We had coalitions in CoH, but they were deeply flawed. At the very least the SGs should form ONE coalition, not each SG having its own respective ones.

Gangrel wrote:

But I cannot see why this cannot be done on a *character* level either.

I imagine it "could" be done, but how easy it'd be would boil down to how they organize SGs in CoT.

The good news is that because the game will no longer be as strictly "blueside-only" or "redside-only" the way CoH was it might be easier to let members in SGs have multiple SG memberships. Still I wouldn't assume this'll be allowed because if CoT ends up with some version of Prestige then they still might decide "one SG per character" is the only way things make the most sense.

Gangrel wrote:

Lothic wrote:
Gangrel wrote:
But I cannot see why this cannot be done on a *character* level either.

I imagine it "could" be done, but how easy it'd be would boil down to how they organize SGs in CoT.
The good news is that because the game will no longer be as strictly "blueside-only" or "redside-only" the way CoH was it might be easier to let members in SGs have multiple SG memberships. Still I wouldn't assume this'll be allowed because if CoT ends up with some version of Prestige then they still might decide "one SG per character" is the only way things make the most sense.

No need to limit it to one SG though.
The worry that you are having can be alleviated by having a "representation" option, so that if you are a member of several SG's, you can choose which one you are representing *at that point in time*, so anything that you do/gain SG related will be allocated to the SG that you are currently representing.
That is how it is done in Guild Wars 2.
I will say that in Guild Wars 2, you are only limited to the Guild chat of the guild that you are currently representing at that point in time... which is something that I *personally* do not like... although there are workarounds using Out of Game communication methods.
So for CoT, I would propose that each SG you are a member of, gets its own chat channel that you automatically join when you login... and that then removes the problem of having to swap guilds to chat in different groups.
So why limit the person to just one SG per character, there are solutions here... and if the game is going to be essentially "factionless", this would be something that I would have thought would be a good move.

Again I'm agreeing it "could" be done in CoT. We're just going to have to see if it's something the Devs are going to implement.

When the question of doing this was brought up in CoH the Devs basically told us it would be too hard to rework. So one could indirectly say there was a "need" for the one SG limit in CoH because the game was (unfortunately) hardwired that way.

Our hope then would be that the CoT Devs would either give us multiple SG capability at launch or at least make their system able to easily allow for it sometime after launch.

As for the Prestige, or CoT equivalent, I'd offer a few solutions:
1: Split any earnings evenly across all SGs you're a part of. Not the best option, but probably the easiest. Realistically, it represents having to split your resources (time, money, etc) amongst the groups.
1.5/2: player uses slidders to choose what proportion of Prestige goes to each group. For example, I'm a member of a huge, established SG and a tiny up-and-coming SG. Since the large SG isn't very Prestige hungry (assuming they are no big projects going on), I'd funnel most of my Prestige to the smaller group who needs it more.
3: A player chooses to rep one SG at a time, like Gangrel wrote. All Prestige earned goes to that group, but you can still access the base (maybe with limitations) of all groups.

4: my least favourite, but maybe easier than Option 1, earn no Prestige, and instead convert normal currency to Prestige whenever. Maybe a rent system could be in place, pay x amount every d days to access the base.

Just some possible solutions.