Guild Wars 2

Seriously, giving us enough time to barely type “oh you got to be kidding me” then seeing all our siege reset instantly, or being in the middle of a multi-hour siege and almost being done and suddenly—boom.

We need more advanced warning. If there’s normally scheduled patches, please let us know what times they are, or please point me to where they’re posted. Thanks.

See also: the thread about a guild losing 25 gold in golems from a patch with no warning

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Never seem to have much more than 10 seconds notice.

Agreed. They also need to freeze WvW for 15-30 mins after each patch is released, to allow people to actually login, etc. This patch completely shafted Oceanic players, because we download much slower than the US players. Going to having virtually everything, to having nothing due to worse net connection/distance is absolutely ridiculous.

^ never even thought of that.

Yeah that’s pretty bad.

Its a real shame ANet couldn’t bring across the patching mechanism from GW1 where the updates would stream down in the background while you played.

Advance notice is a horrible idea for wvw.

If they give advance notice, then players can amass golem armies, and then the moment servers come up zerg all the things.

the other team can also counter that, if they know when it’s gonna happen. Point being, people are losing tons of their own money on siege that just gets wiped out whenever Anet feels like doing it without any advanced notice.

Either keep the gear we placed post-reset, or give us more notice. I also feel dirty when we manage to hold on to a keep when we shoulda lost it, but the reset hits mid-siege…ugh. They just don’t make water hot enough to clean that off…

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Advance notice is a horrible idea for wvw.

If they give advance notice, then players can amass golem armies, and then the moment servers come up zerg all the things.

If they build the golems before the server goes down they lose all those golems.

Building it after the patch still involves massing large quantities of supplies to actually build that army. And that takes quite some time.

GavinGoodrich.1382:

^ never even thought of that.

Yeah that’s pretty bad.

It was pretty lame of anet. We finally download the patch and get in, only to see that our points have gone from 600 – 50 – 0 or whatever, to 50 – 600 – 0, and all our upgrades are gone. After seeing that, most Oceanic players just said screw it and did the Halloween event.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

Advance notice is a horrible idea for wvw.

If they give advance notice, then players can amass golem armies, and then the moment servers come up zerg all the things.

Which is why WvW needs to be frozen for 15-30 minutes after each patch.

GavinGoodrich.1382:

the other team can also counter that, if they know when it’s gonna happen. Point being, people are losing tons of their own money on siege that just gets wiped out whenever Anet feels like doing it without any advanced notice.

Either keep the gear we placed post-reset, or give us more notice. I also feel dirty when we manage to hold on to a keep when we shoulda lost it, but the reset hits mid-siege…ugh. They just don’t make water hot enough to clean that off…

It is physically impossible for Oceanic players to counter this, unless you have some new FTL internet we can use :P