Guild Wars 2

Flying Dolyak race – Completed. It’s looking like a nice gold reward is due as 50ppl completed already with 6minutes to go! Awesome!

But rather than sit around for 6mins, I could get some more tokens playing Aspect Arena right? Wrong!!! Joined Aspect Arena only to be on a losing team, get no rewards and come out in a totally different mega-sigh-server to a race that has 5 ppl completed and 2minutes left!

So, yet again another event that is completely ruined by overflows/mega-sigh-servers. We had these problems with the Lion’s Arch event, where many many groups were unable to kill the Knights and participate in the event because of bad overflows and lack of co-ordination.

The exact same thing is happening with this event in both Pavillion and Bazaar. Even if you waypoint at the bazaar from top to bottom you run the risk of being thrown into another Mega-sigh-server.

It is impossible to participate in events unless you log on at 4am in the “main” event zone and camp it until people come on then waste your entire day farming it properly. Is that the kind of people this game is now aimed at? Hardcore hoboes?

Why is this game not playable by the “casual” community of players who just want to be able to log on and do the events that everyone else is doing? I log on and it’s just one bad overflow after another since release.

Rentapest.6503:

The exact same thing is happening with this event in both Pavillion and Bazaar. Even if you waypoint at the bazaar from top to bottom you run the risk of being thrown into another Mega-sigh-server.

I have never heard of this happening, or have had it happen to myself, even with a full map with people constantly trying to get in (organised triwurm in this case). Have you got any evidence of this actually happening?

I agree that having to wait the 5-or-so minutes can get dull if you just sit around, but in the end it’s your fault for leaving.

Rentapest.6503:

Flying Dolyak race – Completed. It’s looking like a nice gold reward is due as 50ppl completed already with 6minutes to go! Awesome!

But rather than sit around for 6mins, I could get some more tokens playing Aspect Arena right? Wrong!!! Joined Aspect Arena only to be on a losing team, get no rewards and come out in a totally different mega-sigh-server to a race that has 5 ppl completed and 2minutes left!

So, yet again another event that is completely ruined by overflows/mega-sigh-servers. We had these problems with the Lion’s Arch event, where many many groups were unable to kill the Knights and participate in the event because of bad overflows and lack of co-ordination.

The exact same thing is happening with this event in both Pavillion and Bazaar. Even if you waypoint at the bazaar from top to bottom you run the risk of being thrown into another Mega-sigh-server.

It is impossible to participate in events unless you log on at 4am in the “main” event zone and camp it until people come on then waste your entire day farming it properly. Is that the kind of people this game is now aimed at? Hardcore hoboes?

Why is this game not playable by the “casual” community of players who just want to be able to log on and do the events that everyone else is doing? I log on and it’s just one bad overflow after another since release.

PEBKAC

To be fair this isn’t really something that is new with the MegaServer.
The exact same thing would have happened last time, due to overflows.

CaveSalamander.9150:

I have never heard of this happening, or have had it happen to myself, even with a full map with people constantly trying to get in (organised triwurm in this case). Have you got any evidence of this actually happening?

I agree that having to wait the 5-or-so minutes can get dull if you just sit around, but in the end it’s your fault for leaving.

I thought I’d waste time on this event again so trying to get into a “decent” Pavilion that can actually manage ‘gold’ on the bosses. As you can see there are NO commanders in the useless overflow that I am in and you’d be lucky to get bronze after 30mins of fail.

I have a guildy who is in another pavilion who is saying they’re farming ‘gold’ over and over, which is where I should be. So I grouped with him so I could join him, but no forget it.

So after 15mins of right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join .. I’m here now to complain yet again about how terrible this system is and how it does not work!

Why is there no queue system? Why are guilds and friends forced to NOT play together because of inadequate server capacities?

Well, I give up now, I’m off to do something better with my time like watch a movie. This game is rediculous now and completely ruined by these new multi dimentional servers.

You left the map, thus you don’t get rewards. Next time, don’t leave.

Rentapest.6503:

Joined Aspect Arena and come out in a totally different server !

This is your problem here.

it has nothing to do with megaserver btw, you’d have come out to an overflow in the old system.
What you should do in this case is PARTY up with someone staying in the labyrinth. (I do this for dc’s. alot).
This way when you come back out you can (hopefully) join back into the correct map, the one you participated in, in time for the reward.

Otherwise, if you’re bored waiting around, use speed buffs on the doylaks who havent made it to the end yet.
Play some costume brawl, the tp..whatever.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

You left the map, thus you don’t get rewards. Next time, don’t leave.

This right here.

ANYBODY who has played this game through PvE knows that if you leave the map, you forfeit any and all rewards an event would give. Stop acting like this is some travesty when anybody could have told you it was going to happen. As for the overflow, same thing happened last year, this is nothing new.

RyuDragnier.9476:

if you leave the map, you forfeit any and all rewards an event would give.

It’s worth noting that if by some crazy luck you were placed in the same server you left, you still won’t get the event rewards.

The rule is, roughly, when you leave a map, the map forgets about you.

Artanis.4963:

It’s worth noting that if by some crazy luck you were placed in the same server you left, you still won’t get the event rewards.

The rule is, roughly, when you leave a map, the map forgets about you.

Which makes sense.
You aren’t there for the duration of the event, and as such shouldn’t get rewards for it.

Rentapest.6503:

The exact same thing is happening with this event in both Pavillion and Bazaar. Even if you waypoint at the bazaar from top to bottom you run the risk of being thrown into another Mega-sigh-server.

Waypoints do not take you out of the map you’re in. If they do, you should file a bug report.

Rentapest.6503:

Joined Aspect Arena only to be on a losing team, get no rewards and come out in a totally different mega-sigh-server to a race that has 5 ppl completed and 2minutes left!

So, yet again another event that is completely ruined by overflows/mega-sigh-servers.

Yes. But this is nothing new with overflows. As soon a you go into an instance, do a mini-game, etc… you are leaving the map you were in (and risk no to come back to the same map-version). And after you come back to “this” map it is not the same map, if the system places you on a different overflow/megaserver.

I think the system should place you on the same map-version you have left, but it is not how the system works.

Greetings.

lordkrall.7241:

To be fair this isn’t really something that is new with the MegaServer.
The exact same thing would have happened last time, due to overflows.

This….decrying it as a MEGASERVER error is not accurate. You would not have been able to properly identify or return to the same instance before the patch. The real issue here is that you need to remain in the zone until the rewards are give to ensure you get them.

Again, the same issue was very likely to happen pre-patch.

To be fair, the chances of being put into an overflow before megaservers was less, because you were only sharing the map with people from YOUR server, whereas now there are many more copies of a map at any given time.

Actually back when the Bazaar and the Gauntlet was first released I was more often than not put in overflows in those maps. And that was back when I was on a smaller server than now.

lordkrall.7241:

Actually back when the Bazaar and the Gauntlet was first released I was more often than not put in overflows in those maps. And that was back when I was on a smaller server than now.

I would expect as much (especially considering it was brand new content back then). But at the end of the day your chances of being put in an overflow were still less than they were now, considering you were sharing the map with people from your server instead of people from a number of servers.

So second day of trying to do the boring events in Pavilion …. tagged up, and fail gold, try again, fail gold, try again, fail gold and everyone left so we barely had enough dps to spend the next 30mins nuking down upscalled bosses.

Then a friend invites me and expects me to sit there for 30mins right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, right-click+join, just to get into a decent pavilion where things are being killed.

I tried for 5mins again, got a sore arm and annoyed and quit.

Yet again, this is what events are now about … bad overflows that cannot even organise enough people to do the events!

Yet again, why is there no queue system? Why are these events only aimed at hardcore players that are willing to stay logged on ALL night just to be in the non-coverlfow?

>implying overflows cannot do things as well as the main instance

Really man, everytime I’m in there, it’s an overflow, and almost every time we gold the pavilion or just barely miss it. Just because you have horrible luck does not make the system a failure. The same thing happened back during the Battle for Lion’s Arch.