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MetaGuilds

Sep 27, 2012 ryan reign link
Meta - From the Greek preposition μετά = "after", "beyond", "adjacent", "self", alternately used in the form μετα - as a prefix in Greek, with variants μετ- before vowels and μεθ- "meth-" before aspirated vowels, is a prefix in English and other Greek-owing languages to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter. By way of example... metadata is data on the subject of the data.

Guild - A guild (German: Gilde) is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel, and a secret society. They often depended on grants of letters patent by a monarch or other authority to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials. A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as meeting places.

The idea is, we have many guilds on VO,many work with other groups. Meta-Guilds would give us a way to officially unite in a way that could be seen in the typical fashion... targeting and pressing k for all you newbs, and a Meta-Guild tag would be pretty cool too.

By way of example...

FAMY, CHRN, CLM andthe BLF have all worked together... so we might appear on screen as:

[FAMY]{TGSC}TheRedSpy: *G'day mate... BLIMEY! Didja se te size of that boomer on me cars bonnet?! Fair Dinkum I dropped apoo inme Daks when ah seed it! Dinkum, fair dinkum, dinky di! Wanna go to the bottle shop and grab some plonk? We cann get a session goin with this cockie cobber till we have a chunder, then we'll go go 'n give those Proper Toffsin TGFT a schoolin in Rafferty's rules , s'wat they get fer thinkin their all yobbo, to right! Less o'course they hear we're coomin and chuck a sickie, bleedin chooks the lot of em!

[BLF]{TGSC} Lysander Leonidas: *Ina few me gomena's over! She wags and I'm there, I's always down for bashin those wanna be troika in TGFT and their pet Batsos too! Ecka thinks he's sucha skliro karydi ! Hells,he's barely even a skrili gineka... my dardana gomena could kick emm to Hades and backs again! Theys only hard on space feisbukáki, catch em in the verse and they turns tail... its utter bulsitáki! the whole damned clan and everything they do with their pet snakes is gatzolía, eláda, tsabikjía! Jaaa δes tus, mu arxísane tis aγapútses tóra!

[TGFT]{CBA} Ecka Estenk: *OOT! Ack Nack Macfeegle! The TGSC is goona snoogle all me coo beasties and is goona top me off right proper guvna! ah'd roon awey boot ah'm sew oold dat me legs dunna werk nomore! But you lads try it an'I'll I'll gie ye a skelpit lug! oomonLysander ya Skinny Malinky Longlegs! TRS, Yer bum's oot the windae... Is the cat deid? Haud yer wheesht! Noo jist haud on I'm fair puckled! Ah dinnae ken whats gooin on or woot Ah'm sayin Ah'm pure done in. ma heid's mince and Ah'm pure nick Ah'm soooo auld! And me trousers are all drookit and hummin' ah tink ah've had a wee and I wanna tumshie skoosh! AH'M AULD! I like bubbly kocks! Now gimmie back me wallies or Ah'll be clyping to the Devs!

[VPR]{CBA} Growlor: **/me pretenz 2 sleep cuz im ascared of a fite wit deese to reely grate guyz dat will make me bee ded!

TGSC=The Gray Space Cartel
CBA=Care Bear Alliance

* Authentic Aussie, Greek and Scottish wordology to add a sense of realism.
** Authentic American spelling based on recent statistics for current (last thirty years) educational system.

Anyway, its just a way to make others aware of inter guild co-operations. It would help in combat between three or more guilds and would keepin frequent guilded players up to date on guild alliances.
Sep 27, 2012 ryan reign link
BRILLIANT! +1, you devs should implements this one right away!
Sep 28, 2012 TerranAmbassador link
+1 to the ability to make alliances

Make an alliance chat as well.
Sep 28, 2012 ryan reign link
"Make an alliance chat as well."

+ a whole lot.' Maybe also do Meta Guild chat like a guilds forums... different channel for...

General, members, Meta council, Meta Lieutenants and ruling council.
Sep 28, 2012 Savet link
+1

This would be a good feature.
Sep 28, 2012 TheRedSpy link
Lulz
Sep 28, 2012 Pizzasgood link
+1 eventually, though I don't think it's very important at the moment. There's barely enough population to sustain non-meta guilds. I'd rather see the devs raise the group limit first.
Sep 28, 2012 Savet link
This is good though, they could build in features like an alliance chat, maybe even some sort of hud notification showing where various alliance members are. Also, it would be cool if there was a way to designate someone non-hostile for a specified period of time, and have that status show up when you target them. Oh well, we can dream.
Sep 28, 2012 yodaofborg link
Lol Savet.

But seriously, -1 for now. It can already be done/has been possible since before "real" guilds existed, you just got to be a bit creative.
Sep 28, 2012 tarenty link
-1, guilds are overrated as it is. :P
Sep 28, 2012 TheRedSpy link
I was thinking the same savet lulz
Sep 28, 2012 Pizzasgood link
"Dream", right. More like write plugins.

But, that only works if everybody has the plugin. If you want to throw together a large ad-hoc group of vets and newbs during an event, you're SOL if the game itself doesn't support it.
Sep 28, 2012 tarenty link
This is good though, they could build in features like an alliance chat, maybe even some sort of hud notification showing where various alliance members are.

Sounds familiar. ;)
Sep 29, 2012 greenwall link
-1 overthinking
Sep 29, 2012 CrazySpence link
VOCE (the plugin they are referencing features from in this thread) already does this
Sep 29, 2012 TheRedSpy link
It's mine and you can't have it... Lulz
Sep 29, 2012 redotter link
OOooh.. why not faction/nation chat while we're at it.....
And put ranks...
and friend associations
[TRI]{TGSCBA}<Cpl>(counsel)*UIT*Red Otter +like :> wut?
-1 to more stuff infront of names
0 for more channels...

why not just say... /join 321 and tell your ally's that's your ally channel and don't give out the number? or form a group...Just saying, unless its an easy implementation I'd rather see trade being fixed, better ships, models and trident fixes...... and a pony.

- my 2c <dont hate>
Sep 29, 2012 greenwall link
i like this red otter guy!
Oct 01, 2012 Alloh link
I still prefer a decent FIX to IFF system than this.

If Devs could make IFF to be Guild-Aware, AND also allow Guilds to declare other Guilds, players and nations as Allies/Enemies. Simple lists, just like some plugins already does.

[MyGuild]
-Allies: NationA, Faction_B, GUILD1
-Enemies: NationC, Faction_D, FAction_F. Guild2, Guild3

All covered there. Anyone in "Allies" list integrates "my" meta-guild. Whoever is not listed is neutral.

This would be a much simpler yet fully functional implementation of meta-Guilds.