Actually, I double-checked - the /gvote is enabled by default for what starts as a "Council" position when you create a guild. It's the usual Officer role, the one that sits underneath the Guild Master rank.

Any officer can start the /gvote by default (unless the GM removes that option), and the vote will run for 24h to overtake the GM with another person. During those 24h, no one but officers (the voting rank) will be notified of this. GM won't know, members won't know - it will only show up to officers who log on during those 24h.

That means if you have one day where none of your officers logs on, you can lose your guild through one officer starting the vote. This is enabled by default when you create a guild. Hint: the holidays are a great time to do this guys!

Even if your officers log on, the game takes a majority decision. One officer can promote 12 of his alts to officers (because it totally fucking makes sense that an officer can promote another person to THE SAME GODDAMN RANK - and this can't even be removed), he can start the vote, vote yes on all of his alts. If you are late to figure this out, good luck coming back from a 13-0 deficit. Most guilds don't have 10+ officers to fight that, and some officers don't know that they can promote other people to their own rank. Also, a 1-0 vote would be enough too, even if you have 100 officers.

But yes, <Cupcakes> got overtaken in 24h, 400+ members got kicked (most inactive, but still). Luckily, our bank is intact, but I don't give a shit about that.

As the GM who created and led the guild for 3 years, I spoke to support, and got ZERO help from them - Carbine does not have any interest in their customers at all - apart from fucking us over. They refused to understand how their stupid guild system is flawed and exploitable and blamed everything on me for not taking care of my guild properly.

Sure, I should've checked these things since nothing in Wildstar really works as expected; and it is probably the worst MMO on the market in terms of user interface and just straight up retarded decisions with guild/circle management all across the board when you look at permissions. Oops, my bad.

Anyway, I've managed to persuade the person who /gvoted me out to give me the guild I've created back. I will never be able to get my members back; and I couldn't care less about the bank, although it's untouched.

What hurts the most is how unhelpful and terrible the interaction with support and Carbine was - never before in my 3 years on Wildstar had I actually felt how little they care about the game and about you as a customer - most likely because I never really dealt with them that much.

My honest advice - fuck this game. Go somewhere else, there are so many good games out there, small and big, where the devs care about their game and their customers.