A few years ago I created a guild that continues to live on to this day. During the course of my leadership I tried to do my best to keep a united and fun guild. Unfortunately not everything was smooth in running the guild. We had spies, betrayals and other drama. Needless to say it even spilled into the forums and involved other guilds.

Here are some tips that I learned based on what I noticed was very effective. In addition some tips I've learned from marketing books and real life interactions.

Set A Goal

What is the purpose of your guild? Are you out to create havoc in the land or perhaps save make a league of heroic individuals. Your ability to communicate what your goal is an how your guild member communicate this to others will help establish your identity.

Additionally, this will help you recognize the profile of the guild member you want. If you want a very aggresive player killing guild you wouldn't want a dozen of loving teddy bears would you?

Create Rituals

Rituals are a great way to help your members feel like part of the clan. It might be an initiation ritual or a inside joke that you make every time a new guild member comes online

   Back in the day the F word was almost unheard of when people spoke about online gaming. But as time has gone by the words has become almost common place. And players use it to talk about everything. Some small companies use it all over their websites, and other more serious companies like Blizzard or NCsoft don't use it almost at all in their products.

   There are posts everyday in every single forum with the F word in its header. And there are flashing banners in every website with the word on it.

   When I first saw it I must confess I was truly excited, I was completely sold to the idea and I have even stood by the F word. And later it stopped meaning something cool and turned into something annoying and desperate.  They now use it almost for everything and I think they should use a similar term rather than keep recycling it over and over again.

Nowadays I get mixed feelings when I hear it:

"Oh no, here we go again"

"That's great!"

"F***  really?!"

   Even though the F word is easier to re

Introduction

   Through the years women have not been allowed to participate actively in the military combat activities from the armies in most parts of the world. Very few women can be recognized as famous military figures such as Jeanne D’Arc. Until very recently women have acquired a more important role in the military institutions. No longer are women seen as just helpful for cleaning and cooking, which are just ancient stereotypes. Nowadays, women have gone to great lengths to prove that they can do whatever men can do, but can they beat us in the art of war?

In this article we will try to examine the role of women gamers in a MMORPG environment as commanders, military strategists, soldiers, and warriors.

War Simulation

If we consider online games to be a war simulation, we would have several elements we could compare to a real one:

Finite Resources

  Such as gold, mana, potions, elixirs, hp, etc.

Diverse Team Members with Different Skills

   Which represent the different classes we find in every game: mages, warriors, archers, hunters, etc.

Different Maps that require different strategies

   Low visibility maps, open planes, wo

When you start making friends online, you will soon notice that you  should  make your own privacy policy for yourself before playing  online. If you are new to mmo’s then you might be positive about it and just give your new in-game buddy your email. But just what is going to happen on the long run?

And He/She Never Came Back (Gone With the Lag)

Yep, just like the title states, you said "Hi", he/she replied back, you hunted for  a few minutes if not a couple of hours, and you never saw him again. He is never online in his messenger account and he hasn't replied to the 10 private messages that you sent to his forum inbox.

The truth is (please grab a box of tissues) you were never meant to be.  As sad as it sounds, maybe he/she has a busy life or simply thinks he/she has an obligation to give away some personal contact information upfront.  Don't worry it's not because you said that you are 35 and still sleep with a teddy bear.

Stalkers Inc.

So your friend turned out to be very active, he/she is always online, and always has the messenger service open to send you the latest  guild gossip.  You made a spec

There are four major temperaments that include most if not all of the players' personalities of the online worlds, the different temperaments are represented by colors: Blue, Gold, Orange, and Green.

    Read the description and check if you identify yourself with the following characteristics for each color, be honest to yourself, you are not fooling anybody. After you are done scroll down and read the suggestions for your color.

The Blue Temperament

Their purpose is to find their purpose in life.

• Need to feel unique
• Value close relationships
• Encourage expression
• Share emotions
• Make decisions based on feelings
• need harmony
• Get involved in causes
• Look beyond the surface
• Bring unity to society
• Compromise and cooperate
• Feel compelled to make the world a better place

The Gold Temperament

Strong beliefs in the benefits of discipline

• Are dutiful and stable
• Need to be useful
• Value order and organization
• Make and keep commitments
• Are powerful
• Are prepared
• Desire punctuality
• Measure worth by completion
• Safeguard tradition
• Have misgivings about anything that fosters change
• Value structure and security
• Want rules

The Green Temperament

The purpose in life is to find solutions

• Seek to understand the wor

   When I traveled trough the virtual worlds I've found many dangers, hostilities, odd situations and people that have tried to take advantage of me. In real life, heroes rarely appear out of nowhere, risking their lives to keep us safe from harm.

   While playing online I have found myself placing a steel barrier before meeting anyone. Whenever someone makes an attempt to contact me all kind of cautious thoughts pop in to my mind:

What does he/she want?

Is he/she a scammer?

Is there an ambush waiting for me?

Is he/she a stalker?

   Very few people I can really call my friends online, I don't consider myself paranoid but I am aware of the many players that don't mean what they say, or rehearse what they profess.

    Among this wild interaction environment there is one act that is far more memorable for me than slaying the same boss monster for the ninth time. I am talking of course of an act of true heroism.

    When I was about to be exterminated without mercy by a monster they came out of nowhere without saying a word they put there own safety in the line to save me. In the worst case they are ki

My sweet love.

How can I start to explain what I feel about you if I can’t ignore what the people think about how I feel? They say that I’m a boy that never grew up, that it’s just a silly illusion. Who gave them the right to decide what I feel?

I learned at an early age that love was being there for the person you love no matter what. You have been there for me when I was down, when I threw my hopes out the window and gave up on life. You picked me up and talked me through it; day after day you have been there for me.

More than just two desperate strangers that met on chat room, we collaborate inside the game and learn more about each other every day. I have learned to love you through every word, through every thought.

I can’t sleep if you didn’t login into the game as usual and you didn’t reply my messages. I worry about you more than you can ever imagine. Because I don’t know what I would do if something happened to you, who would I call? How would I help you?

Here I sit looking at the screen, typing away what I feel about you in the keyboard. I knew there was somewhere out there only for me, someone that I could trust, someone that I could laugh and cry with, someo