Currently after hitting level 80, there are no more cosmetics to earn besides doing the distinct guild commendations to earn ship cosmetics, which only allows 1 commendation unlock per distinction. From my experience, once a guild hits distinction 1 there isn't much more to do to grind, so most people ditch the guild idea. Adding more ways to play and level up guilds would certainly encourage more people to search for guilds.
My guild came up with some ideas that could be implemented to increase more to do for a guild:
- Be able to fight Guild vs. Guild ships like how Hourglass works. Doing this would increase guild rep while doing so and allow players to unlock new exclusive guild cosmetics and commendations.
- Be able to dive into a guild-exclusive server that would only consist of other guilds. This can allow for new encounters such as guild forts and events.
- Make it easier for people to find a guild right for them. At the moment, finding guilds is already hard enough. The Sea of Thieves Discord server times out anyone for even mentioning guilds, recruiting on the forums leads to your thread being locked, etc. The only ways to recruit people outside of the game are through Xbox LFGs and Reddit. There should be an in-game feature that allows people to find and join guilds based on their playstyle etc.
These are a few ideas that my guild had. There are more concepts they came up with such as making fleets with guildmates, but that would be way too overpowered. I may add on more ideas in the future, but for now these are some basic ideas we had.
