overlay/Scripts/Custom/Bridge/BridgeJson.cs

@@ -99,9 +99,15 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
         ///     (Bridge.GuildRosterMembersPerLine). A null entry in the sequence is skipped rather
         ///     than written as null, so the array is always a list of real members and a caller can
         ///     trust its length.
+        ///
+        ///     `withGuildRank` adds each member's guild rank to their object. It is a parameter
+        ///     rather than always-on because rank is a property of a mobile's membership of THIS
+        ///     guild, not of the mobile — every other actor this bridge writes is a bystander,
+        ///     a killer, a governor, and guild rank is meaningless on all of them.
         /// </summary>
         public static StringBuilder Actors(
-            this StringBuilder sb, string name, IList<Mobile> mobiles, int start, int count)
+            this StringBuilder sb, string name, IList<Mobile> mobiles, int start, int count,
+            bool withGuildRank = false)
         {
             sb.Append(",\"").Append(name).Append("\":[");
 
@@ -120,7 +126,11 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
                     if (!first)
                         sb.Append(',');
 
+                    if (withGuildRank)
+                        WriteGuildMember(sb, m);
+                    else
                         WriteActor(sb, m);
+
                     first = false;
                 }
             }
@@ -129,6 +139,66 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
             return sb;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     A roster member: the standard actor object plus the member's rank in their guild.
+        ///
+        ///     **Only the raw rank is emitted, never a resolved label.** ServUO names the five
+        ///     standard ranks with cliloc ids (1062959–1062963) and ships no text for them, so the
+        ///     shard cannot produce "Warlord" without a client-file table it does not have. The
+        ///     website module does have one, and resolving a game term is its job in any case.
+        ///
+        ///     `rank` is the numeric rank, 0–4, with 4 being Leader (`RankDefinition.Ranks`). A
+        ///     custom rank definition may carry a literal string instead of a cliloc, so `rankName`
+        ///     is written when there is one and `rankCliloc` when there is not; a shard that has
+        ///     replaced the rank table therefore keeps its own naming rather than being flattened
+        ///     into the stock five.
+        ///
+        ///     A member with no readable rank — a mobile that is not a PlayerMobile, or one whose
+        ///     GuildRank is null — is written with no rank fields at all rather than a fabricated
+        ///     default. Absent means "not known", and a consumer that treated a missing rank as 0
+        ///     would silently demote them.
+        ///
+        ///     **Staff are deliberately written with no rank, and this is not a rounding error.**
+        ///     `PlayerMobile.GuildRank` returns `RankDefinition.Leader` for anyone at GameMaster or
+        ///     above, whatever their actual rank — a gameplay convenience so staff can operate a
+        ///     guild stone, and emphatically not a claim about who leads the guild. The true value
+        ///     is in a private field with no accessor, so the only honest options are "Leader" and
+        ///     "not known", and publishing a staff member as a guild leader on a public roster is
+        ///     the worse of the two by a wide margin. A staff account that genuinely leads its guild
+        ///     shows as an unranked member, which is a visible gap rather than a false claim.
+        /// </summary>
+        private static void WriteGuildMember(StringBuilder sb, Mobile m)
+        {
+            if (m == null)
+            {
+                sb.Append("null");
+                return;
+            }
+
+            sb.Append('{');
+            WriteActorFields(sb, m);
+
+            var pm = m as Server.Mobiles.PlayerMobile;
+            var rank = pm == null || pm.AccessLevel >= AccessLevel.GameMaster ? null : pm.GuildRank;
+
+            if (rank != null)
+            {
+                sb.Append(",\"rank\":").Append(rank.Rank);
+
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(rank.Name.String))
+                {
+                    sb.Append(",\"rankName\":");
+                    Escape(sb, rank.Name.String);
+                }
+                else if (rank.Name.Number > 0)
+                {
+                    sb.Append(",\"rankCliloc\":").Append(rank.Name.Number);
+                }
+            }
+
+            sb.Append('}');
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         ///     One bare actor object, with no leading field name: serial, name, account (when there
         ///     is one), the linked webId (when the account is linked), and the player flag. A `null`
@@ -147,7 +217,21 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
                 return;
             }
 
-            sb.Append("{\"serial\":\"0x").Append(m.Serial.Value.ToString("X")).Append('"');
+            sb.Append('{');
+            WriteActorFields(sb, m);
+            sb.Append('}');
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     The actor fields, with no braces, so a caller can add its own.
+        ///
+        ///     Split out for <see cref="WriteGuildMember"/>, which is the same object plus guild
+        ///     rank. Note the first field is written WITHOUT a leading comma and every later one
+        ///     with, so this must be the first thing inside its object.
+        /// </summary>
+        private static void WriteActorFields(StringBuilder sb, Mobile m)
+        {
+            sb.Append("\"serial\":\"0x").Append(m.Serial.Value.ToString("X")).Append('"');
 
             sb.Append(",\"name\":");
             Escape(sb, m.Name ?? "");
@@ -167,7 +251,6 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
             }
 
             sb.Append(",\"player\":").Append(m.Player ? "true" : "false");
-            sb.Append('}');
         }
 
         /// <summary>Closes the object. The trailing newline is the frame delimiter.</summary>

overlay/Scripts/Custom/Bridge/BridgeSocial.cs

@@ -325,7 +325,11 @@ namespace Server.Custom.Bridge
                     .Num("seq", seq)
                     .Bool("more", more);
 
-                sb.Actors("members", members, start, perLine);
+                // `withGuildRank` — the roster is the one place a member's rank in THIS guild is
+                // meaningful, and the only frame that carries it. Leadership is rank 4
+                // (RankDefinition.Ranks), and a guild can have several members at it, which is why
+                // the board's single `leader` field was never enough to answer "who leads this".
+                sb.Actors("members", members, start, perLine, withGuildRank: true);
 
                 BridgeLink.Emit(sb.End());
                 _rosters++;