Guild Wars 2

Hi I’m sure we have many experienced the phenomenon that is “Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging”. This is currently the bane of my existence, in several aspects of the game. For example when selling paths in dungeon (without exploit) all it takes is for someone who does not understands the concept of selling to join the party and then leave again about 3 times and then the LFG is muted and the only LFG i can post is clear. Another aspect is when trying to coordinate large scale events like Teq or even The Silverwaste (Arguably more here than Teq) I understand that its designed to keep spammers at bay. But I personally think It would be a better idea to let the players individually mute them instead of crippling people who are genuinely trying to help (or make some gold). Am I alone in this opinion or have other players had similar experiences? //Juan

Never had a problem with it.
I used to organize many things and never had this problem.

Earlier today I was porting golems around EBG.
In a 15-20 minute window I pinged my portal skill 3 times. After that I got suppressed. I couldn’t ping any skills for the remaining hour and a half I was logged on.
Either the suppression feature bugged out of it’s ridiculously aggressive.

Its been a real pain in the kitten . I wish anet would do something about this, We are all intelligent enough to mute spammers

I had this happen with silver waste, if you change what you’re saying you can delay the suppression.
“Organized Silver waste join and leave”
“Org SW, join then leave”
“SW, mostly organized… Join and leave”

~just some examples of what I was doing, lasted a while before I got lfg suppressed. (Should work in chat as well.)

You have to vary your wording. This will help, but there’s also a limit on how many times you can message within a given time period. So ultimately you will eventually get suppressed, even if you do vary your wording. Anet will not give details on how this works, because spammers could use that info to spam more effectively. This is also why commanders have the same suppression rules as non-commanders. We do need a good, long term solution to this issue. But Anet hasn’t commented on any of the ideas brought up on the forums so far.