Guild Wars 2

As inspired by a reddit thread in which events and their existence/communication to players made me come up with this.

Basically, the NPCs that shout or plead or cry to you to help them because their village/partner/plan/what have you needs help are in a good position to expand awareness of ongoing events. Currently they’ll talk at you and emote (as shown in the log) at you, but you don’t know exactly what they mean unless you talk to them. You must talk to them and then select the dialog to “accept” to help their event to get the event to show up in your UI panel and map.

I propose that these NPCs automatically add the event to your UI and offer the dialog as an option to show newer/less explorer-type players where other events are happening, especially those off the commonly played or farmed paths.

Additionally, the functionality with the dialogs permanently “sticks” the event on your event pane unless it ends, you switch maps, or log out. I think that should be changed if this is implemented but perhaps on a timer or something like that.

Are you proposing an event log of some sorts for anything taking place in a particular zone?