JMTC Wow Gold Forum

It's not that hard to start a guild, invite lots of people in it, and start leveling it, but there will be points in time where you'd like some gold.
(banktabs, 50K guildrepairs achievement, and so on ... ).
To us gold making types, it's not that hard to actually give a lot of gold to any guild we join, but not every guild has the kind of luck that gets them their goldmaker.
I've joined a smallish guild on an alt, and I'm trying some new ideas (from the background), one of them being a fundraiser event.
The idea behind it, is having people work together to build a better guild and get more of a "group" feeling.

Simple rule for the first fundraiser: The one who deposits the most gold on a specific date, receives all four old-world hatchlings
(to make it more appealing, a second set of those hatchlings will be split over 2nd to 5th place )

I'd appreciate some more ideas for future fundraisers (and if you post something you did yourself, how successfull was it?)

From what I've experienced, gold for guilds comes from one of two things. Just the 5%/10% extra going to the from monsters.... This will happen regardless, so you just try to get your guild larger and the gold comes.

The other way... is when the big gold makers of the guild retire. Sometimes the guild can be lucky enough to get a big donation when they leave the game. For this to happen, its important to make them feel like the guild is their home. This takes a lot of work.

Most of the rest of the gold in-between seems insignificant.

Basically what you are saying is:
"Don't bother with fundsraising, just wait till the 5% / 10% of looting starts comming into the guildbank"
And
"Marry a rich guy for his money"


It's important to make everybody feel at home in the guild, so they log on more to play and get XP for the guild
The guild isn't actually "mine" and I AM the guy making the most gold (I'm slacking as I only make 1K/day with half an hour of work put into actual goldmaking)
This question isn't about making me rich, I am rich, it's about making a Guild rich and making it bond in the process.

Pretty much.

There is an extra level to it too.... If the guild is hardcore into raiding. Selling off the unwanted epics can bring a guild a bunch of gold as well.

The guild I'm in brought in in the area of 300-500k just from unwanted epics that were sold in the auction house. The issue was how to spend the gold, not how to earn it. But that's for more higher end raiding guilds.

I mean, there is a chance that you have just the right combination of players that will feed upon each others to work together to make the guild rich.... but the chances of that are slim to none. What is more likely to happen is that some of the guild are going to contribute the majority of the gold to the guild and a bunch of other lazy members are going to see an opportunity to "Leech" from it creating extra headaches for the officers.

The majority of our guild's gold comes from BoE's. IF it isn't needed by the players in that specific raid on the toon they're on, the BoE's sell for guild gold. We're at around 100k gold which is more than enough.

I'm currently running a fishing contest with my own gold as a reward, but only as a means to an end - i want the fish feast recipe. But the end result will be free feasts for the guild for a few months

Just in case you were wondering about the event ... it was a total bust
It didn't help that the event was anounced months before it occured, a 1 copper deposit would've won four hatchlings.
(Nobody put any gold into that bank that day, one person put in 10G one day too late )

Lesson learned I guess?

I NEVER learn lessons from these type of failures I happen to foresee the outcome

I'm the type of guy that has put a team of classmates together by picking the worst players (pick the guy that gets picked last, first) just to have fun and lose.
(Big surprise: The guy that usually got picked last, also tried to influence my judgement into picking better players ... go figure )
Of all the people in the gym, there was only ONE that figured out what I was doing, and that was the teacher, everyone else was thinking I had gone Bonkers
Did the losing team have fun No they didn't Everyone wants to be a winner or part of the winning team, even when they are losers
Did I know the result would be like this Och yes, but I went ahead anyway