Guild Wars 2

I would like some kind of notice for events before they start, like something on the map saying “something’s going to happen here in 1:45”. I think this would help with events feeling so lonely. If all nearby players know where one is going to start soon, they can gather and form a party beforehand.

I feel like for most events, it’s too hard to get a significant number of players together to do them, because they’re so unpredictable. I personally find events to be one of the funner parts of this game, and would gladly wait a minute or two to start an event if I knew other players could come and get ready with me.

They wouldn’t really be very dynamic if it was known within the game world that they were going to happen xD
There are normally clues that something is going to happen though……..maybe a soldier saying they feel uneasy, that type of thing.
Pre-empting DEs would make the world feel less alive. Hope they don’t implement this.

What makes the world feel less alive to me is when I try to do an event and have to give up because no one else is around to help. I also enjoy playing events all the way through, instead of having to find ones that are already in progress.

The NPC’s that tell you about events are nice, but only a few events have them, and they usually only tell you about ones in progress.

Don’t the huge orange circles already appear on the map? I agree, not having enough bodies is a problem, but it’s not like we can force people to show up.

I think it’s also a map thing… for example, the noob maps don’t seem to have much trouble finding people for events, and if you say something on map chat there’ll usually be a bunch of replies. On the other hand, the levels 40, 50, 60 maps tend to be quiet most of the time. Heck, last night I ran around one for like a solid hour and didn’t run into anyone else at all. That was pretty unnerving, since when I stepped into Lion’s Arch it was full as usual, even got kicked into overflow. Some maps just aren’t popular.