Well I'm interested, it sounds pretty different from your standard VRMMO RP so far, I'll at least be keeping tabs on this.

Anyway about the whole talk with preset guilds I think makes complete sense from a game's perspective. In MMOs today there are sometimes starter guilds you automatically start in, they're nice for getting to know the community and get some help when learning how to even play. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work here, sure this is all actually a RP in reality, but I don't think its a bad thing to build it as if it were a MMO. Guess the difficult part is trying to balance MMO elements and RP ones. 

I get a feeling I don't completely understand what's the topic of discussion, but hey wanted to get my two cents out there.