Runes of Magic US / AU

IS GUILD HOPPING CHEATING


Let's first look at the definition of a guild..

GUILD: "A long term association of people..."

Pay attention to the part, "... long term..."

20 level 72 players with an average of 100k health, each leaving their guild to join a guild with only 1000 rating for a single Siege Battle, is not what I picture when I hear Guild Siege Battle.

What makes it a Guild vs Guild Siege battle, is the Community vs. Community aspect of it. It is you and your friends who you have been questing with, raiding with and having fun with over the last few months, going head to head with another guild.
You get to see what guild is better equipped and what guild's hard work has paid off more.

Seeing level 72 players all rush one guild to dominate the battle in a lower rating bracket, being part of a different guild every single night completely DESTROYS the Community vs. Community aspect of what Siege wars create..

I hope you can see from my point of view. That the GUILD vs GUILD aspect of siege wars is destroyed when everyone is part of a different guild every single night, made of people they have never met before. It turns from nice Guild vs Guild, into pretty much open team death match battlefields.

I am not just stating the problem, I also have a fix for it.

Simply make it for all level 60's and above, they may not switch guilds more then twice a month. That will leave them with two joins and two leaves a month. That seems perfectly acceptable from my point of view, and will really stop this guild hopping that is destroying what siege wars is meant to be.

GUILD vs GUILD.

NOT random level 72 players vs random level 72 players.

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The Runes of Magic Staff's final conclusion on Guild Hopping, something that may be,

Quoted from "Kalvan;542033"

...unethical, immoral, and fattening...".

is to let it go on without change, because it does not fall under the Runes Of Magic description of,

Quoted from "Kalvan;542033"

"... cheating..."

DESPITE that it achieves the same thing as power leveling and buying gold?


Bribing higher levels to join your guild to rise your guild in rating, guaranteeing you constant streams of exp and resources has the same outcome and process as paying for power-leveling or buying gold.