Guild Wars 2

I’m looking forward to the upcoming changes to wvw, however, it is nearly impossible to recruit people to play in your server’s wvw w/o letting the “enemy servers” know what’s going on. If we had a “server chat” option, we could recruit people to come have fun in wvw, announce wvw events, or yell for help.

Please enable us to better communicate on our servers.

I think this is an intriguing idea that probably won’t get considered, because its potential benefits are too few to account for its costs.

You mean a server-specific channel for PvE and PvP? Since all /map and /team chat in WvW already is specific to your world. I’ll also assume that you want this channel to work across all instances, since you can recruit for WvW just fine in /map now, by naming your server in your recruiting advert.

That’s a tall order. First, the only existing chat channel that works across all instances is /guild and that’s limited to 500 people at the moment. So ANet would have to create a new capability in the game: to reach more people and to designate them by server.

Can you think of any other purpose this channel would have besides recruiting? Because this seems like a huge expense relative if that’s all it would be used for.

I think he means as in if you type “lfg SFR people for wvw raid tonight” in map chat in SW people from all servers will see that. He wants that only people from his server on that map would see it.

Back in beta, there was a megaphone gem store item that allowed you to broadcast a message to everyone on the server. The functionality of a server-wide message is likely still possible, but it’s far too easily abused. If someone’s looking for a guild, they’ll look for one. Instead, what you want is a tool similar to LFG, but for guilds. There’s also a place here on the forums for recruitment, but the vast majority of players will never see it.

Arrk.4102:

I think he means as in if you type “lfg SFR people for wvw raid tonight” in map chat in SW people from all servers will see that. He wants that only people from his server on that map would see it.

Yes, exactly. I’d like to have a chat option that only people on my Home server can see. Megaservers took away our ability to speak only to people on our server. If we need help in our borderland, we cannot communicate this at all without alerting our enemies. This is a huge disadvantage to servers which need to recruit person to play wvw.

Another idea would be to make one of the cities(such as Lion’s Arch), a Home server only area.