Monsters & Memories Setup Guide
Monsters & Memories has no setup page. After you create the guild you land on its overview, which opens on a Set up card: pick the member role and post your first event there, then press Finish setup. Then press Start the tour, or Not now. The steps below follow the card, and After setup covers the rest.
You need the guild's settings permissions for these steps. The guild owner and community admins have them.
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Steps
Pick the member role
On the Set up card, open Who can sign up from Discord and set Member Role to the Discord role your members have. Anyone with it can sign up from Discord and is added to the roster. Set Officer Role too if you use one. Until a Discord server is connected this row is optional, since the roles show up once CoGM joins. You can change both later in the guild's Settings > Discord, which also has the footer text for bot posts. If you skip the role, the new event form offers the suggested role in one click with Use @Role.
Post your first event
Open Your first event and pick a template. It fills in the title, seats and tag; save the event on the next screen. A new Monsters & Memories guild starts with these event templates:
- Camp: 6 seats. One group at an outdoor camp. Put the zone and level band in the title.
- Dungeon: 6 seats. One group in a dungeon. Dungeons are open world, so other groups may be there too.
- Named target: Open signups. A named mob with a long respawn. No size is published, so signups stay open.
Open Activities > Templates to change them or add your own with New template. They are also the list /attendance offers in Discord, and /attendance cannot record anyone until the guild has at least one template.
Finish setup
When the card says nothing required is left, press Finish setup. Then press Start the tour, or Not now. I'll finish later folds the card until you come back.
After setup
Check the server
You picked the server when you created the guild. Characters stay on their server, so one CoGM guild plays on one server. If your community plays on two, make a guild for each. To change it, open the guild's Settings > General. The servers are:
- Estaire: US West, PvE
- Trem: US East, PvE
- Tilustra: US East, PvE
- Kravvin: US, PvP
- Nunavoth: US, PvE, 3 clients
- Vespyra: EU, PvE
Make an application form
Optional. Unless your community already has an active community-wide form, a new Monsters & Memories guild starts with a form built from the Monsters & Memories template: character name, race, class, level, server, alts, play times and MMO experience. Open Applications, then Forms, to edit it, or press New form and pick the template under Start from. Then turn on Open Recruitment in Settings > General. Applications are free on every plan. See Applications.
Ask members to upload
Members run /upload in Discord with a screenshot of their character window on its Inventory tab. CoGM reads the name, level, race, class, faith, health, mana, armor class, stats and resists, and the bot posts the character's card. To refresh later, members run /update stats (/update gear on a server that also runs Black Desert Online) with a new character window screenshot (Inventory tab), and /update class fixes a class the screenshot read wrong. See /update. Members can also add characters by hand on the Roster page.
No screenshot? /upload without one opens a panel where members pick Main or Alt and type in name, race, class and level. Typing it in doesn't use an upload. See No screenshot? Type it in.
Game settings
The guild's Settings > Game page has sub-guild labels, if you run more than one in-game guild under this CoGM guild. Only the names on the sub-guild list count, matched in any letter case. Removing a name also removes its Discord role link, and the name stops showing on cards and the roster. The page also has member archiving, which sets how many days after someone leaves before they are archived, and Class roles, which sets the role each class counts as for your guild. See Monsters & Memories for how class roles work.
Next
- Post more camps and dungeons from your templates. A group is six: one tank, one healer, one support, two melee DPS and one ranged DPS by default.
- DKP, loot auctions and the Guild Bank are on Pro. Looking for Group is free. See DKP, Loot and Guild Bank.
- Everything CoGM does for this game: Monsters & Memories.