Guild Members set to inactive - better tools

onlymat · July 2016

As a guild leader ist very hard to see who is online who is plaing or not. It would be nice if a guild leader can see the last login in Neverwinter only to see if people are playing or not. Or it would be nice that you get set to inactive after 2 weeks not playing and the guild leader can see inactive for 2 weeks 4 weeks or longer.

It would also improve guild management much when you can see how many guild marks people earned - this week - this month - all the time. So you could easily see who ist donating or not.

Please implement some tools to mange a guild - the way it is now it is not good.

draco16 · July 2016

I concur with your observation. It is very difficult to track activity or donations the way the system is set up. Some type of activity statistics would be helpful in management.

speedokillz · July 2016

I agree, as well that a tool is needed. What I do now is clumsy due to the fact that a lot of people like to play with their settings on "show offline" and can understand that. I use the Officer Comments section to put the number of the months that I have seen them on NW. For example: active members' Officer Comment might look like 7, 6, 4 meaning that I noticed them online July, June, and April. But that doesn't tell the whole story about how helpful they are.

It is just way too hard to manage a Stronghold roster without seeing something like Guild Marks Points earned in a day/week/month/all-time. The above method, plus a spread sheet in the morning with Influence donations takes some time and much more is needed. Really this should have been a no-brainer for development with the costs and resources needed to build a stronghold community.

thedramacus · July 2016

Please give us better managment tools. At current my guild tracks activity by monitoring weekly influence donations. But it still requires a dedicated secretary to check these numbers at the very least once a day.

And then if we run a contest (total gems donated, ect) we do the same. But scrolling through the list it very time consuming, then you have to compare toon names to gamertags, and pray that the lilith that donated this is the one your thinking and not the other one.

When it comes down to removing inactives Im still trying to figure out if InvalidUsername means they deleted the game or havent played that character in that long....

anakitteh · July 2016

I agree with thedramacus as stated above... guild management tools are lacking any form of helpfulness. Just managing who is active vs inactive is a chore, forcing guild admins to choose a method of tracking (influence, for example) and even that involves tedious documentation of line items in the coffer activity and checking in every 12 hours or so to ensure items don't fall off the log and become unrecoverable. If you have provided us with the ability to filter the log by text, i would assume it is an easy fix to provide some sort of spreadsheet capability, or as mentioned in the original post, the ability to view guild marks gained by date.

Running contests are crucial for guild morale (and upgrades!) yet incredibly taxing on the guild admins. Before we decided to limit our activity identifier to simply influence, I had been spending 2-4 hours every 12 hours to document donations. This greatly impacts the admin's playing time and, to be frank, is a total annoyance.

Please, please, please give us better tools and i will be more than willing to help test or give feedback... as i have been complaining to our other officers and brainstorming on this for almost 5 months now.

armadeonx · July 2016

At the absolute least, there should be a 'last logged in' column. It's very easy to implement. Coffer donations would be very useful too.

destrowod · August 2016

Lol yeah there some people that monitor coffin in every guild and boy wouldn't i like be in there shoes...

When it comes to activity you can always ask your members to put a comment saying the current month so this way you know who is active or not, but its still does not define donations and stuff.

Personally i would like that a system where the guild could have "inactives" over the 150 gamertags. Like for exemple you plan to go away for a while, you can put yourself in inactive and still retain your place in a guild. There could be a 48 hours probation before going back to main roster and of course you would loose Boons for the time being as inactive, but that way you would still keep a place in your guild without the hassle of being invited back

sundance777 · August 2016

There is another thread about this as well. I would like to see some of the following:
Total Guild Marks earned in any interface even if it was just on the character and maybe achievements beyond that 60K donation one, like 500K and 1 million.
Item Level and last active columns in guild roster
Nested characters by gamer tag in the guild roster would be handy
A way to see who in on your SH map and a way to chat with other guild members that are on your SH map other than spamming the alliance chat.
I think we definitely need a way to sort or group or find coffer donations by type and player. Or perhaps create a guild member score where their 'contribution' to the guild creates some sort of score that can be presented to guild leaders. IMO there are things that might be obvious like time in guild, donations to date but some other things could be important as well...

iccyasd · August 2016

if only they would allow us to use this command on xbox (/ExportGuildMemberList filename.csv)

armadeonx · August 2016

For stronghold chat, just make Zone Chat only apply to the Stronghold, it annoys me seeing chat from other alliances when I'm in the SH.

sundance777 · August 2016

Tell the other guilds to use the Say channel or make a queue group and use that channel. The Raid channel might help as well, but I have not used that one yet.

zalus31 · September 2016

I think they need to have a donations tab for high ranks under player names so high ranks can keep up with what all is going on.

stonejade · June 2017

Does anyone have or know of a spread sheet to track coffer donations?

thefiresidecat · June 2017

holy necropost batman!

sundance777 · June 2017

The features in this post are still needed, I am glad it came back. Maybe the newer dev's are interested in some QoL improvements for guild roster management.

As it stands right now, I have to go in and either make notes or inspect every single character in roster which can take 90+ minutes of my 'playtime'. So instead of helping people enjoy content and improve the love of the game for others, I am looking at the roster...ugh

thegravelnome · June 2017

I completely agree with you Sundance. Yes it is necro to bring this back but the simple fact is this was discussed almost a year ago and nothing has changed. Both my officers and I cringe at the thought of a purge due to trying to figure out when's the last time people have logged in. Having the tools to see this in a no-nonsense manner would greatly improve the quality of life for all of us who lead guilds

earlgreybeard · June 2017

iccyasd said:
if only they would allow us to use this command on xbox (/ExportGuildMemberList filename.csv)

there is allocation in that file for donations for each member but I am told it always says zero
I think it's been like that for awhile, I wonder if it's a work in progress or just something that never got impemented

mordekai · June 2017

There could be a report sheet like you get on something like FIFA team sheets, instead of match stats it would have a spreadsheet format showing last time in stonghold, donations by type where you could look at weekly, monthly and possibly even yearly activity.
I run a tiny guild, and the frustration I feel at having to manually check activity logs must be amplified to the verge of insanity for someone running a big guild with hundreds of characters.

I like that the new guild stuff in 11.5 shows that its still a "thing" in the minds of the devs, but some more functionality would go a long way to helping guild leaders.

thefiresidecat · June 2017

oh yeah I agree features still desperately needed... but still holy necropost lol.

armadeonx · June 2017

@terramak this is currently a real negative point for guilds, especially on consoles that cannot export data.

The last column on the guild list is switchable between member/officer comments - adding "last online" to this rotation would be extremely helpful.

kreatyve · June 2017

thefiresidecat said:
oh yeah I agree features still desperately needed... but still holy necropost lol.

It's still relevant, and I haven't seen any new threads about it, so we will allow it.