*Official* Star Wars the Old Republic: Guild recruitment
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PVP - don't care if we are Empire or Republic, just the best, make me leader, i'll whip you pussys into shape.
I have been involved in the creation of the OcUK Planetside, Eve Online and Lineage2 guilds back in the day.
LOL PVE.
I wouldn't worry about being ganked, this game is more WoW than L2 or EVE, it simply breaks up the mundane grind.
My vote goes to Tombstone if you wont have me.
PVP - don't care if we are Empire or Republic, just the best, make me leader, i'll whip you pussys into shape.
I have been involved in the creation of the OcUK Planetside, Eve Online and Lineage2 guilds back in the day.
LOL PVE.
I wouldn't worry about being ganked, this game is more WoW than L2 or EVE, it simply breaks up the mundane grind.
My vote goes to Tombstone if you wont have me.
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signed up. not bothered on faction or play type 
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Signed up!
PVP - don't care if we are Empire or Republic, just the best, make me leader, i'll whip you pussys into shape.
I have been involved in the creation of the OcUK Planetside, Eve Online and Lineage2 guilds back in the day.
LOL PVE.
I wouldn't worry about being ganked, this game is more WoW than L2 or EVE, it simply breaks up the mundane grind.
My vote goes to Tombstone if you wont have me.
I am currently sorting everything and then when we know a release date and everything I will step back and we will decide who will lead in-game. I am willing to help out and have some sort of position of power in the guild but I don't want to be leader, takes too much time and I suck at leading.
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We did try it with www.oc-ps.co.uk but it simply ended up being mainly for EVE as Planetside and Lineage2 died and when enw games came out it didn't really get mentioned.
I agree we need to keep the community together as that is what makes these MMO games great. Playing with friends.
I still play EVE for exapmple but as the OCUK Corp is mainly empire based it doesn't offer much in the way of PVP so it is a bit useless for me and many other OCUK players. (to be fair it is very hard to get a foothold in 0.0 in EVE and to some extent you have to join existing big corps/alliances.)
I think with this we can have a OCUK PVE server guild and a OCUK PVP player guild but tbh it doesn't look that "hardcore" and I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to play on the PVP servers but that's just me.
I feel a well run guid can incorporate both styles of gameplay, it's just that many are used to WOW where many guilds seem to be polar opposites in this respect but that is down to game design and raiding imho.
I loved EVE and Lineage 2 because they are more Sandboxy and you can choose who you play (Eve lacks levels and Lineage2 lacked "quests" / "missions") and also they wern't games that were good vs evil which is why open PVP in these Red vs Blue (RvR) type games isn't so bad because you start off in friendly zones where 99% of your levelling can be completed and it's safe unless you don't want it to be ala WoW and where open PVP isn't that harsh due to these zones and small death penaties even on PVP servers and the "real" pvp takes place in instanced themparks.
My point is really that quantity of players is allways best because with more people online you have more options within the guild so it is best to stay in as few guids / servers as possible. Split parties up by levels and objectives if needed or get help from the hardcore players or whatever is best at that time. The more the merrier.
Tried to play Aion & WAR but didn't try RIFT, all seemed like WoW clones and AOC was just not polished on release, this is just Starwars made by Bioware and shiny which appeals to me although perhaps still quite WoWlike looks interesting, perhaps not as sandboxy as I would like but thats the way it is these days.
Gonna be checking out GW2 and Planetside 2 even if this is epic.
Manage to pay my 2 Eve subs by being so rich with ISK so that doesn't cost me £ so happy to pay for 2 other games.
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Yeah a full blown (Shadowclan-like) MMO Ocuk community would be good I reckon, I mean a cursory glance through the forums and we have an OcUK guild in LoTRO, in EvE, in Rift, in STO, in Guild Wars, in WoW, coming in SWToR , probably coming in Guild Wars 2 and so on. Would be nice if all of those OcUK guilds bore the same name and went to the same forums and same website. Would provide great continuity from game to game, would give OcUK members one location to go to when they are looking for info about the MMO they want to join the OcUK guild in (seriously, how many posts do we have in various MMO threads where people are asking which server the ocuk guild is on in that game and what the name of the guild is).
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I helped start up the OcUK RIFT guild and am doing the same with the SWTOR guild.
The thing I have noticed about this forum is that people come up with good ideas and others agree but nobody wants to be the one to set it up, if you have a good idea, then go for it, set something up and start the ball rolling.
I don't think it is a bad idea but I don't believe I have been on this forum long enough, or known well enough to be able to start something like that. If somebody who is well known like Tombstone started a topic about it I believe it would get the attention it deserves. I would be willing to help but like I said before, I'm not the right person to set it up.
Could do wonders to re-unite the community which seems to be falling apart a little bit..
The thing I have noticed about this forum is that people come up with good ideas and others agree but nobody wants to be the one to set it up, if you have a good idea, then go for it, set something up and start the ball rolling.
I don't think it is a bad idea but I don't believe I have been on this forum long enough, or known well enough to be able to start something like that. If somebody who is well known like Tombstone started a topic about it I believe it would get the attention it deserves. I would be willing to help but like I said before, I'm not the right person to set it up.
Could do wonders to re-unite the community which seems to be falling apart a little bit..
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Yup and even a section where MMO players can get together and play non MMO games like Battlefield 3 and even console games.
I have a Teamspeak server and possibly webhosting we can use. Just need a message board and to decide on a name if OCUK isn't suitable but mainly for OCUK people to actually use it rather than doing their own thing everytime a new game comes out. Too many chiefs, not enough indians or maybe the other way around and simply lack of organisation.
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Oooh ! Well known ! Never been described that way on here before, not sure about that !
I suppose one problem with the idea is that it would be hard to get the various existing official ocuk guilds in various mmos to all rename their guilds to the same name and there would probably also be the problem of those ocuk guilds who currently have websites might see a unified ocuk mmo community website as a threat or trying to step on their toes.
Though I suppose a unified ocuk mmo community site could be created from now on and involve future ocuk mmo guilds and then hope that somewhere further down the road existing ocuk "branches" join in.
I suppose one problem with the idea is that it would be hard to get the various existing official ocuk guilds in various mmos to all rename their guilds to the same name and there would probably also be the problem of those ocuk guilds who currently have websites might see a unified ocuk mmo community website as a threat or trying to step on their toes.
Though I suppose a unified ocuk mmo community site could be created from now on and involve future ocuk mmo guilds and then hope that somewhere further down the road existing ocuk "branches" join in.
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Oooh ! Well known ! Never been described that way on here before, not sure about that !
I suppose one problem with the idea is that it would be hard to get the various existing official ocuk guilds in various mmos to all rename their guilds to the same name and there would probably also be the problem of those ocuk guilds who currently have websites might see a unified ocuk mmo community website as a threat or trying to step on their toes.
Though I suppose a unified ocuk mmo community site could be created from now on and involve future ocuk mmo guilds and then hope that somewhere further down the road existing ocuk "branches" join in.
You have over 10 thousand posts, you're either well known or just have lots of spare time on your hands
I don't think old guilds would have to change their names, they could be included in the new system, all new guilds called the new name and then eventually they could change their names to finally unite the MMO community on here. There are problems that would need to be sorted out, such as a good name that will not only remind people of OcUK but interest new members to join from elsewhere(So OcUK is ruled out as name) but also this name needs to be adaptable to be used in numerous games with vastly contrasting lores...
Better to start it sooner rather than later though, this would allow more time for details to be sorted out and people to become familiarised to the new system.
Oooh ! Well known ! Never been described that way on here before, not sure about that !
I suppose one problem with the idea is that it would be hard to get the various existing official ocuk guilds in various mmos to all rename their guilds to the same name and there would probably also be the problem of those ocuk guilds who currently have websites might see a unified ocuk mmo community website as a threat or trying to step on their toes.
Though I suppose a unified ocuk mmo community site could be created from now on and involve future ocuk mmo guilds and then hope that somewhere further down the road existing ocuk "branches" join in.
Yeah I agree with this. I think if something official was made and there was sub-forums for the different games including the different guild names for guilds established in existing games as they are now, over time the guild could eventually be united under the one guild tag in-game.
What we need though is some sort of leadership for the guild as a whole, and then leadership for the different games to bring it all together.
What I mean is we need someone to run the guild as a whole, and then officers who may act as Guild Leaders within the different games as the person who organises the guild in general cant be expected to play every game but we do need some consistancy.
Just voicing some ideas. Maybe it would be best if a thread was started and the idea was discussed with all the current OcUK MMO guilds and their guild management ?
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Yes there would have to be different sub sections for each MMO branch, with that sub section being under the administration and moderation of the MMO branch in question. Thats pretty much how Shadowclan have always done it, it allows a degree of autonomy to each individual branch of the community whilst maintaining the continuity and unity of the MMO community as a whole.
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We can always simply create a section in the forum for games with existing clans and simply link in their current forum/website assuming they don't mind. 
As suggested it's probably best to make a thread rather than derail this one any further.
I wouldn't mind being involved seeing as I visit these forums a lot and play almost every MMO that comes out.
Anyway back to SWTOR.
Does anyone know how many servers there are going to be and will they be based on geographic location?
Also as soon as we think up a name we should post on the official community forums and try and get some none OCUK people involved to beef up our numbers.
As suggested it's probably best to make a thread rather than derail this one any further.
I wouldn't mind being involved seeing as I visit these forums a lot and play almost every MMO that comes out.
Anyway back to SWTOR.
Does anyone know how many servers there are going to be and will they be based on geographic location?
Also as soon as we think up a name we should post on the official community forums and try and get some none OCUK people involved to beef up our numbers.
Agreed its derailing this thread somewhat, I'll make another thread about such an idea just to promote discussion on whether people think something like an MMO community site would be a good idea or whether keeping individual MMOs and its players seperate as it is now and continuing as things are now is preferred.
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Okay back to SWTOR, remember to sign up at: http://ocukswtor.proboards.com/index.cgi to get your voice heard on key issues which will effect the guild(Such as the faction poll)
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I gotta back out of the ocuk guild for the moment, my brother and a couple of rl friends wanted to start one up so I have, they also are playing Republic *spit* but, they're my friends and it's where most of the fun is going to be. (Republic PVP)
But I will make sure that I get them all on the server you guys do because no doubt in the future our little guild will want more and I'll be sure to contact whoever takes up lead to get some cooperative stuff going.
Ours is more a small, friendly base of people who've known each other for a very long time and have played a plethora of MMOs over the past 14~ years at hardcore levels but casually too, good players, no fuss, not a single moment of drama.
But I will make sure that I get them all on the server you guys do because no doubt in the future our little guild will want more and I'll be sure to contact whoever takes up lead to get some cooperative stuff going.
Ours is more a small, friendly base of people who've known each other for a very long time and have played a plethora of MMOs over the past 14~ years at hardcore levels but casually too, good players, no fuss, not a single moment of drama.
Not seen anything about server numbers but I know geographically its broken down into 3 groups. US West, US East and Europe.
I think Bioware are very clever doing the pre orders and once they do the beta testing weekends, they will get a very good indication on how many people have actually bought this game and also how many have actually activated their codes and how much the servers can actually take.
Besides everything else going really well, this is where Rift failed miserably, just not enough servers from day 1.
As I said on my posting under the “official SWTOR” thread 20min ago. BW really want to bring us the best game and best experience possible, nothing less.
