Guild Wars 2

The upgrade system is flawed. Many players neglect upgrades altogether due their high price. I’ve seen instances in my home server where a tower sits at 100/100 supply with no upgrades queued. In the lower server brackets, this trivializes supply camps and dolyaks. The high price of upgrades places individual power and server strength in the hands of those willing to foot the bill.

In a game mode where every man should count and every man should have a duty, we need a solution. This is mine:

Allow players to contribute to an “upgrade fund” within their respective tower/keep/castle. That way all players can pitch in with whatever amount they feel inclined to contribute. If I want a Waypoint to Stonemist, but I only have 2c, that’s fine, because I can put 1c in the upgrade fund and feel like I’ve done my server good.

Yes i believe they should implement a system where you can set down funds into that tower/keep instead of mailing it to one player to que upgrades. That way anyone who passes through can all just donate 1s each if they were willing.

/signed … I either find myself dropping whatever I can because I’m happy about a take and don’t care about the cash – euphoria on a job well done (minus this week FA) … or fire and forget – because who really wants to drop 1.5 gold, all the time. Time for supply running. I would definitely consider a drop box system to donate on the fly.

Also might take some relief off the guilds who are continually forking out there $. All servers should /sign this. I know some of you don’t care, but a server should be able to donate, not 1 person.

Sounds like a good idea, the sending money to people or going around with the hat collecting money is time consuming

it’s even more frustrating when your places are taken at night, so why would you pay 1gold to upgrade the fort when you know you will lose it instantly

Plus you should be able to use badges to upgrade

Really not sure why this doesn’t exist already. Kind of like the badges idea as well.

Signed. Need to provide partial funding for upgrades.

Similarly I’d love to have a guild siege kitty.

Make spending money on upgrades an achievement. People will fall over themselves to throw money at it then.

I support the idea of a mechanism to pool money for upgrades. If a big group takes an objective the cumulative payout pays for several upgrades easily.

Denim Samurai.2379:

Make spending money on upgrades an achievement. People will fall over themselves to throw money at it then.

This is genius. You’d have a gold sink for ANet and WvWers would benefit. Win-win.

Denim Samurai.2379:

Make spending money on upgrades an achievement. People will fall over themselves to throw money at it then.

This will attract all of ’em PvErs into W3 too. And we are desperately wringing our figurative hands here how to do that. You hit that amazing nail on the head. Much love!