Should they decrease the amount of silver earned because now it is available to more people? Why go through the extra trouble of creating more work and mindless clicking for the same benefit? People don't want to see tavern requirements on guilds. Some people just don't want to participate in the taverns any longer and while this should impact their friends list, it shouldn't impact their guild. Add in aiding a full guild and hood and were up to 578. 140 friends aid plus the double tavern click = 420 mindless clicks for friends alone. There are a growing number of people getting sick of the tavern. If the friends tavern is important to you, and suddenly guilds are allowed to participate, your choice in guilds is now impacted by its membership and their participation in the tavern. This would also interfere with individual play. Guilds and guild mates have a number of benefits allowed to them and only them, this was the one thing special for friends. Even if those players weren't in the forefront of their minds, giving friends a greater importance in the game certainly was. Giving friends a greater importance gave another way for those players to still be social within the game. I really think part of their interest in developing the tavern was to try to help players who chose to go solo and not join a guild.

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