Noun of the Day - GINORMOUS

[shadowscout]

okies I haven't had the time hardly to play my main EU toons recently let alone any of my alts on the US side - if my toon hasn't already been kicked then I'll login tonight and put some gold in the gbank (to replace the bags I had / someone kindly sent me on my first day on there) and then jump out - with thoughts of jumping back in if I happen to have time again if thats all a-ok

[mashugana]

Hello all - new here and new to Blog Azeroth, but I wanted to chime in.

My horde guild is Alea Iacta Est, the guild for fans of The Instance podcast. (http://aie-guild.org/) We have about 3,000-4,000 characters in the guild. We simply gave up on the user interface as a reliable way to see who is online due to the 500 player limit.

We have lots of work arounds, but the simple truth is we simply cannot look at a list to see who is online. You follow guild chat, maybe type a /who for a specific person, or keep a small friend list to see when you key guildies are on, etc.

Also, we use the add-on Identity (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/identity.aspx) which will always show your main's name in guild chat followed by your alt. It helps

You may also want to post over there with questions on how to manage UI and communication in a 500+ member guild - the men and women over there are amazingly friendly and helpful.

Just my two cents. Once I get my reroll going on Argent Dawn I hope to apply to the guild.

Thanks!

[Miss Medicina]

Yeah, I should add to this that about once a month, depending on how the roster is looking, I've been cleaning things out a bit. It's kind of a bummer, because I know for a fact that a lot of times during the summer people may just not log on for a couple of months... but hopefully the majority of the people who have been removed will get the message that it is completely not a personal issue and that they can be reinvited at any time.

So, everytime you see the number creeping up again, know that I will probably be coming through shortly to do a little guild house cleaning. Everytime I have to do it, it pains me I'm really hoping that this is something that gets fixed in Cataclysm.