Guild Wars 2

For an additional cost, would appreciate an optional ability added to toggle the colors on Commander Tags to denote whether they are a Guild Commander, PvE Commander or WvW Commander. This change would enable Guild Commanders to concurrently run ops in WvW without pulling the main focus from the the maps WvW Commanders.

I think they need to drastically overhaul the commander Icons. I’m sick and tired of going into PvE and seeing a bunch of blue chevrons on the map from random people I don’t know. I would like at bare minimum the ability to turn them all off with a simple checkbox on my minimap. I don’t take orders from these people; why should their icons be cluttering up my interface?

Suggestion:
Add a “Commander Display” option to the game, possibly rolled into the Looking-For-Group tools coming up. It would be fairly simple. A checklist with various categories you could turn on or off under two tabs: PvE and WvW.

Under each tab, you would choose which commanders’ icons show up on your map.
All: Yes/No
Guild Commanders (only commanders in your guild will show up): Yes/No
Friends (only commanders on your contacts/friends list will show up): Yes/No
Squad (only the commander of your current squad will show up): Yes/No

If the “All” option is checked, the others are checked automatically, and all other commanders on the map will display. If not, you can toggle each of the subcategories on or off. For example, if I always want to see my Friended commanders and Guild commanders, I could check just those two boxes.

The idea above to change icon colors would roll into this neatly. Your current squad commander’s icon would be one color, commanders in your guild would be another, and commanders on your friends list would be another, while all other commanders would retain the default blue chevron. Hell, if you gave the icons different shapes, too, that would make them stand out even more…but I think color toggles will be plenty.

This would make organization and coordination a lot quicker and easier.

I also think there should be a “Commander” tab in the chat window. It would function the same as Map chat, except the only people who could type in it would be commanders who currently are in a squad. That would help people trying to coordinate a bit, too.

Colours would make it a bit easier. Go red or blue needs help/people.

A few more which I know have been repeated:

No tag in PVE
They can type in map chat with the same color as their tag
Tag is tied to some sort of WvW exp.

Nice idea about the guild commander/wvw commander, but if people simply join the squad of which commander they want to follow, they just see that tag only.

I really like this idea. I’m tired of PuG commanders crying because my guild has enough people to require a commander tag to keep everyone properly organized.

Offair.2563:

Nice idea about the guild commander/wvw commander, but if people simply join the squad of which commander they want to follow, they just see that tag only.

This is a valid argument that many players, including commanders, either fail to remember or don’t know in the first place.