Guild Wars 2

In pve you can pick up any location and be there when you log into the game, if you pvp you can log in to heart of the mists, if you wvw can you log in to wvw maps?

I think it’d be nice to log in to the game and be already on the battlefield. Besides, I think it would encourage more action by letting players immerse immediately on whatever is going on at the moment they log in.

If there’s a queue on the map where you last logged out?
Queue the player automatically on that map and send him somewhere else.

Sleeping in Objectives

I was also thinking about something that might be just a crazy idea, but the designers of the desert borderlands mentioned that one of the things they intended when designing the new objectives was to make them places you’d like to live in or hang out in (mentioned at EGX Rezzed last year).

Why not make them just that by letting players sleep inside objectives? When they log back into the game, if the objective hasn’t flipped, they’ll be there already and perhaps throw in some speed buff for them like the one the shrines give you or whatnot.
Stretching it even further maybe add very small bonuses to an objective per number of allies sleeping inside (and cap it obviously).

I’m aware that there are lots of fixes and adjustments currently needed for this game mode, but this came through my mind and I wanted to share, thoughts on this?

So you could park like 10 characters in different towers and keep, then check WvW and if its owned by an enemy you just log in to that character?

Sweet. Sounds lovely.

Oh no Dawdler, I think I mentioned to just be able to log in to an objective if it hasn’t flipped since you last logged out. You would be automatically ejected the very first time it flips so it wouldn’t count you even if your server recaptured it.

Dawdler has a point though. If you can’t WP into an objective that’s contested, you’d swap to an alt that’s parked there. Rather defeats the purpose of contesting a WP, doesn’kitten Although I do agree that if the map isn’t full, I would like to log directly into WvW. Maybe that’s why Mike O’Brien thinks “no one just plays WvW”?

I see what you mean, and yes the main idea behind this thread is being able to log in directly to wvw, I think it’s a very simple way of slightly increasing the engagement time of players on this game mode.

Regarding the crazy idea, swapping to an alt onto a contested objective just seems natural to me like people used to do in medieval times, if a castle was sieged soldiers sleeping inside would wake up and defend, of course there’d be a limited number of “beds” so to speak.

Ah, ok, I see what you mean. If X number of players are camped in a contested objective, not all of them would be able to log into their toon that is camped there. I kinda like that idea.

Or just make the character log in in spawn.

Btw what would happen if theres a queue on the map? Would that character be completely locked out form game play?

Sinbold.8723:

Ah, ok, I see what you mean. If X number of players are camped in a contested objective, not all of them would be able to log into their toon that is camped there. I kinda like that idea.

Yeah it could be fun right? And give even more meaning to your alts in wvw.

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

Or just make the character log in in spawn.

Btw what would happen if theres a queue on the map? Would that character be completely locked out form game play?

As I mentioned earlier, I guess you could be queued automatically on that map and be sent anywhere else in the meanwhile (some other wvw map, eotm, pve, heart of the mists, guild hall, etc)

The best way to solve this would be to make a persistent server map, similar to HotM. That would always be available, and technically a WvW map, connected just to your server. (With some services and portals to LA, and to the other WvW maps etc, basically a HUB map).

loging into the actual wvw maps is most likely going to be way too complicated to execute, even if you did reset it every week reset. Just imagine all your alts being kicked out because you changed color on Reset, and you have to log through all your alts to find places for them again. At the very least it would have to be at spawn.