Spiral Knights - Guild name-changes.

Guild name-changes.

6 Antworten [Letzter Beitrag]

So, 04/15/2012 - 17:13

Aero-Shark

This has been suggested before, most likely, but emphasis should be put on it; in my eyes. I myself even wanna experiment with different guild names. Heck, I wanna change my knight name, but that's a different story.

While anyone can just create a new guild to change the name, one must then reinvite every member from the last guild, and re-establish ranks etc etc. All and all, it's just... well, tedious.

For the same cost as creating a new guild, allow a guild's name to be changed.
- Revenue is not lost.
- Tediousness of creating an entirely new guild just to change names is taken away.
- Tediousness of creating an entirely new guild just to change names is taken away.
- Tediousness of creating an entirely new guild just to change names is taken away.
- Tediousness of creating an entirely new guild just to change names is taken away.

As an added suggestion, and to prevent name-stealing. If you change your guild's name, it'll be saved. What I mean is this. Say I change 'Hat Simulator' to 'Example Name.' 'Hat Simulator' is archived; meaning two things.
- I can switch it back to Hat Simulator.
- Someone else cannot change their guildname to Hat Simulator.
- When I switch back to Hat Simulator, 'Example Name' will then be archived, and I can switch back to it as well. Others cannot take said name.

There's a lot of features that need to be added to guilds in order to make them more enjoyable (Guildhall features, Added ranks/rank changes, etc etc). This is just one of them, and what I feel is extremely important.

So, 04/15/2012 - 17:15

The-Ark

The problem with the saving

The problem with the saving thing is somebody could change their name 500 times and eliminate all those names for other guilds.

So, 04/15/2012 - 17:17

Aero-Shark

This is very true. So perhaps they could put a name cap? I'unno, just throwing ideas out there.

So, 04/15/2012 - 17:19

Whimsicality

While we're at it, remove the 100 guild member cap as well.

So, 04/15/2012 - 17:22

Luguiru

Neeyurp

Make another character, give them leadership of the first guild, tell everyone in the first guild to go to the second, make the new guild on your first character. The guild still exists and you have access to it.

The first issue I see with this is forcing people in the guild to have a different guild name without notification. For example, I joined Mad Bombers solely for the name; shortly after joining I learned the guild was based on player versus player and its name referred to Blast Network. When Lockdown came out the leader made a new guild, Lockdown Loons; most of the decent players moved to that guild and left me with a few decent people and the fifty or so brand new players who were recruited by whatever officer decided to spam invites to everyone. If the leader could switch names without anyone else knowing and that happened to Mad Bombers, I would have immediately left and made my own guild or find something else clever to join. Not that my personal opinions matter, but assuming my situation is similar to many guild members, giving leaders this power would push people to make their own personal guilds until everyone is a guild of one.

So, 04/15/2012 - 18:02

Aero-Shark

@Luguiru

Oh, of course I'd inform my guildmates with an announcement. That'd be silly not to. However, I think it's pretty ridiculous to assume everyone would leave and make their own guilds based off of a name change, and based off of your OWN experience. Your feelings are subjective, and subjectivity is not the truth. A responsible guild leader would make an announcement, and see if people are for it or not. Otherwise, that guild leader is simply irresponsible. And that is a fact, not a feeling.

However, 'creating a new account' just won't work. That is not a solution. That still has the hassle of transferring members, which can be anything from 2 to 100, and yes; some members WOULD be reluctant.

A guild-name-changer would be a very simple solution to a lot of problems.

So, 04/15/2012 - 18:34

Luguiru

Most people of our current generation are part of the "Me" mindset where no one else matters and responsibility is for someone else to worry about. See this recent thread for an example. These people refuse to accept responsibility or the happiness of others as relevant. These people make guilds and invite as many people as possible to expand their numbers; see the majority of guilds for examples of this. These leaders prefer to kick out those who disagree rather than accept the opinions of others. I would illustrate an example of this happening to me, but it never did. I can make up an example or find someone who has experienced this if you want. Irresponsible guild leaders exist and will not hesitate to do whatever they want, since being leader they assume they have power over everyone in their guild. I respect the responsible guild leaders, though the "Me Generation" guild leaders outnumber the venerable. If guild leadership required the ability to act responsibly I would not hesitate to support this thread, though it defeats the point of guilds having their own name.

I did not mean to make another account, I meant to make another character on the same account; every account has room for three characters. As for transference of members from the original guild to the second, all I can recommend for that is to send invites to everyone and hope they comply. When everyone moved to Lockdown Loons in my case, I was also invited but was reluctant to follow the part of the guild I did not want to be a part of. If you still own both guilds you can go through individual members to ensure everyone you want in your second guild who also wants to join gets in.

I still believe making a second character on the same account would be a more viable option than making a whole new feature of the game which selfish children will use to torment their guild members. I support the responsible guild leaders who would not abuse this, but not giving more power to oppressive spoiled kids who whine when mommy is too tired to make them a sandwich from working for the past ten hours.

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