Guild Wars 2

Is there anything in place to keep one person from making a meta map fail? For example this weekend in auric basin all the sides were done and waiting for south which had about half. and it got me thinking Someone could remove the stacks from east due to it being easy and tell the map to send them one gold or they will kill the east one. There would be no way or at least very unlikely that south could kill in time.

In game not directly, no. But, if someone did that, the chat would be logged and if someone reported them, it would be very clear to a support agent that griefing was taking place and action could be taken.

Also, in Auric, the gain would be nothing. The chances of someone turning up just to grief and not to get loot are fortunately remote in this game

I am not going to lie i wanted to do it; the part about failing not the gold, just to see if one man could.

fivestar.7830:

Is there anything in place to keep one person from making a meta map fail? For example this weekend in auric basin all the sides were done and waiting for south which had about half. and it got me thinking Someone could remove the stacks from east due to it being easy and tell the map to send them one gold or they will kill the east one. There would be no way or at least very unlikely that south could kill in time.

Chances are that there’s enough hitpoints left on the Octovine that one person couldn’t burn it before the stacks went back up. Ime, peeps pull away earlier than later in order to avoid an accidental kill.

Also, if someone were to send that type of message in map chat it would constitute extortion. In the GW2 Rules of Conduct it states:

“1. While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

~EW

fivestar.7830:

I am not going to lie i wanted to do it; the part about failing not the gold, just to see if one man could.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

There’s nothing mechanically that prevents that. The history of this game (and others) is littered with the salt of people who watched it happen with other chains/events. People moved NPCs (when that was possible), caused NPCs to go off track (thus disrupting events) — if you can think of it, someone is going to try (or has tried).

If it happens, /report the person (or file a ticket about it) and use the in-game /bug reporting tool. ANet will step in if it disrupts the game “significantly” (their definition, not ours).

And most importantly: try not to make a big deal about it. Most people who do this gain extra joy from annoying folks, i.e. don’t feed the trolls.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

fivestar.7830:

Is there anything in place to keep one person from making a meta map fail? For example this weekend in auric basin all the sides were done and waiting for south which had about half. and it got me thinking Someone could remove the stacks from east due to it being easy and tell the map to send them one gold or they will kill the east one. There would be no way or at least very unlikely that south could kill in time.

Chances are that there’s enough hitpoints left on the Octovine that one person couldn’t burn it before the stacks went back up. Ime, peeps pull away earlier than later in order to avoid an accidental kill.

Also, if someone were to send that type of message in map chat it would constitute extortion. In the GW2 Rules of Conduct it states:

“1. While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/

~EW

IDK whenever I do octovine my group usually leaves the vine with just about no health before stopping if we are one of the first 3 group to finish. Its usually due to new players who don’t pay attention to chat and keep attacking after they shouldn’t. But too often it comes way too close for comfort. I don’t know where these groups are that leave a “substantial” amount of health left on the octovine for the final burn

Well fivestar, someone tried part of your idea tonight.

I was on East, and we got our side down to the nub first, as well as got the stacks low to be ready for the final burn. South was as usual slowest… and uncharacteristically North was slow, too.

While I was waiting for North and South to catch up, I amused myself with attacking the veterans for a min. In my periphery I see someone attacking the Octo, so I turn around and help ’cause I thought the final burn had begun… then I glanced up at the other bars, and disengaged as quickly as I could.

Just as I disengaged someone said in map, “east has a troll.” I really hope like heck no one thought it was me, lol. But, that other person kept attacking.

The stacks went back up before this lone person could kill off the East Octo.

So, maybe there are circumstances that’d could cause a lone person to burn the Octo before the rest of the map is ready… but one person wasn’t enough tonight, thank goodness.

~EW