Guild Wars 2

There really isn’t, on so many servers the population of their respective residents is more than enough to cause overflows in a region without guests. That’s probably what’s actually happening more often.

Something you guys should accept is that ANet isn’t going to get rid of guesting, period. Asking to take it away is ignorant. They aren’t going to punish them either by kicking them to overflow if a resident arrives while they’re waiting for the event.

I don’t guest, but if I did and I guested to a server to do an event and I made sure to get there early and then a resident who enters at the last minute kicks me out, that’s not right. Guest or not, I made the preparations to ensure my access to that event and the resident was careless and procrastinating.

It’s more likely that the residents who made your LA an overflow 24/7 are now attending the dragon events. You literally don’t know if guesting is the problem, and you can’t know when the residents have enough quantity to cause an overflow. Blaming guesting is a baseless accusation. There’s no way to know and it’s less likely.

Get to the event early, make preparations and you’ll be fine. If you arrive late, well apparently you just didn’t care enough to do the event.

Except I am pretty certain this wasn’t the intended reason for guesting in the first place… its purely a another ill thought through game mechanic that added to the new guaranteed kitten loot drops has left the game open to rampant loot exploitation..
Guesting was meant as a short timeframe opportunity to play the game with friends etc.. not map hop to follow event timers to stockpile rares etc…. but as I said in another thread, I dont blame the players for it – afterall its there, it works, ANET decline to comment on it so it must be an acceptable behavior… except when players become overloaded with gold and materials to the poi9ont their own TP becomes useless and gem sales take a nice drop… then the nerfbat will surely happen.
Until then its a case of guest, kitten and pillage as much as you can.
Its not the only reason the game has become a soup bowl of assorted lags issues, FPS drops, overflow pools and player DC’s but it sure as hell plays a large part of it, especially when there are other events going off around the map zone or even just on the map.

I haven’t been able to do a single Jormag event on my server(aurora glade EU) since guesting.
Before guesting I never ever saw an overflow map on Shiverpeaks and even in Orr
A few minutes ago I was not able to enter the main server and got thrown in
overflow.
On a weekday morning that is.
Again the server was full of guests farming the event.
I demand to have priority over guests on my server.
If Anet can’t ensure that,they must disable guesting.
This is just a case of lame farmers destroying yet another game.
Cheers Anet.

If you arrive early for the event as a guest, you as a player obviously are using it in some way, hence an exploit. That is how I see it.
And the dragon events shouldn’t really be about checking the timer to jump there in advance and waiting for the event/reward. That’s farming and as I understand it Anet is against farming, isn’t that right?

I suggest that the event either be account bound so that a player only can do the dragon event once with the chest as a reward. The next time there will be no chest, simple as that.
Or that a player that is guesting cannot recieve any reward for the event. That is they should only get reward for the event on their own server.
But yes, this is a very difficult matter because what is really being an exploit? SHould all the events that yields chest be treated the same way? What about regular dynamic events?
It is a matter that should be looked into. The thought was nice, but some players are just too WoW, that is farming is the -only- way in how the game should be played. Nothing wrong with farming, as long as you do it on your own server, following the limitations that it yield, such as chest drop once per dragon and diminishing drops on one spot etc.

thank you in advance

The most fair solution is to keep Guesting but make it so that guests can’t get chests from Dragon Events. These chests should be available only on your home server.

People are still able to play with their friends, and they can get loot on their own server. Fair to everyone.

Hi! We thank you for your feedback, but please use the already existing thread about guesting.
You can find it here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guesting-and-Overflow-merged/first
Thanks!