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Blizz just stated through their radio that there will indeed be including guild houses a month or two after launch.
Now... how would these work I do not know... any suggestions?
I imagine they wont be persistant in the world. They would more likely be instanced zones that can be customized. It would be cool for there to be the option of putting up pictures of the avatars in the guild on the hallways
If they are instanced zones, as most probably will be the case, then at least they should be public for access by anyone unless restricted by the guild masters or managers.
SWG had player made housing that you could place anywhere out in the wild areas. However, the wild areas in SWG were much larger so you could spread out. It was kind of funny, however, because people tended to put their housing together creating player-cities well before player run cities were a game option. I don't think this soloution will work for Warcraft, simply because of the finite size of the world.
Well, I can see two possible options.
The first and most plausible is Instanced Guild housing.
Now, as to how this could work there are a few possibilities.
-There could be a 'Guild Hall' in each of the majoy cities. There could either be the option of the guild hall beign city specific. Like, if you ahve a guild hall in Stormwind, you cant have one in ironforge.
-Or it could be any 'Guild Hall' is a portal to yours, so no matter if you walk into the guild hall from Oggrammar, Stormwind, or Ironforge you end up at the same guild hall.
-Next, Guild halls could be an instance outside of the cities. Like those towers/keeps you see across the world. Placing just one more wont crowd the world too much. I see this as much less likely though, as at least with cities you have an easyway to travel too and from guildhalls, with the flightpaths practically next door.
The OTHER option, would be to create a new Island for the guilds. This island wouldnt have much of anything except for terrain (mountains, trees, waterfalls, hills, etc.), and some NPC deer and bunnies and such. Possibly hve a small outpost on the Island with a flight path too it. MAYBE a few merchants of some type. But there would be no quests, or monsters to kill on the island. Just a place to put your fancy guild hall. The dissadvantage to this would be, the first peopel to get guild halls get the best spots. Either the ones that LOOK the coolest (On the peak of a mountain, the top of a wter fall etc.) or are the most accessable (RIGHT next to the flight path).
Anyway, thats how i see them pontentially working.
The island thing is a nice concept. In my view though, they probably wont go that far; however, the thought of being guild instances in cities is more likely. Stormwind has several instances already, (me being in open beta and seeing them) that were gated off, and I think they are more likely to go this route then the island. Although, it could just be new instance dungeons like the stockades.
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