# Question of Honor **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 3, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963 "2019-11-03T17:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Azala](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/azala/32/56963_2.png) [@Azala](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Azala)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/1 "2019-11-03T17:17:49Z")
I have a question regarding a rumor circulating in global chat & I would like a dev to answer this post please. My question is this: Is it true that if you give honors to a member of your own guild it does not count _or_ it has a lesser value than if you were to give honor to someone outside your guild? I keep hearing that this is true, but it makes no sense to me since I would think giving honor to your guild peers would be encouraged, rather that discouraged. Therefore, I would like to hear it from “the horse’s mouth” per se & have a dev either confirm the rumor or debunk it as gossip. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/2 "2019-11-03T17:37:21Z")
Devs haven’t officially said that Honour from fellow guild members is worth less than when received from outsiders but this is the closest they have got to saying that it is: > **[Honor Badge or rank not increasing](https://gemsofwar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000901655-Honor-Badge-or-rank-not-increasing)** > > If your Honor Rank or badge is not increasing when you received the same Honor as another player it's because not all Honor is equal. > The Honor you receive from other players is not designed to be ... ---
**Author:** ![Slypenslyde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/slypenslyde/32/30373_2.png) [@Slypenslyde](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Slypenslyde)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/3 "2019-11-03T20:04:12Z")
The devs will not answer this because they explicitly do not want us to know how to farm honor. They’d be upset if you knew the best way to do so is to go into global chat and find different people who will trade honor with you every day. ---
**Author:** ![UKresistance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ukresistance/32/7558_2.png) [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/4 "2019-11-04T02:35:11Z")
> [@Azala](#): > > Is it true that if you give honors to a member of your own guild it does not count _or_ it has a lesser value than if you were to give honor to someone outside your guild? Of course not, that’d be ridiculous. But, repeat honor from same person counts for little to nothing. Once everyone in your guild has exchanged honor, you must find other players to trade honor with. ---
**Author:** ![anhlong1122](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/anhlong1122/32/63110_2.png) [@anhlong1122](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/anhlong1122)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/5 "2019-11-04T03:42:39Z")
Do we have comfirmation for this? Or is it still speculation? ---
**Author:** ![FeelTheBern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@FeelTheBern](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/FeelTheBern)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/6 "2019-11-04T04:02:51Z")
I can’t give u the ratio, nor can I confirm if it’s because it was the same people I’d trade with daily But it took 2 months to move from honored 2 to honored 3 trading with same 2 people in my guild Then from honored 3 to revered was about the same time, the last level was about a month, while each level before was about a week to move up I wouldn’t expect a satisfactory answer from the devs All we ever hear on most things “it works as intended, or, we don’t want to give the details as to make players able to game the system” ---
**Author:** ![Stix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Stix](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stix)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/question-of-honor/58963/7 "2019-11-04T08:44:06Z")
All I know is that it was taking months to rank up by exchanging honor inside the guild, then after moving to a channel with an alliance of guilds I gained 2 ranks in a few days. And now it has been weeks again since I gained a rank. I don’t know for sure what the “penalty” is for honoring within your own guild, but it seems quite clear now that multiple honors from the same source count as less.