Guilds and FamiliesFollow

I may be mistaken but I thought I had read that they were going to allow small groups of friends to form Families as apposed to forming a Guild. I have been unable to find anything on it so far. I'm assuming that either I'm not looking in the correct places or they just scraped the idea and lowered the required number of people to form a guild to six. Six is not really that bad, but there is only me and 3 of my RL friends on my server. We were all once EQ1 uber guilders and are just burnt out on it. Sick of that general guild mentality, you know the whole keep up with my uberness thing in order to join. Anyone know what happend to the whole family thing?

i believe that there were enough people that wanted their own surnames that soe tabled the idea.

as for guildishness, i'm in a small family/social guild and enjoy it immensely. verry little pressure, and we help each other when we can.

this may help with your forming a guild... when we formed tb in eq2, we got our group of 6 together and talked to the spooty npc, gave him the silver... and when i looked at my guild window i was the only one in it! i ended up then having to /guild invite <name> everyone after the guild was formed, and one member had to log to go to work before i had figured out they'd added the space in the command... so we then only had 5 in the guild.

soooo... i'm thinking if you can talked some people into standing around in a group (they'd have to *not* be members of another guild) until you could form, then only invite the people that you wanted in, you'd be set :).

also, only leaders can promote members to ossifer, and you have to be in the same zone to promote someone :x.

gl!