Posted by Anonymous on December 14, 2007 at 5:23pm
Just saw this group up and right away my first thought is how nice it would be to see some guild management tools as modules for Drupal.
My secondary thought is why just WoW? For me, I'm finding myself just about to depart from Blizzard's MMO and about to take my entire guild en masse over to Age of Conan in the spring. General guild tools (scheduling, roster, DKP, etc.) are what I'm looking for.
I don't want to hijack things here, but just giving my $0.02 that basic guild website functionality would be great, especially if it's not specific to one singular game.
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Drupal has it...
I've created numerous guild websites with Drupal. With all the modules out there, you can pretty much do it all.
Module > Capability
Events > Post guild events and display a calendar
Blog > allow users to express their thoughts about a mission or anything else (content type not a module)
OG > Create different levels of guild leadership
OG Teampage > Shows all members of the group to include picture
Classified Ads > Allows posting of in-game items
CCK > use to create builds directly on your site (need some php knowledge)
Forum > forum
Blocks > shows upcoming events, newest users, etc. (not really a module)
Private Messsaging > send messages via the site
The list really goes on and on. This is just what i've used personally. I'm sure many more ideas could be surfaced.
I've led a Guild in guild
I've led a Guild in guild wars (the guild on its own had 30 active members,) that recruited members and then turned it into the lead Guild of an Alliance (Multiple Guilds made possible with the Guild Wars:Factions expansion pack) with over 120+ active members and back then in June 2006 when things really started to get huge, the extra functionality of a drupal powered website could have come in handy to keep it going.
Here's a few modules I think that could be used on a Guild or a smaller clan site.
Wiki > Tips and tricks. How to Guides
Shoutbox>If used across the top of the page, it resembles an irc channel (http://www.tlsconline.com/forums/ they don't use drupal but the shoutbox is treated like a chat room there)
Possible use of gallery modules:
Display artwork
Display embedded videos of Guilds ingame events (links from youtube or revver)
There have been a few
There have been a few threads on drupal.org about stuff to integrate drupal with sites like wowhead.com, wowarmory.com, etc. Why just wow? Most of what I wanted to share is warcraft-centric - take Armory tool-tips for example.
But yoiu're right - Basic guild website functionality is ultimately what I'm after. I've put together a module to allow events to be made into a 'raid', allowing members to sign up, members with the correct access level to manage those sign-ups, etc. I'm working on something to help with a new recruit process - delivering notifications and the like at definable periods... Again, this is something now wow specific, and applicable to any sort of group.
cool
I didn't know there was w WoW group. I'm currently working on the port of a World of Warcraft theme for drupal and I plan to write an article on creating a clansite.
Does anyone here run a clansite? if so I would like to take a look. It would also be nice if someone could test out my theme before I release it, to see if there are any bugs left.
btw Im filling in a captcha to post this and its all messed up, letters are crossing eachother and are above and below one another!
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If I only knew
If I only knew this website existed when our wow guild was as most active. We had a really crappy guild site and nothing was working the right way. I can see some great potential in the drupal groups.
It would be cool if someone could show me an example of a guild page created here..
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For Age of Conan
I wrote a little module to check the Members Table of Bebot against the Usertable of Drupal and assign a role to that users. I wrote this for he AoC Forums so I think many things of this explanation are obvious to you ;-)
What does this mean?
If you got bebot running on your server, bebot sees who's talking in the guildchannel and adds them to the MySQL Table. So we know who's in the guild.
Now the guy registers on your guildpage (Drupal in my case) and enters his Charactername into a Profilefield of your choice (I check the whole Values fields... I know for let's say 10.000 users this is not fast but for a usual guild it should be ok ;-) ).
Drupal checks the table and sees that the new user registered and assigns the correct role (in my case "guild") to that user.
What advantage do i have over a simple registration?
Usually you do not want everybody to be able to read your guild posts.
but if you moderate registrations, users will not be able to write applications into the forum. So that's where we come in and give a little more rights (like posting into the forum) to the registered user and he'll be able to write his application, but won't be able to see the other forums. As soon he has been approved and is in the guild, bebot adds him to the table and the guildrole is granted.
What would I need?
Todo
The module can be downloaded here.
Please note that this is still in Development and should be used with caution despite I don't think it'll break anything in your installations :)
Feedback and feature requests are much appreciated :)
Also I'm currently working on a module to track the needed ressources for building the guild city (utilizing Bebot again for the ingame communication) and some kind of progress bar for the website. Hope to have that thing up in a few weeks.