In order from the oldest active to the newest active (Active is defined by MORE then one member logging on within my recent memory. Some old guilds such as Woflpack have a single trooper but a single pilot does not consititute a guild, imo):

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the Vipers - [VPR] - Dedicated Anti-Pirate Force
Active Leaders to contact: Strat, Nerde Verde, M. Duncan
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/19

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The Guild of Free Traders - [TGFT] - A Free Traders and Miners association
Active Leaders to contact: Ecka Estenk, Surbius Bondevo, Moda Messolus
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/27

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the Cargo Liberation Movement - [CLM] - Piracy Organization
Active Leaders to contact: MysticRogue, yoda, ferskingen
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/54

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the Coalition of Itan - [Itan] - Itani nationalist group
Active Leaders to contact: iry, Waffles of Soggy, drazed
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/64

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Phoenix Alliance - [PA] - A "does a bit of everything" group, based in Odia
Active Leaders to contact: MiexonBionic, NP, Tohasandra Chi
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/78

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Big Red One - [ONE] - Serco nationalist guild, hopefully not following in SCAR's footsteps.
Active leaders to contact: keria willenium, Vehement, sheffield
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/125/

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Emergency Medical Services - [EMS] - A guild of medics working to create universal healthcare in all of the known universe.
Active leaders to contact: Little Death, ElvisClone777, Watch Your Back
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/123/

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The Homicidal Cult - [THC] - They will pawn you. That is all.
Active leaders to contact: yodaofborg, Luca Brasi, no name
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/133/

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Union Peacekeeping Corps - [UPK] - UIT nationalist guild seeking to defend the Union and it's sovereignty from aggressors and those who threaten free trade.
Active leaders to contact: -3D-, Konrad Black, Drac
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/140/

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There you have it folks, the active guilds today. Split down they are:

2 (Two) Trade Guilds
1 (One) Dedicated Anti-Pirate Guild
1 (One) Serco Nationalist Guild
1 (One) Itani Nationalist Guild
1 (One) UiT Nationalist Guild
1 (One) Pirate Guild
1 (One) Medic Guild
1 (One) Kill-everyone-now Guild (Pirates maybe?)

Disclaimer - Active leaders subjective to who I see log on a few times in a given month span. Figures planned to be updated at least once, more likely twice, a month.

As a side note, here are three non real guilds, used as RP devices or gag guilds at the time. Pilots should not expect to join these guilds as they are not serious.

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Dread Pirate Roberts [DPR]
A gag guild of pirates, all variants of the name "Dread Pirate Roberts"
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/guildinfo/57/

Just out of curiosity, did you base this simply on their numerical statistic? Because that's probably not the best way to do it; or maybe it is. If who?me? hadn't of defaulted the Syndicate, it probably would have been the lowest numerically.....

And if the CDC hadn't disbanded it's be #8. BDC would be #11. Syn would be #1 since it's been around for god knows how long -_- I'm going with longest active which hasn't disbanded. It takes a lot to survive long and not AFK to death or disband.

Actually [Beta] would still be #1, it was created to test the new Guild features when they were released.

this is really interesting to look at moldy! Think you could update this continually?

I could try. Would a guide stickie it?

>_>
<_<

It's grossly inaccurate. [ITAN], while a merger of two prior Itani guilds, is not that old.

Ah but it is. Reference the thread for it's anniversary. Were one to include all it's predecssors it'd likely to be in the top five.

It's an elementary level exercise in statistics.

Yeah, [ITAN] would be at least #5 if you included IA and IDF (defaulting to whichever was created later I guess...IDF was around some time before IA anyways.)

I'm just going by the longest running show on Broadway, Gavan ;)

besides, he said, he said, she said will get us nowhere. Some people claim CLM is the oldest guild around, older than Syn even, and then itan is claimed to be relatively new... etc etc. This is fact.

Does this include bots when choosing activity?

But where is the (new) Black Lance?

Not listed as only one member is really active at all.

Mystic: No. Luckily, all the guilds with bots actually have people on. And I have no idea who O'Malley belongs to anyway!

Updated to include SCAR

Updated Kalisti as #2. They had 2+ active members in my recent memory.

I know TGFT is older than Kalisti, by at least 4 months. Shouldn't Kalisti be #3? Sorry for nit picking...

Good catch. Switching around. And the ??? Guild is Kalisti as they do nothing, even by their own words!

We'll try sticking it up. If it doesn't get updated after awhile I'll unstick it.