Game Mechanics: Guild War

[quido]

As is known, the Guild War (/guildwar) feature is not functioning on Green. I'm going to take a stab at developing it against EQEmu base and will make it available for use if I'm successful.

I'm wondering if we could put together all the research and information that's available out there for it please?

A few questions I was not able to answer after some limited googling/conversing:

• Do names show red for people you can attack due to /guildwar?
• Are you prohibited from beneficial buffing people you can attack due to /guildwar?
• What sort of notification is generated for a guild leader when another leader invokes a /guildwar request?
• When the second leader goes to accept the guild war by using the /guildwar command, must they also specify the duration, and if so, must they match, or does it simply use the shortest of the two durations stated?
• Must the leader of the target guild be online and/or in the same zone to successfully invoke the /guildwar command?
• What are the specifics of item loot for /guildwar?