I'll use Areus as an example since Sangue is dead for the forseeable future. (you know... unless you guys wanted to maybe join... #Sangue1999Hours) Wasn't even planning on basing on it again even if I got it back...

Areus had like 2.7K i think when they lost their squad. That's not just a "why don't you make another squad" type of thing. Even at 1K there's still a huge gap to just ditching a squad.

As a former dev I get making excuses. But somethings don't get excuses. I'm more territorial of my squad than anything I own(ehh. some people would argue that I care mighty fine about that engelluuuuuuv hat...) on graal. I care more about Sangue than the Atoms of the other servers. People are bonded towards certain squads. Classic has those type of squads. NAL. CoM. And between whoever the crap is towering nowadays, there's probably one really strong bond. Era has it. GETS. GERS. Obs. Zone has it. Saith Family. Aim Family. Even Ol' West... (No examples there cause I've never based on OW*)

Even when nobody has powers and nobody owns the squad we all still remain on the Sangue tag. I'm just the only vocal one.

I think every leader would understand why precautions should have been made a long time ago for these transfering rules. I'm not saying that it's bad that we have them now, but they don't favor the intent of the original owner at all.

It doesn't even have to just be basing ones. I've been in guilds on classic that later got stolen and while it's not like the social guilds lose hours, they lose the name. The name means everything. If it didn't, people wouldn't be annoyed if other servers used their names.(I'm still hunting for that Sangue on classic... soon...)