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Thread: Get your own guild message board!

AtraJedi
Fri May 28, 2004 9:47 am
#1
Hi Everyone:


As a guild leader I've done many things to help promote guild membership and keep players happy so they play ore and stay on the game longer in an effort to have more fun!


We started a guild Web site about 2 months ago and just last week added a message board. For those of you that do not have amessage board, it's the most significant asset we have.


There are numerous FREE mesage board options out there and can be found by doing a quick search for "free message board" or "free forum" on your favorite search engine. As I mentioned in another post, I don't want to seem like I'm promoting anyone but we use a free board at www.proboards.com. I mention this only becuase I am familiar with their board now.


I liked this beucase of the board customization options. You do have to deal with banner ads if free but at least they are not pop-ups.


For other message board (forum) options, just visit various guild Web sites and usually the free boards have a link to their Home page.





-Atra
-New Sig coming soon
Callyndra
Sun May 30, 2004 3:22 am
#2

I wholeheartedly agree. It's not always possible to get everyone in-game at the same time for a meeting, and many guilds often have members who have different play schedules, but having a message board for the guild allows everyone to check up and stay current with guild happenings at their own leisure.


It's also a great place to post recruitment information so prospective members can look you up before applying for your guild. Maybe your recruiting offiers aren't online to meet with someone - send them to the website to apply instead. Having your rules and expectations posted where people can read them ahead of time helps with quality control too.


No matter whether you customize your own script or use one of the many free services available online, taking the time to set up and maintain a guild message board is a worthy initiative for any PA leader to undertake.




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ForceMedic
Sun May 30, 2004 7:42 am
#3

Setting up message boards are great, but that's what ingame email if for.


You want to change the way you play SWG with your guild? then try teamspeak.org





Ikarie


MD/TKA


Jascentia
Mon May 31, 2004 12:20 am
#4
Guild email is nice, but it doesn't allow for collaborative discussion. Teamspeak is nice, but doesn't allow for communication between people who are offline. There are some types of discussion and decision making that are really best facilitated by a forum.





Jascentia | Retired

JediAuria
Mon May 31, 2004 10:18 am
#5

Another venue you can use is www.ezboard.com



I've used the boards there for years in EQ. They're perfect for guild boards.





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Lionbar
Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:33 am
#6

We have just redone our website (well one guy has really) to include forums & much more of my members are using it now. We also have a guest section (veiw only atm i think) & our recruitment advert is on the log in page.


These sorts of things are a great asset to any guild. We are currently thinking of organising a TS server for the guild too which may or may not work very well.


What Jascentia said about time frames hit the nail on the head. Any large guild (mine has over 125 members - I would say 80% active)will have members from various different timezones and/or different lifestyles which makes their online time very different. For example, TDV is a European guild mainly, so our timezone we work to as a guild is GMT (UK). We have many members in other countries in europe & in the states. A lot of people work during the day, so a good time to chack up on things is then & the forums help that. Some ppl have nightjobs etc.


Long & the short of it is this: If you want a successful guild - GET A WEBSITE WITH FORUMS!!





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Amanda143
Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:17 pm
#7
I personally use swgalaxies.net for my PA Forums. It has many excellent features and the website itself has all the POI's, trainers, etc.



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