[lokicane]

I get a lot of questions about guilds, having been a Guild leader myself. I also was an advisor to other guilds on how to use the guild functions in this game. This guide is for all new Guild leaders who have questions but can't find answers.

Creating a Guild

To create a guild you must complete the following:
1. You must be lvl 90 or more.
2. You must have 1 million silvers.

To create a guild, go to the Guild Director in TC. He is standing next to the job center. He will ask you to name your guild. This name can be no longer than 15 characters. Tip: Make sure ahead of time that your name is under 15 characters. If you type in a guild name longer than that, it will cut off the name.

Example
Desired Name: MySuperCoolGuildName
Name that Director will give you: MySuperCoolGuil

You will be made the guild leader. Now you must go and recruit new members. When you find someone who wishes to join, they must click the Guild button along the bottom of the screen. The Guild Window will appear. Next they click the Join button in the Guild window. The cursor will change to crossing swords. Next they click on you.

A warning will appear about donating 20,000 silvers to the guild. This is because in order to leave the guild, they must have a contribution of 20,000 or more. They can see their contribution in the guild window. When you are pked, your contribution will go down. As you attack the pole in Guild War your contribution will go up.

To kick a member from your guild, you simply open the Guild Window, click the Expel button, choose the member, click delete, and then choose OK.

Guild Fund
What is the guild fund for? This is a question I hear many times over. The guild fund is used for many purposes.

1. At Guild War the fund is used to repair the door and the pole if your guild is in possession of the pole.
2. The guild fund is used to offset the amount of XP you lose if you are pked.
3. The guild fund is used to make branches.

Everything you need to know about Guild War is posted here
http://www.conqueronline.com/guide/bpbs.htm

At the bottom is the important part for most guilds.

Max lost experience offset

Guild Leader 80%
Deputy Guild Leader 60%
Branch Manager 40%
Guild Members 25%

When a guild member is pked the guild fun will offset 25% of the lost xp by taking 1 silver for every 100 experience offset. This will reduce their contribution by 1 point. This is how some members will have negative contributions to the guild.

How do you add money to the guild fund? The easiest way is for members to donate. To donate, simply open the Guild Window and choose donate, then type an amount of money and click Ok. The second way is to win Guild War. Your guild gets money for damage done to the pole. Also, the guild who wins guild war gains the following:

1. Free admission to the Training grounds for all guild members.
2. The 1000 silvers spent to use the guild conductress goes into the guild fund.
3. The guild may place the guild conductresses anywhere they choose.
4. The guild gains control of the guild castle and the right to guild beast (this is not enforced but on most servers it is followed)

Deputy Leaders
A deputy leader is a person put into a position of leadership by the Guild Leader. A dep, as they are called, has only the ability to add members to the guild. Only the guild leader can kick a member. To assign a dep, you need to go to the Guild Director. The person must be in the guild to become a dep. You choose the option to Assign a deputy leader and then type in that person's name exactly as it appears. You may only have 5 deputy leaders.

To remove a dep, the person must be online and it is a similar process to adding the deputy leader. If you must remove a deputy leader who is never online, or not online at the time, you either must wait for them to log in, or kick them from the guild.

Branches
Ah, the famed topic of branches. I have advised many on this issue. The one thing to remember about a branch is to think of it as a seperate guild where you, as the GL pick the leader and you share guild chat. If you can maintain the idea that the two are seperate yet joined by the chat, you will understand them more easily.

I will start off by telling you the benefits of a Branch.
1. With a branch, you can have 5 more people in leadership positions.
2. With a branch you can split up the population of the guild into 2 factions that are still united under 1 name.
3. The Branch shares the Guild Chat with the Main Guild

The cons of Branches
1. The Main Guild cannot see members in the branch. Nor can branch members see those in the main guild
2. The Guild Leader cannot kick members in the branch.
3. In the guild window you will see a sum of members for all branches and main guild. However, the Top 10 will only count those members in the Main Guild.
4. The Guild Leader picks the branch manager once. After that, the Branch Manager must pass leadership or disband the branch. The Guild Leader has no control over this.
5. In Guild War, branch deps and the branch manager cannot open the gates.

To create a branch:
1. The guild must have a guild fund of 500k.
2. The main guild must have at least 20 members.
3. The person to lead the branch must be level 70.
4. The Guild Leader and the person to be placed as branch manager must team together. (Only the 2 of them)
5. The guild leader uses the Guild Director to create Branch.
6. Choose the branch name. This can be no more than 6 characters. Unlike the guild name, it will display an error message if the name is longer than 6 characters.
7. 500k will be transferred out of the guild fund and into the branch fund and the person in team will be made the Branch manager.

At this point, the Guild Leader has no control over the branch.

Branch Manager
The branch manager is like a Guild Leader, only they are the guild leader of a guild that resides inside a guild. Unfortunately, the Expel feature offered to the guild leader is not offered to the Branch Manager. To kick members from the branch, the Branch Manager must instead use the Guild Director.

A Branch manager can have 5 Branch Deputy leaders, which are called Deputy Managers. Much like a regular guild, the person to be made Deputy Managers must be in the Branch. The process is the same as assigning a deputy leader.

The Branch Manager can transfer the branch funds to the Main Guild to help with Guild War, etc by using the Guild Director.

More will be added as I see items that I missed.

[IlikePIE]

Thanks for your help. I'll add this thread to the Big Book of Questions & Answers.

[Ken_Dei]

Abreviations and corrections:

GL: Guild Leader
DL: Deputy Leader
BM: Branch Manager

An Intern Manager is actually a Branch Manager who's branch had less then 20 members.

assisting Branch managers are caller Deputy Managers (Deputy Mgr.)

Other then that the guide is dead on.

[lokicane]

Thanks Ken for the corrections. I made them up above.

[NightParrot]

OH, thats good to know.
I was wondering why I was called a Intern Manager.

[IlikePIE]

I can't make a branch. >_>
loki, think you can help?

I'm teamed up, my archer with my miner (level 87 the miner). I wanna make a branch of miners. The team leader is ~Fury (guild leader), and the other person in team is Gnehz (the miner). I put "Assign Branch Manager", it asks me what branch name I want, I put "~Miner" (the guild is not taken), it tells me; To Create a Branch, the guild leader should team up with the branch manager who is level 70 or above". What's the problem here?

[LifeInfusion]

Originally posted by ~Fury
I can't make a branch. >_>
loki, think you can help?

rofl my brother made a branch in the griever once. I dotn understand why its so hard?

[IlikePIE]

Originally posted by LifeInfusion
rofl my brother made a branch in the griever once. I dotn understand why its so hard?

So, I'm dumber than your brother?
Holy s**t!
That's...impossible...

I'm taking school again just to make sure.O_O

[LifeInfusion]

Create a Branch
Interim Branch Manager should be level 70+ and guild fund at least 500,000 silver, guild leader and Interim Branch Manager team up before creation.

Branch Manager
After Interim Branch Manger has recruited 50+ members, he can become the Branch Manager

[lokicane]

Originally posted by ~Fury
I can't make a branch. >_>
loki, think you can help?

I'm teamed up, my archer with my miner (level 87 the miner). I wanna make a branch of miners. The team leader is ~Fury (guild leader), and the other person in team is Gnehz (the miner). I put "Assign Branch Manager", it asks me what branch name I want, I put "~Miner" (the guild is not taken), it tells me; To Create a Branch, the guild leader should team up with the branch manager who is level 70 or above". What's the problem here?

Well, I haven't done a branch in a while. Read the instructions on the guild conducter. does it say the branch name can only be letters and numbers? It might be the ~.

[IlikePIE]

I also tried MINER (and altered the letter caps and stuff as many ways as I could)...

I heard you gotta have 20+ members? that true?

[lokicane]

Yeah, I think the main guild must have at least 20 members. I guess I always assumed that a guild who had branches would have more than 20 members in it.

[IlikePIE]

Well not my guild

[Birchy]

Lol !!

Creating a Branch

The Guild Leader and whomever chosen to be Branch Manager must team up together, preferably the Guild Leader being the Team Leader.

The Guild must have two requirements;

1.) At least Twenty Guild Members
2.) 500,000 in the Guild Fund.

Once you have met the above requirements should you return to the Guild Director and follow the on-screen instructions


N.B A Branch cannot be more than 6 characters long

[sonmica]

What can the Deputy Manager do?