Guild Wars 2

As one of the many admins helping in the PvP Community-driven Tournaments, I’m here to explain a problem and share a suggestion. This concerns Custom Arenas

Description:

As wel all know, a Custom Arena can be bought and maintained by one person.
That certain person can choose name, password, settings, maps, bans etc in that Custom Arena.

In this case, we as PvP Admins from ESL, AG and AspektGG, all have an Arena which we use to run the weekly/monthly Tournaments.

Problem:

However, besides the nice feature having a Custom Arena, there are some problems involved.

• No Co-Admin/Officer for Arenas: As we know only 1 person can be the rightfull owner AND admin of the Arena at the same time. This does not effect most guilds or players with Custom Arenas. This does have a huge impact on PvP Tournament Staff. Tournament Staff (ESL, AG and AspektGG) are mostly small and do not have Custom Arena Owners on stock. If one or more Admins are absent, most of the times we need to look for another person outside the staff to use his arena while he controls the matches aswel (for example: to reset a match due DC). Which is ofcourse, something we would rather avoid. Let us be able to pick 1 or more ppl to admin the arena while we, as owners, are not around. They can do anything but changing name and password. This will make Tournament Staff live’s much easier and less stressfull.

• I have a small..: With the max amount of people able to be in the server being 20, I feel it is getting too small after 2 years since the game and its community gotten bigger. Although there’s no real need to increase the max numbers, some guilds and events actually suffer from the cap. If we were able to make our Arena bigger, guild events would go smoother, WvW guilds can actually practice decent GvG (15v15) and new events might eventually turn up. A 10v10 is already available but no1 is able to spectate such a thing either way. Make it a bit bigger! I’m up for paying gems for that! 400 gems per 5 slots (permanently) untill a max of 30-35.

• Classes visible: As we know since a recent patch, you cannot see the class symbols no more in spectators. This causes some confusion when starting up an event (like training) and wasting our time by asking everyone what class they’re playing. I would like to see this back implented in Spectators.

• Logs: We cannot know when anyone enters the arena while the owner is not around. We also do not hear a sound when someone entered your arena either (which might be problematic for PvP Tournament as it might take time untill we notice someone is spectating (previous team/player). A sound and/or notice on screen (yellow server message) when someone enters the Arena. Also a history log showing who joined the server while you were absent (accountnames) and timelogs.

Sincerely,

Denied