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We have a problem at my guild, and it is that of a leader that has been missing for months and a complete lack of officers. I am the only remaining active senior, but with no active leadership, many management functions are impossible to perform. While we could start a new guild and transfer every active member left, I'd like to be able to revive and hold this one if at all possible, in hopes of its rightful owner to retake it in working condition should she ever return.
I realize other people may run into this problem as well in the future, so I propose the following:

A system where guild leadership could be transferred to lower standing members from inactive leaders after a certain time of inactivity has passed, going down the chain of inactive leader>inactive/no officers>inactive/no seniors>regular members. In other words, an active officer could claim leadership from an inactive leader after a certain time has passed, then an active senior if there are no active officers, then finally an active regular member if there are no active seniors.

I believe the fine tuning such as how long is considered "inactive" is not up to me, though I believe one month should suffice in most cases.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Issues? Any ways this system could be improved, or replaced by something else that does the same thing? Would it be possible/reasonable to implement?

To be honest, I don't see any real problems with this idea. As it currently stands if a guild that's been built up with the upgrades/guild hall etc has an inactive leader it's a waste that it's just left to die. If a leader has been inactive for a certain amount of time they can't lead at all so transferral of leadership seems logical in the case of inactivity.

The only thing I will say is that it's a very selective problem and I'm not sure how much work this would take on the GMs part so I'm not sure how long it would take to be implemented. In that time more people in the guild might leave to join other active guilds and then the problem arises of what will be left to lead, assuming the leaders seniors and so on have mainly left. Then again, if it is passed in a content poll and implemented that would then prevent this problem and stop people from leaving guilds and instead not kill guilds that were developed just because the leaders were inactive.

Basically I understand the problem and think your solution is a good one. If a content poll is run on this issue I would certainly vote yes for this system.

I personally think it would be fine to do, we can certainly run this in a content poll.

Ah nice Speaking of which, any idea on when the next content poll will be?

I would like to bring more attention to this issue as well, because I would like to merge my guild with Guardia and help revive it. At the moment we cannot do that, and it has been some time since this was brought up. This would also bring more variety as to which guilds to join since it seems like there is only one dominating guild, although it feels like the server is already one big guild.