[FatalLace]

couple of things to add:

Council-status members can ChatBan Academy members, we don't have any Guards in our guild, so i'm not sure about them

Be VERY VERY VERY careful who u assign as an Admin. I know Admins have had the power to even ban the Guild Master before, i'm not sure if this has changed. Related to this, be careful what you store in Guild Storage. If an Admin were to ban you, you'd have to go through hoops to have OutSpark reinstate you as the GM. meanwhile, your stuff is just sitting there in limbo.

Guild Storage really should only be used as reward storage for your Academy Members. and if you plan to compete for the top spot on your server, be prepared to spend about 5-6g per week just in Silver incentives. This also means you're going to need to keep stores of Buff Scrolls, Town Scrolls, or whatever u plan on using as an automatic reward to your academy members.

we've done VERY well as an Academy, holding on to the #1 spot every week so far except the first two weeks as we figured out how to maximize the system. we currently push or exceed 200,000 points every week and our guild buff timer is 1,335 hours and a few minutes (we also do not powerlevel in case you're wondering). but again, if you intend to compete, plan to have huge financial backing and dedicated admins.

as the Academy/Guild Master, you're going to really need to stay on top of things. assuring that there's no slackers in Academy, checking that there are enough Rewards in the Guild Storage and enough Cash in there as well. When academy members start hitting their goals only to find out that their incentive is gone because someone wasn't paying attention, it's pretty demoralizing.