Get your self a solo guild. You can do whatever you want whenever you want. That is bald eagle level of freedom.
A player would be better off joining a guild with no minimum requirements. There are hundreds of them.
AMEN !
@AAA12AAA is correct. A solo guild is way, way better than a guild with no minimum requirements (GWNMR for short). I am speaking from long experience with both. So many downsides to a GWNMR, even if you're a leader. Worse if you're not. About the only downsides to a solo guild are not being eligible for the GE weekly championship, and having no one else to help with QI. And of course GBG. Not one of those is better in a GWNMR, however. GE weekly championship? You're not going to get far there if no one is required to even minimally participate. They may not even open all levels, sometimes none at all. QI? Players in a GWNMR are not even going to understand how to play QI, let alone be effective there, so you'll be basically on your own there, too. GBG? You'll probably be fighting alone there, too, in a GWNMR.
None of the rest of your post has anything to do with the first line of it. That being said, if you don't like seeing complaints about the game, don't come to the Forum. You will not be missed. And definitely don't read feedback threads. And if all you have to contribute is your personal opinion of other players, then you really can just take that crap and stuff it. Take your own advice and quit crying about what others are saying and just play the stinking game if you still love it so much. There are already enough Inno fanbois/cheerleaders here ready and willing to jump on any negative feedback as it is. We don't need another one just repeating the same tired "get over it" BS.
You are generalizing about guilds with no minimums. While you may have had some bad experiences with them years ago that does not mean that all of these guilds are inferior to solo guilds. Although I will agree that a solo guild may be preferable to a multi-player guild with absentee leadership and mostly inactive members, I don't agree that solo guilds are better otherwise. It's not difficult to find a multiplayer guild, with no minimums, with players that help with 1.9s, trades, aiding, and such.
We get it. You said this in your OP. If you want to play less, play less. I doubt anyone cares.
Years ago. LOL. You have no idea, do you? Absolutely no clue. I have been playing for 9 years. I have extensive experience on multiple worlds over several years in all kinds of guilds. And yes, it is difficult to find a multi-player guild that has no minimums yet has players that help with all that stuff. It is exceedingly rare. Players that will help with that consistently are (not always, but predominantly) going to be in guilds with at the very least minimum requirements. Players that are in no minimum requirement guilds are there because they don't want to be expected to do anything.
You may have "extensive experience" with multi-player guilds but it's not recent, not even close.
You have no clue. Absolutely none. Just because I don't advertise my every game playing move, you make assumptions about me. Almost all of them incorrect. Not to mention that the general dynamics of guilds does not change significantly. Of course, if you have evidence that they do, please share that evidence instead of just repeatedly and ignorantly attacking my credibility. Your credibility consists of always, without exception being an Inno cheerleader. Which means you actually have no credibility except in game mechanics. You are in one type of guild and have no experience in other types, recent or not. You really have no clue.
Ever heard of ScoreDB? Amongst other things, it contains players' guild affiliations dating back to 2019.
LOL. Yeah, I've actually used that site at times in the past. Dubious reliability. For one thing, it only lists my current worlds/cities. If you had access to Inno's data, you would see that I've had way more than those 11 just in the past couple of years, let alone back to 2019. In fact, two of my cities just disappeared in the last week or so. And that doesn't even take into account the fact that I also have a Beta city, and a city on two other international servers under different names. But you keep on trying, I'm sure you'll be right some day.
Nobody has access to INNO's data. However, when comparing ScoreDB's data with ForgeDB's there is a very strong correlation. ForgeDB has not been updated since late 2021 but it shows all of your current worlds as well as two minor cities on Dunsarund and Vingrid (both solo guilds) whereas ScoreDB show two new minor cities on Carthage and Angkor (both solo guilds). Point being, your knowledge of multi-player guilds is not grounded in recent (meaning the past five years) personal experience which renders your generalizations and stereotyping highly unreliable..
LOL. Wow, you just keep digging your hole, don't you? The "minor city" on Vingrid is and has been my main city for several years. And the "new minor city" on Angkor is at least my third different city on that world (same account, not push accounts). I have had multiple cities on almost every US server world over the last 9 years of playing, always on the same account and never two at the same time on the same world (which would be impossible anyway without using a separate account.) Sinerania and Vingrid are the two exceptions to that, as both are the original cities that I started on those worlds. Every other current city I have is at least the second city on that particular world. As recently as last fall I had a total of 15 cities in existence on the US servers, four more than I have now and 5 more than show on ForgeDB.
I've said my piece. Thanks for playing.