Force replace leader

[radicaldreamer]

I have been in this situation a lot lately, where the leader of a party goes afk for a long period, and then the party has to disband and reform to be able to invite new members. I think there should be a command like this: "/ptcmd mutiny [charactername]"
The specifier "charactername" would be the character to replace the current leader.

How it would work, is if two or more members type the same mutiny command, or choose the mutiny option in party menu and choose the same replacement, then that person is assigned as the new leader.

[Toadie-Odie]

Or it could work with the existing in-game nominate function. I know that exists but I can't think of anything that I would use it for other than maybe this. It would require a majority vote to process through, but if the leader really is a problem I can't see not being able to get that majority required.

[Mayoyama]

I think mutiny would be too harsh a wrod to use (and people would take it personally lol... you know they would...)

I think toadie's idea is closer on the mark.. with a vote system (but that doesnt work either if more than one person afk in pt...)

[Toadie-Odie]

That's a good point I hadn't thought about that. Maybe it could be just set up to require the majority of the party/alliance to vote and then in order to force boot a leader the majority of the votes made need to be "yes" with a time limit before the voting box closes?

[Glamdring]

as a player who has only AFK'd 3 times in 10 years without notice, and NEVER as a leader I'm ok with the term mutiny. if a player can't be botherred to do their job why should the rest of you have to worry about hurting his feelings? he's already a self-proclaimed lazy asshat, merely acknowledging it doesn't seem in the least harsh to me

[Toadie-Odie]

I agree with you and I would also point out it won't matter what term you use, people will take it personally. They take it personally even now when you break and remake a party.

When it comes to team play it is all about what is best for the group as a whole, not about what is best for one person.

[Behemothx]

I can see that going well with a kclub in the pool :P

[Toadie-Odie]

Oh god that would suck. ; ; No matter what system you have in place there will always be someone out there that will use it to screw people over sadly.

[Sarick]

I can see that going well with a kclub in the pool :P

Not necessarily, If the pool is an issue the function can be set to clear the pool before switching leader. Obviously, if is someone wants to be a jerk they can break the alliance/party or kick others. If they aren't afk they would see the message anyway. Stilll all it would do is switch out the leader not change lots.

[TMG]

At the very least, would it be possible for the alliance leader to be able to transfer leadership of another party in the alliance to someone else? I've had too many instances in my VW groups where another party leader decides they're not doing anymore runs with us and AFK's without disbanding while I'm trying to refill the empty slots to do another round. I'd like to have the ability to give leader to someone else in their party that isn't AFK so I can continue filling the alliance up and give them a chance to return before we're ready to go. There's also instances where people head back out to camp while I'm shouting, their party leader DC's and leader falls to the person that's already at camp, who is taking a 10-15 minute lunch break while I shout. Perhaps a command like /acmd leader p2 <name> would assign leader of the second (middle) party on the leader's screen to their person of choice, with p3 being used for the top party. Alliance leaders are able to pass their leader status to other party leaders already, so I don't see why they can't change leaders within other parties as well.