Guild Wars 2

The last-online-status is a very often requested feature here. But as we don´t have it (yet), there is need for a replacement.
There was the discussion in our guild chat if you can use the “unknown”-status in the memberlist to identify the inactive members of someones guild.

So my question is:
Does anybody know how when and why someone is displayed as “unknown”?
Is it set after every game-update or after a specific amount of time – lets say 3 weeks of being offline?
Hope someone can answer me that question.

i believe you show up as unknown if you haven’t logged on since a new patch was released

may be possible – have to check that after the next update

applekwisp.2139:

i believe you show up as unknown if you haven’t logged on since a new patch was released

This is correct. Considering the game is patched frequently (generally once a week or so) I don’t know how valuable it would be in identifying inactive people.