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Posted by: Hjordis.9672

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Edit: this was a report on an incident in the Harathi Hinterlands featuring three champions (Ministerial Guard) which suddenly spawn and attack the character, possibly in connection with the Order of Whispers storyline. As this is now being looked into and I am being insulted for an emotional reaction on said incident I see no reason for letting the posting stand. I note the social standards on this forum and leave it.

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What was the name of the story step?

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Posted by: Hjordis.9672

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Hello Jeffrey – I just checked, I am supposed to do now:

’Doubt. Find the wounded gwawl shaman. (because, obviously, I intended to play the gwawl line next). So what happened must have been triggered by the step I did before – I hope this is the information you want.

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Posted by: GuzziHero.2467

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Holy mother of god.

Someone who will abandon a character because of what is either a game bug or some (admittedly daft) plot action?

How old are you? 12? Did you ever refuse to attend a school because someone stole your marbles? That is the type of infantile whinging that this amounts to.

Grow up.

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Posted by: Guardian Of Malice.1482

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I have to agree that you definitely need to grow up a little, but still I’d like to inform you that this is NOT a part of your story step. I’m not sure what it is, but that exact same thing happened to me about an hour ago, only I survived… it pops up as an event. I was in the middle of the Harathi Hinterlands when it happened to me. I’m not sure what it’s about, but it seems to be new, and completely unexplained… I’d like to figure out what it’s about.

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Was the step “An Apple a Day”? It’s the step before Chapter 5. Since you edited your post, I can’t look up the VO line you remember, but there are no story steps that I can find that involve multiple champions, and a “Minsterial Guard” wouldn’t even have a colored nameplate. (Generally, NPCs with a proper name will have a gold name border, but generic NPCs do not.)

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Posted by: kokocabana.8153

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I think someone else posted about this random event in the dynamic events section

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Defeat-the-Ministry-Guards-event

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If it is indeed the dynamic event, I don’t see why it would make the OP quit the personal story.

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Posted by: Gomoratoad.9867

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Perhaps to avoid triggering more surprises like that one, since they only happen after you’ve done certain parts of the story? I suppose they could be frustrating if you don’t expect them, especially the Harathi one since iirc it’s a veteran with a few adds, although you can just run away from them.

My only issue with these personal dynamic events is that they’ll trigger with other players nearby, possibly spoiling the story for them if they haven’t done those quests yet. Other than that, I think they’re a cool addition to the game.

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Posted by: GuzziHero.2467

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For the sake of completeness, the OP was attacked, possibly as part of his storyline, and quickly killed. His response was to say he is never playing that particular character again, and had to be persuaded by his partner not to delete it immediately!

If ‘emotional reaction’ is to snatch one’s ball and go home at the first sense of unfairness, maybe the OP isn’t mature enough to handle this game/forum.

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Posted by: Hjordis.9672

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For the sake of completeness, the OP responds to this, which will definitely be the last post the OP writes in this forum.

Regarding the incident in question Gomoratoad is right.

What I wish to comment on here is the definition of ‘maturity’ I find here. ‘Maturity’ appears to mean ‘feeling entitled to judge others and their actions by applying personal normative concepts as universal truths, inventing the persons in question, their motives and the facts in the process’. It begins by assuming that everybody who posts in a gaming forum is a ‘he’, which already demonstrates discernible concepts regarding who plays video games and who should play video games, concepts the ‘mature’ speaker is entitled to be the judge of. Along these very lines ‘maturity’ means knowing, defining and enforcing the way players have to deal with their characters, how to relate to them, which decisions are the right ones – clearly not only in the context of a given game but also regarding real life. Accordingly, ‘maturity’ means, for example, knowing what other players experienced (’ at the first sense of unfairness’), in other words, ‘maturity’ means that facts are what the ‘mature’ person believes and makes up, in contrast to, say, asking and enquiring, which are clearly ‘immature’ practices. The remarkable intellectual and philosophical profile of ‘maturity’ is matched by equally sophisticated rhetorics which consists of bullying, derision and repetition of ‘facts’ in order to provoke me-too statements from equally ‘mature’ participants. This is an infallible practice as ‘maturity’ is a widespread phenomenon in gaming communities.

As my concept of maturity is a different one I also, come to the conclusion that I am not ‘mature’ enough to handle this forum where ‘maturity’ apparently is both the accepted method of truth-finding and the guideline of social conduct.

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For the sake of completeness, the OP responds to this, which will definitely be the last post the OP writes in this forum.

Regarding the incident in question Gomoratoad is right.

What I wish to comment on here is the definition of ‘maturity’ I find here. ‘Maturity’ appears to mean ‘feeling entitled to judge others and their actions by applying personal normative concepts as universal truths, inventing the persons in question, their motives and the facts in the process’. It begins by assuming that everybody who posts in a gaming forum is a ‘he’, which already demonstrates discernible concepts regarding who plays video games and who should play video games, concepts the ‘mature’ speaker is entitled to be the judge of. Along these very lines ‘maturity’ means knowing, defining and enforcing the way players have to deal with their characters, how to relate to them, which decisions are the right ones – clearly not only in the context of a given game but also regarding real life. Accordingly, ‘maturity’ means, for example, knowing what other players experienced (’ at the first sense of unfairness’), in other words, ‘maturity’ means that facts are what the ‘mature’ person believes and makes up, in contrast to, say, asking and enquiring, which are clearly ‘immature’ practices. The remarkable intellectual and philosophical profile of ‘maturity’ is matched by equally sophisticated rhetorics which consists of bullying, derision and repetition of ‘facts’ in order to provoke me-too statements from equally ‘mature’ participants. This is an infallible practice as ‘maturity’ is a widespread phenomenon in gaming communities.

As my concept of maturity is a different one I also, come to the conclusion that I am not ‘mature’ enough to handle this forum where ‘maturity’ apparently is both the accepted method of truth-finding and the guideline of social conduct.

Do you have any idea how crazy you sound?

This is the Internet; people judge you based on what you say, and how you say it. There are no other cues, verbal or nonverbal, to use otherwise. So rather than actually address any of the specific accusations of immaturity—like a rational and competent adult—you’re using very vague and technical phrasing in order to make an irrelevant point about the philosophical definition of maturity.

No one is going to try and translate that enormous paragraph of babble; it’s not interesting enough, and it simply looks like you’re trying to make yourself sound intelligent by inflating your language. And since that’s our only ground for judging you as a person, you seem to be ruining your own case.

Also, it is a valid assumption to treat all posters as male in a gaming forum, since gaming is a vastly male-dominated industry. Although I have to say, that little nugget of your post was quite entertaining.

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Posted by: GuzziHero.2467

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Especially as it was clearly posted with the intent of making me look like a sexist. This was probably intended to direct backlash towards myself and inflating his/her ego when people turned on me.

As an asexual, I don’t care at all about gender roles or ‘tags’. As I am an egalitarian, and anarchist, he/she could not be more wrong.