Guild Wars 2

So, with the megaserver maps are now differentiated through their IP. You can find what map you are on by typing /ip, which gives you the IP address of your map. You can swap to another map of the same zone if you are teamed with someone in a different IP and right clicking their face. But what if we do not have anyone in a different IP. What if we are stuck in a bad map and just want a different one. I think there should be a command to allow us to change map IP. Not to be able to specifically select a specific IP, but if we could type /newip or something, it would send us to a different, open map of a different IP that isn’t full. Perhaps even locking it to a once every half hour or something, so it doesn’t get abused.

I find that I so often get into a map (in particular, EoTM) that is doing something different from what I am after. Admittedly I am after and XP/Karma train, but how often i get stuck with a map that is bag farming, or being blocked and farmed by the other sides at every turn.
Just now, before I started writing this, I was in a really good EoTM K-Train map, going really well. Best one i’d had in a while, then half a dozen people show up, tag up and ruin the map for just about everyone (I was not the only one complaining. Very little was getting capped.) Popping in and out of EoTM several times i constantly landed in the same map, unable to find a new one.

This isn’t the only time I’ve wanted such a command to be available, but I cannot think of any other times of the top of my head. This is the most recent and regular occurrence. Does anyone else think a /newip command would be a good idea, with a lockdown to stop abuse?

I may be confused about how the MegaServer works, but isn’t it supposed to only create new maps when the others are full? Or at a certain percentage of full? Would this be why you don’t find yourself in a ‘full’ map?

Have you tried guesting to get to another map? I’ve heard many have had luck with that.

Good luck.

I don’t know if it only creates new ones when others are full, I do know there’s very rarely only a single map. I’m pretty sure EoTM always has multiple available maps.. I just tried guesting, no luck, same ip.

Being able to taxi yourself to a new empty/almost full map would be a good feature. You often need a new map when you’re grouping with guildies (Tequatl, Dry Top, Labyrinth, Crown Pavillion…), or an old map when you’re alone but want to get on a populated map. I believe the “guild map spawn” was datamined some time ago, though.

Meanwhile, all you can do is join a large guild with active players or join/post LFG. There’re usually quite a lot of taxis there for popular events.