Guild Wars 2

It would be a nice idea to allow allies to take off supplies from a passing caravan. It would make the dollies even more important to protect and to kill as well as give extra options for obtaining supply quicker at the cost of reducing the amount of supply that reaches the towers.

And of course there are the new titles – The Dolyak Looter, and Supply Leech :P

Like escorting dolyaks wasn’t hard enough with sniping thieves… Now we’ll have to watch out for people of our own servers stealing supplies from dolyaks.

No thank you.

any wvw function that can be controlled by players will be exploited by players. i.e. structure upgrades, siege trolls that kill golems and build tons of useless siege, this, etc..

Jeknar.6184:

Like escorting dolyaks wasn’t hard enough with sniping thieves… Now we’ll have to watch out for people of our own servers stealing supplies from dolyaks.

No thank you.

…and there won’t be anything you can do about when they do take supplies. Last night I watched our garrison supply go from 900 to 400 due to people too uneducated or too lazy to go to a nearby camp or even the supply drop in citadel we’d just gotten from EOTM, despite multiple pleas and admonitions by me and others in /map. Yaks are too essential to getting structures upgraded to leave their cargo’s security to the whims of the Great Unwashed.

Spicyhash.7605:

any wvw function that can be controlled by players will be exploited by players. i.e. structure upgrades, siege trolls that kill golems and build tons of useless siege, this, etc..

Of course it would be exploited by some, what is your point? Should we remove all siege from the game, and structural upgrades as well? Not to mention class skills – so many exploits there like porting through doors.

Just because something can be exploited does not mean it’s bad. We just deal with it like we deal with the other player controlled things.

This suggestion is very general, of course we can gate it behind a Dolyak Mastery, requiring you to spend skill points to be able to actually take supply from a dolyak, and that would scare off most uneducated players who would not spend skills on something useless to them. As for trolls.. well they are always there and are no valid argument. That should never be a reason to deny a game new options.