Maximum number of guild ranks

[Thedrish]

I have looked through the forums but could not find anything on it except some old posts from years ago, hence a new topic.

At the moment, the maximum number of guild ranks is 9.
Would it possible, perhaps in the future, to increase this?

[Mouli]

according to this link http://www.planeshift.it/guilds You dont need more than 9 ranks atm...

[Volki]

Link requires a login.

Who is Talad to say what we need?

We need more ranks!

How else are we going to meticulously organize guild members?

I say we need about 49 more!

[Thedrish]

Well, I wanted to change ranks with certain members, and I noticed I only see the first 6.
I can change the names of all 9 ranks within the ingame Guild settings window,
but when I select a member and want to give him the 7th or 8th rank, I can't ('cause it isn't visible), see the attached screenshot:



I changed the theme of the client, but in both cases the result is the same.

[Volki]

You probably don't have enough members, Thedrish.

[zanzibar]

You can have as many ranks as you want. Just roleplay them.

[Thedrish]

The list does not has a scrolling slider next to it and it appears a graphical thing since the characters of the 5th rank are truncated one or two pixels from the bottom.

You probably don't have enough members, Thedrish.

We have more than 9 members.
And I fail to see what that has to do with being able to define and give any higher rank to a member.

[Volki]

My guild leader told me that you weren't able to assign people to a guild rank higher than the number of players you had. I wasn't sure if that's true, and I still don't know. I've tried doing what you are attempting now, and I've noticed that the menu is cut off. So it's more likely a graphical glitch.

[LigH]

Just to fix Mouli's wrong link: http://www.planeshift.it/guilds + http://www.planeshift.it/GuildsDetail

But I can't read any convincing reason there why 9 is a sensible maximum. It was decided once and is now probably limited by the database structure.

[Thedrish]

This topic might be confusing since two issues were addressed.
The max. of 9 ranks is clear to me and sufficient for the time being.

The real issue is that I am not able to assign certain ranks.

I've tried doing what you are attempting now, and I've noticed that the menu is cut off. So it's more likely a graphical glitch.

Thank you for confirming my problem 
Now looking for a way around it 

[LigH]

You are not able to scroll the list e.g. using the mousewheel? A different skin may reveal scrolling controls for the list of ranks or use a smaller font to make them all appear in the given dimensions. Maybe contact Bonifarzia/Neeno/Moja about it so they will check their skin mods. And create a bugtracker task to have that fixed in the official skin too.

[Bonifarzia]

You are not able to scroll the list e.g. using the mousewheel? A different skin may reveal scrolling controls for the list of ranks or use a smaller font to make them all appear in the given dimensions. Maybe contact Bonifarzia/Neeno/Moja about it so they will check their skin mods. And create a bugtracker task to have that fixed in the official skin too.

Just had a look at it with BoNeeSkinExt and indeed, the layout of the rank prompt is a bit odd. Actually, there was an expand button at the top right, which drops down the rank list including a scrollbar. Even though there is enough space for all ranks, only a few lines are shown, so scrolling is needed. I don't think the cfg data for prompts like this are in the skin, are they?

[Thedrish]

Thanks, I have filed a bugreport.
Hopefully this is an easy fix.

[Thedrish]

I found out that if you use the 0.5.9.10 client, you can browse through the ranks (then you have a slider).
But you will need the servers.xml from 0.6.0 to make it work.

[Mouli]

this is an old bug ... but most of the time a relog fix it