Our guild's rank in the global guild listing is determined by just 3 things:

• Guild Level - Each higher guild level grants a higher amount of guild prestige points (shown on the guild screen: level 89 gives 2,225 guild prestige., level 90 gives 2,250 prestige, so this increases very slowly with guild level.)

• Battlegrounds - MMR from our Guild Profile x18 = the guild prestige for ranking, because that's the formula from Innogames;  so for all the guilds sitting at 1000 LP (many of the top 20-30 guilds on any given server are all capped out at the maximum 1000 LP) it translates to 18,000 guild prestige points.

• GvG maps, the value of all land we own each day.  This we have to fight for every day to maintain, and the amount of power we collect each day is equal to the amount of guild prestige used to calculate the rankings each day at reset (8PM game time.)  If a sector is worth 96 power, it's also worth 96 prestige toward our guild rank.

As you can see, with most guilds being nearly equal in the prestige gained from guild level and battlegrounds, the entire difference which decides the guild rankings is left to the GvG maps score - maps which are only available on the browser version of the game and which only a handful of players participate in defending.

Because the entire ranking system is setup around GvG and the GvG reset time (also called calc time) any ranking changes based on the outcome of a particular Battlegrounds season, which ends at 8 AM on Mondays, does not get added to the guild's power or ranking until 12 hours later at 8 PM when the GvG reset/calc happens (players of course get their individual Battleground rewards right away.)

Making sure the Halls of Fame get motivated is one of the best ways to help level up the guild by producing more guild power! I also make plundering an HoF my first order of business if I find a city that has left one unmotivated and uncollected. Motivating the HoF protects it from plundering (another reason to keep ours motivated!)

The Statues of Honor or Great Elephants (won in Battlegrounds) are similar to an HoF and produce guild power, but take more space (SoH 3x4 size versus HoF 3x3) but also produces FPs and goods for the guild treasury. They do not require motivation and can not be plundered. The SoH/Elephant after level 5 is more efficient than Halls of Fame Level 1, for Future Era and below, but less efficient for Arctic Future era and up -- and SoH is less efficient than a Hall of Fame upgraded to Level 2 for Tomorrow era and up.

The only other ways to get guild power, which translates to points that level up the guild, are:

• GvG fighting (owning sectors on the global map) 

• Guild Expeditions (each crown goal we reach awards more power; the trophies for places 1-3 provide an additional bonus to power collected that week) 

• Battlegrounds (amount dependent on placings, but its 3-4 times the amount we get from GE, but only pays out every 2 weeks) 

• or if you won certain special buildings from events, the Bazaar, Upgraded Cider Mill, Magnum Opus, or Sleigh Builder all have a production option to produce a certain amount of guild power, depending on the age of the building.

City collections for guild power has always been the number 1 source of leveling up the guild.  Battlegrounds are number 2, and GE is number 3.  When you want to discuss what has value or not in the game for contributing to the guild, let's do it based on numbers and analysis, not emotion.  What is really important is that...

• We enjoy the game and who we play with 

• Place in the top 3 of GE for the bonus (25%, 15% or 10% extra guild power) and trophy count 

• Stay in diamond league for the most power income, extra fragments, and the best FP/good/diamond rewards after each fight.

So let's look at the numbers!

CITY COLLECTIONS (HALL OF FAME, STATUE OF HONOR, ETC)

Obviously this number will vary as people leave and join, or earn more buildings and upgrades from battlegrounds, or rearrange their cities.  But a typical example from using FoE helper to visit all 58 cities in the guild to collect the building data, is that we generate 98K per day  from city collections.  Let's just say over a 2 week period maybe everyone collects 10 times, that's approximately 980K power from cities over the same time period as 1 Battleground (max 546K power) or 2 Expeditions (max 250K power.)

Now let's review the numbers for Battlegrounds and Expeditions.

BATTLEGROUND (GBG) DIAMOND LEAGUE POWER INCOME

• GBG 1st place in diamond league is 546K

• GBG 2nd place in diamond league is 478K

• GBG 3rd place is reward of 432K

• GBG skipping 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th are small differences... 8th in diamond league is 391K

The least you can earn is around 400K in diamond league battlegrounds, assuming you place high enough not to get dropped to platinum league.

GUILD EXPEDITION (GE) POWER INCOME

In a typical GE seasons we generate around 100K in guild power.  Assuming 100K guild power, the bonus for 1st would be 25K, 2nd would be 15K and 3rd would be 10K.

1. GE first place would generate 125K guild power

2. GE second place would generate 115K guild power (10K less than 1st)

3. GE second place would generate 110K guild power (15K less than 1st, 5K less than 2nd)

These are very small differences in the power earned from GE placing, and more important really than the power income, is that we maintain our record of never having placed below 3rd.

For context let's compare, 2 GE's happen in the time it takes to do 1 Battleground.

• 2 GE wins at first place we will estimate at 250K power

• 2 GE with one first and one second place 240K power

• 2 GE second place finishes would be 230K power

Now compare 8th place in a diamond league GBG at 391K power to 2 gold GE finishes at 250K power.  Even a very poor performance in GBG is worth 140K more power than 2 gold trophies in the Expedition.  And all of the guild competition power rewards pale in comparison to building Statues of Honor and other power producing structures in your cities, leveling them up, and collecting every day.

Guild Power is produced by Halls of Fame and Statues of Honor or Great Elephants in our cities, and at reset every day (8pm game time) we get Guild Power collected from all our land on the GvG maps. We also earn Guild Power (crowns) in the Guild Expedition every week, plus a bonus to power if we earn a 1st 2nd or 3rd place trophy. The Battlegrounds pays out guild power every 2 weeks too, according to where we place.  Guild power is used to level up the guild (we are level 97 now and working toward level 98 and 12 FPS collected from town hall, plus other benefits.) When you view the Guild screen, inside the Level tab, you can see our progress to the next level in the green bar along the bottom, and you will see we get 5 main benefits for current guild level:

Guild Prestige - this affects our global ranking, at this writing we are ranked 10th globally. This comes from our Prestige, which we get a base amount from our guild level, plus our MMR rank for Battlegrounds, plus the prestige from holding sectors in the various ages on the GvG map. Land in higher ages count for more Prestige.

Guild Support Pool - this affects how much defense bonus we get in our sectors on the GvG map. We get a base support pool based on our guild level, and then we get 10 more support pool per level for every Observatory in the guild, and 3 more support per level for every Deal Castle and Saint Basil's in the guild.

These 3 GB that give support pool are important, especially the Observatory! Edit: in a 1000%-2000% attack boost world we now live in for the game, and with gvg sectors still capped at 75% defense as if its still 2016, support pool that provides the defense % for our GvG owned sectors is almost pointless, but it's good to understand the game had some strategy design originally.  Observatories are still important for treasury goods in a small 3x3 space.

For example:

• a level 5 Observatory contributes 50 support pool to the guild

• a level 10 Observatory contributes 100 support pool

• a level 5 Saint Basil's contributes 15 support pool

• and a level 10 Deal Castle contributes 30 support pool

Higher ages take more support pool! For example Colonial has a support factor of 3, so our total support pool is divided by 3 and then parceled out to all our land there. We have more than enough support pool to cover over 20 sectors in Colonial. But Contemporary has a support factor of 12, and at this writing we barely have enough Support pool to get the maximum 75% in our HQ and 50% in the rest of our sectors. When we run out of support pool, some of our sectors will have defense less than 50%, we have already seen some at 49%, 38% and 0% defense. Everyone having an Observatory is important as we expand into higher ages.

Reduced Troops recruitment time - this also makes Alcatraz, Rogue and Champion collections work on less than 24 hour schedule; we collect troops faster thanks to our guild level bonus, which is about 1/3 less than the time it normally would take, i.e. 16 hours instead of 24, and other troops take about 2.75 hours instead of 4 hours to train.

Forge Points - extra forge points collected from Town Hall each day.  The max is +12 FPS at guild level 98.

Reduced Building costs - a discount on the coins and supplies cost for buildings.

I hope this has clarified the different terms for Guild functions, which are often confused: the difference between Guild Power (collected power to level up the guild), Guild Prestige (earned for our global ranking) and Guild Support (used for our defense bonus on the GvG map.)