You have to see that you're not facing a playerbase of encouraged players that have no ties. You have vets that have been playing in their guilds for years and have ties to them. There has been just a small amount of players involved in this entire discussion. I'm sure if you asked the big majority you'd find that they are unwilling to move at all.

Also consider this: If you start one or several new guilds for alts or current characters somewhere, it would definately drain the last bit of life force of guilds like BoC, -V- or even Grd. You would have split the people that were unwilling to move in even more inactive old guilds and some that did move in a temporary active new community. But what if that new community would fail however as after the first few weeks the enthusiasm for 'the new thing' fades? The players might find out that the etablished old guilds they came from originally have meanwhile fully collapsed.

All in all i consider that discussion about a centralized community dangerous. I feel that it would bring more harm than good if it was attempted. If people want to kick into action i would suggest a very small step. Starting a community ICQ List where people write down their chars + guilds could be a start. If you log in and see who is around from the entire community you would have it much easier to organize something spontaneous with the involvement of many guilds instead of just your own. If that works you can ponder about the next steps. Merging guilds, organizing -temporary- events with many guilds in a centralized area.. Loyalists occuping Vesper or the Anti-Loyalists guilds and the liberal Duchy allying to bring war mongering Yew down once and for all and occupying it for some time etc.