Guild Wars 2

I know this has been said already but only in a topic about the missing commander icon on the map, so I want to bump it out on it’s own as a serious issue.

Every ally dot on my map shows green, as it does for everyone else. The only place I see blue is if a party member is off my mini map but then if I pan the map over to them they suddenly become green again.

This is just stupidly frustrating.

We have no way of knowing where our party members are. If 2 zergs move through the same area they inevitably end up fragmenting because they do not know which is which. Any party entering that congested area is just completely lost.

OMG FIX THIS.

Seriously, please fix this. I had a hell of a time trying to find my own party members on the map. The only way to make the blue show instead is when I zoom out on the map. That green dot sits on top of the commander icon as well, which is a bit annoying. This shouldn’t be a complicated fix as it looks like the layering order of the dots just got mixed up, so please resolve this asap ><

I saw a bunch of orangey-brown dots the other night in Ogrewatch. Turned out I was seeing the enemy. Looks like something is amiss with the dotage.

Could not agree more, since the patch and the green dots in the blue dot I experience difficulties in locating my fellow party members on the minimap. You are in a party for the reason to see eachother more clear, which is currently not the case.

I don’t know why you came up with this design idea but I would ask you to put it back to the original way please…

/signed.

please address this as well as kicking offline people from group and other party/chat issues in WvW

Ordibble.3092:

I saw a bunch of orangey-brown dots the other night in Ogrewatch. Turned out I was seeing the enemy. Looks like something is amiss with the dotage.

I had that a couple of months ago, and someone talked about them getting it on map chat a few weeks later. Guess that’s just a random anomaly

if you zoom out your mini map (to show a bigger area), your party members become blue dots again.

This is so annoying I can’t even begin to express how this makes me feel. Surely you can fix this quickly?

Zooming in makes them all green,Zooming out shows your partymembers to be blue..THe issue is,that the commander icon gets overlapped with blue/green icons making it difficult to see,the commander icon should be Ontop of the green/blue icons,overlapping them.

While fixing, please implement different color dots for guild and squad.. ty ^^

Yeah this problem is so annoying.

Yes that is quite annoying.

/signed, hate having to zoom all the way out on mini map to find party and/or commanders.

please let it be a bug and get it fixed, if this isn’t then Anet you are really trying to make the game less enjoyable and harder for party’s to keep together .
It as been bad enough over the past few days playing with the other problems you have also added.
And I’m with Merlin as well it would be better if you added something like different colored dots to squad and or guild to help small groups of people

Caedmon.6798:

I S U P E R S I N I.4761:

I think everyone should encourage there friends and fellow guild members allies to complain on this page, to actually encourage them to do something. The previous update has completely ruined the game for a lot of players!

1) Two whole days of constant crashes
(not to mention ruining our chance of capping keeps and towers) this includes the armor repair bill that proves to be really annoying after each time you log back in after a crash you have to waist your pix-elated gold on repairs when you should not have too.

2) Two whole days of not being able to place siege, and waist god knows how many golems "again possibly purchased for gold/badges when we should not have 2.

3) zoom in zoom out who cares. WHY would you remove party color from the party players. Its absolutely terrible Idea!

If we wanted to play like the German blobs then there would not be an issue …But you have individual players individual guilds that want to play in groups.

…Oh dear ANET you did a really good job this time around. Can you guys please please do something productive for the community and you followers/fans other than making this worse than it is becoming.

Regards
~another annoyed player.

Do you realize this thread is about the Map and the Dots of players being barely visible,overlapping each other ? This is not about Sieges, it’s also not about crashes or repair bills,please read that thread title and response with appropiate reply’s,if you want to complain about repair bills or crashes,just make another thread..And calling out people and guildmembers to complain on this page? Again…Read The Thread Title,this is about Map Icon Issues,Nothing else.

Regards
Another annoyed reader.

I do believe he is pointing out and expressing his views about issues related to the map dots, and therefore related to the title. And the calling out of people and guild mates is simply to increase Anets chance of reading this thread and address the issues discussed in this thread. And if we made a new thread for everything that was related to something else, then we would never get anywhere. No need to be a aggressive.

Fix immediately it makes no sense not seeing our party when their close to us

+1

Agreed, silly change with no prior warning. Really hope this is a bug and not a new Anet feature.

Please fix this bug asap.

>Waiting for red post.

The entire grouping and UI system needs a major upgrade. This is a social game with an inadequate social system UI.

- Commander/squad, guild and party members dots should all have unique colors.

- Should have the same right click UI options in WvW that we have in ANY PvE zone. Another patch and we still have to reform the group every time someone logs without leaving the party first. Still have to manually invite party members with a /slash command (if they are not in range to invite through nameplate).

- Still no way to make private squads to create medium sized or guild only squads.

Perhaps we can pull a few devs away from creating new gem store items and create an adequate grouping system with UI support first?

Thanks for the response.

Thank you very much!

You are the best Devon!

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ve identified a bug that was introduced with the map markers and are working on a fix.

you don’t have an “undo” button in your IDE / a revert button in your version control software of choice?

Thanks very much for the quick response Devon. I’m looking forward to the fix

Darius Glazkov.9750:

you don’t have an “undo” button in your IDE / a revert button in your version control software of choice?

They probably do.
But that would also mean the new addition would get removed. And they are most likely trying to get both of them to work at the same time, which is why an undo-button would be quite useless.

At the same time that you fix this you should value to allow an increase in the groups number. It is a mess just to allow grouping 5 people, please allow grouping 10 (Twelve would be perfect).

Best regards,

Haltair, on of the Twelve shadows

Haltair.3062:

At the same time that you fix this you should value to allow an increase in the groups number. It is a mess just to allow grouping 5 people, please allow grouping 10 (Twelve would be perfect).

Best regards,

Haltair, on of the Twelve shadows

i see what you did there ^^

The problem is the blue dots scale with your mini map, so if you zoom in all the way down your dots become small so everyone looks green. If you zoom all the way out they scale up and you’re able to see your party members locations, just not really accurate for locating everyone.