• Lets you view and manage guild members on a person basis, rather than character by character.
• Adds the main name to incoming messages from known alts.
• Allows you to use your real name or nickname as a main name if you wish.
• Officers and guildmasters can read officer notes for, promote or guild-kick all of a person's characters in one step.
• Core feature: Uses =Name. format information in the guild character Notes. Information is accessible throughout the guild, everyone can contribute, data is computer-independent, and not everyone must have the addon.

How to make it work

World of Warcraft does not allow addons to directly access which characters belong to the same account. You (and others in your guild) must provide that information. In the guild window, left-click your character to bring up its box, and use the Note field. This example shows how.

Example

Player Ellinor has the characters Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde in the guild. She has several options:

• A) Being known by her main (which is Blinky), she writes =Blinky. in the Notes of Pinky, Inky and Clyde. Writing =Blinky. in the Note for Blinky is optional.
• B) Being known as Ellinor Blade to her guildies, she writes =Ellinor B. in the Notes of Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
• C) Being known under her online alias "Peter" to her guildies, she writes =Peter. in the Notes of Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.

People with no alts in the guild

For people who have only one character in the guild, adding =Name. is optional. GuildPeople will use the character's name as default, and assume it is a main.

The =Name. format

Should accept all letters usable in WoW names at your locale, as well as spaces, - and most other things you can write. There are basically only two things to avoid:

• Don't try to use = in the Note before the = in =Name. Example: =P =Donald. (will result in the name "P =Donald")
• Don't try to use . in the Name itself. Example: =Alfred E. Newman. (will result in the name "Alfred E")

Remaining space in the Note field can still be used for whatever you like (GuildPeople will ignore it). The Note field only allows a maximum of 31 letters, limiting names to 29 letters. Names of max 12 letters (the WoW name limit) look best in the current interface. The end of very long names may get hidden.

Tip: If all characters in the guild are provided with =Name. info at the beginning of the Note field, the guild list can be sorted alphabetically by person (by sorting by Note column).

Name your friends (optional)

If you like, you can also write names in the =Name. format in your Friends list note fields. This is only used for incoming chat messages (see below). Convenient for friends you know in real life but who are not in your guild.

Complete information not neccessary

GuildPeople will not give error messages or otherwise make trouble if the provided information is not complete. It works with what it gets. It will of course be more useful if all alts are properly defined. The Audit function will help you check if provided name data are in order (see below).

Functions

Main name in chat messages

When you get an incoming chat message from someone in your guild (or on your friends list), the main name will be provided within parenthesis (if there is one, and it is not redundant).

Example

When Ellinor says Hi everyone! you may (depending on what name she has provided) get one of:

• [Clyde]: (Blinky) Hi everyone!
• [Clyde]: (Ellinor B) Hi everyone!
• [Clyde]: (Peter) Hi everyone!

If she uses her main and the name Blinky, you get:

• [Blinky]: Hi everyone!
• [Blinky]: (Blinky) Hi everyone! is never shown

The GuildPeople window

GuildPeople adds a tab marked "People" to the window Social -> Guild. Click it to open the GuildPeople window. Here you get a list of all (presumed) individuals in the guild, the number of characters associated to them, and which one of their characters is online at the moment. Right-clicking a name will give you a list of the characters' names, levels and classes.

Color-coded names

The names of individuals are color-coded as follows:

• Blue: Has a non-character name (real name/nickname).
• Green: The main character has been explicitly defined as main (with its own name as main name in the Note field).
• Yellow: A main with one or more alts referring to it.
• Orange: A (presumed) main with no alts or information whatsoever.
• Red: A (presumed) main with no alts or information whatsoever, and who's rank privileges don't allow him/her to change his/her own Note (a signal to officers to either promote or fix the Note themselves).

Officer options

If you have the appropriate privileges, right-clicking a name will also bring up the options to read all Officer Notes, change a person's rank or kick them out of the guild. This is a smooth way of handling officer duties in a guild with many alts.

View Officer Notes

A table of the characters and their Officer Notes will appear in the smaller box below, for you to read and compare.

Change rank for all to >

With one selection, you will promote/demote all of the person's characters to a given rank. Checkboxes mark the current rank(s) of the person's characters.

Guild-kick all

This will remove all of the person's characters from the guild (a confirmation box will appear first).

The rank-change and guild-kick functions may take a few seconds to complete if the person has many alts.

The Audit function

When clicking the Audit button, GuildPeople retrieves the true number of accounts represented in the guild (available through the /ginfo command) and compares it to the number of (presumed) individuals. Numbers are presented in the chat window. When all alts have their mains defined in their Note fields, the numbers will match. GuildPeople will essentially give you the number of "mainless alts". They are most likely to be found among the orange- and red-colored names. This is a way of checking if you are done finding them all.

Developement & future additions

GuildPeople is an addon in developement. All functions have been tested by me, and they work as far as I know. GuildPeople has not been tested in large guilds yet, which is why this addon is currently in a pre-1.0 version. Also, many functions yet unimplemented can be added if there is a demand for them.