because i had no idea of how guild charters worked here [as you can see, i finally built myself a guild], i got a guild charter and immediately thought that i had to snag ten signatures from other characters in the world. for a while, i ran around thunder bluff, then i tried to haul one of the other characters into a group and tried from there. eventually, i responded to them [because they said hi] and i apologized for stealing them aside because i didn't know how something worked. they responded to it by suggesting that i likely didn't know how my spells worked and i said "no, in fact, i'm not sure how to get a guild going" and they explained that i did not need signatures to make the guild. i could just turn the already-bought charter back into the guild master.
this is a long way of saying that: i think the guild master's gossip could include an extra line saying something to the effect of: "you don't need signatures to start a guild here, simply buy the charter and hand it back to me immediately and your guild will be registered."
this will avoid the same sort of confusion i initially had.
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i think this might be worth both adding to the .faq for the realm AND ALSO as a feature in the feature list, so there are multiple avenues to find the information.
my suspicion is that at least some players will use a guild to organize their alternate characters and these are additional ways to get that information to those players.
this is a long way of saying that: i think the guild master's gossip could include an extra line saying something to the effect of: "you don't need signatures to start a guild here, simply buy the charter and hand it back to me immediately and your guild will be registered."
this will avoid the same sort of confusion i initially had.
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i think this might be worth both adding to the .faq for the realm AND ALSO as a feature in the feature list, so there are multiple avenues to find the information.
my suspicion is that at least some players will use a guild to organize their alternate characters and these are additional ways to get that information to those players.