When I heard of the guilds, I had a lot of higher hopes for things that I wanted to have in the game. I know that it has probably been said a lot I had really hoped since their was 24 people could be in a guild, that we would be able to play as more than one ship on the same server. I understand why you have prevented players from using multiple ships in the past. Now that Guilds exist, I will add a solution to that at the end, but first additional reasons why this would be nice. It would allow us to have the fun of PvP and training with each other. You can't get that with random people. I do understand why they have made it so that players can't join the same server with other friends. It doesn't fully help as players have still found ways around it, but just harder to do. So far, Guilds have just felt like a new Faction that you level as a group. It also gives you the ability to share ships. The biggest thing that would be nice out all of the stuff that has already been said by others is the training and PvP against each other. Most of my PvP experience hasn't been great because of being wipe out to quick that you don't learn anything, players being very rude or insulting, or those who just run away and don't want to fight. I feel like you wouldn't get that from guild mates. Also having internal competitions and challenging each other would be fun. It would add quality to the game.
I know that one of the fears of having friends having more than one ship on the sames server was to prevent them from exploiting power over other players in a server. You could do something for guilds by having their own server type like you are with Safer seas but without the limitations. Unless a guild is using all 5 ships, other guilds can join the server as well. So the seas are still not safe as you could end up with guild vs guild matches. Single ships can join but they know the risks and joining a current type of server is still available so they can avoid that out numbered risk.
