Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:19 am
Morningstar hit it right on the nail, I think.
I've been in one serious guild way back when I was in middle school and didn't really see the point of guilds. That guild has thus disappeared, of course, and now I'm not in a guild. I happen to have horrible luck with good finds, unlike some of the people here, so the guilds I have joined afterwards were all jokes with either inactive people or plain idiots. So of course, a person like me would think guilds are useless. I generally do, until I read Morningstar's post.
I suppose guilds do have a major point and I think the general point of having them in the first place was to create a place where you could make friends with people who are just like you. Of course, Morningstar mentioned making real life friends, which is always great. Be careful of course. It seems to me like Neopets would make a great place for creeps to be...well...creeping around. If you plan on making real life friends, do be careful. ^_^
Umm...my point is, though, that...uhh...guilds are a place to make friends and they're not as useless as they seem. ok.
I've been in one serious guild way back when I was in middle school and didn't really see the point of guilds. That guild has thus disappeared, of course, and now I'm not in a guild. I happen to have horrible luck with good finds, unlike some of the people here, so the guilds I have joined afterwards were all jokes with either inactive people or plain idiots. So of course, a person like me would think guilds are useless. I generally do, until I read Morningstar's post.
I suppose guilds do have a major point and I think the general point of having them in the first place was to create a place where you could make friends with people who are just like you. Of course, Morningstar mentioned making real life friends, which is always great. Be careful of course. It seems to me like Neopets would make a great place for creeps to be...well...creeping around. If you plan on making real life friends, do be careful. ^_^
Umm...my point is, though, that...uhh...guilds are a place to make friends and they're not as useless as they seem. ok.
Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:46 am
I am in the guild council for my guild, and how we started out was the four people on council in my current guild were part of another guild, and the council had all left the guild, and the "president" of the guild was and is still to this day, never on neopets. Therefore, we chose to start our own guild, we've been on our own for almost two years now, and to tell you the truth, I'm a little worried about my guild. turns out peope aren't son interested in Neopians Against Pet Abandonment, which our guild name is the acronym for (NAPA). Me and my brother are the most active and we hold the activities, being council and all. The other two council members are so wrapped up in their daily outside neopets lives that they never host events, and our main page looks like crap honestly. My brother and I have become very good friends with our co-council, so we don't want to leave, but our activites have dwindled down to a monthly game that no one plays, and a somewhat daily trivia, that no one can answer. We want to get more active members, or we may just leave, what do you all suggest we do?
Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:20 am
I understand the point of guilds and all, and I'm even a member of one (Battler's Pride, it's a BD guild sort of like Pheonix Warlords), but there's still one thing I don't understand: What are guild "funds" used for? As far as I can tell, every feature of a guild is free, from the pages the guild is on to the messageboard to everything else.
Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:38 am
theonlysaneone wrote:I understand the point of guilds and all, and I'm even a member of one (Battler's Pride, it's a BD guild sort of like Pheonix Warlords), but there's still one thing I don't understand: What are guild "funds" used for? As far as I can tell, every feature of a guild is free, from the pages the guild is on to the messageboard to everything else.
It depends on what your guild is doing. If your guild asks for funds, then ask them what for.
My first guild was raising funds to buy paintbrushes to paint pets and re-adopt them. We didn't have to donate.
Other guilds such as Avatar guilds might pool funds to buy avatar items, then pass them around the members. A battledome guild may buy healing potions or weapons.
Things like competitions, contests, pooling nps is against TOS - too many people get scammed. If you trust your council and know where and how the nps are spent, then it is up to you whether you donate.
Don't ever get pushed into it - it could be a scam.
Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:46 am
TNT makes it hard to get guild funds or use guild funds. Depending on how much you want to go against the TOS, they *could* (and used to) be used for contests or games. Other ways are helping members out with quests, giving them funds if they get hacked/scammed/whatever. Some guilds have "newbie packs" which items the guild buys. Some give birthday (whatever birthday you tell the guild) presents or anniversary (of the day you joined the guild) presents. There's a million ways that you can use guild funds, it's just that half of them aren't really allowed by TNT.
(oh, and lol, that's not a list of what my guild does, so don't come to my guild if you see something you like on that list
I can tell you we *don't* give out newbie packs, so don't join for one please!)
(oh, and lol, that's not a list of what my guild does, so don't come to my guild if you see something you like on that list
I can tell you we *don't* give out newbie packs, so don't join for one please!)
Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:03 pm
And hey, if anyone wants to join a guild that does absolutely nothing except make my daughter (who is almost 9 years old) happy because she made it herself and she likes having people join it even though she never does anything with it, ask me for an invite.
Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:39 am
ggagahc wrote:Of course, Morningstar mentioned making real life friends, which is always great. Be careful of course. It seems to me like Neopets would make a great place for creeps to be...well...creeping around. If you plan on making real life friends, do be careful. ^_^
Oh, I agree with you 100 percent. I am in an adult guild. And I am old--and a mom. And only having known these people (all older adult women like myself) for over 2 years have we even thought about using the phone. It pays to be extremely careful out there because Neo does attract creeps. There was one guy in my guild who I barely knew and he was insistent that I go on im with him--but he only wanted to talk if I had a webcam. And supposedly he was married and knew I was married. He got the ice treatment big time from me. Cause I couldn't figure out why he couldn't just talk to me on Neo. And asked him that. Why was a face on im necessary? He left the guild shortly thereafter.
So, yes, you need to be careful.