NOTE: English isn't my native language so I might destroy the grammar at some point.
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Hello.
I've seen before leaving a guild by yourself meant losing alignment and be a criminal, so when somebody needed to leave he was been kicked because sometimes, people leaves being friendly.
With the new patch this wont happen again. Now you are forced to tag a friend as criminal just because he can't be part of your guild anymore. To me, that has no sense.
I understand why that happens, actually I lived the situation why this was changed. One of my member betrayed us but didn't left the guild, I had to kick him and he wasn't tagged as criminal but it wouldn't be better to have two buttons?
Release: Kick from guild without consequences.
banish: Kick from guild with consequences.
So you can actually choose when that member has to be a criminal and when he has not. Not everybody leaves a guild because betrayal or is being kicked because he was any problematic.
This game has too much automation and randomness. There's also a huge talk about how vassals work and how having allies is impossible because the system itself doesn't allow that, he understand that "ally" means "vassal". It doesn't give a choice about being ally or vassal.
That's all.
Good day.