I have been playing Splinterlands for a while now, from Dec 2018 to be precise. When you play this game for a bit, soon you will understand, that you don't really play the game alone. You play one-on-one alright (as of now) but you will want to discuss your game with someone, a friend who speaks the same 'language'. This is where the concept of guild originated.
When I started playing, for the longest of time, I was not part of any guild. Other than some store discount (which can be substantial) or some DEC bonuses (also can be substantial at high levels), there were no real reason :) I hope you can see that I am mocking myself with the previous statement! Simply I was ignorant, and perhaps a touch lazy too. When I finally understood the benefits (financial) in addition to just fellow-feeling, I joinded the guild of Neoxian. A few of my friends were already there so it made sense.
The Game as a whole was in a funk just before the hostile takeover of the steem blockchain. So during that time, I lost interest in playing and delegated most of my cards to a professional to play for me. Therefore, I left the guild for a bit, as I wasn't really playing much. But, then, when Brawl was launched, as can be seen from the link above, suddenly there is more incentive to co-ordinate and collaborative play, as opposed to just be an army-of-one; I thought about being more active into playing again.
I tested the brawl at the QA server at the beginning, but as the brawl was launched, I was not part of any guild. However, with all the changes I became interested in playing by myself again. So I slowly accumulated my broken deck to something playable, but that is besides the point and a different story. About the same time, a person I never knew before, steemitromney, (nah, he is not a steem supporter!) reached out to me and mentioned if I could join Shield of Glory!
I was hesitant at first, because it was a Level 8 guild at the time, and with my experience and deck I could easily join any Level 10 guild. But, my other friend scrooger was also there, and I heard some good and honest things about the people there. So I said yes.
After I joined, in the beginning, it was not a very active guild. I mean brawls will sometime be unfilled (I was guilty myself multiple times) and quest won't be done. People won't be active on discord. Although Zagor and Sinistry both tried very hard for a while, it was slow. It went to the point that steemitromney one day reached out to all of us and said he is leaving the guild for a more active one.
Maybe that was the trigger or wake up call, I don't really know. But I saw Zagor, who is our guild leader, started cleaning up house. Meaning, he let go inactive players and requested active players to participate in brawls regularly. Slowly but surely that helped. We had lot of active new blood recently, some very good players, Vugtis (started probably very similar time as me)probably our highest ranked player, Xsuilx and Shadowwolf both the active new addition, and I appreciate the amount of effort they put it. Gregory-f, the remaining of the old-guards is still active, so are many others new player.
So recently from the depth of near darkness and mediocrity, Shield of Glory have become the newest Level 10 Guild recently, also we are currently ranked #6 ahead of many long standing experienced guilds. Our brawl performance have improved and we are looking forward to give the top guilds some serious competition.
I am proud of every guild members that we have, and I call Shield of Glory my current home.
FYI: we are looking to recruit new members, please contact Zagor#9032 on discord, who is the guild leader for details
