Guild Wars 2

I have two suggestions
1) Donate button added to raid ui. It allows you to enter in the gold and send it to the raid leader. Those who are horrible wont get much, but those who the server see’s as essential atleast will get the added bonus. Sure we can mail it, but having it built into the raid ui will make it less clunky.

2) An algorithm that kicks back a minute percentage of the total silver/coppers looted by the raid to the leader every tick.

These could also help spread out people on maps as there will be a lot more people tagged up. There may be complaints by those who want those full 50 man raids, but they are part of the reason this game mode is suffering.

Tags should have never been increased to 300g, but anet was trying to make a money sink for wvw, even though wvw never makes as much gold as pve. Then they introduced the apple mentor tag for pve but you didn’t have to pay gold for it, just get the mastery. Fair?

The first hurdle for commanders is forking up that gold.
The donate idea is a good one though, doubt it would ever be implemented as people could use it to do trades.

This is a horrible idea. You’d just see a bunch of people tagged up hoping people will join and donate gold to them. What you really need to get tags are pugs to get in TS, join a guild, and be willing to get organized. If they aren’t even willing to join a voip, then why should I tag up?

This is actually a good idea, the biggest problem with WvW is the lack of quality commanders tagging up. The old ones getting bored, and new ones rarely pop up and try more than a few times.

I think a lot of people will just spam command for awhile. It will also most likely drive others to never tag up because players will ridicule certain commanders for the lols.

It will happen and you know it. Then you’ll have no tag when the main guy on the server burns out.

No.

i already do mail commanders i appreciate small tips 10-50 silver if i was in their team for a long period of time.

but a system like this would just get 20 tags per map fighting over players.

there no reason for this. if you having gold problems you maybe you should look up a guide on how to make money.

this only cause cancer to WvW people tagging up sololy to make money.

You can already donate to commanders if you want, we dont need kittening Kickstarter ingame for commanders.

Contribution bonus is also bad, you do realize how many people will abuse this right? Just stand AFK tagged in spawn while everyone run around on the border, then pay members back some of the gold. Or there being 20+ tags on the border because everyone want a piece of their guilds income. This wont automatically create actual commanders.

If you want more interested in tagging then:
1) Make it cost 100g again
2) Expand the functionality to customize the tag with squad names and different shapes in order to fill the void of 5-25 man pre-defined PUG groups
3) Give the commander unique skills with the size of the group (not something that unbalance individual player/zerg combat but rather things that affect WvW as a whole, like calling to arms on the minimap or dropping unique siege on long 30m+ cooldowns)

Actually I don’t think this would make much difference. A commander who is more interested in gold would most likely be either k-training or in PvE leading world boss trains.

There are two types of commander in WvW.

• Dedicated Guild commanders run a group that is usually in TS and may or may not be open to join. They are usually experienced and skilled, and part of their job is to train new commanders within their guild.
• Pug commanders are more casual, tend to run open groups, and since linking started are not usually on TS (which TS would you use, and are you able to verify new players?!). Pug commanders rarely train up new commanders but do a useful job filling in when Guild groups are absent.

Neither Guild commanders nor pug commanders are leading for gold, although I’m sure few would say no to a donation if you sent one!
Guild commanders are motivated by their community and team, and the fun they have together.
Pug commanders are motivated by a desire to return a map to it’s rightful colour, to gather enough players to actually have a chance of doing stuff, and for the fun the group can have together.

If you want to entice Commanders to lead then encourage them, follow them, help them and don’t abuse those who do tag up. If a commander doesn’t know what to do, offer advice and support.

Yuffi.2430:

If you want to entice Commanders to lead then encourage them, follow them, help them and don’t abuse those who do tag up. If a commander doesn’t know what to do, offer advice and support.

This.
It is usually those that abuse the commanders that whine because there isn’t a tag on the map. As far as tipping or any of that, I generally send whatever catapults & rams I get to whatever commander that has the misfortune of ending up with me.