you brought it up. for some reason its on your radar enough that you feel the need to use it as a discussion point.
You should recheck the very first line of your original post in this thread. You start off by mentioning the "problems" with other swap systems.
regardless, it happens often. its an issue that is constantly an issue in guilds across the game. some people even go to the trouble to note their current Fp totals in threads.
I am currently in 3 active guilds of various sizes and we have these issues in none of them. In fact, over the four years I've been playing (and helping lead guilds) I would say that swaps rarely take any time to manage, and rarely have the issues you seem to think they have. And on the rare occasions that there is an issue, it is easily dealt with. Maybe you've just been in bad guilds. I would argue that the reason you don't have many issues with your system has less to do with the system itself and more to do with the quality of your guild mates.
since if i've been playing and using the system for about 3 and i've passed you in growth [probably after 2]? does that say anything about the effectiveness?
Not unless everything else we've done has been exactly the same. (Incidentally, the city I started originally 4 years ago no longer exists. I'm not really sure how old my current highest era city is, to be honest.)
no posting on dead GB's in threads, hawking over threads or checking my contribution to see if i need to improve my position, or
just 'set it (my swap) and forget it'.
Dead GBs? Seriously, what kind of guilds have you been in that this was a real issue?
Hawking over threads? Post, donate, done. No back and forth of messages to arrange.
Checking your contribution? If the system works so well, why do you need to do that?
See if you need to improve your position? Why would you have to do that if sniping is not a problem? Hmmm?
thats something you can claim, and it may or may not be true, i dont know how hard it would be to prove or disprove that you do consistently.
but i do know the system that my guild uses, makes it pretty easy to prove and validate my claim.
Hogwash. You can't prove or validate your claims any more than
@Emberguard or anyone else can.
you want to spend your time hovering over swap threads thats great.
one of the main things i personally like about this system, is it allows me to play less and focus less attention while still achieving a reasonable amount of consistent success.
Again, what kind of horrible guilds were you in before that you felt you had to spend so much time over simple swap threads? In the three active guilds that I use the swap threads, I post, donate, forget about it, and my FP bank grows consistently without micromanagement. Is it 20%? 30%? 10%? Don't know, don't care. As long as it continues to grow with minimal effort on my part, It's all good. Minimal effort does not describe your system at all.