I think there´s one important information missing that would really help to discuss this topic.
How are we going to get additional beacon plots and is there going to be a hardcap on them?
[Link to the mentioned suggestion]
Only if the majority of the guild treatens to leave simultaniously, and if a guild leader manages to upset ~80% of his guild he probably deserves the consequences.
Additionally:
There might be a misunderstanding here.
The guildleader would still have full control over all placed plots.
If a player decides to leave the guildleader has several options to make up for the loss without loosing any control/protection over his project.
- Ask other members to donate a few additional beacons to make up for the loss / donate a few of his own plots
- Remove a few unnecessary plots to pay the depts to the player that has left
- If it´s just a few leaving players (a few % of the total plots) he could just hold the expansion of his project until the donations of new members have made up for the loss
(My suggestion sure isn´t perfect but I think it´s a reasonably good approach to the issue)
This might be a suitable solution if there is no hardcap on your beacon pool.
But it could also be pretty discouraging for players to join a project/guild.
Not being able to leave a guild at any time is a no-go in an MMORPG. At least in my opinion