111455-a-way-to-transfer-guild-leadership

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Just heard back from a ticket I put in and was told to post a request on the forums...
 
Carbine, please implement either an automated process or give your customer support reps the ability to transfer guild leadership. Myself, my husband, and a close friend of ours created a guild a couple months ago. At the time, we intended to try and grow it, but then our friend - who was the guild leader - hit some really hard times and didn't have the money to subscribe past the free month. That's likely not going to change any time soon, and even then she's not too keen on returning. My husband and I continued along, and because all of our play time is generally together, we've racked up guild currency quite a bit. A short time ago it occurred to me to check what we could buy - maybe we could get a guild bank with a few tabs (we have a lot of the currency lol) to make sharing crafting mats between one another (and our other two friends) much easier!
 
Unfortunately, we found out only the guild leader has the ability to spend guild currency... So after talking it over with our friend and former guild leader, I submitted a ticket asking if they could transfer leadership, so that we could make use of our currency. Aaaaand...
 
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Unfortunately, we do not have a service to change your guild leader, and may I inform you that /gvote is only applicable only to the guild status.
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			Just use a C.R.E.D.D. on her account, log in, transfer ownership. 	
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			We don't have enough plat to buy a CREDD. Or, well, we probably do but then we'd be 100% broke. Also, getting her a CREDD doesn't really help when she can't log in to claim it...	
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Why wouldn't she (or you) be able to log in and claim it?
 
Sorry I don't quite understand.
 
 
Are you trying to jack a dead guild?  Or is this your friend? You said it was your friend...	
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/gvote yourname
 
 
and then have everyone do /gvote yes	
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/gvote yourname
 
 
and then have everyone do /gvote yes
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Why wouldn't she (or you) be able to log in and claim it?
 
Sorry I don't quite understand.
 
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Correct Ildur.
 
And they have an active account.  A few of them, as expressed in the first post.
 
 
Ill stop beating around the bush.
 
 
Buy a CREDD.
Gift it to guild leaders account.
Log in.
Transfer ownership.
 
It's really pretty simple.	
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Except not? You seem dead on that they can somehow log into the game without an active subscription. This seems really odd to me, but since I haven't deactivated my subscription ever, I can't say for sure.
 
However, and more importantly, gifting CREDD only transfers it from one account's inventory to the other person's. It is not automatically applied. So even if they buy the CREDD your plan fails when the leader has to log in. She can't log in to redeem the month of playtime. This defeats the purpose of giving her the CREDD in the first place and means it's not an option. 
 
There's also the problem that you can only gift CREDD bought with real money, so depending on the other people finances, it might not be an option.
 
Quoting from Carbine's FAQ about gifting CREDD. Emphasis mine:
 
 
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7.  You will be asked confirm this action and once you do your friend will now have C.R.E.D.D on the way to their Account Inventory!
 
Please note: 
Gifted C.R.E.D.D. cannot be re-gifted.  No one likes a re-gifter.
You cannot gift C.R.E.D.D. purchased from the C.R.E.D.D. Exchange. You can only gift C.R.E.D.D. that you purchased with real money.
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Except not? You seem dead on that they can somehow log into the game without an active subscription. This seems really odd to me, but since I haven't deactivated my subscription ever, I can't say for sure.
 
However, and more importantly, gifting CREDD only transfers it from one account's inventory to the other person's. It is not automatically applied. So even if they buy the CREDD your plan fails when the leader has to log in. She can't log in to redeem the month of playtime. This defeats the purpose of giving her the CREDD in the first place and means it's not an option. 
EDIT: Unless there's a way to use the website for that.
 
There's also the problem that you can only gift CREDD bought with real money, so depending on the other people finances, it might not be an option.
 
Quoting from Carbine's FAQ about gifting CREDD. Emphasis mine:
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Except not? You seem dead on that they can somehow log into the game without an active subscription. This seems really odd to me, but since I haven't deactivated my subscription ever, I can't say for sure.
 
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I bought CREDD from the website when I didn't have an active subscription.  When I went to log in through the client, it asked me if I wanted to redeem the CREDD that I had in my inventory.  I confirmed and was able to log in as usual afterward.
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			Actually, not winner. He spent $5 extra for a sub.	
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Actually, not winner. He spent $5 extra for a sub.
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Ok first, paying $5 extra is silly. If you want to go month to month buy a game time card for $15 and apply it on the account screen.
 
To the OP - go back in any three of your emails and find a 7 day guest pass and apply it to the guild leader's defunct account - You're supposed to be able to this ONCE (one guest pass per account, forever).
 
I don't know if the guest pass restrictions will get in the way, but you can try.	
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			For some reason my post noting this was deleted... But my husband and I found a solution. We didn't know what /gvote was, and the customer rep made it sound like it wasn't something that was applicable to us. But after seeing it brought up in this thread, we tried it in-game, and lo, it worked! Leadership transferred, and the two of us can enjoy bank space now. :)	
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