Here here!!! (And how about Instanced Guild Headquarters??)

Greetings! I would like to echo each and every one of Or-ion's requests. He is the Founder of our Community of 5 Guilds and I am the current GM of THE JEDl ORDER. My personal priorities are: > Increasing the maximum number of Guild members. We CONSTANTLY have to trim members that haven't played in only a short time so that we can continue to recruit and bring in new blood. Not everyone should have to be a "hard core" player. > A real and seamless Combined Guild Chat with the other Guilds in our "Community" of 5 Guilds. (Or, at least the ones in the same faction!) > If not Player Housing.... at LEAST a Guild Headquarters! I could be "instanced" taking up NO actual real estate! It could even be "in orbit" around a given Planet. (Imagine the great views from large, panoramic view ports!) How about letting us DECORATE them?? (We'd even be willing to fork out Cartel Coins for the privilege!! $$$'S to BIOWARE!! ) > I have been collecting Lightsabers since game start in the hopes that someday I could display them somewhere on the interior of my ship. > Chat Bubbles!!!!! PLEASE!!!!! > One last thing.... I'd REALLY like to be able to sit down somewhere other than the chairs on the bridge of my ship. I'm old. My poor feet and back are killing me! (So you've already shown us you can do it.....) So why not extend the same ability to the couches, chairs and bar stools located in Cantinas and other locations with furniture throughout the Galaxy!

THE JEDl ORDER - Begeren Colony 500 Members. (We regularly remove Member toons if they haven't been played in over 45 days and refill the spots as quickly as they free up.) Over 150 Members at Level Cap We are Jedi only. All members state are at least 18 in real life (At least they all claim to be!). We only allow RP appropriate names. We are actually part of a Community of Guilds. (THE JEDl ORDER, THE SlTH ORDER, REPUBLIC SPEC-FORCE for Troopers and Smugglers and IMPERIAL BLACK-OPS for or Agents and MANDO'ADE ALIIT for our Bounty Hunters. Our Community website can be found at http://www.jediswtor.com/home Our Community of Guild is comprised of approx 1000 registered users. We have our own Teamspeak Channel (typically with 25-50 people logged in) and a Facebook Page. THE JEDI ORDER hosts magnificent Role Play Initiation Ceremonies every Saturday morning and Sunday evening and start them at Master's Retreat. (Our other Guild also hold their own Ceremonies on a weekly basis.) We hold regular Raids, Operations and FP events. THE JEDl ORDER started well over 8 years ago on SWG and came to SWTOR with over 300 pre-ordered members. We have held our Guild moniker since Game Start. Oh... And we have the greatest, friendliest and most knowledgeable people in SWTOR. (This last point is just my opinion, of course!) MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

Hi there! I'm the GM of THE JEDl ORDER on Bergeren Colony. Our Guild started well over 8 years ago in SWG and was a Guild some note. When SWTOR was getting close to going live, we moved here with well over 300 members that Pre-Ordered. As a result,our Guild was established in beta and has been a Guild in SWTOR since the day SWTOR went live. We constantly maintain a Guild membership of about 500. EVERY week we are forced to "cull" our members that have been in-active to make room for new invites. Lately we have reached the point where we been having to boot members that haven't played in less than 45 days. At the rate we are going, we will either be faced with the choice of booting members that haven't logged on in less than a couple weeks -OR- we will have to stop recruiting all together. We think BOTH of those scenarios suck. So... my question is this... Will Bioware ever allow us to grow? (Perhaps raise the Guild membership max to 750? or 1000?) Oh... by the way, as long as I'm at it; Is it really so hard to allow characters the ability to sit in a chair??? Or chat bubbles?? (RP would be SO much more fun with chat bubbles!) How about a Guild HQ we could furnish and decorate? Such a Guild Headquarters could even be an instanced "Space Station" in orbit over a planet! (it wouldn't take up even a bit of real estate?) Anyway... that's my rant... Hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears.

Thanks to the people that gave some constructive ideas. Alas, those very same ideas have already occurred to us. Each of those ideas have inherent problems, to one degree or another. (Example: Creating "Sister Guilds" results in a loss of easy cross communication.) We already have a "Community Chat Channel" that we try to use for cross communication with our Trooper/Smugger Guild and have found it's difficult to get people to use it. "Sister Guilds" lack a common ingame Guild roster page, as I'm sure you realize. This makes for difficulties when "Veteran" members in one Guild don't have easy access to information regarding "New" members in the other Guild. (ie: You can't see character level, class, location, etc.) Again... and as I already said... the only "elegant" solution is to simply raise the max pop of our Guild. As to the people that doubt what I said about the size of our active membership... You are, to put it politely, WRONG. (And are, arguably, in need of an ego check.) As of yesterday THE JEDl ORDER has OVER 160 members at Level-50. As of yesterday, we have well over 400 of our members have been playing in the last 3 weeks and we frequently have 40 people in our Teamspeak channel simultaneously. I invite any of you to take a look at our website... http://www.jediswtor.com. It's a site dedicated to our COMMUNITY of Guilds: THE JEDl ORDER, THE SlTH ORDER, REPUBLIC SPEC-FORCE (for Troopers and Smugglers) and IMPERIAL BLACKOPS with its' Mandalorion sub-divsion. That Community has nearly 1000 registered members.

We've considered that option.... but your right. It's a "shoddy" fix with a whole new set of inherent problems. And that's my motivation for posting my inquire to the Dev's. Upping the max population is the only elegant solution.

I fear you have misunderstood my meaning. It is precisely those that are inactive that we are eliminating. But as time goes by, our numbers of "active" players grows and grows. What we NEED is a larger maximum, or, as I said, we'll be forced with booting members that have only been absent for a week or two -OR- have to stop recruiting all together.

Hi there! I'm the GM of THE JEDl ORDER on Bergeren Colony. Our Guild started well over 8 years ago in SWG and was a Guild some note. When SWTOR was getting close to going live, we moved here with well over 300 members that Pre-Ordered. We were a Guild in beta and have been a Guild in SWTOR since day #1. We constantly hover around a membership of 500. EVERY week we are forced to "cull" our members that have been in-active to make room for new invites. Lately we have been having to boot members that haven't played in less than 45 days. At the rate we are going, we will either be faced with the choice of booting members that haven't logged on in less than a couple weeks -OR- we will have to stop recruiting all together. We think BOTH of those scenarios suck. So... my question is this... Will Bioware ever allow us to grow? (Perhaps raise the Guild membership max to 750? or 1000?) Oh... by the way, as long as I'm at it; Is it really so hard to allow characters the ability to sit in a chair??? Or chat bubbles?? (RP would be SO much more fun with chat bubbles!) How about a Guild HQ we could decorate? It could even be an instanced "space station" in orbit over a planet! (it wouldn't take up even a bit of real estate?) Anyway... that's my rant... Hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears.

1. Chat bubbles 2. The ability to SIT DOWN anywhere other than the pilot seat on my ship 3. The ability to decorate the interior of my ship. (I have a dandy light saber collection I'd love to display on the wall of my cabin.) BETTER STILL..... GUILD HALLS. (Seems to me it would be easy to have and "instanced" Guild Hall in orbit around a planet.)

GREAT WORK, GREAT RESEARCH!!! Thanks very much for posting!!