Guild Wars 2

My biggest beef with the Commander system is not that it can be earned in gold, but the fact that as many people get the icon, there’s no way of telling who is more experienced than the other, who is trusted by the server.

Here’s my suggestion to the icon. And for the display icon itself only, I want a revamp of the mechanic to more of a warband just like everyone else

How possible it is, to implement the following:

1. For everyone with a commander icon, the icon starts blue/costs 100g or w/e Anet decide to change it to.

2. For every certain number of PVP kill, the icon turns slowly RED. (Red color creeps in from the right side of the icon) Therefore people who likes to play offensively can follow a commander that matches their playstyle.

3. For every fort upgrade, repair, ding on defense events, the icon turns slowly GREEN. (Green color creeps in from the left side of the icon) Therefore people who like to play defensively can follow a commander that matches their playstyle.

I’d like to see the red and green as more of a “progress bar” as well. A commander that’s mostly blue is likely to be a new commander, while a commander that’s half red half green or all red/green has been playing wvw for a while.

4. The brightness of the icon increases with a kind of vote/+1 system. Where the player can right click on the commander icon and “like” a commander. There can be a glow effect that grows to reflect how much the commander is respected by the server. Say you need a minimum of 1000 "like"s to have the faintest glow and 10000 votes or something to get the brightest glow around your icon.

What does everyone else think? I don’t know if it’s even do-able, but it’s something I’d like to see to improve upon the current system.

Some solid suggestions here.

I actually like this idea a great deal!

The novelty of being able to find and connect with a commander who is interested in a specific play-style could be very beneficial.

Alternatively, there can be a special interface option for commander’s that will allow them to pick which front they will be taking. (Perhaps a drop down list that says: Offensive, Defensive, etc). Players would then have an option to filter based on what kind of commander they are looking for. I don’t doubt that the number of commander’s is going to grow and grow.

Air.6452:

I don’t doubt that the number of commander’s is going to grow and grow.

There’s a new bunch of commanders that popped up on my server, at one point there was 4 on a single map. I think it confuses the new players greatly because they have no idea who is who.

At minimum I think there should be a “favorites” system so players could put a mark on the commander they like, so on their own mini map, the commander they favorited has a different color than everyone else.

My problem with a drop-down for the commander is that, the icon itself doesnt not represent the experience of the commander. I’d like to see the red and green as more of a “progress bar” as well. A commander that’s mostly blue is likely to be a new commander, while a commander that’s half red half green or all red/green has been playing wvw for a while.

I’d just like a way to hide them. When I’m running around LA looking for something, the blue shapes cover everything else.