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Message ID: 3297
Date: Mon Jul 22 15:19:22 BST 2002
Author: Rob LeBeau
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Digest Number 531


I agree with Su on giving and such but I think Alex
was just stating managing monies and such.

Maybe a good thread would be

"Ideas on managing Guild Money!"

Verant should actually consider this topic in new
releases since it encourages grouping and Guild are
the best facilitator for that trait.

-rob

--- Su <suceress@...> wrote:
> > Ive got a question for the list.
> > Its around the account is personal and cant be
> exchanged with outhers bla
> > bla. I do agree very much that you shall keep your
> account safe and all
> > this, but in a large scale operations guild its
> IMPOSSIBLE to not share
> your
> > account with a few people that you trust. This is
> essential to day to day
> > operations. You choose a couple of people who you
> trust and hand them your
> > info.
> >
> Actually it is not impossible. Sharing account info
> is a way to get your
> guild banned from the game.
> >
> > 1 example. Guild property and funding. A single
> person cannot manage the
> > trades/funds/hand out of items for the guild. This
> would be a full time
> job
> > for 1 person in my guild. Our solution is a
> separate account shared among
> > the officers with mules for cash / gems / spells /
> items. On our
> > messageboard transactions take place and a member
> can ask any officer to
> > complete a transaction once its validated on
> board. This is clearly
> against
> > the EULA but since there are no support for these
> types of operations with
> a
> > central store for a guild we have not found a
> better way to handle work
> like
> > this. How do others solve these types of problems?
> >
> See, we don't keep an armory in my guild. We used to
> have one but the person
> who had all the stuff either stopped playing or
> switched to a different
> server so nobody could get the stuff.
> Rather than having an armory, we help other members
> obtain items if we can.
> We believe that people should earn the items they
> get and they can either
> buy them off of another member or we help them to
> obtain it. In some cases
> items are given to members but it all depends on the
> individual players and
> what they like to do. We don't like begging and
> don't want to encourage it
> in our guild.
> luv,
> -Su
>
>


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