Guild Wars 2

As well as creating practical issues as described above—which, honestly, I’m not too worried about—bots do esthetic damage. I remember playing Aion when it was botted up, and there’s something . . . unpleasant, depressing, about encountering these weird nonsense-named twitching macro puppets. It’s like being at a party with a bunch of people who are there to have a good time and a couple of zombies. Bots are skeevy. They’re also a concrete, in-gameplay reminder that this fun thing we’re doing with each other has an unintended seedy aspect.

—and sure, that’s all pretty namby-pamby, and it’s certainly just a matter of esthetics, but this is a game: an impractical esthetic experience.

I see a couple of sources for Sylvari names—the Celtic stuff mentioned above, but also the broader, weirder, less single-source realm of Arthurian names. They clearly have King Arthur in mind for at least some of their content (I’m thinking of Bercilak, named after the relevantly colored character from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”)

Syrand.1209:

Guildname We Wipe On Login
Guild tag: WWOL
Server: Blackgate

I created the guild for my friends and I a few days ago. I noticed recently that I couldn’t edit any permissions for ranks. As leader I have nearly no permissions as well. I cannot change the rank emblems. I can’t modify the MotD, or the guild emblem. . . .

I’m having a very similar problem: I can change rank emblems, but as leader I have almost no permissions and can’t edit other permissions—it’s as if my rank is something other than “Leader.”

Further information:

- I’m the only person in my guild right now.

- When I started the guild up, I noticed that the default ranks were “leader,” “officer,” and “member” rather than “Leader,” “Officer,” and “Member”—not the lowercase letters. I can add new ranks and rename existing ones, but the permissions issue persists.

- The guild’s name is “Its Leaves Are Flame,” [IRAS]. I’m wondering if the short name is the issue: I created this guild as “Its Roots Are Stone” [IRAS], thought better of the name, disbanded as best I could, reformed, used the same four-letter abbreviation. Maybe it’s running into some conflict with the old name? Like, the old guild persists in some way even though it’s gone?