How (not) to join a guild...
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:28 pm
Just want to give some friendly advice to the influx of new players, returning players, etc.
I've been seeing this a lot myself as GM of RUN, which afaik I know is the biggest/most prominent active guild right now, though we do not actually have very many members.
This may not apply to all guilds, but I know it applies to us, and would be true of most guilds who won't just let anyone in.
If you are looking for a guild, particularly a good one, try to be a player that the guild would invite without you asking.
Your skill as a player/attitude etc becomes more and more important the better the guild or even the more members they have.
If they have 30 kick ass members they may not need any more, even if you'd be a valued member if they only had 10 members.
If you pester the members to let you join, without indicating that you have anything to offer other than being annoying, you'll quickly find yourself ignored at best.
If you have weird/bad templates, crappy gear, etc and are asking to join a guild you're probably wasting their time and yours. If the only thing we can see about you is your suit is terrible, you've only given the impression that you cannot be self-sufficient and we'd have to spend our time gearing you or teaching you how to play.
If you can't make any sense when asking to join, you're not going to get anywhere.
It's bad enough when you keep asking. We're not going to want to listen to that all the time.
Not to say you're not an amazing UO player and an awesome person, maybe you are, but we don't know you, so if you aren't being vouched for by a current member you're going to have to show your prospective guild why they would want you. A UO guild is not a charity, don't get offended when we don't act like one.
That said, I think UO guilds are great and strongly recommend finding one that is right for you.
I've been in guilds large and small and have made some great friends that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6063, old post ID:36516
I've been seeing this a lot myself as GM of RUN, which afaik I know is the biggest/most prominent active guild right now, though we do not actually have very many members.
This may not apply to all guilds, but I know it applies to us, and would be true of most guilds who won't just let anyone in.
If you are looking for a guild, particularly a good one, try to be a player that the guild would invite without you asking.
Your skill as a player/attitude etc becomes more and more important the better the guild or even the more members they have.
If they have 30 kick ass members they may not need any more, even if you'd be a valued member if they only had 10 members.
If you pester the members to let you join, without indicating that you have anything to offer other than being annoying, you'll quickly find yourself ignored at best.
If you have weird/bad templates, crappy gear, etc and are asking to join a guild you're probably wasting their time and yours. If the only thing we can see about you is your suit is terrible, you've only given the impression that you cannot be self-sufficient and we'd have to spend our time gearing you or teaching you how to play.
If you can't make any sense when asking to join, you're not going to get anywhere.
It's bad enough when you keep asking. We're not going to want to listen to that all the time.
Not to say you're not an amazing UO player and an awesome person, maybe you are, but we don't know you, so if you aren't being vouched for by a current member you're going to have to show your prospective guild why they would want you. A UO guild is not a charity, don't get offended when we don't act like one.
That said, I think UO guilds are great and strongly recommend finding one that is right for you.
I've been in guilds large and small and have made some great friends that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Archived topic from AOV, old topic ID:6063, old post ID:36516
