Well to be honest a lot of guilds wouldnt allow a non guilded member to raid with them so at some point you might have to leave if thats what you wanted. Besides that I dont think they had anything I could remember it was more of a hey those people are on my friends list and I remember them from so and so. A lot of it just boiled down to remembering people and what y6ou did with them
This is something i found interesting when i was play guild wars 2, you could join up to 5 guilds - they were based on account, not character. You selected which one you wanted to display, guess that would be your "main" guild. It allowed to keep a couple of social guilds while still being in my active guild.
I must say I like the segregation that everest had with guilds, but that's cause I always made my friends join my guild hehe.
I just find that if not used right it could be used as a server wide communication, like a porters chat or something like that.
Which I'm unsure if I care about or not yet lol.
I guess we will need to see if what server wide chat will be limited to (tells, guilds, groups, public or all of the above)
Sounds interesting though, I'm going to go look at these "caravans"
I used to utilize private chat channels in both EQ and World of Warcraft to dick around with some RL friends who I may not have been in the same guild with. I remember some communities in EQ that used to maintain private chat channels as well that were not guild-based. For example, we used to have a community that raided the old world dragons each week on Tunare and there was a private channel maintained to set the raids up each week and just socialize in between.