cynicalbutterfly wrote: »

I don't know about ghost or fake guilds but I've certainly seen a lot of nub guilds in top trader locations. I can only assume it has to do with when the patch was released and whoever had the opportunity to place bids. Perhaps some of the top trading guilds had trouble logging in to put down bids.

Nope. These guilds have been systematically name similar to each other. They are intentionally ghost guilds to take trading spots from genuine guilds. The same guilds are just randomly inviting noob players in starter zones to get them to the 50 membership required too... it was like this prior to the 10 bid patch that stopped them in their tracks... but now the only reason I see them is surely to bottleneck the trader system...

Which cities do you see these traders at? I noticed the Mournhold ones were mostly new (to capital cities) except for 1 or 2, and that all the regular Mournhold traders are in Elden Root this week. Usually this happens when there's a bidding war to push the "mafia" trading guilds out. (Oops was I not supposed to mention that name? )

I did notice that all the traders in Markarth were empty the day it was released but that's probably because whoever went in there first was able to snag the traders.