Guild Wars 2

The story is this – I’m joined taxi to the labyrinth, server was full. Poke for a few minutes, left, join another. Likewise. Tried the third – same. The fourth I could not join allready. As I unexpectedly discovered there is a limit on the number of “joins” at the time. Now I have to wait for “the moment” (which lasts about 10-15 minutes) after each unsuccessful taxi (which, in general, are all in a row). Evening – to put it mildly – spoiled. From here the question – why is this? Of course, I could be wrong. But is not it … donno… more harmfull than useful?

MeGaZlo.9516:

As I unexpectedly discovered there is a limit on the number of “joins” at the time.

How does this limit manifest itself?

it’s not really clear what you’re talking about

Very uninformative post OP. What are you saying, that the party join should be without limits? That you can have as many people join who are presently playing the game?

You can read the Dev posts about why the limit was implemented back when the LFG was first introduced. Basically, it is to discourage griefing and such.

Good luck.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

MeGaZlo.9516:

As I unexpectedly discovered there is a limit on the number of “joins” at the time.

How does this limit manifest itself?

it’s not really clear what you’re talking about

After the entry into 2-3 groups within a certain time (say 10 minutes), you should wait 30 minutes to join the next one.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

MeGaZlo.9516:

As I unexpectedly discovered there is a limit on the number of “joins” at the time.

How does this limit manifest itself?

it’s not really clear what you’re talking about

If people rapidly join and leave parties, they will be unable to join more parties for a while.

Anti-abuse features: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Looking_For_Group
If a player joins and leaves groups in rapid succession, the player will be unable to join a new group for a set period of time.

I just do not really imagine a situation in which this restriction may be useful. But observe personally how it ruined my gaming session.

I’ve never hit this limit personally. Though the dev’s should consider the level at which players taxi during events like this and boss blitz. LFG is pretty much a requirement to taxi to an active/organized map.

I have hit this limitation a few days ago in the weirdest way.

I tried joining a lab taxi and all the join buttons were greyed out, because I “had joined too many groups recently”. Thing is, I hadn’t joined ANY groups all day. This was the first. MAYBE the second if I was still “grouped” with last night’s friends when I logged in.

That’s the only time I encountered it and it seemed glitchy. However, there are good and legitimate reasons for joining a few parties in a short time:

• trying to find a taxi for a boss fight
• joining potential dungeon groups but then finding out they don’t want you, so you have to find another
• joining other players for quick costume brawl
• partying with someone in /map to show them where that last POI is
• grouping/ungrouping for specific boss fights and champions
  Etc.

So I imagine that if you are it would be easy to hit the cap every now and then.

On the other hand, what abuse does the limitation prevent? I can’t even come up with anything. Any ideas?

I think this limitation makes about as much sense as the fact that I can’t send my boyfriend more than 2 in-game mails in a row: none at all.