Guild Wars 2

I really am getting sick of the really low fps in LA in comparison to the other cities. As far as I see it the fps-drop in LA is only a symptom for the Problem that everybody is standing around in LA. If you leave for another city the fps rocket 20 or more frames up. Making it much more enjoyable. And those cities are all empty. That’s so depressing considering the tremendous amount of work put into those cities making them awesome. And everybody is put into LA if they want or not. If you log out in WvW you are put in LA. If you leave the Heart of the Mist you find yourself in LA. Fractals is only accessible through LA. A big part of the Activities is in LA. The Gatehub to get to the other cities is in LA too. The mystic forge is in LA as well.

I would move the Gatehub into a small instance in the mist. And let the people who leave the Heart of the Mist and WvW drop out there to. With that method I feel the player count in LA would be a bit lower and in all other cities a bit higher. Of course that would mean to accept two loading-screens. But considering that the loading-screen for LA takes almost double the time every other city-loading-screen takes that is acceptable.

What do you think about this?

Divinity’s Reach is so beautiful. Why do people subjugate themselves to living with pirates?

Because I don’t care about graphic scenery ._.

Honestly (and I’m probably going to get yelled at for this), I find it to be lazy design.

They throw everything into one city, and host all the events in one city, just so they don’t have to work on the other cities.

In GW1, every city had an event going on. All cities were decorated for festivals (as well as all cities had quests for the festivals) and you could go to any city to get things done. Every city was the same basically, just visually different for taste.

But here in GW2, they only stick to LA. They don’t decorate the other cities or put extra festival quests in them. You can’t even use the Mystic Forge in other cities either (unless you have a portable one). They throw everything in LA, and completely forget everything else.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many in Rata Sum as there were during the SAB event. Even during early access it was pretty empty. My engineer was glaring at all the intruders the whole time for that event!

I wouldn’t go to lions arch for a lot of reasons mentioned above you’re pretty much forced there. They did say they wanted to get players back to the other towns but let’s wait and see how many years it takes them to do that

Lions Arche the new Spama…erm…Kamadan. {;þ

Adding a global chat for all major cultural cities, and allowing access to certain dungeon instances such as Fractals would be a good start.

Zidane.9824:

Adding a global chat for all major cultural cities, and allowing access to certain dungeon instances such as Fractals would be a good start.

Mystic Forge and Gate Hub Plaza’s (with access to WvW) wouldn’t hurt.

Zidane.9824:

Adding a global chat for all major cultural cities, and allowing access to certain dungeon instances such as Fractals would be a good start.

I never understand people’s obsession with global chat. Why must people subject everyone to their chatter? I’ve seen people standing right next to each other and having a conversation in zone/global chat.

I love playing games where global chat doesn’t exist or is heavily controlled. What ever purpose global chat is supposed to serve it never does. It only serves as a place to spam WTB/WTS and subject everyone to the most inane and often offensive conversations.

I agree that Lion’s Arch has been made a little too important. Then again the lore explains why it’s so busy and important.

The thing with the global chat is: I for myself feel kind of .. alone? .. in the other cities cause noone is writing in the chat and after a while it really gets boring. An other thing is to be able to ask quests in the chat. In an empty city you wouldn’t get an answer :/