Guild Wars 2

We just purchased a custom pvp arena for our guild. We’ve got the settings set as basic as possible just to test it out.

Password – set to nothing with the box unchecked.
Team Size: 8
Score Limit: 500
Time Limit: 15
Respawn Time: 20
Starting Players: 1
Reserved Slots: 0
Respawn Type: Individual
Spectators: Checked
Ready Button: Unchecked
Autobalance: Checked
Lock Gear: Unchecked
Lock Skills: Unchecked
No Progression: Unchecked
All maps available for rotation
Member Players: None
Member Guilds: Dark Rising Of Aeonic Warfare
Banned Players: None

Two of us go into the server and join opposing teams. The game doesn’t start.

Stupid as this question may be, how do we get the game to start? Everything looks like it’s set up right for it to start but nothing happens.

Edit: I was able to get a game to start when I set Starting Players to 0, but that kills the ability to award progression.

Edit 2: After many tries it finally started working with other players. Not sure why it wouldn’t work before, perhaps because it was still too new?

The problem is simple: until at least one player is inside, the arena is NOT restarted. So if you change settings they are not applied until the next match/restart. So if you can start, you have to ask people to leave and wait for restart.

We need a restart option asap.

According to this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-May-28-2013/first#post2105689

There’s an in-game admin command /gameend that should force the match to end and the arena to restart?

obverkid.5432:

According to this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-May-28-2013/first#post2105689

There’s an in-game admin command /gameend that should force the match to end and the arena to restart?

Game has to start, though, in order for it to end. They need more admin commands badly.

same here, bought that for duels and we joined just me and a friend in opposing team, didn’t start, so we wen’t out made all setting like above and rejoined, no go.
also my jf joined my teram too and still no go..
guess is bugged..

what i noticed is the following,
we been playing in 3 ppl for like an hour or so wih the match saying “waiting for players”, 2 in one team and theand me alone in the other team.
as son as a random guy joined the match automatically started.
the problem seems to be with less than 4 players in the arena.
moreover there should e a ready button like in tournaments which is not there, and the area is permitted (whitelist) to my guild (drunken brotherhood on underworld eu)
and a couple of friends so i don’t get why a random guy was allowed to get in.
see atached for config

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• There is no “bug if less than 4”. We were 3, all of us left the arena and rejoined, the arena restarted in a new map with new applied settings.
• Whitelist is for reserved slots, you have to set 20 reserved slots in order to prevent non-whitelist people from joining.
• You can set the “Ready” button, there is an option for it.

Still there should be a /restartarena command which is currently missing.

The minimum players to start is per team, not total. If you set it to 2 expecting a 1v1 with ready up it wont work. Rather you need to set that value you 1 so that 1 person on each team needs to click ready for it to start.

The tool tips are horribly vague.

to clarify:
- i started the arena with those settings in the screenshot multiple times never worked
-the ready button is selected but never apeared
-the minimum pl i tried all settigs, Always logging in and out, now is set to 0 which i hardly know what means, but wtf
-thanks for the whitelist tip i’ll give a try for that