Post on other guild's board

[Melody Sparks]

1) There is a game wide chat room. It's in the lower left corner of your screen. If you are playing mobile then the chat room is limited or non-existent.
2) You can send messages to guilds by sending a message to people in that guild.
3) When you first join the game you get a chat message from online players, this way new players get help from the active players online. I know this because I am constantly helping new players get started and have fun with the game.
4) What Groggy is suggesting is being able to post on my guild's shout board which is something that is sovereign to each guild and should not be able to be spammed by people who could either want to be a nuisance or harass that guild.
5) The game dev is preparing to release a major update so the game is advancing and is developing.
6) New players don't have to go digging, the moment you press go to forums, the Help thread is right there.
7) If you want to argue retention rate, it's simply because people are looking for a game where you're the 1st person or 3rd person pirate sailing around on you 3D ship when this game simply isn't that. It's a game for intellectual people, who can understand the mechanics or methods of play.

I agree with numbers 1-7. Couldn't have said it better. I just recently got a very inappropriate message from a new player and if that was something that filled a guild discussion board that would be grievous indeed.

[Grogggy]

I never suggested people be able to blanket guild boards...you know how there are categories, war organization etc, why not just a taunt board that you can look at or not, knowing it would probably be a lot of smack talk (or not, who knows!).

Because the group could see, I think you wouldn't get too crazy, but a simple block feature like in PM would solve that issue.

PS, Argueing that PG has to be ugly because smart people play it is a little odd:)

[MAjesty]

1) chat in the lower left to my knowledge has never had an open room for everyone to use.
2 & 4) yes the guild message boards would be spammed but a delete option for the bosses of guild to use would stop that. and or a block button to stop spammers posting again would be available.
3 & 6) Encase you don't remember the tutorial at the start of this game is not the best. I did it a few month ago, not years like most still playing this game. and unless you are on 24 7 some players don't get the option of help from other players. or miss the link to forums. people somehow always find the chat room in games and clicking on chat and there is nothing there can make new player think why bother. all i wanted was a version of the guild message board somewhere (in the Tavern) that anyone can post on.
5) we can only wait and see what new things get added.
7) as for the retention rate 4 out of 100 is too low. I will agree that "it's a game for intellectual people, who can understand the mechanics or methods of play." but when all is said and done this game needs a lot more players.

i think the fact that Mr 42 is wrong on a few points here, but managed to get deep in the game w/o learning them reflects on the interface more then anything.... there's a reason why the general chat is so rarely used.... alot of it has to do with point number 7 here.

Spastic's noob guide was excellent, but plain and simple, the welcome mat/training wheels need to be buffed. like whoaz.