How do you retire as a Guild Master?

Tasear · April 2018

After seeing many people left guilds because of a missing leader? This has me wondering how do people properly retire the mantle? What happens to guild houses? Who takes lead if you are the only leader? Do you stay with guild even after you retire? What would do in such a position? Do make plans or just let things fad?

imnotanother · April 2018

Pass the crown.

Turelus · April 2018

When I've retired I've always passed the Crown to another.

I've had leaders go AWOL however and we've had to speak to ZOS about getting the leadership transferred.

Mettaricana · April 2018

I booted all the dead beats and recommended the somewhat actives to other decent guilds and booted them too

Tasear · April 2018

imnotanother wrote: »

Pass the crown.

Did you do anything before you passed the crown?

imnotanother · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

imnotanother wrote: »

Pass the crown.

Did you do anything before you passed the crown?

Just asked one of my officers if she wanted to lead. Players can stil use your house if you are simply not logging in for awhile.

jedtb16_ESO · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

After seeing many people left guilds because of a missing leader? This has me wondering how do people properly retire the mantle? What happens to guild houses? Who takes lead if you are the only leader? Do you stay with guild even after you retire? What would do in such a position? Do make plans or just let things fad?

why are you posting so many threads about guilds?

just curious.

Ggrab · April 2018

Most guild have multiple leaders with different leading roles so when a leader retires. It voted who take over

Or they merge with other guilds

Tasear · April 2018

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

After seeing many people left guilds because of a missing leader? This has me wondering how do people properly retire the mantle? What happens to guild houses? Who takes lead if you are the only leader? Do you stay with guild even after you retire? What would do in such a position? Do make plans or just let things fad?

why are you posting so many threads about guilds?

just curious.

Because I sometimes get bored and questions pop into my head. I also feel makes forum lively besides usual doom and gloom. I also wish for a better guild system. So it's more exposing the state of them in the game? I might overdone a bit but at least you guys aren't bored right? These are also questions that can be archived and used by people in future when making guilds or leaving guilds. It's posts that could fairly nercod. So Idk I it's mostly for others, address a issue, and partly myself.

SteveCampsOut · April 2018

I see an agenda going on today. For the record I passed the crown of my NA guild to the Assistant guild leader and all the gold in the guild bank went with that crown.

Tasear · April 2018

SteveCampsOut wrote: »

I see an agenda going on today. For the record I passed the crown of my NA guild to the Assistant guild leader and all the gold in the guild bank went with that crown.

with good intentions.

next time I will spread out the fun. Nevertheless thanks for participating.

Tabbycat · April 2018

By guild vote.

Guild members nominated other members and then voted. It was easy and drama free.

Tasear · April 2018

Tabbycat wrote: »

By guild vote.

Guild members nominated other members and then voted. It was easy and drama free.

That's interesting never heard of that used at least inside a game.

Xrucible · April 2018

Was a co-gm of a raiding guild for over a year. Real life caught up and had to take a break. Came back to one co-gm quitting the game and last co-gm not interested in the guild anymore. We decided to close the guild. Referred active members to other raiding guilds that were on par with ours and eventually shut it down. Almost all of the guild stuff was just contributions from us 3. So we split it out and parted ways.

Checkmath · April 2018

i am also on the retiring way atm. but none of my officers want to take over or fir the position, so i am stuck with the crown and just take part in less guild activities. most people know about it, but its fine since everything i working without my presence all days.

Grabmoore · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

Tabbycat wrote: »

By guild vote.

Guild members nominated other members and then voted. It was easy and drama free.

That's interesting never heard of that used at least inside a game.

I experienced this years ago with "my guild". Back then, I was the financial officer and the leader had to leave for real life reasons. Unfortunately, he couldn't even pass the crown.

Therefore the remaining officers talked to each other and we made an open poll to all guild members. In the end, they nominated me as the new leader and also voted against a potential guild merge. Then, I contacted ZOS and they passed the crown to me after 2 weeks of texting.

Talk to your residents. See, if interest within the community is still high. Then pass the crown. These are my thoughts on the matter. Gl

Tasear · April 2018

Grabmoore wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

Tabbycat wrote: »

By guild vote.

Guild members nominated other members and then voted. It was easy and drama free.

That's interesting never heard of that used at least inside a game.

I experienced this years ago with "my guild". Back then, I was the financial officer and the leader had to leave for real life reasons. Unfortunately, he couldn't even pass the crown.

Therefore the remaining officers talked to each other and we made an open poll to all guild members. In the end, they nominated me as the new leader and also voted against a potential guild merge. Then, I contacted ZOS and they passed the crown to me after 2 weeks of texting.

Talk to your residents. See, if interest within the community is still high. Then pass the crown. These are my thoughts on the matter. Gl

Yes I was curious about my future too. I don't plan on quiting yet but eventually I will. I also seen that there's actually there's nothing on Google that talks about the issue ( yes thought of quiting long time ago). So there's nothing out there for people to look at not just in eso but in all games? It makes feel bad for people. Did these people who leave guilds just leave their guilds hanging on purpose or did leave without knowing what to do? Such questions hang with me about what others do.

sylviermoone · April 2018

GM's......retire?

DieAlteHexe · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

Tabbycat wrote: »

By guild vote.

Guild members nominated other members and then voted. It was easy and drama free.

That's interesting never heard of that used at least inside a game.

That's how I handled it in another MMO when I decided it was time to move on. Folks were happy to vote and I was happy to turn over the guild to someone I knew would take good care of it.

lordhakai · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

After seeing many people left guilds because of a missing leader? This has me wondering how do people properly retire the mantle? What happens to guild houses? Who takes lead if you are the only leader? Do you stay with guild even after you retire? What would do in such a position? Do make plans or just let things fad?

why are you posting so many threads about guilds?

just curious.

Because I sometimes get bored and questions pop into my head. I also feel makes forum lively besides usual doom and gloom. I also wish for a better guild system. So it's more exposing the state of them in the game? I might overdone a bit but at least you guys aren't bored right? These are also questions that can be archived and used by people in future when making guilds or leaving guilds. It's posts that could fairly nercod. So Idk I it's mostly for others, address a issue, and partly myself.

She does get bored alot. Although, usually she posts about healing not guilds

JamilaRaj · April 2018

Retiring as a guild master can be traumatic event for all involved, therefore it should be handled with utmost subtlety. One classic method is to complain (more) about The Lag for a few weeks, then invite guildies for a raid, feign crash half way through a dungeon and quickly uninstall before anyone realizes you are not going to relog.

Tasear · April 2018

sylviermoone wrote: »

GM's......retire?

Yes I saw many mention Guildmaster just leave or walk out on people. Also being a Guildmaster can be triesome work. It's like be leader of minture volunter organizations but in a game. It also doesn't help there's so few tools.

Tasear · April 2018

JamilaRaj wrote: »

Retiring as a guild master can be traumatic event for all involved, therefore it should be handled with utmost subtlety. One classic method is to complain (more) about The Lag for a few weeks, then invite guildies for a raid, feign crash half way through a dungeon and quickly uninstall before anyone realizes you are not going to relog.

XD dork, but this actually could happen in a lighter sense.

DoctorESO · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

After seeing many people left guilds because of a missing leader? This has me wondering how do people properly retire the mantle? What happens to guild houses? Who takes lead if you are the only leader? Do you stay with guild even after you retire? What would do in such a position? Do make plans or just let things fad?

The responsible move is to pass the crown to a trustworthy, capable individual who shares your vision for the guild's future. Ideally, the process of finding such an individual begins long before one even considers retiring. The guild, like any other organization, is bigger than any one of us, and succession planning is an ever-present matter.

FloppyTouch · April 2018

Pass crown

driosketch · April 2018

All of my guilds have undergone leadership changes at least once, including the one where I've been made acting leader. For a successful transition there needs to be "officers". Whether formally or informally, these are players who are active, who help run things, and who can be trusted with extra powers. When the guild leader has had enough, needs to take a leave, ect. they promote the second in command to guild leader rank. I've see former leaders return to the game, and while having a position of honor, seldom take up the reigns again.

Androconium · April 2018

Why should it matter?

If the owner of a guild does not login for seven days; or doesn't make 35 k in sales, then the guild as a whole should be kicked.

What's good for the goose...

Tasear · April 2018

Androconium wrote: »

Why should it matter?

If the owner of a guild does not login for seven days; or doesn't make 35 k in sales, then the guild as a whole should be kicked.

What's good for the goose...

That's another issue " what do guilds actually do for people".

Wrecking_Blow_Spam · April 2018

I was a guild leader once...

Then I took an arrow in the knee

Dapper Dinosaur · April 2018

I retired as the guildmaster of Xbox's largest Argonian guild several years ago, and since there were only about 12 people active out of 250, I emptied the guild bank and split it among the contributors, then booted everyone out.

sylviermoone · April 2018

Tasear wrote: »

sylviermoone wrote: »

GM's......retire?

Yes I saw many mention Guildmaster just leave or walk out on people. Also being a Guildmaster can be triesome work. It's like be leader of minture volunter organizations but in a game. It also doesn't help there's so few tools.

My response was tongue in cheek. As a GM of a very large and active guild, I'm very aware of the time involved in running a guild.