Changes for guilds

[MagicalTux]

Hello,

I'd like to announce some change in guilds system:

• Playerworlds admin accounts (Admin-Playerworld###) will be removed from guilds, and won't be able to use the Admin panel anymore. If your guild is owned by your Admin account, transfer leadership now or you'll loose control over your guild.
• Guild tags will be checked before approval. Basically non-ascii characters are not working, and special characters looks uncool. I'll setup a few rules for the guild tags :
  • Only alphanumerics, points, spaces and - will be accepted in guild names.
  • A word can only be made of alphabetic or numeric characters (no leetspeak in guild tags).
  • Consecutive spaces will be replaced by only one space
  • The guild tags are NO LONGER case sensitive when creating a new guild (found a few guilds with variations on tag case : Rain & RaiN, etc...)
  • Guild tag will be lowercased, and only first letter of each word will be uppercase
  This rule will make the approval work simple. It will prevent people from creating guilds likes "FOO"-"F0O" "Something"-"Somethlng", etc...

MagicalTux

[xAndrewx]

I like, very cool.

[SoSolid66]

Hm, alright

[Crono]

I personally don't like restricting guild names so much but ok. Your rules.

[Gambet]

Pretty "blah" that you restrict global guilds to only have the first letter in it's guild name capitalized.


I mean, just imagine, if BTK didn't exist and someone created it, then it would have to look like Btk, and that's...well...it doesn't look right

[MagicalTux]

Originally Posted by Gerami

I personally don't like restricting guild names so much but ok. Your rules.

This is mainly for making it easy to find people trying to make guilds which looks like some other guild.

First, the Graal Website uses UTF-8 whereas the game uses ISO-8859 charsets. Also lots of people are trying to name guilds "(foobar)" because they don't know the () are not required (will be silently dropped in first or last position).

[URBANLEGEND]

So, by adding these rules, will this speed up guild activation?

[maximus_asinus]

Personally I'd like to see more restrictions. Its still too easy to make guilds. I support a guild wipe for starters.

[Matt]

Nice work.

[Hiro]

What about spaces? Can someone make: Playerkiller while I own Player Killer?

[maximus_asinus]

The first thing he should do is go through the existing guilds and remove all of the illegal ones and then open up guild creation.

[Hiro]

No I want my (Nintendo) tag!

[Stev579]

Originally Posted by Hiro

What about spaces? Can someone make: Playerkiller while I own Player Killer?

You are NOT a playerkiller.

[Curt1zzle]

Wait, Robert, that would totally kill most orriginal guilds...like NBK.

If you only allow the first letter to be capitalized, then abreviations won't be allowed anymore either, because it will now be "Nbk" instead of "NBK"...

[Fogles]

umm?..like if a guild now has all uppercase EX:"NBK" and they have a guild house in a server for example, the scripts.