Which guild tools make SOE's Community Influencers tick?
SOE called on their Community Influencers (a term which is defined near the beginning of this post) a while ago to get some feedback about guild tools in the games they play. The result was a document, "Fundamental Guild Tools", which lists all the most desired features of the Influencers group. Not all of these ideas are in SOE's games yet, but if they made it on to the document, chances are that they will be seen some time in the near future.
Looking through the list, there is a lot of focus on having features extend to outside of the game: being able to chat with guild members both in text and voice from the Station Launcher, checking guild mail without being logged in to the game, in-game message boards that can be viewed from out of the game, etc. Some suggested features that aren't in SOE's games right now are available in rival MMOs, and the fact that the term "RvR" appears on the document shows that at least someone had one of Mythic's games in mind -- but as is the way with games of all genres, if there's a good new idea or feature, it's probably going to be adopted by others later on. Have a browse through the full article to get an idea of what a guild in an SOE game will likely have access to down the track.
