Guild Wars 2

As a player I want to play with my friends who is playing on different servers. This is something you can do in this game because of the overflow servers, so why not add a command that transfers you to one, and my friends can right click my image in the party window to join the overflow server where I am located.

They are going to add guesting, which will allow this. However, the ability to willingly join an overflow server is a good idea. It could be used to work-around bugged skill points, or even look for people if your area is not really populated at the time.

The only problem I could see with this, is a possible resource exploit. Get that rich iron mine, pop into overflow, and get the one there as well. If they could block those possible exploits, it would actually be a good feature.

A small and necessary bump, because this is actually a suggestion that I know more people than me want implemented.

No one else want this added..? :\

I do, this is almost necessary to fix alot of the current problems.

BUMP! I felt this suggestion needed a bump, because it really is a good suggestion and I think this is a feature that could easily be added in a patch since overflow servers are already present. Also, guesting is a feature coming “someday”, but that could be a temporary “fix” until we actually get the guesting feature.

the guesting feature should have been a main critical add on that should have been here since the beginning of the game. I have even wrote in a ticket asking when it will be available. The is not even a eta…by the time they implement it the people I wana play with probably beaten the game and moved on to another. so this be a good work around for a Guesting now feature till they can get a permanent one..

+1
Since beta I have wondered why they didn’t implement a similar system to GW1 where you could hop to different districts. It would make getting the group together much simpler if you could just type ‘meet in channel xx’

Although this is, on the surface, a really good idea, it’s also a very bad one:

I just finish farming my ori nodes joins overflow oh look more ori nodes…

That and everything else that’s supposed to be a 1 time a day thing. Doing this could cause massive inflation and destabilize the economy even further than what the bots have done

Karaad.7930:

Although this is, on the surface, a really good idea, it’s also a very bad one:

I just finish farming my ori nodes joins overflow oh look more ori nodes…

That and everything else that’s supposed to be a 1 time a day thing. Doing this could cause massive inflation and destabilize the economy even further than what the bots have done

That is true in the case of adventure zones, but in places like LA where the playerbase is fractured between home and overflow servers but all looking for FotM it would be a nice implementation, then you would see fewer players asking for a taxi to overflow on gw2lfg.com

I would like to see this too. Sometimes i have a group together from different servers for a dungeon and nobody can provide an OVERFLOW server. What to do now? It’s a very important issue these days! :/
(Especially for fractals!)

Karaad.7930:

Although this is, on the surface, a really good idea, it’s also a very bad one:

I just finish farming my ori nodes joins overflow oh look more ori nodes…

That and everything else that’s supposed to be a 1 time a day thing. Doing this could cause massive inflation and destabilize the economy even further than what the bots have done

This is true that can be a way to “abuse” the system, causing problems, but there is an easy fix for that, restrictions on players MANUALLY joining overflows. Anyway, what you are saying is already true, since people get in an overflow at first, finish farming and then join their server map, farming again. So, the problem is already here, adding this option wouldn’t change a lot in that manner(Maybe a little bit easier, but still) and if they really don’t want people to do that, they already need to fix it.

I think this would be an awesome feature for finding groups.

what good is a economy were you can’t play with your friends mining ect is all useless compared to you having friends on multiple servers. Especially when they are on more then one server were changing servers can now only done once per week. how exactly can that be compared to game economics’s when you can’t play with your friends it makes it all useless. at least to me it does. As I already wana play with a few friends but can’t just see them on and be like sooo close yet soo farr awayyy. I dought anyone can come up with a argument that can counter just that statement alone while the underling issue is the guesting system a.net seems to can’t even come up with a eta for completion. Guild Wars 2 is a great game but without your friends to play it it kinda goes from a mmorpg to a single player game kinda. My friends in my case started playing guild wars on there own I did not know that had it while playing they have commitments and friends they made there and I ended up making some friends that helped me out of tight spots myself. So I can’t server hop unless I wana pay real money after the first week transfer is up. And thus in the issue about overflow servers back to the point after explaining economics vs friends as of yet the overflow idea is is the only solution short of a.net actually getting guesting to work I have seen so far. and not to mention I have my own small guild on my server upgrades are server bound and as small as my group is to get back what I have on another server would be a kick in the face to my friends I have in it. So Bad things all day long.