Guild Wars 2

Big armies are easily scouted long before they arrive at objectives why not do the same for zergs. My suggestion is that if over a set number of players are within a 2400 unit range of each other that the map pings their location every 30 seconds. This would allow the zerg still an element of surprise but would also give the opposition knowledge of where the big numbers are; to either try to defend key points or play havoc and pull some of the players to other locations.

Big armies are easily scouted because the scouts aren’t bad.

Your scouts are bad. And no, you shouldn’t get any compensation for being bad.

Ask roamers to help you locate them.

The real problem is WvW rewards.

No longer do we get rewarded for dolly escorts, instead of adding events which requires the escorts to do, anet simply did the easy thing and disabled the reward completely.

Again the rewards for defending only occur if the enemy attacks.
There are no rewards for scouting or patrolling at all.

But who know maybe in 2 years when HOT is released, colin claimed to say that the expansion will add features to WvW which depend more on defense and holding towers rather than flipping.

Community should get used to callouts in map chat. Someone has to start it and lead by example. These are the best contributions whether by sentries, roamer(s), or pick groups.

Just have some roamers to call out zergs whenever they see them. Also watch map to see if anything gets flipped. Even a sentry flag that moves on my minimap will tell whenever people are aggro them.

Its been in the game since release. Its called gigantic yellow swords as soon as the zerg touch anything.

this is what scouts are for. i dont get the cry for rewards, the reward is that your people now know where the enemy is… do you really need some random mats and silver?

Umm no rewards is the reason nobody defends… Zerg = loot, loot = rewards

You want rewards? I bet 1 hour pve loot is equal to 8hrs of wvw. I defend most of the time and the best reward is to see the zerg wipe trying to get something of us.