Guild Wars 2

Yes, it is going to be a problem.
Right now there is not many people with the Commander thing yet (keyword: yet), but as the game grows older more and more people will get it for their characters as a way to stand out from the crowd, bragging reasons, etc.
As the number of Commanders grows, our radar with minuscule icons gets overcrowded by the huge Commander icons around the borders.
I’ve already seen it happen by being on a map with 3 Commanders, it just clutters the mini-map.
Do we really need Commander icons show up in PvE, when they were primarely meant to be used for WvWvW?

I doubt it will be a problem anytime soon, but I agree – have the icon only come up in WvW maps.

You’re right it should be disabled outside of pvp.

B..but what about all those commanders that stay all the day in Lion’s arch and never go to WvW?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Commander is pve is actually useful.. Setting waypoints and orders… Using squad chat and commands for the invasions.. It basically is a classic RAID, now if we only had a UI for squads… It would be the pve equiv of raids.

dimentox.6019:

Commander is pve is actually useful.. Setting waypoints and orders… Using squad chat and commands for the invasions.. It basically is a classic RAID, now if we only had a UI for squads… It would be the pve equiv of raids.

I’ve never seen that actually happen, either because: The people with Commander title don’t care for taking up the job for actually being a Commander, or there being no need for a Commander in PvE whatsoever.
Any person can link waypoints or inform people about an event that’s going on.

sooo… we can’t turn this feature off in the map option??

Feels like they must have thought of this and will change it when there’s enough commanders. We can just wait and see.

I think commander is one of the dumbest things i have seen in a MMO in a long time.

You “pay money” to have a blue arrow on your head?

Really?

I was under the impression the commander status only lasts for 30 days, if so, shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

I’d love to have a controllable legend for the minimap. The obnoxious commander icons are only part of it.

Commander really should have been an earned role, not a bought role.

I’ll be okay with it I think, if it can be turned off.

Should be turned off outside of P vs P…… I see no reason that it’s even needed in P vs E. The icons are very annoying on the maps to start with. Grant the title stop the annoying blue symbol we all have to see.

What about refunding the gold to the people that bought the title and sell it for 1000 badges of honor or something like that?

At least someone that got 1000 badges should have an idea on how WvW works.

Yea, they are annoying in PvE, and I do my best and try to ignore them. I play with player names turned off by default, and would that feature to include commander icons, and I simply don’t care who has them and who doesn’t, even in WvW.
As gold becomes more readily available, the amount of players just wanting to get a commander icon to show off steadily increases. I know that only 5 or 10 commanders with the largest following get shown, but that doesn’t mean those commanders are worth their icon, really. Ideally, I would like to have an option to turn them off on the world map legend, but if that’s not possible, coupling it with showing allied names would also work for me personally.

They all stand in Lion’s Arch all day.

Commander should be rewarded to those who have put a serious time investment into WvW pvp and demonstrated some semblance of skill there (maybe number of tokens collected or walls successfully sieged or something).

It should be an icon of someone that actually knows what they’re doing, not someone that decided to spend a bunch of gold.

Masher.8051:

They all stand in Lion’s Arch all day.

they are probably playing on trade post to gain their 100g back

Commanders are just rally points for others. 90% of them possess zero leadership skill, even though they might think they are entitled to lead because they were able to spent 100g on a fluff (in their case) tag.

I know only one commander on my server who deserves his tag, the rest should (rightfully) be ignored.

Commanders are a problem all in general, because they got their tag because of having too much money (My personal guess is that 90% of the commanders didn’t earn their money “legit”.) Very few people are able to come up with extra 100g on their own they earned without exploiting or buying gold (the illegal way, 100g is a hell of a lot if you buy via gems.)

If I were Anet, I would take a look at the commanders, and carefully examine their wallet history. A few bans would most likely happen if they did it properly.

It would indeed be nice if Commander status could only be obtained through WvWvW badges, rather than spending 100G. Or maybe the gold+the badges.
But still it should be turned off in PvE, because it’s just unnecessary.

How about an option to fit both, those who needs and those who don’t.

Option: Only Display Commanders in your guild or friend list on map in PvE.

Yeah, that would work.

first time i saw a commander was on queensdale. i actually ported all the way to him to find out WTF was going on.

it should be disabled on PvE, yes. it’s completely pointless and only clutters the minimap.

The “commander” thing is stupid. Considering the abuse of this, a “commander” is the LAST person I would ever follow in WvW.

Some people with the title are effective leaders; some are not. Some people forget to turn it off when they are in LA; some do not. Some are effective in organizing against the enemy in large events; many are not.

The issue isn’t that there are lots of commanders, it’s that the icon can be a distraction too often. There are a number of alternative solutions:

1. Allow all players to toggle off Command icons from the mini and world maps.
2. Have the icon off by default and require the commander to toggle it on each time they enter a new map.
3. Never show the icon on the map for non-squad members. Instead, create a new tab under the Friends List (default: [Y]) called Commander, which will show those in the current zone and allow people to join that way.

Any of the above allows people to avoid seeing the icon as often as they do now and yet still allows non-commanders to join squads and see positions when needed.

i like the idea of making commander cost badges of honor like previously mentioned maybe change it to 100g and 1k badges of honor to get so we dont have these ppl eventually getting commander icons who dont even know what to do in Wvw. theres only so much you can spend gold on in the game atm so i see it definatly becoming a factor over time. (all the cool kids are doing it)

It was one of the worse, greedy design choices that wasn’t thought through at all. Like “oh how can we eliminate REALLY much money from the pool?”.