Guild Wars 2

There is a topic about this over on reddit.. ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/355kka/captains_airship_pass_released_on_20140218_royal/ )

For a $20 item (1000 gems, but you need 1600 to buy it), I feel like this needs a bit of work. No one likes loading screens, and when you think about it.. The Captain’s Airship Pass.. you login (first loading screen) > Kick from ship (second loading screen) > double click pass (third loading screen).

Maybe setup a mechanic in game where if the player contains the airship pass in their inventory it wont remove them from the airship upon first loading screen. Same goes for the royal terrace. Whenever you login it kicks you out and then u gotta reuse it. I think just adding in that mechanic to “inventory check” before removing you would be better suited. You could even set it up, to check bank stash for the pass so if you were on an alt outside the airship you could still gain access.

lol I have 10 of these from the LS1 events…I can’t use any.

I get the message: This item cannot be used at this time.

Honestly I see this location as pointless…everything is jammed so close together and one false move and ker-splat (or maybe they fixed that)

moonstarmac.4603:

lol I have 10 of these from the LS1 events…I can’t use any.

I get the message: This item cannot be used at this time.

Honestly I see this location as pointless…everything is jammed so close together and one false move and ker-splat (or maybe they fixed that)

It can’t be used if you’re in pvp or an instance; so, if you’re trying to use it from any of those situations, that’s why you can’t use it.

And yeah, you can’t jump off the edge anymore. I’m pretty sure they fixed that a long time ago.

And the same is true with the royal terrace pass. I believe it’s done this way to make sure players with two week version of the passes can’t permanently park a character there well beyond the length of the pass. Everyone parked there is tossed upon login and have to activate their pass to get back in/on. It looks as if activating the pass bestows a hidden buff onto the player when clicked on and that is what is checked at login and I think we lose buffs upon logoff so … we get the boot.

I’m sure players would like a more elegant solution but IIRC the two week passes came first and then the permanent ones. But simply checking to see if you have it on you is unlikely to happen.

I very much agree with the OP. It’s a convenience item, it should be convenient.

Oh I agree, it’s just they weren’t interested in coming up with a better way to handle the permanent passes in the engine.

This has been asked time and time again and still no fix. I doubt they will fix it in the future. It’s kitten annoying and demeaning to get tossed out even if you have the pass in your inventory.

moonstarmac.4603:

Honestly I see this location as pointless…everything is jammed so close together and one false move and ker-splat (or maybe they fixed that)

You know for an airship it is surprisingly immobile. Would have been nice if it actually moved around, or even better was somewhere around Silverwastes.

A good solution would be an account wide permanent pass.

Weirwynn.2390:

It’s a convenience item, it should be convenient.

Yes, and because it is inconvenient in one of the important details, I cannot currently recommend it to fellow guild members and will not buy other convenience items of this kind.

Every time it pops up in the shop, I am getting asked by my fellow guild members what good brings it and I can only answer that I cannot recommend it – running through Heart of the Mists through the portal in Lion’s Arch is not so much more inconvenient to spend 1000 gems to get off this inconvenience.

Meh, doesn’t bother me that much. Not that hard to just leave the Airship before logging out. Problem solved.

Today I opened up the game, loaded a character, and… didn’t get kicked off the airship.
I was all “woah, they actually fixed it?” Then I closed the game and tried again and got kicked off like normal. Guess it was just a random bug

JackSpacer.4320:

Meh, doesn’t bother me that much. Not that hard to just leave the Airship before logging out. Problem solved.

So instead of quit, start, load the airship and then load Gendarran Fields, you load Gendarran Fields, quit, start, and then load Gendarran Fields again. That’s the exact same amount of loading. It doesn’t solve anything. It probably wastes more of your time because you leave the airship manually instead of getting instantly booted.

I also don’t rage about minutia like a loading screen. I got it for the convenience of having everything in one spot and porting my alts to it for fast leveling.

/shrug