Guilds

A guild is a player-run organization — a name, a tag over your head, a private chat, and the machinery for alliances and wars. This shard runs the modern “new guild system” (Guild.NewGuildSystem = Core.SE, and our expansion is EJ, well past SE), which is menu-driven: you don’t need to place a physical guildstone the way the old system did.

Joining or creating a guild

Open the Guild menu from your paperdoll (the Guild button). If you’re not in a guild it offers to create one; if you are, it opens your guild’s roster and controls.

To create a guild you pay a 25,000 gold registration fee (RegistrationFee) and choose:

a name — up to 40 characters (NameLimit), and
an abbreviation — up to 4 characters (AbbrevLimit), shown in brackets after your name, e.g. Lyra Dawnblade [DAWN].

To join an existing guild, a member with invite rights (Emissary or higher) sends you an invitation through their guild menu; accept it and you join at the lowest rank (Ronin), to be promoted once you’ve proven yourself.

Ranks and what they can do

Every member holds one of five ranks (RankDefinition.Ranks), each granting a set of permissions (RankFlags):

Rank	Can do
Ronin	Probationary — newly accepted, no privileges (not even voting) until promoted.
Member	Vote in guild votes, access guild items, remove the lowest rank (Ronin).
Emissary	Member powers + invite players, remove players, promote/demote, set guild titles — the officer/recruiter rank.
Warlord	Member powers + control war status (declare and end wars).
Leader	All powers, including alliance control. Every guild has one Leader.

Leadership can change by a guild vote — a candidate needs a 66% majority (MajorityPercentage) to take over. Members inactive for 30 days (InactiveTime) stop counting toward votes (so a dead guild can still be reformed by its active members).

Identity: tag, title, and chat

Name tag — your guild’s [abbreviation] is appended to your character’s name for everyone to see (PlayerMobile name suffix).
Guild title — an Emissary can grant each member a custom title (e.g. “Quartermaster”); you can toggle whether your title is shown.
Guild chat — members share a private channel (guild messages), and members of an alliance share alliance chat on top of it.

Wars

A Warlord or Leader can declare war on another guild from the guild menu; when a war is active between two guilds (IsWar), their members become enemies:

Enemy guild members can attack each other freely, anywhere — no criminal flag, no guard whacking for the fight itself (Notoriety.cs treats warring guilds as a harmful-allowed relationship). This is the sanctioned way for guilds to fight without going “red”.
A guild at war is no longer “peaceful” for notoriety purposes, which also limits beneficial acts toward non-allies.
War ends when the war is rescinded / peace is agreed.

Alliances

Guilds can band together into an alliance (AllianceInfo), controlled by guild Leaders:

Allied guilds (members of the same alliance) treat each other as allies — beneficial acts (healing, buffs) are allowed between them and they can’t be warred as enemies.
Alliances share alliance chat, and have an alliance leader guild.
Wars are fought at the alliance level too — declaring war reaches the alliance leaders.

A note on Order vs Chaos

You may see the Order / Chaos / Regular guild types (GuildType) referenced in old UO guides as a built-in PvP system (Order guilds vs Chaos guilds attacking on sight). Under the new guild system this is legacy — enemy status is decided purely by declared wars (IsEnemy returns IsWar), not by guild type. To fight another guild here, declare war; to fight alongside one, ally with it.