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Guild Heraldy
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The usual tabards and capes would be interesting but also making three more unique concepts.
1: The Mounts tournament tabard. Make it possible for guilds to design mount heraldry and armor so when a player runs by a person can tell which guild they are part of. This could come in the form of armor and or sigils and crests put on cloth which the mount would wear.
2: Shields and Arrow quiver, you could have each of these have unique colors or have a design with the crest of the guild placed on them. To make this easier it could be placed on the same spot on every shield or quiver. This would make pvp and walking around town more interesting as people could see all the different guilds.
3: Banner carriers, I know this is a funny concept but imagine the glory to be holding the banner of your guild during a siege and marching to the front. This could be useful for commanders to see where their forces are and to tactfully react based on that information. It would also be easy for guilds and squads to rally on a tall banner as well as make a target for the enemy to bring down. This banner man/woman would lose the ability of one hand while carrying the banner which they could plant down in times of dire need. But when carried the banner would give an aura boost to those around it for more health or greater defensive stats. I believe this could be a very unique and honorable item which could only be accessible to guilds of decent size perhaps 10+ or 20+
1: The Mounts tournament tabard. Make it possible for guilds to design mount heraldry and armor so when a player runs by a person can tell which guild they are part of. This could come in the form of armor and or sigils and crests put on cloth which the mount would wear.
2: Shields and Arrow quiver, you could have each of these have unique colors or have a design with the crest of the guild placed on them. To make this easier it could be placed on the same spot on every shield or quiver. This would make pvp and walking around town more interesting as people could see all the different guilds.
3: Banner carriers, I know this is a funny concept but imagine the glory to be holding the banner of your guild during a siege and marching to the front. This could be useful for commanders to see where their forces are and to tactfully react based on that information. It would also be easy for guilds and squads to rally on a tall banner as well as make a target for the enemy to bring down. This banner man/woman would lose the ability of one hand while carrying the banner which they could plant down in times of dire need. But when carried the banner would give an aura boost to those around it for more health or greater defensive stats. I believe this could be a very unique and honorable item which could only be accessible to guilds of decent size perhaps 10+ or 20+
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The rest is probably doable.
Banner carrier is an interesting idea.
Especially for parades.
Quivers could be a little to small for that
as for Banners, just make them spears!
To go one step further...any guild officers/leaders on the field could have a unique banner that visibly shows who they are. This can add a unique layer of strategy...enemy guild wants to kill officers/leaders, guild must ensure that those officers/leaders are protected.
Just food for thought...
Exactly my thoughts. It would give rallying points and targets for different groups. These buffs could be used in both PVP and PVE but I think it should be a bit more effective in PVP as that is really what would make the group effective.
Or even just making the squad leader have a visible banner on them would be interesting too.
Banners could be captured and used as trophies by other guilds, so it was a risky thing to brandish a banner. You could plant your banner on a keep and while you "owned" that keep you would reap rewards for your guild.
A really fun system that kind of languished in that game. So many excellent MMO ideas were introduced with Warhammer Online, most of which have been adopted into subsequent MMOs, or co-opted into WoW.
It was pretty awesome seeing someone carrying your banner on the field, but it came with some serious risks.
Just stick to what works.
Game would have specific requirement of image size needed depending on where it will be placed, and it would be up to players to prepare their guild art in such resolution, and up to them how their art will look inside specific resolution.
So for example, a player could prepare a guild flag image for mount, guild crest image for shield, and guild name image that would be written on quiver.
Let's just stick to the options that Intrepid design for us. Even games that are decades old had hundreds of options to choose from, that all made sense and looked appropriate to the world.
It would mean that a team of staff would have to actively police it for copyright infringement (can't pop a picture of Buzz Lightyear as your banner).
But mainly because the vast majority simply won't fit with the aesthetic of the game that Intrepid have worked so hard to create. I would prefer all graphical content in the game to be created by IS to be consistent.
As an aside: what was the custom artwork used for in BDO? Never played it and couldn't find anything about the process online. It's a very pretty game, I'll give it that.
Actually I was thinking about ArcheAge, but I wrote BDO without thinking.
Banners to hang on your house (outside as well not only inside), photo frames to hang on walls, even the ship sail design.
In BDO for example guild leader could upload guild logo, and this logo would be seen near name tag of each guild player (left of his name).
As for uploading your own designs, only if there's some form of regulation and moderation about it.
There's even a manuscript from the renaissance about fighting and waving the banner, with all sorts of spins and tricks to do with it to signal.
I'm all for it; but it sure will make bards a target.
At the end of the day if we can have officers or GMs carry a standard into the game it would be amazing.