05-29-2009, 09:11 AM
Slamz Wrote:Guild based:
EVE
Faction based:
WOW (Horde vs Alliance)
WAR (Order vs Destruction)
Planetside (Vanu vs TR vs NC)
Advantages of faction based PvP:
You will automatically be on a team with a lot of teammates. Very easy to get into as a new player.
Advantages of guild based PvP:
Players are free to create their own independent "teams" that consists only of people they approve of.
I'm not sure which I like more. I like the concept of guild based gameplay but I would obviously want to create a game which I would play, and I really wouldn't want to run a 1500 person guild simply because that's what a guild based wargame would eventually mandate. You would survive only at the mercy of the bigger guilds. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, if the game could be designed such that smaller guild could contribute to a larger "nation" while still maintaining independence, like city-states... But typically, I think, guild based gameplay puts a lot of hurt on small guilds and solo players.
Team based gameplay solves a lot of those issues, at the expense of teaming you up with insufferable jerks and morons. Something like Planetside or DAOC with 3 teams seems pretty ideal, although I could also see having a game with, say, 10 teams. 12 teams. Like imagine City of Heroes/Villains if you could join NPC gangs and fight for territory. It would be similar to a guild based game but, like WOW and WAR, you would always be able to get into one of the teams. You wouldn't be a new player left out in the cold trying to apply to a big guild so that you could enjoy the game.
All you need is alliance (Eve, Warhammer), feudal systems (Linage 2 I think) and mercenary contracts (Eve to an extent).
Only faction + guild I can see is a starwars universe, empire/rebels & freelance (hutts, smugglers, pirates, etc)
Just the sheer number of ways you should be able to setup guilds could also affect alliances
dictatorship, republic, democratic, monarchy (founding clan runs all guild functions), military rank based, oligarchy, etc
[should not have shot the dolphin]