social guilds

[Macka]

Whats a "social guild"
people who have known each other for ages and played together in the good old days?

What was the user count on first official mir3? More than 300? A guild of 100 was Ok if there were 1000+ on server. Mir 2 was several thousands at its height.
New Order and SlyDicks and AAO want to hunt with family n friends and they are mates from years ago.
At school together married and divorced each other from mir play. Are tango n pokerface long time mates too? What about people joining those guilds lately? All pals been persuaded to come play to keep the server going?

 

[Drakay]

I am in SD and I knew not one person when I started this server

 

[CremeEgg82]

Euro was probably into the thousands at its peak, but I don’t know for sure. I’ll ask around. I don’t even remember if there were guild caps on Euro, but I feel like DestinyAwaits was probably close to 100 members if not more, we went on to do 40-man raiding in wow after Euro closed so we certainly carried a big roster between games.

Yes there are a lot of people that know each other from over the years, it’s a fairly small community overall. Some of the guilds have good groups of friends or players that have known each other a long time. But on the other hand a lot of people know each other across guilds as well, I have friends I’ve known for many years in THC and SD and probably in other guilds that have sprung up over the last couple of weeks.

I’m not sure what the point of the thread is to be honest. Sounds like the OP doesn’t understand societal structural concepts or anything about human psychology.

 

[FNG]

I am in SD and I knew not one person when I started this server

U dont need to know anybody... enough people there sucking jamies...

#koriban i wana see your edit version,, i had good laugh at im a snowflask

 

[Exsodius]

Personally I've always kept Mir 3 apart from other aspects of my life (including other games) but the Mir community (Mir 3 especially) is so inbred that after 15 years I was still playing Zircon with old Ignis/Global friends or just people I've known around the private server scene.

It's actually nice, as over the years I've been enemies and friends with many of them. Very few people are actual dicks, It's just perspective.

/Arko
/Codex
/Ascension
/Exodus

 

[CremeEgg82]

Personally I've always kept Mir 3 apart from other aspects of my life (including other games) but the Mir community (Mir 3 especially) is so inbred that after 15 years I was still playing Zircon with old Ignis/Global friends or just people I've known around the private server scene.

It's actually nice, as over the years I've been enemies and friends with many of them. Very few people are actual dicks, It's just perspective.

It’s quite common from what I’ve found across these kind of games. I only ever originally came to Mir through some real life friends who were playing and it was a change from Dark Age of Camelot which I was playing before.

These rl friends of mine had been in Dawn/Chops guild on Mir 2 and as Mir 3 launched we all joined DestinyAwaits. I only knew a couple of people from real life at that point but the guild had a good atmosphere and some great personalities. The leaders would organise meet ups as most people were from the UK (although we had a few people travel over from other countries as well). We just did stupid weekends away like most people in their early 20’s would do, went to Blackpool on the piss, did a weekend in a Butlins resort, a weekend in Lincoln.

Back then online gaming wasn’t as popular and was probably not all that talked about in mainstream social circles so it was nice to be able to get out of game with likeminded people. Eventually people move on and not all the old members still game, people got married, had kids, got jobs and all those sorts of things. But there are a handful I still keep in contact with regularly, probably about a dozen of them on this server as well.

 

[Macka]

I’m not sure what the point of the thread is to be honest. Sounds like the OP doesn’t understand societal structural concepts or anything about human psychology.

Understand it all ta. Point is I was told SlyDicks are a group of people who played together for years and aren't the Pking kind and they are nice. When really as Blaise said they recruit anyone and everyone, more brutal higher level players to do the fighting for them so they can over run the server with numbers.
Family and friends lol.

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WHy keep the same old name do the same old things with the same old people. Mix it up. You can keep in touch with all your pixel pals all kinds of ways. IMHO this is whats making people stay away. The same group of people doing the same things every new server

 

[CremeEgg82]

WHy keep the same old name do the same old things with the same old people. Mix it up. You can keep in touch with all your pixel pals all kinds of ways. IMHO this is whats making people stay away. The same group of people doing the same things every new server

This is the first Mir server I've played since GSP/Korean. Which is probably going on 6+ years gap.

Community brings people in, for the most part. You can have your opinion, that's just your way of seeing it. A lot of people play games for the social aspect.

As for the name, what difference does it make? I'm not doing the same things with the same people, there are more new people here than any that I know and I'm not in a guild with all the people I know, they are all spread out across the server.

People are free to enjoy playing the way they want to, why should anyone dictate what is fun to another person?

 

[SkeemaLOM]

Nothing to see here, just another cry topic about guild cap in disguise

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Personally though I'm in sd along with my partner and her uncle and I'm here with about 7-8 ppl I knew from mir 2 marble and about 8 or more people I've played with on various private servers over the years. However I have made some new friends in sd that I haven't played with before and would be a shame to see any of us separated just because you can't match our numbers. Pvps pretty balanced right now I fail to see why so much salt