Warhammer Dev IRC: Guild Leveling and Expansion Goodness!

[Gulquarn]

Hey guys. I just stumbled upon a very informative irc transcript. I swear i searched and found nothing on this. It may be old news but it's news to me and maybe a few others.

Brannoc -*Giff* You've stated that guilds have their own levels in the game. How is the leveling done exactly? Is a % of the member's exp given to the guild or do you need to specific things to level the guild up
[WAR]Josh - Giff - Everything a player does in the game contributes to the leveling of the Guild. RvR kills, PQs, questing, ToK unlocks - everything. The XP is not drawn from your personal XP gain, however. It's an independent, parallel line of XP that ONLY goes to the guild.

Awesome so if I play enough I vote we have a Grand Pubah rank.

Brannoc - *Kilrogg* You recently announced that Guild Taverns in Capital Cities will act as private instanced Guild Halls. This sounds great and a clever way to implement a sort of guild housing in the game. How will a guild's level affect that guild's hall? Will there be any DAoC-housing style customization of interiors (Fitting with the WAR IP obviously), guild banks, guild merchants etc?
[WAR]Josh - Uh oh. Lock the doors and hide the good silverware, kids. Kilrogg's in the house!
[WAR]Gersh - Mommy!
[WAR]Josh - To clarify - it's not an individual guild hall belonging to each guild. It's a MASSIVE hall accessible only to guilds and guild members - one in each city. It's intended to be a major social hub for guild players as well a location where guild leaders and officers can meet and form alliances, plan major attacks, form strategies, bicker, etc.

And now for the expansion news!

Brannoc - Ok folks that's it for today! Thanks a lot for joining us here on Stratics IRC, #warhammer-online will remain open for chat. The logs will be posted on Stratics Central - The Massively Multiplayer Network shortly.
[WAR]Josh - I can't BELIEVE nobody asked us about the all-Halfling expansion.
[WAR]Josh - Thanks for coming, everybody!
[WAR]Wheeler - it's only half done...shhhh
[WAR]James - I know I was really excited to talk about our barrel shaped friends

Full IRC Transcript is here: Warhammer - First Stratics Warhammer Online HoC - April 8, 2008

[Zekal]

I was there for that. There is some great info in that log. On the expansion however, it could have been a joke but since Halflings are in Warhammer, I wouldn't doubt they would be in a future expansion.

[SilentDemon]

I'm sure they were joking about the Halflings... or foreshadowing. They did make pun about them so I can only guess that they are kidding. More short races I say!

[Sithius]

The expansion quip was a joke. I can guaranty you halflings won't be in any expansions as they are generally regarded as part of the Empire. Besides, when they do an expansion, it'll be skaven. ... OR ELSE!

[Pierce]

Thought I heard or read somewhere that larger guilds will have some sort of XP penalty so smaller guilds actually have a chance to keep up, is this correct?

I don't really mind, I think it's cool how they are trying to balance it. Doesn't change the fact that we are still going to dominate

I wasn't too happy to hear the game got pushed back a few months, but the news and other cool stuff they are revealing is keeping me going...I may just make it!

[Lethos]

Hmm I thought I read that the guild hall/area was only to be accessible by guild leadership. I hope not but I thought I read it....

[Gulquarn]

As for the expansion.. I knew it was a joke. lol. I just found the guild stuff interesting. As for the only officers in guild halls, maybe they changed it. This is the first of heard of guild halls in the game but I'm behind and still trying to catch up.

[Sleeky]

[WAR]Josh - To clarify - it's not an individual guild hall belonging to each guild. It's a MASSIVE hall accessible only to guilds and guild members - one in each city. It's intended to be a major social hub for guild players as well a location where guild leaders and officers can meet and form alliances, plan major attacks, form strategies, bicker, etc

I envision a huge hall where people gather around a huge table with a map of the world on it.

A medievil (spelling intended) version of this.