I was asking myself this stuff a bit ago and so I sent a PM to Jordi about this.
This is about Tribes
Once you have tribes in-game, And people start making a million tribes. Will we be able to delete a tribe? If we can delete a tribe, Will that tribe name be able to be used again? Or is it locked to never be used again?
Also If a leader of the tribe leaves(cancels his account) Will there be a way to apoint a new leader?
I ask because, In many of the MMO's I have played and been apart of guilds. I have seen names be taken away because once used. The name was locked up from then on. Also I have seen guilds die, Because the lead left the game without a word. And no one could change things because there was no real leader. And there was no way to make a new leader.
Thanks
Alik Steel
Here is what he had to say on 10 September 2010
Hello Alik,
Tribes will be able to be deleted / abandoned and the name will be reusable.
I haven't thought of how to deal with a tribe leader that leaves the game, but we'll figure it out. It can definitely be dealt with manually if we need to do this.
I think I can set up an automatic system that if a player is deleted, the tribe leadership goes to the next highest rank.
Anyways, we'll figure it out. I don't want the problems you mentioned happening with Xsyon. Thanks for bringing this up, as I hadn't taken all these details into account but they are solveable.
Thanks again,
Jordi