Guild Wars 2

Often when you go to an event, somebody kindly drops a guild banner (thank you to those kind souls) or a feast of food, but neither of these appear on the map (afaik), yet boxes of fun do. I’d like to suggest that food/banners should appear as icons on the map. For the sake of performance and what not, you could have them appear only when you’re sufficiently close – e.g. at SB, you’d only see them if you were in the swamp, and not at the other end of the map.

Solid request. Sounds legit. Bonus points if the banners and othe guild consumables actually used the guild’s emblem.

Sounds like a good idea

Incidentally, does the guild that places the banner get anything from people (of other guilds) using it? If not, maybe they should get a little bit of compensation (guild commendation?) for each player (not of that guild – to avoid exploitation) that uses their banner (once per person per banner). It would encourage generosity and help smaller guilds for whom crafting banners might be prohibitive cost-wise. Then again.. I can see ways of exploiting this by having two large guilds cooperate to click each other’s banners. The reward would have to be something that makes this not worthwhile. A tricky subject. Well, it was just a thought.

What a great idea.

I dropped a tray of food in readiness for Maw the other day and the only way I could pin point it was to jump up and down like an idiot (I don’t have a tag).

Seems nice, would make it easier to spot it.

I’d buy this for a dollar. It’s a nice idea, I like it.

I like this idea a lot, it would be a GREAT community-based addon, even more so if it was an on-off option in your options menu, and even better a name of the person who dropped it. This coming from someone who has had at 1 point 250 hero banners and got a few thank you’s along the way
+1 this if you agree even if you got nothing else to add to it, lets make this possible!

I agree with this idea.

+1 Great idea. I agree with this.

+1 hands down, would be amazing!

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Incidentally, does the guild that places the banner get anything from people (of other guilds) using it? If not, maybe they should get a little bit of compensation (guild commendation?) for each player (not of that guild – to avoid exploitation) that uses their banner (once per person per banner). It would encourage generosity and help smaller guilds for whom crafting banners might be prohibitive cost-wise. Then again.. I can see ways of exploiting this by having two large guilds cooperate to click each other’s banners. The reward would have to be something that makes this not worthwhile. A tricky subject. Well, it was just a thought.

I think Resonance would be the perfect reward for people using your banners. Commendations are inappropriate as they are personal rewards, and favor and guild ore would also be appropriate as they are tied to very specific things (the mine and guild missions specifically)

Considering that it takes hundreds or thousands of resonance to insta-complete most things, granting guilds like 1-5 resonance would be a nice but not essential way to reward generosity, by making it faster for you to greate more banners or decorations. Resonance also has maultiple input methods, you can get it from playing with guildies, or they can donate gold to the trader to generate some for you in amounts of 100.

Thus, resonance doesn’t actively conflict with or alter the overall economic picture of the guild in question as all it does is decrease build times on consumables, so it would be a perfect “thanks” for people using your banners.