Petition for more Group-based rewards

[Taei]

I would like to petition for a focus on reward good teamwork / linkshell play rather than rewarding a single person with nice gear. As it is right now:


1)Relic, have to decide who will get relics first and screw everyone else over or decide that everyone will get a relic which will take a long long time.

2)Darklight droprates, again, only for one person, 7 other people farming with you. Yes everyone gets a chance but in the end only one person benefits from the drop.



As a linkshell leader, I try to make the linkshell stronger, but what I notice is that people eventually leave the game, we lose DL's, lose the time that we spent on them, etc etc.


I would like SE to think about ways to maybe reward groups of players and for good teamwork instead of the few. I really don't like knowing that there will be a part of my linkshell that will either never get a relic or will take a year to get one if they ever will.



If we can get some rewards that benefit shells like maybe +5% hp for all LS members, etc etc instead of a single item for a single person, I think that will help build a stronger community. (Which is very important for an MMO, as this is not a singleplayer game).

**just want to say, I don't have exact detailed ideas for this, but I just want to put the theory behind it.


SE, please drop the focus on epeen items, I think they are important to have, but I think there also needs to be more group-based rewards and giving incentive for teamwork and cooperative play.

[Doho]

i liked this because it is a good idea. (I might need a flame shield on this one) but the guild system in WoW worked kind of nice. It was separated into tiers and they had stuff like a mount movement speed buff, among other things. I vaguely remember

EDIT: can we get a optional feature, probably in 2.0, that shows when a LS member or friend logs on? please? lol

[JTSpender]

I suspect it is highly likely that you will see this sort of thing once Free Companies are released, since those are intended to be mechanically more like guilds from other games. Probably not something as crazy as direct stat buffs, but group bonuses/perks for sure.