Guild Wars 2

Looking at the Quality of Life voting option in the poll, there is “across map team chat” within that option. That’s good and all, but can we also have map chat made unusable if this change were to take place? Have seen a lot of “Trolls” that ruin the experience for the majority by giving out their own server/ world’s “zerg” positions. (Can also never tell if it’s the enemy server or my own in map chat)

Also, while we are at it, can we have faster reward track progression? I love the idea of it and the new exclusive WvW armors. After 2 years I finally got into WvW because of this

Anet was kind enough to give us a lovely ignore feature for trolls.

Jayne.9251:

Anet was kind enough to give us a lovely ignore feature for trolls.

And with cross-map chat the reminder of the block feature will be seen by more people. xD

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

Looking at the Quality of Life voting option in the poll, there is “across map team chat” within that option. That’s good and all, but can we also have map chat made unusable if this change were to take place? Have seen a lot of “Trolls” that ruin the experience for the majority by giving out their own server/ world’s “zerg” positions. (Can also never tell if it’s the enemy server or my own in map chat)

Also, while we are at it, can we have faster reward track progression? I love the idea of it and the new exclusive WvW armors. After 2 years I finally got into WvW because of this

I think you misunderstand how map chat works. Way back closer to release, map chat was across servers so players from all 3 servers in the matchup can communicate with each other while they’re on the same map. But that was changed a long long time ago to be only for your server. Anybody you see talking in map chat is from your server (or the link server since world linking began)

At the moment the only real difference between map chat and team chat is that team chat either has no spam restrictions, or it has a significantly less strict spam restrictions. I can spam TS invite messages endlessly in team chat, but would get temp blocked for spamming after 3-4 messages in map chat.

I would support the idea of faster reward track progression.

Nate.3927:

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

Looking at the Quality of Life voting option in the poll, there is “across map team chat” within that option. That’s good and all, but can we also have map chat made unusable if this change were to take place? Have seen a lot of “Trolls” that ruin the experience for the majority by giving out their own server/ world’s “zerg” positions. (Can also never tell if it’s the enemy server or my own in map chat)

Also, while we are at it, can we have faster reward track progression? I love the idea of it and the new exclusive WvW armors. After 2 years I finally got into WvW because of this

I think you misunderstand how map chat works. Way back closer to release, map chat was across servers so players from all 3 servers in the matchup can communicate with each other while they’re on the same map. But that was changed a long long time ago to be only for your server. Anybody you see talking in map chat is from your server (or the link server since world linking began)

At the moment the only real difference between map chat and team chat is that team chat either has no spam restrictions, or it has a significantly less strict spam restrictions. I can spam TS invite messages endlessly in team chat, but would get temp blocked for spamming after 3-4 messages in map chat.

I would support the idea of faster reward track progression.

If that is true, then I have indeed misunderstood o.o" sorry.

Also, even though there is an exclusive WvW reward track, it progresses a lot slower than PvP…a lot slower

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

Nate.3927:

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

Looking at the Quality of Life voting option in the poll, there is “across map team chat” within that option. That’s good and all, but can we also have map chat made unusable if this change were to take place? Have seen a lot of “Trolls” that ruin the experience for the majority by giving out their own server/ world’s “zerg” positions. (Can also never tell if it’s the enemy server or my own in map chat)

Also, while we are at it, can we have faster reward track progression? I love the idea of it and the new exclusive WvW armors. After 2 years I finally got into WvW because of this

I think you misunderstand how map chat works. Way back closer to release, map chat was across servers so players from all 3 servers in the matchup can communicate with each other while they’re on the same map. But that was changed a long long time ago to be only for your server. Anybody you see talking in map chat is from your server (or the link server since world linking began)

At the moment the only real difference between map chat and team chat is that team chat either has no spam restrictions, or it has a significantly less strict spam restrictions. I can spam TS invite messages endlessly in team chat, but would get temp blocked for spamming after 3-4 messages in map chat.

I would support the idea of faster reward track progression.

If that is true, then I have indeed misunderstood o.o" sorry.

Also, even though there is an exclusive WvW reward track, it progresses a lot slower than PvP…a lot slower

And there’s no potions to boost it. Maybe we can have WXP consumable vendor back?

New proposed accross-the-maps-team chat would be special channel for everyone in your server, no matter which WvW map they are currently on. It would replace current, completely pointless, team chat.

You would then have map channel – players in your server in same map.
And team channel – every player in your server, in all 4 maps.

It would not change what enemies can see.

i dont like that they lumped cross map chat in a particular category, i think its an important feature to work on regardless of what category gets voted on

Speaking across maps is not the same as speaking across servers. This option is meant to co-ordinate between players for the same server on different maps.

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

Also, while we are at it, can we have faster reward track progression? I love the idea of it and the new exclusive WvW armors. After 2 years I finally got into WvW because of this

People want everything fast and easy….

I am actually hesistant of this feature.

I feel the same way about it like how I feel about the sentries – I understand and see the benefits, but at the same time it removes a little engagement from players to lazily automate a function. We have already had this feature since they changed guild communications – WvW server guilds that can act a liasion between other guilds and offer global WvW coms for scouts/commanders/etc.

Is team chat really a better way than that?

Dawdler.8521:

I am actually hesistant of this feature.

I feel the same way about it like how I feel about the sentries – I understand and see the benefits, but at the same time it removes a little engagement from players to lazily automate a function. We have already had this feature since they changed guild communications – WvW server guilds that can act a liasion between other guilds and offer global WvW coms for scouts/commanders/etc.

Is team chat really a better way than that?

Spot on. We on Gunnars already have server wide chat cause of a community guild. So basicly we already have cross map chat active.

Team chat is not required ofc, you can still play without it. But as it is nicely placed within QoL option, it is something that helps you slightly more enjoying the game. The way I see it (and I did vote for scoring fix without even hesitating), team chat is helping to find enemies faster and get into fights quicker without wondering around the maps looking for them. Small things like that make the game more enjoyable.

I’m kind of against this, but I’m also against the whole “Lets choke team chat”.

I joke around in Team chat a lot, but I also provide information for recon. I’m also sarcastic. I don’t get paid to do this, I don’t get paid to inform people about enemy movement, so when I joke, let me joke, if I’m doing my job then knock it off.

apparently however some FA guild through their panties in a tiff and promptly wished me to off myself because I was “wasting team chat and spewing useless information”.

Expanding team chat to cross map is just going to annoy a lot of people due to the information overflow, there should be a separate chat for such a thing, Call it WvW chat, make it so you need a 10-15 second cool down between messages in it so keep that stuff under control, and leave team chat alone.

Why leave team chat alone? It’s already identical to map chat in WvW.

Nate.3927:

I think you misunderstand how map chat works. Way back closer to release, map chat was across servers so players from all 3 servers in the matchup can communicate with each other while they’re on the same map. But that was changed a long long time ago to be only for your server. Anybody you see talking in map chat is from your server (or the link server since world linking began)

This could use some clarity from ANet, is this across all servers, I translated this across EB and Borderlands for my server. Aka, send a tell in chat to call in troops from EB to help defend Garri. Not chat to the servers that we are playing against. These are vastly different requests.

Just rechecked and it does say cross map team chat, so this should be communicating with your server, not the others.

Most severs have ts3 so this isn’t huge. Useful but not game changing