I have my main in a t4 raiding guild and my alts in my own solo guild I inherited when my friends from WoW quit AoC in fall, 2008. Both guilds have cities in Purple Lotus Swamp, and both have had the neighbor city change.

My own guild, at launch on Dagoth server, shared an instance with a guild called Militus Invicta. Since August 2008, that city has had a t1 keep, temple and tradepost and nothing else. Now that site has some t1 workshops and a few wall sections up.

Similarly, for the two years my main has been in Prophets, the neighbor city has been all t1 (save the architect's workshop) with a half finished gate and nothing else. I used to always cut right through their town - sometimes being told by their watch patrol that he would be happy if I wasn't there - but overnight the neighbors have full t2 walls. Now I have to ride around their city on my mining runs.

Is this some effect of having 'lost' all the guild cities on the first day of merge?

Did Funcom move active guilds into these sites?