Guild Wars 2

I would like to know if going off map is a bannable offense. Anyone know?

I’m not even sure what that means.

It sounds like you’re talking about setting yourself to offline status? Not sure why you’d think that is any kind of an issue. Or about falling through the world? That’s a graphics bug, not your problem unless you can’t WP out)

Okay what I meant was, if I found a way to get to the polymock arenas near Rata Sum and do so. Would this be bannable? since we are not suppose to be able to go there yet.

Another example would be trying to go down the giant whole in Divinity’s Reach. It’s not accessible atm and might just be in the future but I’m curious right now.

Not sure if it is, but I know in the beta some people managed to wall-slide down Rata Sum and landed below it. They characters got teleported to a prison cell in the city. Was kinda fun. XD

Ah. No, I can’t see any reason for that to be bannable. If falling through the world / graphical glitches counted as ban-worthy offenses I don’t think we’d have any players left in the game at all.

Probably not. If they don’t want something to be seen in the game, they wouldn’t have it online. In Rata Sum, some people were teleported into a prison for reaching the ground level, but that was just kind of a fun thing (they could teleport out via waypoints).

Just expect it to be buggy.

I’ve gotten out of the map a few times and sent bug reports of it with a sort of ‘post card’ screenshot of my character posing in front of the whole landscape. :P

Seeing as how you don’t get anything from it, I doubt it’s punishable. I mean you can attack stuff, but like usual it will only fight you if it’s ranged, otherwise it goes invul. WvW or PvP might be an exception, if you were to build siege out there or something, but idk.

I don’t think they’d ban you because in order for us to get outside the map during normal gameplay (ie. not using 3rd party software to teleport to areas you shouldn’t be able to reach) someone at Anet has to have left a gap, so it’s at least partially their fault.

I’m not saying they did a bad job. I think it’s to be expected that with a world this size a few little things like joints on invisible walls would be missed or go wrong. Especially when you’ve got multiple people working on it at once and even my limited experience with making relatively simple things on computer tells me you can get everything lined up perfectly, tweak one little detail and suddenly everything has gone wrong. Then you throw in a few million people and sooner or later one of them is going to think “I wonder what happens if I go down here?”

Also plenty of people have talked openly about getting outside the map and haven’t been banned as far as I know. During the Halloween event I jumped off the side of the Mad Realm lobby, beside the door back out, and landed on the Labyrinth map, but outside of the ‘outer’ wall, between it and the actual edge of the map.

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Unfortunately this is the only screen shot I can find right now. It’s not great. The bit I’m standing on was actually a perfectly flat ‘ledge’ of rock texture that just ended about where I’m standing. Below and to all sides was just sky colour. (I’m pretty sure this is what the edge of all game maps actually look like, or a straight drop down.)

I reported it as a bug, I don’t know if it was ever fixed because I didn’t try again, but I definately wasn’t banned for it.

I would’ve been banned kazillion times already. If you really start to look for them, I think you can find at least one glitched area per map.

Cursed Shore alone has like 5 spots where you can go out of bounds. :P

Alright well thank you all for your responses. I just needed to ask since I don’t want to get banned just because I’m a curious little explorer.