Guild creation problems

[ guild creation ]

Well, after losing 2 charters to the bad guild creation control inside the game, I found this thread in the WoW tech support forum ...

Guild Creation problems

The problem is when players sign more than one charter, or join ANOTHER guild BEFORE you register your signatures - if any players who signed your charter do one or both of these things it invalidates your charter, WITHOUT ADVANCE WARNING FROM THE SYSTEM. When you try to register your signatures, the charter disappears from your inventory and the system tells you "guild name already exists". So you have just wasted your time and 10 silver. You can buy another charter with the same name.

The guild system does check if a name is pre-owned at the time you buy the charter, and won't let you buy if it already exists.

So now I'm on my 3rd charter, and probably have bad signers (more than one charter).

This is crappy program design, that won't correctly enforce the rules, and doesn't correctly tell you the problem. These two rule violation conditions should be prevented AUTOMATICALLY by the software, so you aren't wasting your time or money.

This is the worst problem I've encountered in a game I'm otherwise enjoying very much.

The guild name will probably change from the one used for the title of this blog. Update notice will be posted here, and these messages moved to the new blog with the matching guild name.