Guild Wars 2

For purposes of calculating guild influence earned by players logging in, what constitutes a login?

I have a 1 person guild (down from half a dozen at launch) with 8 characters on my account, 7 of which are level 80. Almost all log in daily, and all are certified to be in the guild and representing it.

Influence is supposed to be earned by up to 5 characters from an account, so a total of 50 daily (max). As far back as I can see in the history panel, I’ve gotten 50. Events give influence, and I generally wind up averaging around 120 daily, but the logins are shown separately.

Since the now infamous March 16 patch, I’ve gotten credit for less than 5 every day but one. Once I noticed it, I made sure all 8 were logged in and did some event too. I get event influence, but never reach 50 login influence any day of the last week. I’ve gotten 40 or even 30 earned per day.

This bug might go unnoticed in larger guilds where they might not know if they are being underreported by 20%-40%, vs low attendance but it’s easy to see in mine.

Is there something I don’t understand about logins, or something that was deliberately changed in the patch, or is it just bugged?

Probably bugged. I had one stretch of time where my personal guild was showing influence for events done, but none for chars logging in.

It may not be instantaneous too. Possibly the char has to be logged on for X amount of time. The game may only take a census periodically and if you log on and off between the census time, it won’t count. My theory of it, anyway.

Check to make sure all your characters are representing——I once found them changed to not representing , I know I didn’t change them.

Blude.6812:

Check to make sure all your characters are representing——I once found them changed to not representing , I know I didn’t change them.

Yes, I did that a few days ago, before posting here. All have the option to stand down, and all can edit the daily message. That’s the test I did, and believe it represents that they are in and representing.

I also made sure they not only logged in, but did a “football action” like doing an event, or at least gathering a wood or ore run, not merely logging in. Still, I never get credit for more than 4 per day, despite there being 8 of them.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Probably bugged. I had one stretch of time where my personal guild was showing influence for events done, but none for chars logging in.

It may not be instantaneous too. Possibly the char has to be logged on for X amount of time. The game may only take a census periodically and if you log on and off between the census time, it won’t count. My theory of it, anyway.

I’d go with the census, except my play time is around 4 hours starting about an hour before reset. That would be prime time on the east coast, and if a census skipped most of that time period, it’s poorly designed.

I run a short dozen WBs, the daily, and gathering runs for ascended mats (ore, wood, empyerals in chest) and the chars are parked semi permanently at locations to do the above. SometimesI zerg Silverwastes or WvW in lieu of a hour’s worth of WB’s. All get in game somewhere between and after WB fights for their various duties.

Besides, a census time gate would be a deliberate bug, since it violates the notion ANET is inferring when they say you get points for login.

OTOH, it sure looks like one.

I’m not sure this is something new. I have a personal Guild; I do the exact same things every day, and sometimes I show 5 log-ins, and sometimes (rarely) none. Anything in-between comes up fairly regularly. /shrug

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I’m not sure this is something new. I have a personal Guild; I do the exact same things every day, and sometimes I show 5 log-ins, and sometimes (rarely) none. Anything in-between comes up fairly regularly. /shrug

I’m not sure it’s new, but it’s new in my history as shown in guild history. I would not have noticed, either, but I’m helping another set up a personal guild, and they were having trouble getting login experience to show, so I looked at mine. Yikes….me neither.
But my guld history changed rather abruptly recently, e ven though I didn’t change my nightly routine, so thought to ask.

Thanks for all the comments, but I think we’re back to the OP title: What constitutes a login for influence purposes?