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It's a pain to try and get the 51% votes to change leadership before the end of your PA cycle which you have no hope of remembering when it is. Since I had recruitment permissions we decided to try having the GL remove himself when he retired and left it to me.

I can confirm positively that this works. I had someone set allegiance to me, then he left the guild. About 5 days later everyone got the e-mail that I was now GL and he came back. I can garuntee with absolute certainty that I did not have over 50% allegience from the guild.

So it works.

Koweim

Thanks very much for thisreport. We'll get it in the FAQ for how to change Guild Leaders. I assume this would only work if a member declares allegience *before* the guildleader leaves the guild, and not after. If the guild leader has already left, I imagine a guild will have to go through the regular Allegience process.

Jas, we could try to set up a PA on TC and test this theory again with both having someone set it beforehand and set it after and see if both ways work or only one. Then I can update my guide and we can share it with the community.

Rothin Skyshrine

Retired Galactic Senator
Former Player Association Correspondent
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Yeah when I tested it, allegiance had been set before he left (and no one pledged it before it switched). So there's two possible holes:

1. Having nothing pledged before he leaves does not set it up for defaulting to the chosen leader.

2.If someone pledges allegiance after the GL leaves, it resets to the 51% system and does not default.

Hopefully both are false.

Koweim

Now that I think about it the leader before me dropped himself from the guild since he changed factions. I was to take over so I set allegiance to myself and had two others do the same. Out of about 8 members this worked and I was updated as leader. This was about 6 moths ago though. This is good to know as I am leaving the game for a while and wanting to transition our new leader in smoothly and not leave her with a whole lot of stress getting people to vote.