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There are many kinds of guides and many kinds of guide makers but this guild is here as a way to support and collaborate on all of them!

With that said there is a somewhat obvious focus on colors here because color is what I, ladykayra, work with the most. I'd like to expand how we help but it will take effort from the guild as a whole both to explain what help is needed and to give that help.

Original Thoughts

Based on some of the current feedback

Ideas for Guild -
Turn Getting Started/Helping Hands into a more general help area I.e. have post layouts, tips, general requests such as asking others to help compile lists, or request to help while on hiatus
Redo failed Monthly Item Type into a general chat section

In general chat have the guild mule post a monthly discussion thread saving the first two posts. Thread is so people can post interesting and guide like info as new items come out
At end of month mule updates the first two posts with some of the info in different categories
Category ideas:
New items
New item sets *
New colors
New schemes
New reference items
New canon ref items
New unisex or masculine items
New arm/leg/body mods
New user items
New kin/pet items
List of update types **
List of NPC appearances
Maybe some kind of pricing breakdown?

* It sets like in the monthly CI or hair/accessory RIGs, etc
** Update types can include things like narwhal, monthly CI, tiers, site wide events, etc

Potentially send out a Monthly announcement? Like a guild newsletter? Could have links to the monthly discussion, thank you for active members, links to new guides, and maybe a little spot for “advertisements” by active members

Maybe have guild sponsored bounty contests? Pay members to go search for specific types of items to help make guides or to do work within the guild (like vetting reference project things)

To Do:
Create list of guide ideas
Also go through Guides and Resources and see which guides haven’t been updated since 2017 and haven’t been re-picked up

Guild Management -
Tap someone or someones else to help actively run guild
Re-vet permissions for people on crew

Alright so I collected some thoughts last night and this morning but sadly don't have the time to type them all up. Find them below:


I'd love to hear additional thoughts!

I want the guild to be useful as much as possible (but I also want people to participate if they can).

*wiggles*

Oof, I forget about this guild all the time! Gaia has neglected Guilds for so long... perhaps I should enable some guild notifs (if it's possible?)

Thanks for the promotion to Crew! I don't remember any of the permissions but I will do my best to not break anything.

I currently have my own projects, but I hope it's ok for me to post my list here?

I still have work to do in my purple thread but after actually chugging away at it for a few months I realized pretty fast that I didn't really need my cataloguing thread, so I might delete it at some point down the line (or recycle it? Can you delete threads? It's been too long, I don't remember.)

I think I mentioned in one of my reserve posts that I am not doing pure/unschemed Lavender. There are way too many items. I don't know if anyone was here during the lavendapocalypse of... 2013 maybe? A bit before goldemort I think. It was the only purple Gaia knew, and I hated every release.

I don't know if anyone has the willpower to go through with cataloguing the ~2000 old/unschemed lavenders but I don't recommend it, and I probably won't be able to assist. I also don't think I'd have room in my thread for all of it, but it's... an option, if anyone wants to cover Lavender.

As for my scheme to-do list, it's not terribly difficult for me to do them on my own, so you don't really need to offer. I'd actually be more interested in opinions, such as whether or not to include the rainbow/opalescent schemes. I know angie includes them in the Blue list but I don't know if I want to do the same.

Once I do handle the schemes on my to-do list, the poll hath spoken that I should gather as many gold shop items/sets as I can, so that'll be the next project. If anyone wants to gather purple gold shop sets in the meantime, that would be appreciated, but it's not required! Assistance credit will be given in the thread though. (I suppose you could use the cataloguing purple thread to post em in? I don't mind.)

And Once That's Done, I'd really like to help with the Hex Guide Thread. One thing that I would personally change (but I realize that's a lot of text replacement) is changing ■ to a larger alt character. I use █ in the guide comp thread, it's got plenty of surface area and I don't need to zoom in to get a good view of the color.

I think the only notifications are if someone quotes you or the guild makes an announcement. It's quite unfortunate but also explains why people think guilds aren't as useful
Crew can edit posts. You have a huge guide just like angie so I figured being able to edit things if you know a scheme or color better would be good. I've sort of, kind of, left most blues and purples to you guys except when I forget and throw them in unguided

Of course it's okay! This is a thread for figuring out what everyone wants to needs.
For the catolog you can delete it or throw it in the recycle section of the guild. Up to you. Crew should also give you access to that section
Have you run across Obi Aoi's lavender and lilac thread before? I don't think it has everything but it does have a lot. At the least could just grab that and tell people if they find something else to post it?

I think you'd be fine to leave out rainbow and opalescent. The purple guide is pretty big already
Have you grabbed all the random purples from nimty's old thread for the goldshop stuff? At least I think some things were in there

That last point I'll be getting to in a post in that thread for you


Oofs, I see you found my old tier site there along with the original thread. Seems like they're doing only user tiers now, let me know if you want me to gather up those last 3 months for you.

If you ever get bored and want to help out with one of my long standing org projects, the orange items from this post and the one after it need to be split up into schemes. Autumn, black + orange, pumpkin spice, ect

I can also try to remember to point out food items in the monthly review if that would help your food catalog?