Yeah don't stress yourself about it. It kills the game. It's a good idea to keep things casual but at the same time try to be active. I think for my members it's good that we at least login everyday (or almost everyday) If we feel like running stuff we will. Sometimes we just chill and that's ok.
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I also believe the bigger the guild the deader the guild.
Our guild actually had 40+ people online in-game on weekends and even hosted small events during banquet together. There were times 95% of banquet was just our guild alone. I think a big issue now is that some people lurk and never try to participate? Like, its okay to be shy but at the same time I think its necessary to try to be social at the very least? As long as there is effort being put out there, I see no problems with being in our guild - however, some people don't even do that.
So there's the shop that Guardian Guilds get access to.
You can buy a certain limit of things from it per day (on a per item basis) and they all have an expiration timer of 12 hours.
One of those is a new food item called Food of Champions.
You can buy 10 of them per real day (limit is per guild member), and they give +50 HP/MP/Stamina and +30 Str/Int/Dex/Will/Luck.
Like all the other Guardian Shop items they expire in 12hours, but the true bonus is that these things can be used to make a catering dish, and they lose that expiration timer once they're made into one!
So Guardian Guilds can get access to a pretty nice catering dish every day, that they can trade away or just share with others for a nice stat boost.
For all the other items, there's HP/MP/SP 300 SE and Wound Remedy 100 SE potions for 500g apiece, limit 20 per day.
Weapon Power Potion (1 Hour) for 5k, limit 2 per day.
Magic Power Potion (1 Hour) for 5k, limit 2 per day
Combat 2x EXP Potion (2 Hour) for 5k, limit 1 per day
Unrestricted Dungeon Pass for 10k, limit 1 per day
Elite Pass Box for 10k, limit 1 per day
Baltane Mission Elite Pass Box for 10k, limit 1 per day
2x Skill Training Potion Box (gives your choice of any five 10 minute 2x skill training potions, box costs 5k, limit 1 per day. The potions inside also expire in 12 hours.
And finally a 300% Golden Experience Fruit for 50,000 gold, limit 1 per day.
And it turns out, if no other guild actually signs up for the Town you're trying to become the Guardian of, your guild wins by default and gets the title.
The Bandit mission completes instantly and you don't even have to wait for Sunday's Capture the Flag, since there would also be no one else to participate against.
So anyways, this is the info on the shop.