One of the most disheartening and depressing occurrences in TSO is when a guild leader can no longer continue playing the game, for whatever reason. The guild loses it's helmsman, and as ownership of the guild cannot be passed onto anyone else, the whole guild must disband. Friendships are broken as the guild members are forced against their will to join other guilds.
Of course, commonly, a guild officer will start up a new guild, and invite all active members from the old one, but this new guild cannot have the same name or even the same guild tag.
This guild death has now happened to me too many times, and this time it's really upset me to the point where I feel I don't want to play any more. If it can affect me in this way, then surely others have already stopped playing simply because they've been forced out of their guild, away from their online family, simply because one person has stopped playing - it's simply not fair!
Please, please, BB developers, add in some facility whereby a guild ownership can be transferred from one player to another (with the consent of both parties of course, and only if the new owner has a guild hall already built). Currently, even Support are unable to do this (or at least refuse to do so). I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to do.