Spania - our take

[Treasurer]

Originally Posted by Ofury/ Tom

i would like to question as to why you have requirements such as lvl 15 and up and unlimited access are you saying that great pirates must have the money to spare on a game?

My guild enjoys to have the new basic "noob" person join our guild so we can spark the interest in this game and share the love we have for pirates online.

Why put a requirement such as that?

Thanks so much for your questions. Here you go:

We have been increasing our requirements over time.

First I want to tell you that it has been a long way, and we have been adding these requirements as they were needed, it wasn't something we did overnight. It has nothing to do with money. We occasionally take basic access members if we are sure they are gonna meet the standard we expect from everyone else, and we do have some basic members in the guild, I'll tell you I was a basic member one week into competition we recently won, and I am proud to say it.

First it has much to do with the foundation of our guild, we have always been an active guild, and we wanted to keep it that way. Back in the day, we used to take basic players of all levels. Our numbers were increasing but the number of active players started dropping - Not such a great idea for a guild that plans to be around for while is it? - and what do you plan to let your current players down?. So we realized that unlimited players are basic players that are more committed to the game. And there is the other flip of the coin, are these really good basic players that are mature, are committed to the game, follow the code, and can't afford to pay, we still take these. But the other poll of players left are the kind of players we don't want in the guild, limited nor unlimited, and also note that we don't have unlimited space in the guild. We are in very limited space in our guild some times we have to turn down unlimited players. And our basic players in the guild are as important as everyone else.


Our guild has reached the maximum number of member - 500 at least 20 times. This is a big problem - we wouldn't be able to guild limited nor unlimited. So the obvious thing for a guild that wants to stay afloat would be, open space , for these deserving talents out there that are committed to the game, and to our guild.


We first added the level cap of 10, when we reached 500 members for the first time. At that point, everyone in the guild was already LV 30 and up, including a few LV 20s. After a while everyone in the guild was passed level 30 or just about, so we believed it was fair for our members to raise the cap to 15, therefore increasing the consistency of what we already are or have.

I hope this answers your question.