Guilds — Build Your Crew

What Are Guilds?

Guilds are CivSMP's player-organisation system. There's no land claiming on a LifeSteal server, so a guild isn't about territory — it's about people. A guild is your crew: the players you raid with, defend with, share a base with, and pool money with.

In a world where anyone can kill you and take your hearts, being part of an organised group is the single biggest advantage you can have.

Open the guild menu with /guilds, and manage your guild itself with /guild.

Why Join a Guild?

• 🛡️ Numbers — raids and defences are decided by how many people log in when it matters
• 💰 A shared bank — pooled funds for gear, kits, and rebuilding after a bad night
• 🏅 A badge and identity — your guild's custom crest appears next to your name in TAB
• 📈 Guild levels and achievements — a progression track that belongs to the whole group
• 🤝 Friendly fire control — your guildmates aren't people you have to watch your back around
• 🏰 Shared bases — more hands on defence, more eyes on the perimeter

Founding a Guild

Anyone can start one:

/guild create <name>

You become the Owner. From there, invite the players you want:

/guild invite <player>

They'll get a request to accept. Guild creation has a small fee — run the command without arguments to see the current cost.

Joining a Guild

Looking for a crew instead of leading one?

/guild list          — browse all guilds on the server
/guild join <name>   — request to join (if the guild is open)

Most established guilds recruit through chat or our Discord. Ask around — plenty of groups are looking for active members.

Recruiting is allowed. Harassment isn't. Pitching your guild in chat is fine; spamming invites or pressuring players who said no is not.

Guild Ranks

Rank	Permissions
👑 Owner	Full control — promote, demote, kick, disband, edit the badge, withdraw from the bank
🛡️ Admin	Most Owner powers except disbanding or transferring the guild
⚔️ Moderator	Invite and kick members, manage day-to-day guild business
👤 Member	Standard membership — bank deposits, guild chat, shared perks

Promote someone with /guild promote <player> and demote with /guild demote <player>.

The Guild Menu

CivSMP has a dedicated GUI for guilds — open it with /guilds. This is the badge editor and progression screen, separate from the /guild commands you use for day-to-day membership admin. It shows:

• Your guild's custom badge — a stylized shield with border, colours, and pattern layers
• Current level and XP progress
• The full member strip showing everyone in the guild with their player head
• Quick access to the badge designer, levels grid, achievements, and settings

Guild Badges

Every guild gets a fully customisable shield-style badge — pick a border, a background colour, and two pattern layers each with their own colour. The Owner is the only one who can edit it, via /guilds. Once set, the badge appears:

• In the guild menu for everyone in the guild
• As an inline icon next to member names in TAB (the top-right player list)

It costs nothing to design, and it's the fastest way to make your guild feel like a real faction instead of a chat group.

Guild Levels

Guilds level from 1 to 15, earning XP from several sources:

Source	Detail
⏱️ Passive ticks	+1 XP every 20 min for guilds with online members
🏆 Achievements	Score, Members, Bank, and Level milestone payouts
⚔️ Quests & events	One-off XP rewards from Aldoria's questlines

Each level unlocks:

• More badge patterns and borders for your shield
• More member slots (3 at level 1, up to 12 at the top)
• A higher position on the guild leaderboards

Hitting level 15 is the ultimate guild-prestige milestone on CivSMP.

Guild Achievements

Open /guilds → Achievements to see four progression tracks:

Track	Examples
🏆 Level	Reach guild level 2, 5, 10, 15
📊 Score	Earn lifetime XP — 100, 500, 1k, 5k, 15k, 33k
👥 Members	Grow to 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 members
💰 Bank	Bank balance — $10k, $50k, $100k, $500k, $1m, $10m

Every achievement pays out bonus XP, so the more you complete the faster your guild grows.

The Guild Bank

Guilds have a shared bank account that every member can deposit into. Use it to:

• Re-gear members who've been raided or eliminated
• Fund group dungeon runs and raid kits
• Save up for sponsored PlayerWarps and cosmetic upgrades
• Push the Bank achievement tier in /guilds

Deposit with /guild deposit <amount>. Withdrawals are controlled by the Owner via /guild withdraw <amount> — pick your officers carefully, because a shared bank is only as safe as the people holding the keys.

Guild Rules

Guilds are player-run and can set their own internal rules, but they operate inside the server rules:

• Guilds may set and enforce their own internal rules for their own members
• Recruiting is allowed — threatening, harassing, or spamming recruitment is not
• Staff may assist or mediate guild disputes, but won't referee ordinary in-game betrayal
• Scamming rules still apply inside guilds — see /rules
• Kicking a member is entirely at the Owner's discretion; there's no reimbursement for what a kicked member leaves behind

Betrayal is part of the game. Someone joining your guild to empty the bank is a hard lesson, not a bannable offence. Vet your recruits.

Useful Commands

Command	What it does
/guilds	Open the CivSMP guild GUI — badge editor, levels, achievements
/guild	Show your guild's info screen
/guild create <name>	Found a new guild
/guild list	Browse all guilds
/guild invite <player>	Invite a player
/guild join <name>	Request to join an open guild
/guild kick <player>	Remove a member
/guild leave	Leave your current guild
/guild promote <player>	Promote a member
/guild demote <player>	Demote a member
/guild deposit <amount>	Deposit into the guild bank
/guild withdraw <amount>	Withdraw from the guild bank (Owner)
/guild chat <message>	Send a message to guild chat
/guild disband	Disband your guild (Owner only)

Tips for Guild Leaders

• Recruit for activity, not numbers — five players who log in daily beat twelve who don't
• Cover the clock — members in different timezones means your base is never unwatched
• Split your storage — don't put the whole guild's wealth in one raidable room
• Design the badge on day one — it's free and it makes the guild feel real
• Chase achievements deliberately — Score and Bank give the biggest XP returns
• Mix your roles — a guild of pure PvPers starves; bring miners, farmers, and couriers too
• Vet before you promote — Admins can kick and Owners can empty the bank