When the guild leader goes missing....

It would be really nice if the officers could vote on removing the leader. We have a full guild, but the leader hasn't been around in months. It would be nice to have the option to remove them, rather than create an entirely new guild. Maybe even the option of a coleader that can remove an absent leader.
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I've joined and left several guilds recently, where the guild leader is long gone. Guildies will say the leader hasnt't been seen in months, and sometimes this is verified by the member page showing someone inactive for 100+ days, and the guild leader is listed below this person (so been inactive longer).
Perhaps there should be a mechanism for replacing a guild leader when they're obviously not around anymore (heck, someone in one of the threads suggested that maybe there should be a way to vote a GL out of power just whenever, but that's another discussion). Some games out there have a mechanism where there is a rank called "Champion" or something above Elder, and that guy can promote themselves to guild leader if the GL is inactive for 30 days or whatever. Obviously, in case the guild leader just up and quits without appointing a Champion, there should be a mechanism for Elders to pick a Champion. In other words, the guild rank system should be built so that no one person can deadlock the guild just by quitting. On the other hand, nobody wants to see guild coup d'etats, so maybe these mechanisms should be based on 2/3 majority or certain periods of inactivity or other mandatory "wait periods".
But for guilds that do use other non NML related apps to communicate, I agree leaving the guild and starting a new one is the way to go about this.
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Or just make it so an elder can kick a leader from the guild.
Having a guild build up of all those stars is frustrating to have to walk away from because the leader decided to go awol or retire w/o announcement before handing over the reigns of the guild.
Although leave the guild and start a new one is the only viable answer it shouldn't be one at all; there should be other ways to do this without this even being a though
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There should be another solution for that.
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It could be either
- after a set period of inactivity the button becomes available. Maybe elders can select to be the leader, and if there are no elders, then anyone can
- the button is always there and if a guild member presses it, the leader has to login with a set time (3 days?), and if not they will be removed from being the leader.
What do y'all think? What's the best and most realistic solution?
Here's what I said:
"We need to demote our inactive guild leader and replace him with an active elder to recruit more members. There are currently no easy workarounds and it's a recurring issue for guilds throughout the game. Can you solve this dilemma in a patch? See this thread on the conversation for some user ideas on fixes: http://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/21336/guild-leader-has-left-the-game"
Here's what they said: [COPY + PASTE]
"Hi Shieldmaiden,
"Thanks for reaching out to us!
"I'm sorry to hear that your guild leader isn't active in the game anymore. Unfortunately at the moment only the guild leader can promote another member to the leader position. For now you will either have to keep running your guild with an inactive leader or create a new guild and ask your members to move there.
"However, I understand that this causes some inconvenience and it would be useful to switch leadership in these situations. I directed your feedback to the development team so they can take it under consideration when planning future updates.
"Stay safe out there!"
We had a similar situation in my guild. Guild leader MIA for months. We finally decided to start a new guild and half the members never found us. The search function for guilds is just terrible. We even put some very specific info in the guild description. Unfortunately, it is the only option right now, but it's hardly viable. There really needs to be some way to fix it so many other players don't get screwed like we did.
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No one is talking about taking the leadership from someone who is still active.
But why force up to 19 people to start a new guild together (which due to the guild search function which is not good can be quite troublesome) instead of having the option to remove a dead account from the leader position?
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