Invites on Republic Side

Please don't think I am whining or complaining and I am just using a sampling from today, a weekend day, thus a higher pop time .. we have had 4 in the span of 4 hours looking for invites. 1 that is captain rank trying to get a toon into guild, one that was sos who the captain did get into the guild, then another trying to get alt into guild, and lastly new member inquiries.

I know that officers cannot possibly be around all the time they have lives and all that and the ones I see over exert themselves to handle as much as possible .. but of late since I been playing republic side .. there is almost never an officer on .. sure I see zeph come in at various times, and linda et al, and I know that it is completely unrealistic to expect officer coverage to be more than a few hours a day ....

What I would like to suggest is a specific recruiting/alt invite time to occur perhaps I dunno once a day on saturdays maybe once on sundays ... and maybe 2 times mid week? .... not everyone would play at these specific times of course .. but officer volunteers and a listing of those times would sure help folks get tagged ... then of course the randoms could just ask in the /kos channel and pray during any other time which is now how it is. I think this would lead to a more organized feel. I think also posting a tagging schedule on the gettin started area of this information would help some of the frustration I myself felt a couple months ago ... its hit or miss on getting tagged into a guild you really want to join.

With a scheduled tagging event .. then perhaps a "I play at odd hours how can I get tagged thread" .. I think we can get active players into the game without asking more of our officers.

While the subject was invites on republic side I am sure this would help empire side as well but I have been neglecting my account on that side .. but I am sure it may be a similar situation and if not .. well then what is that side doing different than republic? and will this help either neither or is just plain silly!

thanks
cj

PS also many times members get inquiries about folks asking about guild and ask in guild chat what to do .. since no officer what I say is direct to website tell them to go to welcome center .. then getting started .. but even having a sticky or part of welcome center saying that to train our current members on how to deal with recruits is another helpful thing we can do .. and maybe it is there somewhere and my eyes glazed over it .. so maybe a refresher pop up for guild during login for a bit would be good.

Thanks Cj for "broaching" this subject. You are in no way whining or complaining, you're bringing a very important point to our attention. To be honest, I am not sure how to answer. We tried to cover this issue by creating the Captain rank which has invite capabilities and initially, we had several that graciously volunteered to become Captains. Unfortunately, due to the general inactivity not only we but almost all the guilds currently in-game are suffering from, our ability to invite people to the guild has been seriously curtailed because most of those that became Captains are no longer playing as much if at all. The situation is very similar on Empire side. Rybo, as the Empire PVE Officer, is of course only playing on that side but the number of active Captains is down as well. I think your suggestion of having a regularly scheduled time is certainly a very workable one. We could easily start with the time frame you usually log on. If you could let me know what your usual gametime is I will adjust my schedule accordingly. Hopefully, we can get more active people to volunteer to become Captains as well. :)

think one of the problems is that sometime their are people who can invite on but their on the other guild to the one seaking an invite, it would have been nice if guilds could create a universal chat channel between empire and republic,

but if you need captains i can voluteer to help invite, people to the guild which is also good for the eurpoe based people as im on though out the day when im not sleeping for work :D

Quote by Silver101uk

think one of the problems is that sometime their are people who can invite on but their on the other guild to the one seaking an invite, it would have been nice if guilds could create a universal chat channel between empire and republic,

but if you need captains i can voluteer to help invite, people to the guild which is also good for the eurpoe based people as im on though out the day when im not sleeping for work :D

The worst decision bioware made for the game was to not allow cross faction chat imo.

Thanks Silver, for volunteering to help! It is very much appreciated. We had several people volunteer to be a Captain when SWTOR released but have lost most of those to inactivity for many different reasons. I will send you a private message to let you know what needs to be done as a Captain and you can let me know if you would still like to help with this task. :)

yeah drop me a line or you'll find me on vent when not working or sleeping