Guild Wars 2

Yesterday our guild had some issues with the first guild rush.
I’ll start explaining what happened…

I activated the rush, we got Ghost Wolf Run.
We went in Harathi Hinterland with all the players online: me (leader), 3 officers (they have Mission Control enabled for their rank in the guild panel) and 15 guild members.
There was another guild in the rush area who was already performing their guild mission. The event showed they had 21 minutes left and already 15/15 players who completed it.
Cause we had to wait so long (20 minutes… boring) we had the brilliant idea to start running the route in order to try it and to be prepared for our rush. Some of us clicked on the Hero Banner and became wolves. I was the first to reach the end and I was surprised to get the prize (1 commentadion, 2 rare and 50 silver) cause I thought it had to be only a normal event with karma for our guild. I checked our guild panel and our rush was still “5 hours left” to reach the location so I thought it was some sort of bug… We kept running the path, after 20 minutes the other guild rush ended and suddenly we got a pop-up: this pop-up was asking to every member of our guild if we want to accept Merits for our guild or decline. We were so surprised and in the few seconds we were deciding what to do someone clicked “accept”.
Suddenly our Guild Rush disappeared from the guild panel and Merits were accredited.
Not everyone of our players, anyway, tried the path, so our rush was ended and 4 people didn’t got the prize cause they were waiting for our rush to start!
The weird thing was that the pop-up appeared to every player… I thought only me (the leader) and the officers with mission control permission could control this kind of decisions.
It was sufficient a normal guild member who was distracted or wasn’t listening voice chat and by clicking “accept” he ended the rush for our guild.
I mean… If there is a “mission control” permission for guild ranks it is supposed only this trusted people could decide what to do.

In the end we spent 1500 influence to speed-up another guild rush research and we let those 4 players to enjoy another mission and get their prize…
Anyway I’m worried for the next rushes and normal members who can click on hero banner or pop-up and start/end the rush for the whole guild…??? Please fix this…

My question: What if the player had clicked decline? or is it only a matter of ending the rush before time completes?

After the mission has been started from the guild panel any member can start the rush at the start location.
I have not yet had the rush already active, but it is unfortunate that a single person can accept the failure outcome. It probably was a case of not understanding what was accepted. I would agree mission control should be a requirement to accept failure.
As for joining an active mission is a good thing I think. Having a queue of a couple of guilds waiting to their rush would be very anoying.

Grassrab.9302:

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I have not yet had the rush already active, but it is unfortunate that a single person can accept the failure outcome. It probably was a case of not understanding what was accepted. I would agree mission control should be a requirement to accept failure.
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Actually she is talking about accepting a succesfull outcome, we don’t know if you can also accept failure outcome (I hope not).
The problem is that some people that was waiting for our Rush to be activated didn’t get any commendations from that and we had to “fast forward” another rush to let them do it.

The other rush was also more difficult (but that’s not the point of this discussion )

I would really like to know how the whole mission works when more guilds are there… and what was in the mind of the dev who programmed the pop-up/hero banner to allow every guild player to click on it and not only the ones with mission control permission.

Let’s just imagine what could happen:

1) Leader/Officers with permission activate the Rush from guild panel
2) Players start going in the rush zone but there is another guild already performing its own rush
3) Let’s suppose they have still 5 minutes left
4) One random member of our guild click on Hero Banner and now the rush is counting for our guild too (but only with 5 mins left)
5) Now I don’t know if it’s also necessary that one or more members reach the rush end to trigger the pop-up of it triggers anyway
6) After 5 minutes the rush is successful (for the other guild which started it) and the pop-up appears to every guild members of our guild and if someone click “accept” our rush ends too with a lot of people who couldn’t reach the end for their personal prize.

Now I understand the purpose of this pop-up: probably devs thought that if there are too many guilds in a rush zone people have to wait too long (30 minutes for every guild). So they want to allow guilds to play in the rushes of other guilds in order not to wait so long and gain merits anyway. But since people play in the rush also for personal prize (the super-desired commendation!) it’s really important to make sure every guild member could reach the end and get the reward. This can be controlled if only the ranks with permissions (leader and officers) can decide if they want to accept the successful rush or wait and start their own.
It’s crazy that everyone who clicks on the pop-up or hero banner could determine the outcome of the rush for the whole guild.