I’m not sure how many people feel the way I do in regards to the way guild rosters work. Plenty of people really have an attitude of ‘don’t care either way’, and I appreciate I’m being wound up by something that’s ultimately quite minor.
However, I wonder if it would ever be possible to see an option to have a guild listed in the finder (or eventually, on the armory or the guild list itself?) to show its member number by way of the accounts associated, and not the individual toons.
With alts being more and more plentiful and easier to level, it’s very easy for one or two members to bloat a roster up, making the guild seem miles bigger than it actually is. This snowballs tremendously when more actual new members are added.
I appreciate that having the guild roster in-game list by account would be a difficult undertaking, if not impossible.
But surely with the updates made to the finder, and further attention to guilds and communities seemingly coming… it might be possible to better portray the actual true membership in some fashion eventually?
The changes coming to the Auction House gave me hope that Guilds could see a similar focus and rework eventually, but I’m not sure where it would ever be on the priority list.
Agreed - most of us in my guild have a lot of alts, so our guild has a large number of members listed but in reality it’s nowhere near as many people. It would suck for anyone who uses those numbers and thinks that they are joining a busy and bustling guild only to find out that it’s a small guild of altoholics!
Does it also count members/characters who haven’t been active for a long time? Because again someone could end up joining what they think is a large guild when it’s just members who haven’t logged on since MoP
Agreed!
I run an RP guild, and RPers love them some alts. If you look at us with ‘87’ members it sounds far more full than it is, when really it’s 20 individual accounts. I’d much rather advertise that so I don’t feel like I have to clarify that we’re actually a small guild all the time.
Not to say that 20 people is bad. If they all did log in at once the guild would seem very active indeed!
If by that you mean by the Bnet ID’s or Account name - then no. That’s personal info with the former being (or should be) given on only to trusted people and the latter - not to be shared with anyone.
I mean providing the information as it is if you tap in /guildinfo. It will list the guild creation date, the number of characters, and the number of ‘accounts’. All I’d like is an option to show that latter number instead of the former.
It’s incredibly basic information that gives nothing that would be traceable or personal, save that it’s basically saying “ten accounts have joined this guild.”
I’m not sure how else to explain it so I’ll emphasise that when I say having the information based on account, it’s just wanting to better show/advertise how many actual players are in a guild, not how many toons since one player can have many.
An extreme example could be someone who is very close to the 50 character limit, and has piled them all into a guild so they can all share a bank. One’d see the number is at around 44 and not realise it’s all ONE person (account).