Thoughts and suggestions on the upper limit of guild levels

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Ideas & Suggestions Regarding Guild Level Cap

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Current Issues:

1. Post-Level 1000 Motivation Collapse
   Many guilds hit a wall at Level 1000. Veteran members often abandon established guilds to create new ones rather than continuing contributions, fracturing long-term communities.

2. Rigid 24-Member Limit
   Example Scenario:

• A fully upgraded 24-member guild reaches Level 1000 through collective effort
• New friends want to join, but you must either:
  ▪ Remove loyal contributors (morale-damaging)
  ▪ Create a new guild (resetting all progress)

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Proposed Solution:
Tiered Guild Expansion System

• Pre-Level 1000: Maintain current progression (no changes)
• Post-Level 1000: Enable continued XP accrual with progressive member slot unlocks:
• Every +100 Guild Levels = +1 Member Slot (XP exchange mechanic)

Mechanics Example:

• Base requirement: 100 XP/level → 100,000 XP for Level 1000
• Level 1100 (110,000 XP): Spend 10,000 XP (equivalent to 100 levels) to unlock 25 slots
• Scalable Progression:
  Level 1200 → 26 slots
  Level 2000 → 34 slots
  Level 5000 → 64 slots
  Level 10000 → 114 slots

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Balancing Considerations:

1. Slot Unlock Thresholds

• Alternative 1: Require 200 levels/slot (slower expansion)
• Alternative 2: Implement soft cap at Level 3000/5000

2. Ship Donation Limits
   Prevent exploitation by restricting players to donating 5 ships/guild maximum.

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Community Impact:

• Current System: Forces content creators/streamers to fragment their communities across multiple guilds (e.g., 100k followers → 4,166 separate guilds at 24 slots each)
• Proposed Fix: Enables organic community growth while preserving legacy achievements.

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Final Recommendation to Rare:
Implement a scalable guild system where continued investment rewards player loyalty rather than punishing it. This would:
✓ Reduce guild-hopping
✓ Foster long-term engagement
✓ Allow organic community building
✓ Maintain achievement prestige through tiered progressio

@sweetsandman 在 Thoughts and suggestions on the upper limit of guild levels 中说：

Hmmm... here's an alternate idea

1: Remove Guild level limits. Make it unlimited like hourglass factions.

2: Allow for expansion of Guilds via Chapters. All Chapters would get a small % of level progress from all the other chapters.

3: Max of 'X' number of players across all the Guilds. Thinking 100? Meaning, adding a sub-5 person Chapter (which I reckon there are a LOT of) would be not as difficult.

This would encourage community building and help all the small Guilds that want to maintain their group and Guild name but will likely.

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The problem with your current idea is that it still would ask people who have - at this point - made years of progress with their current Guild to simply abandon that progression in lieu of sailing for some mega Guild. People want to keep and sail under their Guild for numerous reasons. I can only ever sail as one Guild concurrently...so being a part of multiple Guilds makes pretty much no sense for probably 95% of the playerbase.

But, if you could combine Guilds as Chapters and allow for alliance-like progression, then everyone wins.

I have no objections to your idea.
But the idea you proposed requires rebuilding the guild system.
I don't think RARE will remake the guild system.
Because of modifying the guild's system. This will involve a significant amount of modifications to achievements and commendations.