Guild Wars 2

I was commanding in Gendarren fields just now when the clockwork invasion began there. I linked one waypoint to the next invasion spot for the people following me to travel to so we could keep things moving, as is a standard thing to do.

We finish the next invasion spot quickly (it was just a molten alliance tunneling machine) and I go to link the next waypoint when BAM my message is suppressed. I press enter to type in chat where we are going next, but nope, message suppressed. So I wait about a minute and try again, just a message. Nope, suppressed. So I wait another minute, try to link a waypoint, suppressed again. This happened every single time I tried to send a message.

For 7 minutes straight I was totally suppressed from map chat. Could not send a regular message or link a single thing. I could not keep my group organized because I could not tell them where to go next, and we failed the invasion, making it to battling Scarlet with only 25 seconds left, whereas we were very close to being done before I got suppressed, and things were moving very quickly.

I was not the only commander there, but I was one of only a few talking in map chat linking waypoints and telling people where to go, and that was crucial to finishing and keeping our forces organized, which we couldn’t do efficiently enough, because I couldn’t talk.

This suppression needs to be adjusted, it is oppressive and provides no benefit to anyone trying to help in situations such as this.

Yeah, it sucks.

I’ve had messages suppressed when typing “ty” a good 10 minutes apart (hey, I get downed a lot).
If I’d typed “ty” twice in a row within a minute, I could understand it, but 10minutes apart? The suppression is pathetic.

Yup, I didn’t hear of GW2LFG until pretty far into this game, so I was shouting in map chat that I was looking for more for Ascalonian Catacombs. I did this a mere three times, and they weren’t even the same sentence each time. They contained maybe 3 similar words and I was suppressed almost immediately after the third shout. For a team game, this aspect makes it extremely difficult to work as a team and get people for the team.