Guild Wars 2

I would like Team Chat to be enabled for PvE maps so I can message people on my server. This way I can call for help in WvW without dissembling information to possible enemy servers. Thank you.

What the OP wants is to be able to go to a non-WvW map, like Lion’s Arch, and tell everyone there who is on the same server to go to WvW without anyone from any other servers seeing it.

This used to be possible before mega servers were added – you just had to make sure you weren’t in an overflow. There was a small possibility of someone from an enemy server guesting there, but not as high as with mega server maps.

Now with megaserver maps you cannot use /map or /say because everyone can see it, regardless of what their home server is. One guild isn’t big enough and you’d never get everyone representing. And obviously you can’t whisper everyone on your server individually.

I think this could actually be a sensible idea. I’ve seen suggestions for a server chat channel before but that was always to allow you to speak to everyone on your server, across all the maps at once which is just asking for spam (gold sellers especially would love it). But if it was only map wide, the way team chat currently functions, it could have practical uses without being excessive.

whisper directly or create a guild and use guild chat.

Yargesh.4965:

whisper directly or create a guild and use guild chat.

Because whispering an entire server, or trying to cram them all into one guild, is a reasonable request.

A lot of MMOs have a world chat or such, so why not? I literally can’t see any downsides to this, so long as it isn’t in the main chat tab by default.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Yargesh.4965:

whisper directly or create a guild and use guild chat.

Because whispering an entire server, or trying to cram them all into one guild, is a reasonable request.

A lot of MMOs have a world chat or such, so why not? I literally can’t see any downsides to this, so long as it isn’t in the main chat tab by default.

If you want to keep things secret (as the op indicated they did) maybe broadcasting to an entire server is not what is best.

Unless I’m mistaken, this is about communicating with your servermates for WvW purposes. Since the megaserver is here there’s no way to talk to just the people on your side in WvW, the suggestion here being that /team chat basically becomes /server chat, I think.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Yargesh.4965:

whisper directly or create a guild and use guild chat.

Because whispering an entire server, or trying to cram them all into one guild, is a reasonable request.

A lot of MMOs have a world chat or such, so why not? I literally can’t see any downsides to this, so long as it isn’t in the main chat tab by default.

+1

However I would see one downside…. this type of chat could easily be flooded.

Use voice chat – done.

This a great idea. It would also help single server guilds recruit.

Ryan.9387:

This a great idea. It would also help single server guilds recruit.

No thanks. Guild spam in /map is bad enough as it is, even worse since mega servers.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ryan.9387:

This a great idea. It would also help single server guilds recruit.

No thanks. Guild spam in /map is bad enough as it is, even worse since mega servers.

How would the idea make things worse, exactly?

Azhure.1857:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ryan.9387:

This a great idea. It would also help single server guilds recruit.

No thanks. Guild spam in /map is bad enough as it is, even worse since mega servers.

How would the idea make things worse, exactly?

I didn’t say it would make things worse. I said no thanks to another channel for guild spam. I said mega servers made guild spam worse. Ryan was suggesting it would be a good way to guild recruit, in other words guild spam the channel. Sure I could keep the channel off and probably would since I don’t WvW. I’m just tired of, “Join us, PvX guild, the best ever ever, you will love us, have chat and stuff and just want you for guild influence,. Join now!” every 10 seconds in /map. Mega servers have increased this guild spam 10 fold. A /team channel should not be a place to guild spam. To that I say , “No thank you”.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Azhure.1857:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Ryan.9387:

This a great idea. It would also help single server guilds recruit.

No thanks. Guild spam in /map is bad enough as it is, even worse since mega servers.

How would the idea make things worse, exactly?

I didn’t say it would make things worse. I said no thanks to another channel for guild spam. I said mega servers made guild spam worse. Ryan was suggesting it would be a good way to guild recruit, in other words guild spam the channel. Sure I could keep the channel off and probably would since I don’t WvW. I’m just tired of, “Join us, PvX guild, the best ever ever, you will love us, have chat and stuff and just want you for guild influence,. Join now!” every 10 seconds in /map. Mega servers have increased this guild spam 10 fold. A /team channel should not be a place to guild spam. To that I say , “No thank you”.

Ah, I see what happened now. I was taking your dismissal of “No thanks” as your response to the suggestion given by the OP, not as a dismissal of the guild recruiting.
My apologies.

Danikat.8537:

What the OP wants is to be able to go to a non-WvW map, like Lion’s Arch, and tell everyone there who is on the same server to go to WvW without anyone from any other servers seeing it.

This used to be possible before mega servers were added – you just had to make sure you weren’t in an overflow. There was a small possibility of someone from an enemy server guesting there, but not as high as with mega server maps.

Now with megaserver maps you cannot use /map or /say because everyone can see it, regardless of what their home server is. One guild isn’t big enough and you’d never get everyone representing. And obviously you can’t whisper everyone on your server individually.

I think this could actually be a sensible idea. I’ve seen suggestions for a server chat channel before but that was always to allow you to speak to everyone on your server, across all the maps at once which is just asking for spam (gold sellers especially would love it). But if it was only map wide, the way team chat currently functions, it could have practical uses without being excessive.

This idea was what I was trying to convey. Thank you.

So a /SERVER channel that does not display to guests and can only be typed into by some designated WvW leaders (I hesitate to suggest this be connected to Commander tags). Not a bad suggestion.

/server might be abused by gold spammers. A public /team channel shouldn’t be that hard to enable since it already exists in wvw and pvp

Except that /team exists in wvw and pvp most likely by communicating to friendly players on the map. In a pve setting, all players on the map are friendly, regardless of which server they’re on, so I don’t think it’d be as easy as just enabling /team there.