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Funny message seen in last Talonhatesnames stream, when we could not benefit from the trainer of a temple he didn't apply for, he was referred as "Expelled":
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Puzzled me for a moment, until I found it was supposed to be the rank in the guild (%pct), and that the macro helper for guilds uses "Expelled" for non-members
I'm not sure what is classic behavior. In any case, both non-members and expelled characters have a rank of -1, so there's currently no way to distinguish one from the other.
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Yeah, this is an odd outcome. Aren't training services normally reserved for members only? Maybe in this case, player is a member of a different temple and training services are being offered to someone who is technically a non-member, leading to that string outcome.
Edit: Confirmed a new character with no affiliations can request training at a temple and see this message.
I need to localize that "Expelled" text in any case (I'm actually working through guild ranks now). Worth taking a closer look at the root cause.
Classic behavior is to allow non-members training, at 4 times the members' price, even to members of another temple.
And behavior is to use character first name as fallback instead of rank for non-members (not sure about expelled members).
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Would there ever be any case ingame where the game would use the rank Expelled in information presented to the player?
DFUs list of relationships would not include a guild you are no longer a member of. And I suspect in any kind of speech it would just look weird, like in the picture in the OP.
No, there is no rank string for expelled members. You're just a non-member. This falls back to player name in classic, and has been fixed in DFU to work the same way.