The new update comes with some info about guilds -> source

Guilds
Unlikely parties, guilds are persistent social structures. They allow players to

• Share a private global chat with other guild members;
• Share access to houses and house items such as containers;
• See the location of other guild members on the minimap;
• Form alliances with other guilds;
• Wage war to other guilds.

We have no plan to limit the amount of players that can be members of the same guild, but this is something we might reconsider in the future.

@asspirin said in Opening inventory during fight ?:

Like many things this is also matter of personal taste

It's also a bit about balance because if the game ends up having a variety of potions, the person who can afford to die with a bunch of expensive potions will have a huge advantage in pvp. Imagine fighting someone with 7.1/8.1 poison, gig, res, regen and invis potions in the same time in Albion. Not so fun eh? Even 1 of each of these poisons adds up to a reasonable amount of silver.

@Xzoviac
I know and I'm on the same page with you. I was addressing the fact that some ways of dismissing other people's concerns on this topic are not exactly healthy and can raise questions for the newcomers.

@tulukaruk said in Is this game using these Unity Asset Store assets and why?:

The whole Unity is a ready "asset" In old days they would have to code everything from the ground. No point in reinventing the wheel.

No, Unity is a game engine. Writing your own renderer alone takes a lot of time and it won't look as pretty as an industry-standard engine, so it makes sense to use one. On the other hand, when it comes to assets (the ones that will be in the release), you want a homogenous graphics style, which is kind of hard to achieve by gluing together cheap assets from unity store.

@Gothix said in Opening inventory during fight ?:

I havent seen a single mmo where you cant open your bag and use consumables during the fight.

Thats the point of having consumables.

I know one, Albion. In order to use consumables you have to equip them and you can't change your gear (including consumables) when you are in combat.

@Vortech said in How big should guilds allowed to be?:

So food is also used to feed territories and buildings in AO. Food in relations to territories are valued by their nutrients per weight as the have to physically be run to the tower. Food in regards to buildings is all about the favorite food multiplier.. In AO food running is a strategic thing, managing the resources, the farmers, the cooks, and the distribution are pretty serious at the higher levels.

Ah yes, I forgot about that. However, I disagree with your sentiment about how important the food is: territories generate a lot more energy (silver-wise) than what you'd pay for to feed it, which means that literally they pay for themselves (ignoring the other advantages they give, like protection and SP). The problem that remains is the fact that you have to transport the food and it's heavy. The guilds I've been in have weekly trade run CTAs so players can safely transfer their gathered resources from territories to Caerleon. Well, on the way to the terries you are empty anyway so you can pick food from Caerleon to feed the towers. All in all, I think the tower feeding is more about creating a huge need of food to keep the economy running than anything else.

Regarding silver, the point would be that it becomes unprofitable.. Larger guilds can generate more silver but if the cost outpaces the production then you have an indirect form of cap not some artificial cap. The larger the numbers, the higher the costs.. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

So, at this point why not have a hard cap because it's the same thing, but your idea can be exploited.

AO already has cooldowns to prevent guild, alliance hopping.

Yet gvgers still merc a lot.
It's hard to compare this system to Albion due to their map limitations, but let's say Albion's guild system changes so a guild is profitable up to 40 members and there's FF inside alliances but not inside guilds. I can imagine MG asking their alt guilds members to drop guild and join the main 2 days prior to the reset day. Why would people stay in the alt guilds? For the same reason they do now: a chance to be in the top guild when a spot opens.

PS: I haven't played Albion since august, so my information is 2 seasons old. I heard that now SP is shared among alliance guilds. Did this break the big alliances?

@Chrisgopher
I haven't played either of those games, but here's how I understand Fractured will work: each town has local marketplace and local warehouse (if you want to sell things to town A you have to travel there and set up the sell order on the marketplace, and the buyer must also travel to town A if he wants to buy your item). Items will be crafted in facilities located in towns, but raw materials can only be gathered outside of the towns. When you are outside of a town you can get killed by other players and lose everyone you have on you. This, paired with the fact that items lose durability and mobs don't drop full items creates a never ending need of crafters.
Also, there are 3 planets with different resources and thematics (no pvp, pvp with flagging and unrestricted pvp - more info here). For some items you will need resources from all the planets.

@Vortech
It's not correct to compare food in Albion (20min buff, everyone can grow the raw resources safely on their island and it takes 5min/day) to that in Fractured (you die when you starve).
How about silver - the result is taxes being raised by 5% or so. Instead of putting an artificial limit where it becomes unprofitable to maintain a big guild, better have a hard cap because the first scenario can be cheated: a big guild (think BA in Albion) can have multiple alt guilds whose members only join the big guild on important events.
Also, again, FF between party members / guild mates is a very bad idea. Hard cap on number of players is the best scenario.

@Roccandil
Ah, I see. I haven't played since July (so the last 2 seasons). Glad to hear they finally make improvements in this regard.
About the realm-gate: I understand that in Fractured we can fast travel within the same planet* (but without items), so as long as you keep sets in multiple locations it will be alright. Imagine Albion being played only in the royals, but without blue and yellow zones - that's how I imagine it.
*source -> last point

@grofire said in How big should guilds allowed to be?:

do not forget that, not like albion, there will be FF on human and demon planet, so doesn't matter what the size of the guild, too many people and they will lose.

That's a very stupid idea for a full loot pvp game which will bring a lot of frustration (in both pve and pvp). I mean, imagine being the tank and not only having to deal with whatever the mobs throw at you, but also dodge DD's skills. And I doubt that the biggest zerg will lose because the top guilds will soon figure out it's better to send people in waves.
In fact even in Albion you'd send people in waves because the maps had cap of 300 players -> https://i.imgur.com/jj8nwgo.jpg

@Basileus said in Is this game using these Unity Asset Store assets and why?:

I really don't get what the problem is with using pre-made assets. I'd rather the focus be on the actual gameplay mechanics, rather than trying to make some fancy UI when a good one already exists. Opportunity cost is a thing after all.

If you wonder why people have trust issues with devs that use unity store assets, it's because there's a long history of of indie games (often crowd-founded) who did this and in the end they either failed to deliver or were borderline scams. After checking Fractured for half a year and actively participating in discussions for a month now, I came to the conclusion that Dynamight are passionate about Fractured, but I can understand why people who just discovered the game take this as a red flag