Guild Wars 2

Just a suggestion, but I believe WvW would be improved if we could see our own teams players on the map.

The thing I hate most, (apart from being on Devona and getting owned) is zoning in and asking where the action is. Always the answer is something that resembles an abbreviation for a place that you cant find, if you get a response at all.

I’m not sure if this is an issue on larger servers, but on Devona I can run around the whole map before finding a group, and it is really annoying.

I would love to be able to look at the map and straight for the action!

I think that’s the point of the combat sword icons that pop up on your map. They’re there to give you an idea where skirmishes/battles are.

Personally, I would love to see my teams location on my map in wvw but I could only imagine how that would be exploited by people with multiple accounts. So for that reason I would vote against it sorry.

This would be nice, though usually you’d find out where most people are by looking at the map.

Check for where the commanders are (usually followed by a group, if not a zerg), the battle icons (usually shows where skirmishes are), and the contested signs (areas being sieged or taken).

Then again, it would be nice to see even non-active bodies of fighters on the map. Might contribute to lag though, if their location data had to be updated to you all the time.

I think we should be able to mouse over the green dots (friendlies) on our minimap to be able to read who that player is so we can message them for help or give warning. Tracking everyone on the map might be a bigger issue. But if you only moused over that mini-map when it had 0-5 players in the area, it’d be helpful. A “toggle minimap/compass teammate names” option in case it ended up causing lag. Then you could maybe test to see how many people would use something like that by whether they have it enabled.

It’s a lag issue. The servers already have problems not rendering heavy concentration of enemies. Reporting the position of every player to every other client is just a lot more stress on the system.

I agree that it would be nice to have more tools to see where the action is. Showing every dot could be a problem with spies.

combat swords on the map will apear if more then 5 players are in combat and close to eachother

Commander icon is so you can see where your players are on the map hes leading them

there would be a major issue with spy accounts and cheating if every player showed upon the map

You all make some valid points… But being on Devona (although we are doing better this reset) rarely do you see a group bigger than 5 or 10 and I didn’t know what a commander was until I saw my first one tonight (And I’ve been playing since week of launch.). Just have to live with the WvW no oceanic server mechanics.