Guild
Introduction
A guild is essentially an extended buddy list. You can talk, chat, and train together. Also, with a guild, you can participate in the guild quest
Creating A Guild
To start a guild you need a few things.
- 1,500,000 Mesos.
- 6 Members in a Party, making sure the individual purchasing the Guild is the leader.
Once you have the above then you're ready! Head over to the top left of Orbis and enter the portal here. You'll then arrive at the Guild HQ!
Get your party to enter the building and ask them to wait there whilst you talk to Heracle who will set your guild up for you.
First he will take your mesos and then ask you to give your Guild a name.
NOTE: Keep in mind the guild name must be unique to your server and cannot contain special characters, must be under 12 characters, and have no spaces.
And if it meets the requirements, you're done!
You now have a Guild and can now access your Guild stat screen by pressing G unless you changed the key. This will display the following:
- The current Guild Notice.
- Listing of the members of the guild.
- Current level of all members.
- Current job of all members.
- Whether the member is online or offline.
- Their current hierarchy rank.
- The Guild BBS (Only available in certain versions of Maple Story)
You can also have an emblem for your guild. A guild emblem is a guild with a simple picture beside the guild name. In order to get an emblem, you have to pay 5,000,000 Mesos to Lea, the Guild Emblem NPC in the Orbis Guild HQ.
Hierarchy
Okay, so the hard bit is done, now for the fun stuff.
There are 5 different ranks, all of which are customizable, although 2 of these have slightly different powers.
For example, when you first create a guild you will have the following default rank system:
Master - Has complete power over the guild. He/she can expel members, rename ranks, promote/demote members, create guild messages, create an emblem, delete the guild, and expand the guild. The master cannot quit the guild. The only way for the master to leave the guild is by disbanding it at the Guild HQ for 200,000 Mesos.
Jr. Master - Has some power. He/she can expel members, promote/demote members, and create guild messages.
Member (Three different tiers) - No power.
The Master can rename the ranks to whatever they want to, as long as the name doesn't contain special characters or spaces.
Expanding
So great, everything is going good, but surely 10 members is not enough! You want more right?
For a certain price you can extend Guilds to take more members. However, this price is somewhat expensive and may prove a little daunting after just spending 1.5 million on a Guild.
The first expansion will increase your maximum members by 5, the downside is that this will cost you a hefty 500,000 mesos.
The second expansion will cost a staggering 1,500,000 mesos and again will increase your guilds maximum members by 5.
Third costs 2,500,000 with the same member increase.
Fourth costs a dizzying 3,500,000 mesos, but will increase your maximum members to 30.
You can expand to a maximum of 100 member slots now. The next expansion prices aren't fully known.
Guild Emblems
The final thing a Guild needs is an Emblem, an emblem not only looks funky but it will create a lot more interest in your guild, hence more players will be willing to join.
To create a guild emblem simply head back to the Guild HQ in Orbis and speak to Lea.
She will ask for 5,000,000 and then show you the Emblem Screen.
There are over 300 combinations and you can edit the icon, background, border, and color.
Once paid for and chosen the emblem will appear under every member's character. You can have as many members in your guild as you wish and still get the guild emblem, as long as you have the mesos you can get the guild emblem.
Guild BBS
The Guild BBS is currently only in Global Maple Story, Taiwan Maple Story and MapleSEA.
The BBS comes with your Guild and is a forum where people can post topics. Each post can be up to 25 Characters long. In Maple Global, posts can be a LOT larger.
Normal members can delete and edit their own posts. Jr. Masters and Masters can edit and delete any post.
Guild PQ
The newest edition to the Guilds is the Guild Party Quest at Sharenian. You can register your guild and party with them and go through the quest to gain Guild Points and eventually go up the guild ranks too. There is a ranking system in each server and it goes up to 50th place. You can view more information about this on the Sharenian Guild PQ article.
Extra Notes
- Members can leave Guilds of their own accord.
- Any character can only be a member of one Guild.
- A Guild Master cannot delete his or her own character without first disbanding his or her guild.
- Disbanding a guild requires 200,000 mesos.
- In Korean Maple Story the Guild member ship maximum has been Increased to 100. (As of version .35, this is also true for Maple Global)
- New in maple Global you can creat guild allience with other guilds.