Guild Wars 2

I suggest to fix that.

If you say something a couple times you are locked out of chat for an equally ridiculous amount of time.

So if your dungeon group is looking for members over a decent period of time, it starts to become a round robin in your group of who’s going to get banned from chat next. Doing call outs in WvW, same thing. Say “Bluelake clear!” when your side asks for a status every now and then and you get suppressed. So when an attack threatens the tower you can no longer warn your side. Or if you’re holding down Ctrl to get names to appear and you get into a tight spot where you hammer on Shadow Refuge, which does not work when holding Ctrl but instead displays the power in chat, this can also get your messages suppressed.

Maybe it’s only for the exact same message? So “Bluelake clear 1”, “Bluelake clear 2” and so on may get around it. Haven’t tried that yet. Though if that’s the case the spammers will just as easily bypass this annoying system.

It seems like it has been added to stop spam. That’s cool but it’s way too strict right now. Ease up on the reigns.

Yes, it is only if you post the exact same or very similar posts.
It is quite possible to get around it by changing it a bit.

lordkrall.7241:

Yes, it is only if you post the exact same or very similar posts.
It is quite possible to get around it by changing it a bit.

The system is kind of sketchy on when a message is considered too similar. For example, I may want to let my team know how far a castle wall’s health is down. So I might update them occasionally with “wall 80%”, “wall at 50%”, “wall down to 25%”, and then get blocked.

That is because the system poorly takes into account what the delay is in between the messages. If you send a message only once every minute, and the messages are not identical, you shouldn’t be suppressed. Because such repeated updates are very common in WvW. This problem unnecessarily forces everyone to use outside programs, such as Teamspeak or Mumble. And while those programs are very useful for WvW, you shouldn’t be forced to use them because the game is broken.