Guild Wars 2

I have a theory. Take the fireflies out of WvW (you know, those flying, glowing bugs.)

Removing the Fireflies may help people load actual player characters quicker.

For some reason the Fireflies render from very far away. I can see a Firefly on the horizon, but not enemy players or other monsters.

I base this theory on my experience in another mmo called SWTOR. We had a “wvw style” map called “Illum” at first there were lot’s of decoration on the map, laser beams and space craft flying around. Illum was very laggy, after the developers of SWTOR removed the laser beams and other decorations from Illum the lag decreased significantly.

Give it a shot Anet! No one will miss those fireflies at all. Please consider this.

If you read this and feel like you could benefit from increased load time on enemy players, post your support here in this thread!

sing huzzah for the removal of the firefly!

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me.

But in all seriousness, I think that reducing the amount of mobs outside of events would be nice especially fireflies.

Agreed, remove those pesky bugs. They are very distracting and are just more CPU to process when there’s plenty to load already!