances are that if a guild DOES copy your color ensemble, there's 1 of 2 things that could happen:

1) Even though they chose the same colors, they might not be in the same spots (example, red + black but in your guild, the helm is black and in theirs the helm is red). Think of a king snake VS a coral snake. Same colors, different positions.

2)You can change your suit slightly. Maybe add in the color yellow for 1 piece (like an obi or apron layer). That way you'll stand out, even though you have roughly the same color combination.

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[DOCTOR THUNDER]

BEER guild would like to pre-apply for the color of frothy amber.

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[sliptongue69]

Uh...my post must not have gone threw...

What I said was...what I've seen done before and worked pretty well was, after establishing a guild of a few people (people not just chars) you would pay staff for a couple dye tubs that worked like a combo between pigments do here and dye tubs. And the staff would set the color to whatever you chose. With a few exceptions, like the ones that cause crashes.

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[geezushhchrist]

i think u should be able to do the guild colors thing but u can hacve a multi colored guild like say red and black

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