Hello! I'm DaniRS, veteran adventurer and lead admin of Black Desert for Roleplay Español, a Spanish roleplay community and guild! I'm from Spain, as you can guess. (ง •_•)ง 

I have been around since 2016 and I mainly focus on roleplay and PvE/life skills. I love to participate in all types of events and organize them for the roleplay community! So, if you see a platinum-blonde Valkyrie in a Black Desert event or slowly walking across the streets of Heidel, it's probably me! And how could I describe my guild with only three words...? Probably... Roleplay, friends and fun! 

How long? Wow, I think a lot of time! Approximately five years if I didn't forget how to count. We created the guild on September 4th of 2016, but we renamed it to the name we have now when we established the roleplay community in June 2017. It has been a while!

Mainly roleplay! And most of us also do PvE thingies and life skills. Some even do a lot of PvP. So many people and tastes!

The most fun event? To be honest, all of them are really fun, at least for me! I had lots of fun at the Summer Festa events and the Ocean Trips! But If I have to choose one... Voice of Adventures Europe 2022! I had a BLAST participating in this event, travelling to another country for the first time and finally meeting all the GMs and CMs was so nice. I also met a lot of friends I made on Black Desert and could also see people that I met years ago! It was incredible seeing all of the Black Desert community together, the Black Desert team, solving riddles, playing mini-games, testing my English and completing the VoA Adventure Log... I don't have enough ways to say how happy I am! 

An event I think would be amazing would be a PvE Siege event at either Calpheon or Valencia castle or any of the big cities. There are likely some limitations and also a significant portion of the development team would have to focus on it. So, you're not gonna see me hold my breath but given the epic scale of BDO, that would be something that would make me go "Dang that's hecking awesome" 

Well, well, well... What a question! It's hard to make a brand-new event that has not been previously done. You guys are so good at making events! But for some weeks I have been bothering Velia, Erethea and Sulfur with something... It looks like all GMs and CMs love to play Yar and some of you have become really good at it. So... let's put it to good use! 
 

Everyone knows about Pokémon and the gym/badges thing, right? Why don't we make something similar? During a couple of weeks, adventurers could duel the "gym" leaders at certain towns to gain a badge (of course, a hand-drawn badge on a piece of paper!) and once they have collected all the badges, they can challenge the Yar League (the best GMs at Yar!)! If you like the idea, let me know and I will explain in detail!

I would say my fellow guild members and I are doing our best to make TGN feel like a home to everyone. We have no participation rules and have had a few people leave to go on their own new adventures, be it in a new guild or IRL (in real life). But equally as many have returned, whom we've welcomed with open arms. Since we are a guild that houses members from all over the world, we've made sure there's always someone around in case a question arises or if someone wants to knock out a mission in the wee hours of the night. We got them covered.

First of all, and most importantly, be patient, respectful and positive with everyone! As an administrator, moderator or guild leader, you need to always be neutral in all situations! If you do something wrong, just apologize! There is nothing bad about making a mistake. The important part is that you can recognize it and learn from it.
 

Second! Be active moderating or administrating your community or guild. Even if you establish rules or guidelines, not everyone will follow them. Always keep an open eye. Moderate and take action against bad behaviors and educate your members if they do something wrong. The base of a healthy community is maintaining the toxicity levels at zero. So do your best to prevent it and not let controversial topics rise up! 
 

Third, engage with your community or guild! It's really important that everyone sees the leaders, admins or mods of the project being active. Talk with your members, engage in conversations and hold events or activities. It helps in building confidence and boost the activity of the community!

1. Never stop recruiting new members. People come and go. It is inevitable. Don't feel bad if people leave. 
 

2. Having the right people to be officers is crucial to maintaining the guild function. 
 

3. Have a good Discord server for guild communication and information. 

I did meet a few close members in real life, but that's all. I wouldn't hold an IRL meeting. Because of physical distance, we have members mainly from EU, but also from USA and Asia. And most importantly, people have their own very busy lives. IRL is much more important.

I wish the access to guild storage was more granular. We had a rather annoying issue regarding a certain player in the past where they would join guilds, take materials out of the guild storage and leave the guild in order to grief the affected guild.  
 

I know the people handling tickets have gotten a fair share from me regarding that. Especially since they could change family and character names to subvert us detecting them and do it again. That was definitely annoying to have to deal with.

Combine Bheg/Leebur and Urugon/Muskan in a way that allows us to distribute and choose the specific stats for each gear piece. This way, we can freely decide to take evasion or damage reduction and switch to different play styles without needing to have two sets of boots or gloves.

Sure! I would like to thank the Black Desert team for all they do from events, to helping adventurers, keeping our spirits up and making our experience much more enjoyable. I have been playing for a long time now and I can now surely say that Black Desert changed my life, a lot. I'm a very introverted person and it helped me overcome a bit of my social anxiety, mainly because of being the admin of the roleplay community. Being able to talk with several people, make announcements, hold events... I wasn't able to a few years ago! I even travelled to another country to meet a lot of people and spoke in English! 
 

I am truly thankful for being able to have a place to relax and be myself in a world full of things to see and explore and full of awesome new people to meet... a place to forget about all the bad stuff. If I'm here now it's all thanks to Black Desert, the people that helped me during these years and all the GMs and CMs. Once again, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

BDO is a great game, but there are still many small things in BDO that should be corrected or changed. Quality of life is very important. Fixing these small problems will make the gaming experience much, much better, even better than providing new game content or new classes. I think this is the real thing that PA should be focused on. PS. Please stop making something like Papu Island. It's occupying our hard drives only. 
 

1. Guild Missions: Mission type RNG in different servers is acceptable, but we strongly suggest that mission size be free to choose like summoning guild bosses. And mission’s 10/10 amount limit should be raised to at least 20 per day. 
 

2. Guild Points: Maximum guild points are 2000 (2002) meanwhile, there still are 943 points that have nowhere to be spent.
We suggest adding new guild passive skills to be available to learn like Drop Rate, AP, DP, Monster AP/DP/Acc/Eva, different types of Life skill EXP, Combat EXP etc. This way we can add characteristics to different types of guilds, PVP/PVE/PVX etc. 
 

3. Summoning Guild Bosses in closer locations or at the same place.  
Puturum is way, way too far. Really, we are wasting too much time on traveling and waiting for members to arrive. 
 

4. Allow officers to renew members' contracts on different servers.
This would save us a lot of time and be much more convenient. (GM Note: Mentioned at Calpheon Ball) 
 

5. Guild Members within the same alliance cannot attend each other’s Khan boss, neither directly nor by mercenary. It should be allowed to attend Guild Bosses directly or by mercenary. 
 
6. The trading life skill needs a rework. 
 
7. Remove the HP vignette effect with low HP. (GM Note: Toggle option implemented in [Patch Notes - December 21, 2022])
 
8. Cancel the hide fort amount until one hour before node war starts.
For strong PvP guilds it doesn't matter but for the others, they have lost the advantage to use their brains and place forts strategically.

I want to say that all of the GM's, CM's and developers are doing a good job improving the game and listening to the community. We aren't always seeing eye to eye on all priorities, but I definitely feel like the players’ voices are being heard more now than ever and it's a welcome change for sure. So keep up the good work 🙂