Guilds
The entire guild window has changed dramatically since you last saw it. The layout has changed, along with the addition of new guild tabs and new functionality. Here’s a rundown of the changes that our team of *extraordinary* designers and programmers has been working hard on:

Profile Tab
We added a new profile tab that houses your guild summary description, message of the day, website, email, statistics, and some additional features that are currently in the works. Here’s a screenshot of the new Profile Tab:

Roster Tab
We improved the Roster Tab’s functionality. You’ll notice that the guild Leader is highlighted in the Roster. Offline, online, and guild Founders (the original players that formed the guild) are highlighted differently as well. The Roster tab also includes a mouse-over window for each name in the Roster. The window lists your current location, along with Member notes and Officer set notes. In addition to all of this useful information, the Roster provides an option to right click on each name and bring up a menu that includes guild Invites and Edit Notes.

News Tab
A news tab was added to the guild window. This tab tracks guild news such as guild creation, members joining and leaving, and guild promotions. We’ll be adding more tracked information to this tab as we bring more guild functionality online.

Alliance Tab
We added Alliances and an Alliances tab to the guild window with this round of Beta. Right now, guilds can form an alliance from within this window. We’ll bring some additional Alliance management functionality to this tab once we move forward in guild implementation.

Admin Tab
We modified the Admin tab and added some guild Management features. You can now enable and edit guild titles, and modify many guild permissions, such as promotion/demotion privileges, Rank Title privileges, guild chat privileges, and calendar management privileges. Calendar management privileges? What? Just keep on reading.

Calendar Tab
Our team is really excited about the addition of this feature. With this tab, your guild can view, set up, and manage guild events. The Calendar can be viewed by month, date, and year, and summaries and details can be added to each event. Additionally, there is a sign-up list which allows guild members to sign up for specific events, and provides an option to allow guild members with the appropriate permissions to Accept and Decline sign ups.

-Community Systems Team

As you can see, the team has been putting an extreme amount of time into fleshing out the various Community elements, especially the guild bits.  So this time around you’ll start to get a good feel for where we’re going with the concept of our Living Guilds.  As we’ve been saying (and as you can begin to see with these screens), Guilds in WAR won’t simply consist of a tag above your head and an extra chat channel or two, they will be living breathing social entities within the game itself.