Guild Wars 2

Since there is no helpful tools to managing guild in this game (last log in time) I have some questions and was hoping ANET or another player could help me.

I heard:
Some guild leaders use server restarts in order to keep track who is active. When server restarts all information from the roster is erased and everyone becomes “unknown”. Then I heard when someone logs in this “unknown” gets replaced with the character information. So for now I am looking at who is my roster is unknown.

1. Question is: Is server restarts the same as the message we get that “New build is available”?

Or is a server restart different than that?

Question #2 If you see a person is removed from roster and is no longer there, but see no indications from guild history that they have left, what does that mean? Did they delete their character??

I beg beg ANET to put better guild management tools in this game:

Examples:
Guild Suggestions:
-Ability to send Guild Wide Mail
-Ability to send Officer Mail
-A Chat channel for Guild officers
-a Log in or log off indication in guild chat of members
-Message of the day being auto posted in guild chat upon log in.
-A last log in time for guild members in roster
-List of other guilds your members are representing or members of.

I agree with all above!

Also i would like to see added: a pop-up confirmation window, to confirm actions like: promotions (especially to prevent the accidental promotion to leader, which ive seen several posts about on this forum), or kick from guild!

Question 1: Yes. Though, I wouldn’t use that as a 100% accurate test of inactivity. Some members might just be busy with RL things for a few days after a new build. I use guild application forms in my guild to help keep track of my members (ie: join date, etc).

Question 2: It means that that person was kicked from the guild for whatever reasons the leadership deemed it necessary.

AriaSilverfyre.8702:

Question 2: It means that that person was kicked from the guild for whatever reasons the leadership deemed it necessary.

No one has kicked this person from the guild, which I find weird. Maybe they left or deleted their account?

Question 2:
My experience is, that either when a person has left the guild, or has been kicked from the guild, it always shows in the history tab.

Question 1: The correct answer is NO.. A new build is NOT the same as a server reset. My own guild just attempted to test this as a way of figuring out our own Membership Problems..

Another thing that is seriously missing is influenced earned by guild members. A guild system with such a large focus on earning points to develop the guild seriously needs a way to track what a member has contributed so that it can be taken into account when planning member promotion.