Also in WvW the emblem will show on keeps we have claimed but the background will be the colour of which ever colour our server is currently deployed as (Red, Green or Blue).

The actual background should be the color of the Armor or Weapon you applied it to.

If any of you get the couple of names that I'd really like to have, I will beat you down with a wet noodle. :P

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This is my humble attempt at a guild emblem. :)

Nice. But you wont be able to choose the background colour.

We only get to work with the slate gray then....how come?

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I've been trying to figure out what order I should claim my names... I want a name for one of my alts that I know will go quickly... the name for my Main may go rather quickly but probably not as fast as the alts..

so do I worry about getting my Mains first, since this is the char I'll spend most my time on..

or try to grab the popular name I want for my alt first..

God I Love Release Day! lol

If it were I, (without regard to main or alts) I would go for the names you think people will actually try and get or accidentally get ahead of you, after that the more unique the name the safer that name will be or should be...giving you hopefully a little more time with those.

I went through the process of renaming all my ships last week. they're all named for songs by Clutch, with my main one being the USS Pure Rock Fury.

But ever since i joined i keep seeing people who apparently WISH they could name their ship "Enterprise" and instead end up using variations of the name. I'm thinking of naming my NEXT ship (when I decide to get one) "EnterToWinAPrize" as a parody of that phenomenon.

Hell yeah, I can do 11pm, I get home from work at that time anyway, I'll just boot up the comp before I go to work, that way I can get started trying to login and what not. I'd also be up for the Vent party thing, what time would that start, if someone could tell me that, it'd be great.

Ah come on, am I the only one that's going to run a Warrior as his main? Norn Warrior all the way, I've made my Norn Warrior during every Beta event. AND I'm still going to Make my Norn Warrior when the game releases, besides, I like getting in the face of my enemy and beating him to death with a gigantic sword or axe or even a mace.

My secondary, probably a Sylvari Necromancer, why, made one during the last beta event, and I enjoyed it. Pretty much why I'm going to make one again once the game releases.

I'm putting in my vote for nniicc's fifth emblem entry on the second page of reply's, it just seems right to me. sorry for such a small post.

I'm glad I'm reading up on the forums, rather wise I wouldn't have found this tid bit of info, thanks for the heads up on the name thing.

i have added a guild tab. 'say' goes into both guild and map tab. I have the map tab open all time. This way the colour of the guild tab changes when someone says something. That makes it easier for me to notice when a guildie says something, when i leave the guild tab open i often don't notice new chat.

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This is my humble attempt at a guild emblem. :)

Nice. But you wont be able to choose the background colour.

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Rough Trade has registered at GW2Guilds. Here is their page.
Should we do the same?

The cat is out of the bag. So yes, i think we should do the same.

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Yeah, we might have to consider transferring en masse in the first week.

The alternative might be to have Guild chapters on different servers. However, because guild perks are server bound, and WvW will need intense co-operation, this would probably lead to break-away Guilds.

In another sense, the whole LGBT community might want to prepare to become permanently "nomadic". We might have to periodically transfer to low pop servers if we want to keep all LGBT guilds on the same server.

Certainly a strange way to do business, but it's the result of how ArenaNet set up their servers.

That is the worst case scenario. This will only happen if there are continually new people buying the game and everyone keeps playing as much as they did when they started playing the game. At launch people will be playing a lot. Shortly after launch a lot of new people will buy the game. The number of new players will decrease though. The amount of time one player is online will decrease too. If they don't unlock servers, after a while a lot of accounts on that server would be less active or inactive.

Arenanet has chosen to limit the number of servers at launch. I assume they want to avoid having to merge servers a few months after launch. At launch they'll want to spread out the community, so i expect the popular servers to be 'full' quickly. When people move away from the starting zones i expect them to unlock these servers.

This is one of my most requested features and if it's in game I haven't found a way to do it.

You can create a new chat "tab" with whatever you want on it but can't drag it into it's own window. I personally like to have the guild chat as well as my private messages in a separate window. As it is now I created a new tab for it and just have that open all the time, thus I never see zone chat or anything local to me.

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Hate to bring this up again, but Thrumdi's post reminded me of it, have we decided on an emblem yet:) or the process through which we will select one?

The emblem is the first thing I'm going to try and unlock for the guild when the game launches. Once that is done I will create a new thread for a "real" emblem design contest.

The first thread will be for people to post their entries (as many as they like) and then once a certain amount of time has passed (a week or two?) I'll create a new thread for voting. Depending on the number of entries, I may get the officers to select their "favourites" before the vote but if we don't have that many then I'll probably just throw them all up.

This seems the best way to create an emblem which was created and chosen by the guild and not me or my officers :) Hopefully you'll all have a attachment to it.

Once we have decided on the emblem I can start plastering it all over this website, hurray! :)

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I'm following your thread at Guru, and it could be a real problem, in that new Stonewall members may never be able to get onto CD.

However, this would be a problem with any server we choose (though more of a risk with one that is initially popular like CD).

It all depends though on if ArenaNet is going to enforce a hard server cap or not. As you point out at Guru, that cap appears to exist because of WvW limits. This makes me pessimistic that it will ever be significantly increased from what it is now.

If this is the case, a low-pop backup server like Ferguson's Crossing might be a necessity if new Stonewall recruits can't get on CD ever, or have to pay to do so. This raises the real risk, however, that FC could gradually become the unofficial LGBT server, as new gamers find it easier to flock there.

But what happens once FC's become full? Do we have to choose a 2nd official back-up after that?

This is the system ArenaNet is going with, and I guess we just have to come up with a plan to deal with it.

That is my theory, the overflow technology is well capable of having everyone on a single server with no caps simply because its all instanced.

I believe there are limitations to it to prevent server neglect (I.e, why would anyone roll ehre when this is the best!) and to prevent massive WvWvW queue times, since it cannot be put on overflow. (Simply due to design, it's just impossible!)


This is why I think there should be no overflow, but rather go back to traditional queues and allow guesting to be freely used. If the queue is too long, guest in a lower populated realm. If the zone is too crowded, change channels/districts (sort of like Aion)

Honestly this wouldn't be much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that anyone out of home server is ineligible for server perks.


It's a huge problem because like I said in nearly every MMO launch I have been in, all of the launch servers get full... then they start creating new servers.


My best suggestion to anyone is to prepare to be segregated. You WANT to choose the high population realms. Because we are guaranteed a transfer from a high pop realm to a new server. We'll be split up the first week or so, but we may have to transfer to a completely new server all together.


Also, there is a very high probability that if they launch new servers... Eternal Grove will return.

I never had the chance to login in as the servers were turned on.. I had to wait until I got home and had to login at prime time.. Yes CD was full... I kept trying even though it said full, less then five minutes I was in.. Not only that but I looked again a little later and ANet had changed capacity so it was no longer full.. All releases are frantic, just be patient and keep trying..

If you really want a name and can't get into CD, I can't blame anyone for logging onto another server temporarily and transferring when things calm down a little..

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Hate to bring this up again, but Thrumdi's post reminded me of it, have we decided on an emblem yet:) or the process through which we will select one?

I found the thread posted 2 months ago for emblems....and bumped it. :woohoo:

This is my humble attempt at a guild emblem. :)