Guild Wars 2

I was a guild leader of a guild called Tots on NSP server. We had 430 members at our peak and about 60 on at one time in weekends. It was a blast to run this community and be one of the biggest guilds on the server and my guild even bought me commander. This all had to end eventually when I had to take a long break from the game and my guild fell apart. Even though lots of positives came out of the guild, most of the time it was more of a chore or job then playing a game. The first thing I would have to do when I logged in was to make sure that everyone was representing because most of my members didnt know what it ment and I was constantly having to explain it or tell them to. The Multi guild system brings lots of positives to the members but is very hard for the leaders. I could go on and on about the things that could be added to the guild system but I feel that the most important thing that NEEDS to be added is being able to see when a member has last logged in. This is very crucial to have and with out it, guilds can fall apart easy. When lots of the players from launch day left a few months after the game released and a flood of new players came, all of a sudden you have an inactive guild with the max about of members nearly filled and tons of new players want to be apart of your community but you have no idea who is still playing or not. So what happens is you have to kick random members who still might be very active or simply stick with the members you have and watch your guild die out. Guilds are one of the most important parts of Guild wars 2. I mean with out them WVW would be nearly impossible. Guilds in MMO’s keep the community lively and orginized. If the name of your game has GUILD in it then you need to atleast have a log function in guilds. I am planning to make another huge guild again and spend hundreds of hours recruiting like I did with my first guild. But if I cant even have a simple log on when someone logs in or out then its going to be just another waste of time. Please Anet, as a player and past guild leader I am begging you to do this.

I agree, guilds need more tools.

A clumsy but effective work around to handling inactives is to take a screenshot of your roster. After a specified time compare the roster with the SS and anyone whose achievement points has not moved you can remove for inactive.

Karizee.8076:

I agree, guilds need more tools.

A clumsy but effective work around to handling inactives is to take a screenshot of your roster. After a specified time compare the roster with the SS and anyone whose achievement points has not moved you can remove for inactive.

Thanks for the idea, might actually work if they dont update soon.

The guild interface really needs a last online time, even if its only available to guild officers/leaders. Its been a staple feature of MMOs for years but seems to be absent in a few of the latest ones.

I agree this is one of the most basic things needed for any guild to run efficiently in any MMO and GW2 is the only one I have played that does not have a last online feature.

What I do with my guild even though it waists a few ranks is create an AC (Activity Check) rank for lower ranks. Set everyone to the AC rank. Once a high ranking member sees an AC member online & representing they are returned to normal rank. Then after 4 weeks all people still marked as AC are removed from guild with a goodbye letter that lets them know why they were removed. Once all AC are removed I delete the rank then change the normal ranks name to AC. That way I don’t need to manly reset everyone’s rank back to AC & just need to recreate the normal rank and repeat the process. This is a lot easier in my opinion then taking screen shots especially when you have very large guild such as mine.