Guild Wars 2

We should be able to see other friendly commander icons on every WvW map to facilitate and encourage communation between maps and leaders. Discuss.

C The Bubbles.1480:

We should be able to see other friendly commander icons on every WvW map to facilitate and encourage communation between maps and leaders. Discuss.

Maybe you should discuss it, you’re the one who started the topic. You can start with why you can’t right now communicate with people on another map.

My friends list currently is full of commanders, but I have no idea which commander is actually leading and on which map without going from map to map when I log in. Also some commanders will step down and let a different commander take over.

styx.7294:

C The Bubbles.1480:

We should be able to see other friendly commander icons on every WvW map to facilitate and encourage communation between maps and leaders. Discuss.

Maybe you should discuss it, you’re the one who started the topic. You can start with why you can’t right now communicate with people on another map.

Your post isn’t very helpful; regardless of whether or not the OP has ‘discussed’ it, he’s attempting to encourage some form of discussion regarding this cross-map communication.

Moreover, he hasn’t said he can’t communicate between maps and leaders. He’s saying that perhaps ANet should implement a feature whereby we’re able to see other commander icons on other maps from where we are in WvW. It would make it easier than having to constantly message people and ask “Who’s commanding here?”

I don’t know how difficult it would be but I think it’d be pretty helpful to teams trying to organise and work out where they want to go/where they are needed.

Usagi.4835:

styx.7294:

C The Bubbles.1480:

We should be able to see other friendly commander icons on every WvW map to facilitate and encourage communation between maps and leaders. Discuss.

Maybe you should discuss it, you’re the one who started the topic. You can start with why you can’t right now communicate with people on another map.

Your post isn’t very helpful; regardless of whether or not the OP has ‘discussed’ it, he’s attempting to encourage some form of discussion regarding this cross-map communication.

Moreover, he hasn’t said he can’t communicate between maps and leaders. He’s saying that perhaps ANet should implement a feature whereby we’re able to see other commander icons on other maps from where we are in WvW. It would make it easier than having to constantly message people and ask “Who’s commanding here?”

I don’t know how difficult it would be but I think it’d be pretty helpful to teams trying to organise and work out where they want to go/where they are needed.

You’re right, I wasn’t helpful and I’m sorry. Havin people just say “Discuss” is a peeve of mine and I totally gave in.

We probably only have half a dozen commanders with tags on on at a time, so we don’t have too much problems talking between them. Most commanders are on the server TS and just jump between the server channels to ask for help. Never occurred to me havin a whole friends list of commanders, haha.

styx.7294:

We probably only have half a dozen commanders with tags on on at a time, so we don’t have too much problems talking between them.

There may be only half a dozen at any given time, but when you are on for multiple hours at a time, the commanders on each map change and you have to figure out who replaced whom and if they are still on the same map.
A lot of our commanders will push one map then hop to another map. If I ask the commander that I thought was on the home BL something, they might just tell me “I left that map a half hour ago”. That information only tells me I have to go down my list of commanders and ask who is on which map or hop maps, assuming that there is no queue.

styx.7294:

Usagi.4835:

styx.7294:

C The Bubbles.1480:

We should be able to see other friendly commander icons on every WvW map to facilitate and encourage communation between maps and leaders. Discuss.

Maybe you should discuss it, you’re the one who started the topic. You can start with why you can’t right now communicate with people on another map.

Your post isn’t very helpful; regardless of whether or not the OP has ‘discussed’ it, he’s attempting to encourage some form of discussion regarding this cross-map communication.

Moreover, he hasn’t said he can’t communicate between maps and leaders. He’s saying that perhaps ANet should implement a feature whereby we’re able to see other commander icons on other maps from where we are in WvW. It would make it easier than having to constantly message people and ask “Who’s commanding here?”

I don’t know how difficult it would be but I think it’d be pretty helpful to teams trying to organise and work out where they want to go/where they are needed.

You’re right, I wasn’t helpful and I’m sorry. Havin people just say “Discuss” is a peeve of mine and I totally gave in.

We probably only have half a dozen commanders with tags on on at a time, so we don’t have too much problems talking between them. Most commanders are on the server TS and just jump between the server channels to ask for help. Never occurred to me havin a whole friends list of commanders, haha.

It’s okay lol. But I think on some servers, where either there is no form of TS/Mumble/Vent or for the people who aren’t in those communication channels, it might be useful .

I would love this!

It’s not a big deal as my guild keeps in touch with guilds on the other maps, but /team really should be cross-map. It’s completely redundant with /map.

~ Kovu

They should just add a commander chat channel that works like a guild. Once you tag up you get the option to join a private chat channel to better communicate between BL and EB.

Ins.7139:

They should just add a commander chat channel that works like a guild. Once you tag up you get the option to join a private chat channel to better communicate between BL and EB.

I thought of that, but I am not actually sure which one would be easier to code, since the commander icons are already displayed on the local map. I say this because I still think it would be nice to know which map each commander is on.

IMO
/team should be a global chat being used for all the WWW maps, ie an universal chat.
add a prefix [MapName_playername] input text message.
/map should be chat being used on the map presently at.

alternative, add a chat option, like hero chat from lineage2, for commanders.
The text should be Blue and visible on all the www maps with this prefix;
[MapName_Cmd_NAME] input text message.

Also let commanders be able to create squads without having to turn on the commander Icon, /squad is very much used by guild groups in WWW but is prevented now due to it´s not always a good thing to have commander Icon active, confusing the PUGs on who are currently leading on the WWW map.

The problem I see with team chat being global is that team chat is already sometimes flooded with useless chat and it will just get worse. Since most people have map and team chat to distinguish important chat vs. non-important chat it also means that map chat would be harder to follow.