A bit of backstory:
So we're a fairly large guild with very active members who wants the guild to be desirable and known on the server.
Many of our members are doing what is encouraged to do for a guild that wants to grow, which is daily requests until they hit the contribution cap for requests.
That worked well when we were a smaller guild, but as the member cap increases, and more people contribute, that leaves us in a difficult dillema: if you don't do your requests before 11:00-13:00, you'll most likely not be able to do your daily 3 requests. For many of us that work, we end up unable to fulfill any requests.
There is no way for the guild to manage or restrict members from doing requests to hit contribution cap, and so only soft-rules can be encouraged to hopefully let everyone do their dailies. This is causing a bit of strife for us, and I imagine many other guilds, where some people are annoyed by the fact that they can't do their dailies and that frustration is at times aimed at the people who are actually doing something that's good for the guild.
In our case it's done out of a wish for the guild to grow and thrive, but in some cases this is probably done in malice, as it's easy to abuse and difficult to prove that you did more guild requests and not other content.
Therefore I would like to petition a change in the way that guild requests work:
suggestion 1:
Remove the cap on number of guild requests. This would allow everyone to hit their daily cap, but would also increase how quickly large guilds scale.
suggestion 2:
Keep the guild request cap, but also add a certain number of quests that can only be accepted by members with more reward-yielding contributions left. The requests for reward-yielding contribution should always renew so everyone can complete their dailies. This would also allow larger guilds to grow quicker, but not as quickly as suggestion 1.
suggestion 3:
Add a way for the guild master to set a defined time when members can accept non-reward-yielding quests, for example after 18:00. This could limit certain guild's growth, but would allow for most people to contribute, and could be adjusted by the guild leader to fit the individual guild.
suggestion 4:
Add a way for the guild master to set a defined number of requests each guildmember is allowed to accept per day. This would be quite limiting for a lot of guilds, and would stunt growth greatly for many.
For both option 1 and option 2 there is an easy fix to keep maximum guild growth to the same limit as it is today: set a max guild-wide contribution, so any quests completed after won't increase the contribution earned by a guild for that day. With this easy fix I find option 1 to be the best solution, with option 2 coming in at a close second. But any of these suggestions would make an improvement on the current system.
Make some noise on this post, and let's get it to the attention of Com2Us! 😄
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