(First off, I want to apologize for creating a thread for what amounts for one line and an anecdote, but the search function for the forum is incredibly problematic, I went ten pages back and found nothing even remotely similar, and somehow I don't think the accumulation Severage has put together is an appropriate place for this, so it goes here. Someday, I promise, I will put all my one-line suggestions in one thread. I apologize for the disruption.)

We're reminded every time we add to the treasury of our respective guilds that our decision is permanent. Even a GM cannot reverse a donation. There's definitely been discussion about why this is a good idea, and to a certain extent I agree. In the case of crowns at least, those funds shouldn't be completely liquid. If nothing else, they will be spent eventually on upkeep.

However, for furniture (specifically Battle Stands and Winterfest items, which cannot be purchased normally) and materials, the system makes less sense. These items are never spent. Furniture might never be placed, depending on the layout of the guild hall. The situation is especially dire for materials, which as of current are only used to purchase more furniture, and that in sets. It quickly becomes a managerial nightmare when materials start showing up with no practical use for them by the guild or its officers.

(In case you're wondering, this issue was prompted by Kage no Senshi somehow ending up with an insane number of Ecto Drops, Blast Powders, Gel Cores, Grave Soils, Brute Cores, Soul Dusts, and Blighted Bones it wasn't sure what to do with. Even the wealthiest guild that can sink millions into its Hunter's Lodge isn't going to use the amount we somehow ended up with. Spending them on furniture would require finding other materials, and ... you can see where I'm going. I've yet to decide whether to kill the member responsible.)

There seems to be three obvious options for changing this paradigm.

Option 1: Allow the treasury to be taken from, at least with certain categories.

Option 2: Modify the Hunter's Lodge and associated/future systems so they draw from Guild Storage, not the treasury.

Option 3: Allow officers to sell items back to the Birdsong Emporium (though obviously not at full/retail price).

Personally I'm not entirely sure how this would be implemented without someone losing out (the second option would result in Guild Storage being a necessity even for zero-upkeep guild halls, which isn't going to go over well with everyone who spent the 20,000 crowns to unlock it), but I tend to lean most strongly towards Option 3. Regardless of the possible issues, since I don't want materials clogging the treasury, I'm still putting this out here. How it would be done is up to OOO, not me.