Guild Wars 2

As a guild leader, I can’t message my entire guild without getting spam blocked. I have no idea how long people have been inactive, so I just got 200 members of dead weight sitting on my roster taking up space. I’ve made suggestions on how this could be fixed, but it seems to have gotten nowhere, so now, /general complaint thread.

As a guild leader, I cannot run my guild within the existing structure of the game. God help me, but I may have to resort to Excel spreadsheets, and endless database querying from third party websites tied to Guild Wars 2 in order to do my job.

….. said every Guild Wars 2 guild leader, ever .

Zacchary.6183:

….. said every guild leader, ever.

Every guild leader ever in Guild Wars 2.

Kuzzi.2198:

Zacchary.6183:

….. said every guild leader, ever.

Every guild leader ever in Guild Wars 2.

Fixed my mistake.

Aeros.2046:

As a guild leader, I can’t message my entire guild without getting spam blocked. I have no idea how long people have been inactive, so I just got 200 members of dead weight sitting on my roster taking up space. I’ve made suggestions on how this could be fixed, but it seems to have gotten nowhere, so now, /general complaint thread.

As a guild leader, I cannot run my guild within the existing structure of the game. God help me, but I may have to resort to Excel spreadsheets, and endless database querying from third party websites tied to Guild Wars 2 in order to do my job.

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, but you can measure inactivity using the leaderboards. Hovering over each member will let you know the last time they gained an achievement point; which is a pretty good metric for activity given how easily individual achievement points can be obtained via dailies.

Clloydio.3524:

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, but you can measure inactivity using the leaderboards. Hovering over each member will let you know the last time they gained an achievement point; which is a pretty good metric for activity given how easily individual achievement points can be obtained via dailies.

That information being inconveniently available on the website is no excuse for it not being in the game. That and MANY other essential guild features are for some reason still not in the game 1 year after release.

You are preaching to the choir sir. Even my small 50 person guild suffered from this.

One would think that a game called “Guild Wars” would have robust guild management tools and guild features.

One would be wrong, it seems.

I completely agree. The Guild list system in GW1 was awesome. Leaders at the top, then officers, then members at the bottom, all organized by last logged in time, alphabetically. I dont understand why they didnt keep this in GW2.

Big bump to this. Even the message of the day is inconvenient. Instead of editing the message (which is what it says it should do) you have to write the whole thing over again. We’ve had to set up several templates on a separate website for our officers to access and copy/paste.

It’s also annoying that the message of the day is only available on the guild page, which of course means it is rarely ever read.

In GW1, the message of the day got dropped into your chat window on login.

Use this to weed out the dead weight until we have something ingame.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ko24h/i_wrote_a_program_that_gives_you_a_last_online/

And that’s the problem. I have to resort to third party software downloaded from dodgy file sharing websites. You would think we could have something as basic as “this player last logged in Nov 1, 2012”, but nope.

To be fair, GitHub isn’t a dodgy filesharing website, it’s a well respected programming resource. But you shouldn’t need third party tools to do something this basic.