Guild Wars 2

The fact that only one person has to contribute the entire amount of currency to start a building upgrade causes the following problems:
- Usually there are only a couple of people that invest in these upgrades and they started to get tired of being the only ones that do this and it’s not easy to farm for gold.
- The other people on the server get used to having the upgrades and they just wait for others to start the upgrades.
- Sometimes the commanders start the first upgrades because they usually are in the field killing invaders and farming gold/karma with the rest of the zerg.

What I’m suggesting to be done is having some sort of donation system to the building upgrades. Each camp/tower/keep will have an account and everyone can donate any amount of currency to it. When you start an upgrade it will first get the currency from the account and then from your pockets.

This way anyone can contribute with 1 silver and when 10 people donate, at least we can start the reinforced walls without someone having to spend the entire 10 silver.

When these buildings are captured, the account currency will not be lost and will be available when you retake the building. This way people don’t invest 1gold in a keep and then loose all the money when the keep was taken before the money got spent.

Do you think this system will encourage people to upgrade more knowing that you don’t have to spend 1.5 gold for that waypoint, but you can contribute with 5 silver?

This system will also make the player feel like he’s contributing to the server when he donates 1 silver. It’s pretty much in line with low level players repairing a gate with supplies, manning an arrow cart, scouting. It makes everyone feel good about themselves contributing to the welfare of the server.

If it’s implemented well, I like the idea.

You don’t need a programed donation system.
When i’m going to upgrade something i write into the map-channel, that i’m collecting for an upgrade and minutes later the letters with a few coins arrive…
Sometimes i have to write more than once and have to motivate people to give money, but usually it’s no big matter.

Throrgrim.7098:

You don’t need a programed donation system.
When i’m going to upgrade something i write into the map-channel, that i’m collecting for an upgrade and minutes later the letters with a few coins arrive…
Sometimes i have to write more than once and have to motivate people to give money, but usually it’s no big matter.

I’ve seen this happen and it was abused, they later switched server. Although I’m not saying you’d ever do this, think about it, will someone do it? … … … exactly.

Throrgrim.7098:

You don’t need a programed donation system.
When i’m going to upgrade something i write into the map-channel, that i’m collecting for an upgrade and minutes later the letters with a few coins arrive…
Sometimes i have to write more than once and have to motivate people to give money, but usually it’s no big matter.

Seen this a few times on SBI.
If you could pay gold to order upgrades bit by bit, what would happen if your server loses the tower/ keep before all the money is there for the upgrade?

Throrgrim.7098:

You don’t need a programed donation system.
When i’m going to upgrade something i write into the map-channel, that i’m collecting for an upgrade and minutes later the letters with a few coins arrive…
Sometimes i have to write more than once and have to motivate people to give money, but usually it’s no big matter.

So you’re doing it the manual way. There’s no such thing on our server and our guild is kinda` frustrated for investing 20g each day. One day we haven’t invested one copper and most of the keeps and towers were not upgraded in our homeland.

So if you’re doing it this way, wouldn’t an automatic system work better?

Nashaan.3160:

Throrgrim.7098:

You don’t need a programed donation system.
When i’m going to upgrade something i write into the map-channel, that i’m collecting for an upgrade and minutes later the letters with a few coins arrive…
Sometimes i have to write more than once and have to motivate people to give money, but usually it’s no big matter.

Seen this a few times on SBI.
If you could pay gold to order upgrades bit by bit, what would happen if your server loses the tower/ keep before all the money is there for the upgrade?

I already stated in my original post that the money from the account is not lost when the building is taken. It will be available next time you take that tower/keep/camp. Also this donation system is per each building, it’s not a global pool.

Cloud.7613:

I’ve seen this happen and it was abused, they later switched server. Although I’m not saying you’d ever do this, think about it, will someone do it? … … … exactly.

Ok. It’s possible to abuse that way of collecting money. It’s a matter of trust. I usually send back the money if i allready collected enough. That way you build a reputation. And i tell everybody that the upgrade is bought and on the way… Everybody can go to the Tower/Camp/Castle to have a look.

Catalin.5341:

So you’re doing it the manual way. There’s no such thing on our server and our guild is kinda` frustrated for investing 20g each day. One day we haven’t invested one copper and most of the keeps and towers were not upgraded in our homeland.

So if you’re doing it this way, wouldn’t an automatic system work better?

I’m not the only one on our server. There are quit a lot of people collecting money, as well as different guilds who take care of on special building. If guilds talk to each other it’s possible.
I’m not against your idea. It would be a very convenient thing. BUT i think there are more important things at the moment…