Guild Wars 2

Can you do something to stop chest farming? It’s exploiting a map and annoying to those of us trying to actually do the map. They cause the difficulty to be bumped up to the point where those trying to do things like defend forts can’t do it because of all the players around that aren’t helping. It’s annoying and aggravating that between map jumpers that only stay on maps near completion and chest farmers it’s near impossible to do silverwastes in the way it was supposed to be done.

It’s exploiting the map and the people and I don’t think chest farming or taxi’ing should be allowed to still work. They need to be changed to discourage this unfriendly and harassing behavior.

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

Just change maps till you find one to your liking?

Chest farming isn’t exploting the map it working as intended and you can’t force everyone play your way! Everyone is free play to as they whish within the the game TOS/EULA/COC.

Yelling at people in the map to stop chest farming makes you no better than them telling you to leave them alone.

BrotherBelial.3094:

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

On my maps there are no chest farmers, but i also never see people doing events.
Only when the map is at 90%+ suddenly they all appear out of nowhere.

Problem are not the chests but the whole shuttle mechanisms.

Beldin.5498:

BrotherBelial.3094:

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

On my maps there are no chest farmers, but i also never see people doing events.
Only when the map is at 90%+ suddenly they all appear out of nowhere.

Problem are not the chests but the whole shuttle mechanisms.

Yesterday was great, people helped out and stayed for 2 to 3+ vine wraths. Then today it went back to normal. Jump to a complete map, do breach and vine and leave.

I would think with people actually wanting to try to get a portal, they’d actually kill things and progress faster. But I guess I’m expecting too much from this community sometimes.

I agree about “remove farm” but because i don’t like farm. Just run around like a bot and press F. I don’t like whole concept of this map.

Normal concept imho:

1) mobs must drop loot (affected by MF)
2) events must give loot (like it is now)
3) remove shovels, removes keys or add them to bonus chests
4) chests randomly appear around, anyone can loot them without shovel (with or without keys)

Beldin.5498:

BrotherBelial.3094:

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

On my maps there are no chest farmers, but i also never see people doing events.
Only when the map is at 90%+ suddenly they all appear out of nowhere.

Problem are not the chests but the whole shuttle mechanisms.

As I said to the other guy, you’re unlucky. Or maybe I am, as I’ve not had the problem you seem to have had.

heartless.6803:

I don’t think chest farming or taxi’ing should be allowed to still work. They need to be changed to discourage this unfriendly and harassing behavior.

Taxi-ing players into a map isn’t usually a bad thing. A lot of times (most of the time in my experience) people do this to fill up the map and make it more likely, not less, that events will get done and we’ll get all the way to a breach.

Do some of you realize that the whole map is a farming map from how it is setup?

Farming events! check
Chest farming! check
Farming end event! check
Farming mats! Check

SW & Dry Top maps are a preview of how H.O.T maps will be

So really there is no issue here and report/block the rude people and move on.

I’m inclined to agree that the shovel and chest business is poor design. Between the forts and the labyrinth, silverwastes has enough going for it and the chests detract from that.

If there were room for it a much cooler event would be sparse few loot chests hidden away during the timeout after vinewrath. Everyone frantically searching for hidden chests a la easter eggs would be much more fun, but then there’s already lab during the timeout.

I joined a 50% SW map, they were taxi-ing people in for Breach and VW. When VW started a Commander started a chest train and VW failed horribly. Nothing like having all that work go to waste.

Wait… is that why it’s called silverWASTEs?

The LFG tool is the proper answer to this problem. What I want to do in silverwastes changes from time to time. Sometimes I want to chest farm, sometimes I want to breach hop, sometimes I want to farm bags of gear and shovels. No matter what I want to do, it hasn’t taken more than a couple minutes of watching LFG to find a map that fits my needs, and in my case it has never turned out to be a map that suddenly changed its mind on what it wanted to do.

Chest farming doesn’t need to be fixed save for in the eyes of those who want to force others to play their way.

Fiddlestyx.9714:

I joined a 50% SW map, they were taxi-ing people in for Breach and VW. When VW started a Commander started a chest train and VW failed horribly. Nothing like having all that work go to waste.

Wait… is that why it’s called silverWASTEs?

I dont belive a word in here. 1 commander doesnt have power to turn event map into chest farm when people are focused on events, it sounds like map was chest farm not events for the whole time.

I`ve literally done more than 300 event maps and never saw that happen once, it`s the other way around, when people chest farm and map progress is close to 80% they start taxing people for final events or sometimes they ignore VW and keep farming without taxing anyone in hope for events.

1 Have almost to struggle to find a chest farm map, since there is like 2-3 over tens of normal event;
2 If it’s chest farm, you open your LFG and teleport to one of the 100000000000s advs “SW x%”;
3 If it’s chest farm, you are not meant to defend forts;
4 Who are you to call it an exploit? ANet never said it’s such, thus it’s not unless they will state otherwise;
5 Well, can’t see much logic in keep defending a fort alone in a chest farm map till reaching so much frustration to come ranting on the forums. Do a favor to yourself, think a little.

Not noticed a problem, most of the chest farming is done in between events.

Shovels, keys and chests are fine as they are.

Edit: Plus there will be some people in the area that don’t want to do the event, thing about Silverwastes is there’s loads of events happening.

Azala Yar.7693:

Not noticed a problem, most of the chest farming is done in between events.

Shovels, keys and chests are fine as they are.

Edit: Plus there will be some people in the area that don’t want to do the event, thing about Silverwastes is there’s loads of events happening.

No, most of the chest farming is done on a single dedicated map of a hundred people running in a big line.

I am getting pretty tired of threads like this.
Every time people don’t want to play the way the OP wants them to play you get the classic “they’re exploiting the game”.

Anet put in the chests. Anet put in the shovels. Anet knows about the chest runs. In fact – Anet buffed the shovel drop rate ( prior to this chest farms were rare since people didn’t really have shovels).

Nobody is exploiting anything.
Just because a map has a meta event doesn’t mean that if i am on that map I’m 100% obliged to participate or even care.

Also nobody is harassing you. And some of the most friendly group experiences I’ve had in GW2 were during a chest farm.

Bottom line : Nobody is forced to play the way you want or with you. If what the majority of the people in a map doesn’t suit your particular taste perhaps finding another map is a good idea.

Harper.4173:

If what the majority of the people in a map doesn’t suit your particular taste perhaps finding another map is a good idea.

Says it all.

You have to farm events to get shovels to open the chests. What’s the big deal? There is room in the game for both kinds.

I agree key farming is frustrating.

I will freely admit to taxiing out of them.. after repeatedly trying for a few hours to move events ahead only to watch a swarm of commander tags run by doing nothing to help it’s pointless to try… most people that check the LFG tool that have a percentage will get people trying to move events.. those posting “bring shovels” will get chest farmers…

crazy thought: what if bandit chests were like event daily chests(once/day)? That might make a dent on the chest farm.. (profitable, but not infinitely repeatable)

I don’t see how people can get enough crests to run key farms for the length they do… I wonder what they are planning on using all of that dragonite ore/imperial fragments for..

heartless.6803:

It’s exploiting the map and the people and I don’t think chest farming or taxi’ing should be allowed to still work.

You want the taxi system abolished too? * long suffering sigh *
Its things like this that make me truly wonder if people think, if only for a moment, about what kind of consequences would be created if their suggestions were taken seriously and implemented.

If there’s an issue in SW it occurs only at times when there aren’t a lot of taxis to chest or event maps, and you get chest runners scaling up events in the map you’re in doing events. While this does happen, I’m not sure how much it happens. If this is a big enough issue, which I’m not sure about, there would be a simple fix. Chests only pop up during the time between event cycles. Suddenly, everyone wants the events to succeed ASAP. If the problem is conflict between players who want different things, then change the mechanics of the zone so that they all want the same thing, albeit for different reasons.

The man who stands on a pedestal and looks down on others often fails to realise just what is under the pedestal.

If you see a person using an exploit, you should report it.

JediYoda.1275:

Just change maps till you find one to your liking?

Chest farming isn’t exploting the map it working as intended and you can’t force everyone play your way! Everyone is free play to as they whish within the the game TOS/EULA/COC.

Yelling at people in the map to stop chest farming makes you no better than them telling you to leave them alone.

Agreed

I would appreciate it if chest farming stayed. There are so many silverwastes maps in lfg that if one is being farmed, you can easily switch. What imo is much more detrimental is folks leaving maps after vinewrath is killer or labyrinth is over. :<

But but this is how HoT will be.

serenke.4806:

But but this is how HoT will be.

I’m really hoping that HoT isn’t going to be one big SW grind rotation…

What is really the point of doing events if not to do chest farm huh?

No.

heartless.6803:

Can you do something to stop chest farming? It’s exploiting a map and annoying to those of us trying to actually do the map. They cause the difficulty to be bumped up to the point where those trying to do things like defend forts can’t do it because of all the players around that aren’t helping. It’s annoying and aggravating that between map jumpers that only stay on maps near completion and chest farmers it’s near impossible to do silverwastes in the way it was supposed to be done.

It’s exploiting the map and the people and I don’t think chest farming or taxi’ing should be allowed to still work. They need to be changed to discourage this unfriendly and harassing behavior.

My friend, I msut tell that there is a lot of non PVE people coming to do SW and DT, i’m PvX person, and i’m laughing that my butt will crack when i see what people do, and how people are excited for PvE and SW in general.

Please note before you come on forums and try to ruin perfectly fine chest farming:
1) ask what map is it, if it’s chest, just go on LFG and find SW map.
2) after VW is dead, map sometimes turns into chest farm if there is no other map
3) there is never more then 1 map
4) there is increased rate of chest farm only now, when people want beta keys
5) Note for next time, if u don’t know how things work, ask, rent is not a good thing..
NOTE: One more thing, make yourself a favour, If some things are new for you… I bet you came from wvw or pvp ( not judging just giving example ), ask people how stuff works and people will explain it to you, pls stop making this kind of threads because they are an salty joke.

No! I luv chest farming <3
Gives me the obi shards and empyreal fragments I need

Chest farming is fine, this is the same argument as people who play WvW crying about EotM K-trains.

Anet want to keep people ingame, they wont remove the chest farm,

I personally don’t do it as I find it boring but to each there own, there are plenty of SW maps out there,

On the note about no one seems to do events but all show up at 90% this comes down to time vs loot really like any event ingame, most of the events to get to breach are shocking with loot, a few crests, a shovel, the wades and wades of enemies you must slaughter to get to the breach and 98% of them drop NO LOOT at all,

If you want more people to do events to move maps faster, Anet needs to add the other 98% of enemies to the loot table.

Beldin.5498:

BrotherBelial.3094:

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

On my maps there are no chest farmers, but i also never see people doing events.
Only when the map is at 90%+ suddenly they all appear out of nowhere.

Problem are not the chests but the whole shuttle mechanisms.

Every time I want to do the event, I simply start a taxi.

Yes it takes a little longer if its a new map without progress, but it works every time 100%.

Taxi people, communicate in chat to coordinate stuff like asking which fortress needs help, etc. Explain bosses before the events start and you will always get your stuff done.

heartless.6803:

Beldin.5498:

BrotherBelial.3094:

You are an unlucky one. Every map I get on is a normal do the events, not seen a chests farm map in ages.

On my maps there are no chest farmers, but i also never see people doing events.
Only when the map is at 90%+ suddenly they all appear out of nowhere.

Problem are not the chests but the whole shuttle mechanisms.

Yesterday was great, people helped out and stayed for 2 to 3+ vine wraths. Then today it went back to normal. Jump to a complete map, do breach and vine and leave.

I would think with people actually wanting to try to get a portal, they’d actually kill things and progress faster. But I guess I’m expecting too much from this community sometimes.

I don´t know if you are using morality as a vehicle for your cause or whether you are actually very clueless in general. Either way, it is hogwash in both cases. This is not a matter of ethos. It is solely a clash of personal interests. There are people who want to farm and there is you who wants to finish events. People farming are not even going out of their way to hinder you. They are just not interested in things you are interested in. Finishing events is not ethically superior to farming. Apparently, your party of interest is in the minority. Period. You can expect of the community whatever you like, you are not the boss of other players. If that throws you into a little temper tandrum, play a single player game.

As long as people know ahead of time if the map is going to be a chest farm map then I don’t see an issue. The ones I’ve gone with start with an empty map, taxi folks in and do events here and there, but only to get more shovels.

If someone starts a chest farm in the middle of an in-progress event map…that’s rude.

In the event maps I’ve been on there have been people who wanted to start a chest farm and lots of folks told him to find another map we were doing events.

I don’t see a problem, if you’re on a map where people are doing events and you want to chest farm…find another map. Likewise, if you get dropped onto a chest farm map and want to do events, find another map.

After portal chances are all gone there is going to be one heck of a chest farm with all the shovels I’m getting.