Guild Wars 2

Well as many people who actually play the game may have noticed there are always many people that ruin the fun for everyone. It may be world bosses or just general events like crown pavilion. And they can go from lechers to spammers or just trolls. For example lets look at crown pavilion 75 people is the maximum server capacity and many people (like myself) try to organize runs so people can have fun and get loot and experience at the same time. BUT there are always people who just go in there and hit the boss once or twice and go afk still up scaling the boss and getting the loot from other people’s work. Or there are people who just do the gauntlet upstairs tag the boss once and get the loot again without doing anything when there are still people who actually want to play the game properly trying to get in to the map and they cannot. Same thing for world bosses a small percentage of people ruining the fun of others. The solution me and some other commanders came up with is report afk or leeching function. If a percentage of the map lets say 45% or something vote a person to be afk and a timer starts on the persons account (to avoid people kicking people off randomly) and if the person is not actively playing then he will be booted off the map or in to a different mega server. Or if the person gets many reports for leeching and afk it can be done like league of legends next time they try to join in a map for a world boss or a event they will just be paired with other afkers or lechers. [Also we discussed the option to change the reward system to reward players based on their participation and we went against it because that would punish the people who are still learning about the game and actually trying their best.] But yes this is just my view as a commander where people get frustrated and angry at the game on many occasions. And i would love to hear other people’s opinion on this and maybe for this to catch the dev eye.
Thank you and good night.

Well first of all: this is a pain to read. Come on don’t be afraid to use Enter and make your text easier to read.

The actual “problem” is that you can’t create some kind of instance for yourself or your party. It seems pretty obvious since imagine how servers will run if everyone would decide to run on a single instance just for himself. You still can try to “jump” on the area hopping to create a new instance and then start taxing but you’ll still get trolls except if you fullfill your instance with your mates.

Sadly, i doubt you can report people for trolling. I mean people could hit boss once or twice then get IRL troubles making them go afk for a short/long time. But changing rewards design isn’t a bad idea. But how would it work ? People will just spam 1 & afk (you can’t call them troll anymore since a lot of WB farmers are doing the same thing lol).

Going off once or twice is ok but seeing the same people continually getting in and doing the same thing day after day is ridiculous.
And i welcome random people if they cooperate and are willing to learn that is what being a commander is all about. Bringing people together and getting things done. But if they just ignore everyone or just say to f** off then it gets annoying and just ruins the experience and fun of new people.
And i was not talking about most world bosses that was mainly aimed at the 3 headed worm. Especially with the new changes we need to make use of all the numbers we can get. And the 10 spaces that could have been used on people who actually want participate rather than just leech loot can make a difference between win or a loss. And after that new people will have this idea in their had that the boss is just too hard and just give up on it not trying it anymore therefore locking themselves out of content just because of some trolls/leechers.

Organized open world content is a contradiction in itself.
It is expected. Blame the developers not the players.

When Boss Blitz is active people who don’t move should be killed by a 1-shot attack regardless where they are, with the only way to avoid it being to pay attention and dodge. Also, armor repairs need to cost money again. Or maybe the Crown Pavilion should have bouncers and anyone who isn’t active gets thrown out by the guards. Would be hilarious to watch if it had dialogue and everything.

Something also needs to be done about the megaserver in Heart of the Mists. A lot of that place is set up so people can test builds but now it’s so overcrowded all the targets/NPCs are either being targeted by someone else or already dead. If someone buts in while I’m trying to fight it kind of defeats the purpose of practicing and testing on these NPCs. Either an instance for testing builds needs to be made or the map needs to be expanded and more test dummies and npcs to fight should be added.

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