Guild Wars 2

I think it’s been suggested before and ultimately shot down because there’s nothing particularly special about Commanders except that at least one point in time they had an ample amount of gold with nothing else to buy.

Pay 100g for the opportunity to troll and sabotage a server, is the first thing I thought of.

Maybe add some better functionality to unclaim objectives, possibly being able to unclaim via something in the guild interface. Another idea is a popup box reminder to all people capable of claiming when the buffs fall off an objective they’ve claimed.

For the OP’s suggestion, I’d have to say no.

Zynthetic.2954:

Pay 100g for the opportunity to troll and sabotage a server, is the first thing I thought of.

Maybe add some better functionality to unclaim objectives, possibly being able to unclaim via something in the guild interface. Another idea is a popup box reminder to all people capable of claiming when the buffs fall off an objective they’ve claimed.

For the OP’s suggestion, I’d have to say no.

lol, if you’re talking about troll wise , just make a guild and claim stuff and " sabotage " ur server easier than 100g to " troll"

Just let anybody activate whatever structure buffs they have, regardless of the claim state of the structure. Stronger buffs override weaker / non-existent ones, call it a day. Maybe change claiming to give it a purpose again, or maybe not.

They could do something like add a petition option to the claimer that people could use that would cause the location to become unclaimed once enough people down voted it.

Or better still make claiming something petition based. So when someone goes to claim a keep it goes to a vote so x number of people would need to accept it through in game mechanics. Sort of like the “like” option on social media sites.

Simple solution, if another player from a different guild comes along and wishes to claim a keep, they can only do so if their guild can provide more boosts than the current guild which claims it.

This helps with those guilds that are offline and lost some of their boosts, and prevents troll/noob guilds from claiming a keep without offering the rest of the server any boosts.

Coopziana.1802:

Hmmm, yeah I hear what you’re saying about Trolling. but a simple fix for that is “Guilds that are guesting cannot claim at all” which would also solve the problem of trolling all together.

I don’t think petition based claims are really a necessity but I like the petition based unclaim idea. obviously they should have a specific rule “The guild trying to claim cannot sign the petition” so it would ensure that a trolling guild could not simply vote for themselves. However the only issue to that idea is that it would be really irritating to be in WvW and suddenly a petition popped up on your screen while half way through a fight. So perhaps a localised event for the petition would be best so it didn’t bug anyone.

Though I do think that perhaps arenanet should look into the requirements for becoming a commander, for example 100g + 1 Gift of battle for the title. only reason I say that is because there are far too many commanders out there who are a bit clueless and are good at taking the server to the scrap yard (as it were). So a show of actual WvW participation is well in order.

Now I understand that to suddenly take the commander title off everyone and state “if you want it back you have to give 1 Gift of Battle” would seriously upset a lot of people. So perhaps have 2 classes of Commander. 100g = PvE commander then upgrade with 1 Gift of Battle to “WvW Commander”.

Just a suggestion as it appears it’s far too easy to get the commander title by simply buying up a load of gems > converting to gold > getting title, having never actually set foot in WvW.

IMO WvW commanders should have the ability to unclaim any of their home server forts/keeps/castles, but i agree there should be some safety net in their to prevent trolls switching servers to mess up WvW. Perhaps a cool-down period, which is a global one that will end once the WvW server resets, so that trolls that wish to switch server to mess things up will (9/10 times) be doing so stupidly as they will not be able to unclaim forts until the server switch by which time their home server will probably be facing someone else!

Thoughts?

Guesting people can’t get into WvW on the guested server to begin with.

People can get gift of battle entirely from the jumping puzzles, which is essentially the same as never setting foot inside WvW. They’re technically in WvW, but they’re not participating in it. However, the cost being in gold is absurd considering how much easier it is to get 100g from PvE than from WvW. Not sure what they could change it to, or if it even makes sense to change it now, the damage is already done.

The “cooldown period” idea wouldn’t work. WvW matchups are relatively stable atm (same 3 servers in most tiers each week). Someone could camp an alt account with a commander tag on each of the other servers and run around stripping guild buffs at will as soon as their “cooldown” was up. Would only delay the trolling/cheating for a few days, would do nothing to actually prevent it.

I like the idea of being able to activate any buffs you have ready to go regardless of claimed status (from someone else’s post). Second best is only being able to “unclaim” a structure if there are no active buffs on it.

Kintari.4172:

Just let anybody activate whatever structure buffs they have, regardless of the claim state of the structure. Stronger buffs override weaker / non-existent ones, call it a day. Maybe change claiming to give it a purpose again, or maybe not.

This is the most feasible route imo. Buffs shouldn’t be based on which troll has claimed it simply to have their flags shown to everyone