This is kind of a weird one that most people will scratch their heads at, but here goes anyway!
I like content in MMOs, even when there’s not really any incentive to doing it. I just like seeing as much of the game world and the events happening within it as possible.
However, there are some dynamic events that sound really cool that I have yet to see. There’s one in Metrica Province that I’ve spent maybe three hours waiting for to no avail. I want to experience these events!
So I am here to suggest two possible solutions that would satisfy crazy OCD people like me.
1) Add an item that a player can use to trigger events. It’d be up to Anet as to how it works. Maybe it gives the player a list of events in their current explorable area, or maybe just in a radius around them. Maybe it’d only be usable once a day. Maybe they’d be consumables purchased with lots of in-game currency or gems. Certainly there need to be limits, you can’t have everyone triggering events constantly, but I think it’d be a nice option to have.
2) Another option I would enjoy is the ability to teleport directly to an event every once in a while. Again, it would be limited by a cooldown or a non-trivial price in gold or gems. You’d be able to see a list of dynamic events in the zone and ‘bookmark’ one. When it starts up, you can choose to teleport there (perhaps only if they are in the same explorable area).
It goes without saying, but dynamic events don’t need to change in any other way. They will still happen randomly as they do now. All these two options do is give players the means to occasionally induce and/or ‘reserve their place’ at dynamic events of their choosing.
Dynamic events are content, and giving players more power over starting and/or being present at events might give Anet the ability to do more achievements based on dynamic events. Maybe have a dynamic event completion component to map completion. I’m pretty sure there are players who are bored right now that might be able to squeeze a couple dozen more hours out of the game if they were able to achieve 100% completion of every dynamic event in the game.
Thanks for your time!