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Posted by: bacon.9461

bacon.9461

Since I got on today I’ve been noticing sometimes the people I party with show up as yellow and other times as the normal blue (mostly party with guildies).

Looked through patch notes and didn’t see anything, nothing on wiki about it.

Anyone have any idea? Imo they just make it harder to locate the dot on some sections of minimap.

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Posted by: RoseofGilead.8907

RoseofGilead.8907

Yeah, I noticed this earlier tonight. When I was in a party in one map, doing temple events, everyone’s dots were blue. But when I later partied up with my husband (just he and myself in a party), both of our dots were yellow. Then when we switched to a different map, my dot was blue on his screen, but his was yellow on mine.

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Posted by: Kumion.7580

Kumion.7580

As far as I can tell, guildies are now yellow dots.

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Posted by: Shukriyya.7629

Shukriyya.7629

Yeah, guildies in your party are now yellow dots. However, unlike the blue dots they disappear completely from your minimap once they leave the area covered by your minimap, which is a clear disadvantage. Hopefully anet will change that or – better yet – just get rid of the yellow dots again, which are harder to see.

RoF

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Posted by: Yumiko Ishida.3769

Yumiko Ishida.3769

Keep this! I asked for stuff like this in ages juts make the yellow, you know, darker? I always wanted to know where people were for mega server so I know if i’m in the same map or not.

Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.

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Posted by: ekkue.3754

ekkue.3754

I also find it harder to see the yellow dots, than the blue.

Not in the way that the hero point icons are hard to see, but they don’t catch your eye and aren’t as immediately noticeable, it takes a second or two to locate them.

I don’t really see the point…if they are in your party you don’t need them to be a different colour. I can see the point if it showed guildies anywhere on the map who AREN’T in your party.

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Posted by: TheRandomGuy.7246

TheRandomGuy.7246

It is some new bug. Not all guildies in my party are yellow and sometimes dots just change color or disappear completely. Probably because of new squad UI they have added.

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Posted by: CorrynnStarr.7942

CorrynnStarr.7942

easy way to tell if you are in the same map or not is to look at the portraits. If it is all black after they load in, then you are in a different instance. If you can see their face and outfit, then you are in the same map.

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Posted by: RoseofGilead.8907

RoseofGilead.8907

Yeah, it’s definitely not just “guildies are yellow”. My husband and I are both in the same guild. Sometimes the dot would be blue, but sometimes it would be yellow.

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Posted by: Pandaman.4758

Pandaman.4758

Well, if we thought the yellow hero challenge icon was hard to see in certain maps, now we get yellow dots to try and pick out from LA’s sandstone or SW/DTop’s sand.

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Posted by: Draknar.5748

Draknar.5748

Yeah, it’s definitely not just “guildies are yellow”. My husband and I are both in the same guild. Sometimes the dot would be blue, but sometimes it would be yellow.

Blue definitely means a party member, while yellow may just mean guildie, but not partied?

I won’t stop because I can’t stop.

It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….

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Posted by: Yalora Istairiea.6287

Yalora Istairiea.6287

I have not seen the yellow dots yet but would it be easier to spot Guildies if they were a blue dot with a yellow center instead? Just wondering.

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Posted by: TJgalon.5012

TJgalon.5012

My friend like the yellow dot, she feel it stands out more then the blue dot, and I like it too. yellow should be the party color, hehe.

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Posted by: RoseofGilead.8907

RoseofGilead.8907

Yeah, it’s definitely not just “guildies are yellow”. My husband and I are both in the same guild. Sometimes the dot would be blue, but sometimes it would be yellow.

Blue definitely means a party member, while yellow may just mean guildie, but not partied?

No, there are no dots on the map if you’re not in a party. At least none that I’ve seen.

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Posted by: rhapsody.3615

rhapsody.3615

Yeah, it’s definitely not just “guildies are yellow”. My husband and I are both in the same guild. Sometimes the dot would be blue, but sometimes it would be yellow.

Blue definitely means a party member, while yellow may just mean guildie, but not partied?

The yellow dot only replaces a blue dot for a party member. There aren’t dots for non-partied members. I did dungeons yesterday with 2 guildmates. One had a yellow dot and one did not. It seems entirely random.

Like others said, I hope it’s a glitch from what they’re doing with squads. I don’t see the necessity of having different colored dots for 4 party members.

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Posted by: bacon.9461

bacon.9461

Yeah I was thinking maybe a bit of the squad stuff snuck in. Just seems weird that sometimes guild members are yellow, other times, blue.