Guild Wars 2

Stefan Larimore.6872:

Hi Lolage,

Yes, I expect ultimately we would allow guild leaders to obtain guild representation and other basic guild activity of their members.

Regarding the ‘Eve’ approach to API keys: we instead are going with the OAuth2 approach, in which it is up to the 3rd party app to request required information permissions and the user may allow or deny these permissions en masse.

Every time I hear an update about how this is still in progress I get more and more excited. Even if it takes a while longer to exist pass my thanks along for all the hard work to your team. What you’re working on is EXACTLY what I want.

Being able to see the last time guild members logged in on the API (or in Game) would really be helpful for guild maintenance. As players leave the game, there is no user-friendly way of being able to see what members in a guild are inactive.

YtseJam.9784:

Being able to see the last time guild members logged in on the API (or in Game) would really be helpful for guild maintenance. As players leave the game, there is no user-friendly way of being able to see what members in a guild are inactive.

+1 and the ability to see the last time a member rep’d the guild would be nice as well.

Drakma.1549:

YtseJam.9784:

Being able to see the last time guild members logged in on the API (or in Game) would really be helpful for guild maintenance. As players leave the game, there is no user-friendly way of being able to see what members in a guild are inactive.

+1 and the ability to see the last time a member rep’d the guild would be nice as well.

Can’t add enough +1

I can’t wait for a good guild API. It would make it a lot easier to gain information. Especially when we can see who is representing, because that’s the one thing I want which is not easily obtainable.

A tip for other desperate guild leaders (:P) you can check for activity on the achievement points leaderboards. It shows you the AP of every member. If it changes, that person must have been online. It’s not perfect, because someone could play without getting any AP at all, but that’s a rather rare case.

Based on that I create reports for our members to see, like who got the most AP in the last 30 days, how often were people online, how many people were last online today/this week/this month, etc.

If a dev reads this: is it possible to store data like that ingame for guild leaders to see? Or is the API solution the end goal and managing guilds is supposed to be done with external tools?

Tellsarius.4651:

I can’t wait for a good guild API. It would make it a lot easier to gain information. Especially when we can see who is representing, because that’s the one thing I want which is not easily obtainable.

A tip for other desperate guild leaders (:P) you can check for activity on the achievement points leaderboards. It shows you the AP of every member. If it changes, that person must have been online. It’s not perfect, because someone could play without getting any AP at all, but that’s a rather rare case.

Based on that I create reports for our members to see, like who got the most AP in the last 30 days, how often were people online, how many people were last online today/this week/this month, etc.

If a dev reads this: is it possible to store data like that ingame for guild leaders to see? Or is the API solution the end goal and managing guilds is supposed to be done with external tools?

I have (had) a script to parse that information from the leaderboards, but the way authentication works on the web site seems to have changed because it no longer logs in correctly. I haven’t quite figured out how to adjust my script to get it working again yet.

But … authentication changes on the web site … could mean OAuth2 coming soon? Maybe?

GuildMessage would be awesome too!

By accessing GuildMessage via API the members of the guild could stay tuned on the future plans and dates of guild events!

If applications could periodically check for GuildMessage updates, mobile applications could even inform users via push notifications if something new happened.

Of course this would need something like OAuth2 authentication so that only guild members can view the messages of their own guilds. Otherwise some confidential information might get compromised.