A fork in the road…

The guild has lost some members, some who were with the game from day 1, and some which were members of the original Doppler. We are now but 4 members, slowly grinding away the guild XP bar in hopes that one day our banner can be shown for all to see. Buts its taking a while, and it seems the only thing harder than getting that bar to move is getting more people in the guild. I have been on a Doppler ad campaign every night when I log in. I send out region messages asking for anyone looking for a guild, but I get no responses. At those times when I do group with others, it seems a rarity that anyone is without a guild.

It’s an odd feeling, to say the least. Every other MMO I have ever played has always had some people from time to time in the area chat asking if any guilds were recruiting. I don’t see that in this game. It’s definately caused by the guild XP system, no question. But, is it a good thing? Maybe yes in alot of respects, but for the situation I’m facing, no. I have spoke with other guilds that I see sending up recruitment  flares in the region chat, asking them how many people they see come in. One person told me that most of the influx to their guild is from swallowing up other guilds whose numbers were dwindling. We may be in that boat.

We are now at the point where we need to either stick it out as a group, or go wherever the tide takes us outside of the Doppler banner.