In the past 3 months the membership of the guild I am in has dropped dramatically (like 75%). Most of the people that left have said they are never coming back, but they own guild property in our guild city that is now not accessible for new members to own/develop. Some of these properties are not even developed - they bought the plot/lair and then quit without developing it, so the guild doesn't even get the benefit of the plot. With other plots the guild can still use the machines usually, but there are permission problems that crop up from time to time due to having an inactive owner.
So, the question becomes this: Is there a way the guild master can free up these properties for other active members to use, or transfer ownership of fully built plots from an inactive member to an active one (so silos and buildings could be upgraded for instance)? I was working with our GM last night and we tried to free up an undeveloped lair by kicking the inactive owner from the guild, but now the lair is still owned by him and he's no longer a guild member. The lair has one structure planned on it and it is 0.2% complete - and we only have 2 lairs in our guild city, so one is now totally useless
Has anyone else gotten around this problem? What can we do to resolve it?