Guild Wars 2

I’ll see if we know why it would appear to get stuck and take so long to send. There may be a lot of data being transmitted to help the devs identify the issues and get started on a fix. However, I’ll see what I can learn about this.

Thanks for letting us know.

Conncept.7638:

How on earth did this baseless nonsense get a red post?

If you read the post, it wasn’t laudatory of the OP, it was cautionary about bad manners.

And to be honest, yes, sometimes…

manveruppd.7601:

Because, sadly, people on these forums are so angry and rude that the developers have to spend more time patrolling the hallways and putting out flame wars than reading good, constructive discussions.

Which all goes to the point that if everyone exercises better forum habits, then more meaningful interaction is possible.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Ok cool let’s start it of then Donari:

Note these are my personal top three priorities:

1: The ability for guild members to be able to show of their prowess and achievements through Guild Halls and their own avatar customization.
2: The ability for players to work together in a fun way to build something different and exciting.
3: The ability for smaller guilds to enjoy guild halls.

Chris

Le Bump

Chris

Bump.

We will wait a few more days for folks to post their top three priority’s. Could those who are doing summaries please post them (Orpheal and Vod)

Then on Monday I will put our proposal together and then on Tuesday we will begin Phase 3: Raiding!!

Chris

Bump

I think the reason that the Grenth hood has appeared closer to Wintersday is because of the traditional Wintersday battle between Grenth and Dwayna back 250 years ago in Tyria. I used to attend in Lion’s Arch, back in the pre-rubble, pre-flooding days. ~sniff~

Anyway, the whole thing was a lot of fun and the hood is no doubt an homage to that tradition. And yes, items do sometimes reappear and I bet this one will come around again so just keep your eyes on the store.

I don’t know for sure that it will happen, but I’ve seen items come through from time to time. I agree with you that this is a particularly cute item. Keep your eye on the store and maybe they will make a reappearance!

Thanks for the helpful info, everyone. Raggy, I think that’s a great look, and I hope you love it, too!

960716 Not yet 3 days.
959792 Not yet 3 days. – Login tickets are very high, though. You’re in queue and not forgotten.

I read it as “experienced.” As in “Only experienced players need to apply.” I like some of the definitions here that set actual stats, though, like Miku’s. And I agree with Rasimir that the term can be somewhat subjective. (I admit it, a few other “definitions” made me smile. )

Cakemeister.5792:

I just want magic find to make a difference.

Magic find makes a huge difference.

phys.7689:

Wanze.8410:

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

I’ve not read this whole thread so forgive me if this is answered elsewhere. I want to ask a few questions.

1. Is the loot system currently set up so people who play less are more likely to get an awesome RNG drop? There have been numerous posts like, “my friend logged on after 5 months and got X, Y, Z drop while I’ve been playing every day and got nothing!” I want to know if the way it works currently is that those who play lots get decreasing loot in proportion to playtime. Why would ANET do this? To keep people chasing the carrot.

John answered that question in a different thread, there arent any account modifiers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/I-have-a-question-about-the-economy/page/15#post4487484

what he is speaking of wouldnt be an account modifier, and it probably does exist, mildy. There is Diminishing returns on drops and it decays pretty slowly. You will in fact see more drops in your first few hours after not having played for awhile.

They will never tell us exactly what is happening, but your friend who plays rarely will basically have no DR for almost all of their playtime.

Still catching up, but I wanted to stop to be clear. No to this. This doesn’t happen, it’s a cognitive bias. There’s virtually no DR active on any given day.

Simzani.4318:

It is a CDI on guild halls and there is one on gvg, it means that they don’t even had think about begining to discuss it at lunch. Previous CDI showed that what’s in the CDI stay in the CDI. I’m curious to see what they want us to discuss that we will never have.

Hi Sim,

Not sure what you mean, can you elaborate please?

Chris

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Ok cool let’s start it of then Donari:

Note these are my personal top three priorities:

1: The ability for guild members to be able to show of their prowess and achievements through Guild Halls and their own avatar customization.
2: The ability for players to work together in a fun way to build something different and exciting.
3: The ability for smaller guilds to enjoy guild halls.

Chris

Le Bump

Chris

Bump.

We will wait a few more days for folks to post their top three priority’s. Could those who are doing summaries please post them (Orpheal and Vod)

Then on Monday I will put our proposal together and then on Tuesday we will begin Phase 3: Raiding!!

Chris

raethe.1903:

I think this is awesome, but makes me very sad. It’s a prime example of how the community is losing people who make it worth playing.

raethe — I understand what you’re saying, but I read Sanderinoa’s original post as saying that the guild is taking a time-out, not making a departure. We know that guilds sometimes do that, and it’s perfectly fine. (In fact, it’s one of the beauties of Guild Wars 2 that you don’t have that monthly fee nagging you that “I must play to get my money’s worth!” )

I feel sure that Sanderinoa and the guild will be back in the future, and we’ll be very happy when that happens!

(Oh and well done, EC and the others who have met or will be taking on the challenges!)

I just took a look and I couldn’t find the Google Authenticator for Windows phones – it seems to be discontinued. However, I did find this, which is “designed to be a replacement for Google Authenticator.” Note that ArenaNet does not officially endorse this app, and I can’t guarantee it will work with our game, but if you do try it please let me know if it works!

Good suggestion! I’ll get in touch with the web team about it.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

Lauree Akhtar.3205:

Hey guys!

I wasn’t able to make an introduction post due to not having a proper shiny account, but I’d like to thank Hordes of Denravi of HoD for the great time I’ve had! I hadn’t played WvW prior to this and it was a super cool experience to run with the guild, learn the ropes, and get their amazing feedback on the game! It’s been a grand time and I look forward to my continued WvW playing.

It was great fun having you join us on Theme Night, at least I think you did form the convos going on on our TS last week…lol!
Tonight looks like we are going to do a “Thief Night”, so if you have time, come join us again!

I was there for Ranger night and Mesmer night! T’was much fun (though my ranger had a grand total of three skills by then end of the night).

Thief is the only class I haven’t played much of~ I’ll definitely try to make it tonight! May be late, though; now that the tournament is over the boyfriend and I are going back to our evening workouts

GM Talon asked me to just leave this here…

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/27698133-Connectivity

This a problem caused by having a playback device configured for surround sound at the device driver level when your hardware device is only stereo. What happens in this scenario is that audio is being directed toward a ‘center’ speaker that doesn’t physically exist and so you lose the sounds that happen directly on your character or right in front of them.

Configuring your device drivers to output 2.1 stereo should solve the problem.

I see that your ticket was filed through our support system at 7:24 PM PDT yesterday and this forum thread was created 9 minutes later at 7:33 PM PDT. An agent replied to your ticket at 8:12 PM PDT. Please allow agents adequate time to respond to your ticket before posting on the forums. Tickets are answered in the order in which they were received.

Here are the policies:

We don’t monitor names.
When reported; we review a name manually and as a team.
If it violates policy we change it. We don’t care about how often it’s reported – that has no weight in our decision.
If it is offensive in ANY territory our game is supported – we change it.
Example: Pallet is offensive in a European country but is fine here in the states. (Though why you’d want to be a pile of wood is beyond me.)

You have the right to appeal our decision and explain your viewpoint via submitting a support ticket. We will not weigh in on the forums.

If you repeatedly use offensive names your account will be suspended.

https://forum-es.gw2archive.eu =)

953158 Not yet 3 days, solved.
950276 Solved
946641 Escalated for final review
938871 Final Response already sent.

You may need to log in on all of your characters and speak with the Black Lion Trader (Armorsmith) individually to obtain all of your outfits and town clothing tonics, if you had not done so previously. More information and instructions related to town clothes and outfits can be found on the following article from our Knowledge Base:

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45944258-Town-Clothes

If you believe you are still missing something after following those instructions, please submit a ticket so that an agent can investigate the issue further.

Gatimax.9836:

Maclaine Diemer.7693:

Thank you, Sebalon. There will be more new music in the future, so keep your ears open.

Hey Maclaine, in general I like the songs of Guild Wars 2, however I don’t feel as excited as in other games I’ve ever played (Lineage II), Miss Joy, that could be embedded in modern history? Because we must remember that the climate is not the best …

Unfortunately, I’m not sure I understand what you’re asking. Can you rephrase it at all?

Zaxares: That piece was uploaded on Soundcloud as part of an exclusive interview with Gamespot.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-art-and-music-of-guild-wars-2s-living-world/1100-6421710/

I think it’s been long enough that I can upload it to the main ArenaNet Soundcloud page. I’ll ask if that’s possible and update the page accordingly.

Hi, manimsmart. So, as it turns out, that piece is not included in the soundtrack compilation sold by Direct Song. That’s something we have no control over, unfortunately.

It’s part of a small collection of music that we categorized as “cinematic”. The idea was that, during the limited cinematics where characters talk with each other (like in the video you linked), there would be a selection of pieces that designers could choose to loop beneath the dialogue in order to set the mood. Not every designer took advantage of them, and since we no longer do limited cinematics in any of the content post-launch, they don’t get heard much.

I’m not sure what our options are as far as posting that stuff on Soundcloud, but I will look into it. Please understand that I make no guarantees that we’ll be able to release it.

I know how frustrating this can be, but I’m glad that you have offered some suggestions. I’ll see if our Tech and Customer Support people are aware of this so that they can give the tip to others.

And if you try the tips here and they don’t resolve the issue, please submit a ticket by clicking “Support” at the top of this page and then clicking the “Submit a request” option. Provide as much information as possible in the web form, which will create a ticket within the support system. If you do not know some of the information requested, leave the field blank. However, there are two drop-down areas that require an answer so be sure to choose from those fields so the ticket is properly submitted. Once you’ve done that, the CS Team should be able to help you.

Thanks for posting!

This is really great. Thanks to everyone who participated in its creation — we <3 you guys!

Ayakaru — I don’t know what to tell you about this. I use the forums a lot, and occasionally I get sent to a screen that tells me that all my wonderful prose, over which I labored for at least three minutes, so gone. Therefore I must start again. ~hand on forehead~

Seriously, because the forum sometimes acts up, I’ve taken to — when I remember to do it — copying and saving the post in my clipboard so I can just slap it back into the thread. When you do this with a post that is previously inclusive of a quote, you’re essentially putting a fresh reply instead of a quote-containing reply, and I think the tech is different. Anyway, I find that this lessens the chance of the post going away.

Can you give this a try a few times and see if it makes the process smoother for you?

Hey guys, folks, lords and ladies, whatever…

You’re welcome to have a different opinion than the OP. You’re welcome to say it. But don’t make snarky or insulting comments, please. If your opinion has value, you don’t need put-downs to make your point, hmmmm?

Thanks.

How very clever, Sanderinoa, and how generous, too!

I hope the event is very successful and that those so honored appreciate your kindness. (As I am sure they will!)

Thanks for being such an awesome member of the community!

As you can see, there are several opinions on this one. Lots of people love crafting, and they enjoy the satisfaction of making something through their own efforts (and talent). Others point out that sometimes, on an economic level, you might be ahead to just buy the items you want instead of gathering ingredients and components.

I suspect that if you’re a “completionist” type of player, you might like doing the former, might enjoy “the thrill of the hunt” and that “I made this!” feeling. But there’s a time consideration that may lead you to complete other things instead.

In the end, I’d suggest you give the Guild Wars 2 Wiki a read, because there are some nice information and discussion pages on the subject that could help you reach the right decision for you.

But I have to quote:

Anchoku.8142:

Craft for the fun of it, too.

So true.

For an official answer, “Blocked” normally means suspended, although in some cases it could mean the account is terminated. In any case, our messaging isn’t very solid right now in relation to suspensions and termination. We used to give more specific information in the message you see when you try to log in. Somehow, just recently, everything reverted to a generic “block” message, which we sure understand is frustrating.

If you contact Customer Support, they can answer your questions. You can submit a ticket by clicking “Support” at the top of this page and then clicking the “Submit a request” option. Provide as much information as possible in the web form, which will create a ticket within the support system. If you do not know some of the information requested, leave the field blank. However, there are two drop-down areas that require an answer so be sure to choose from those fields so the ticket is properly submitted. Once you’ve done that, the CS Team should be able to help you.

Berk.8561:

And that’s probably exactly why they’ve stopped talking about anything that’s not almost ready to be deployed, because anything they say that they are working on or intend on implementing with generate type and players will care about it a lot and they’ll get angry if it never happens or doesn’t happen for a long time.

Yes, that’s definitely true. As Mike O’Brien said in a recent post, “We’ve set a clear policy in the past year: we don’t talk speculatively about future development. We don’t want to string you along. Creating fun is an uncertain business: sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t; sometimes we go back to the drawing board over and over before we get something right. If we make optimistic promises and then can’t deliver on them, everyone suffers. So when we attend a trade show or give an interview, we’re there to talk about what we’re getting ready to ship, not to speculate on what we might ship someday.”

We truly understand the interest that our loyal players have in knowing more, but we’re not able to share too much at this juncture for the reasons that are stated above and outlined in more detail in Mike’s post.

Rest assured — and my daily e-mails confirm this — the devs are reading the forums daily to keep abreast of your input on a wide variety of game elements, in addition to which they’re analyzing, prioritizing, weighing whether to and how to address areas of concern, considering how to implement positive changes, and much more, based on the input you give us on the forums.

As Mike also said in his post, much value has come through the CDI’s. I just prowled the hallways to see if I could find out more about the timeline for the current and future CDI. Alas, Chris Whiteside is in a meeting, but I know he’s committed to the format so I hope you’ll be involved in those and if there are some dates he or I can provide one of us will do that later.

You’re right, tenklo and AP. These outfits were extremely popular in Guild Wars, and they were much requested as additions for Guild Wars 2. I understand what you’ve said, Lady Grimm, but I think as a matter of fulfilling the request — and for a sort of “cultural integrity” — it’s good that it was recreated as it was.

(And yes, I happen to be amongst those who love this set. )

Hey everyone,

I had a blast playing with [CERN] on Tarnished Coast! That was some of the most intense WvWing I have experienced hands down. How fast everyone adapted to the new trick and the tactic every world brought to the table was amazing! The guild I was in was super nice and very hospitable. I really can’t say enough about everyone as the community playing and showing such passion for this game type, really thank you everyone. I hope I can see more of everyone in the coming months as I bounce around playing WvW and PvP.

See you in the mists . . . either friend or foe. . . prepare for glory!
Hugh

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Ok cool let’s start it of then Donari:

Note these are my personal top three priorities:

1: The ability for guild members to be able to show of their prowess and achievements through Guild Halls and their own avatar customization.
2: The ability for players to work together in a fun way to build something different and exciting.
3: The ability for smaller guilds to enjoy guild halls.

Chris

Le Bump

Chris

munkiman.3068:

phys.7689:

Brother Grimm.5176:

…
I’m pretty sure that nobody think there is special code about that.

But we’re a lot to rather think that RNG is bugged in some way, and that’s why, in addition to a “gauss distribution” as described in the previous post, some players are always lucky and some are always unlucky. As the RNG mechanism is all in all quite complex (modified by magic find ; depends on damage done by the player / by his group compared to damage done by other players ; special items with a different table loot ; …), there could be several bugs introduced in the system. Remember that the % of magic find displayed in the hero panel is wrong since months (but the real number is supposed to be correctly applyed), so it wouldn’t be surprising that there are some bugs in the loot mechanism itself.

There are CERTAINLY very vocal players that are convinced of the “secret LUCK stat”.

its not really relevant weather there is a secret luck stat or not. If a random works properly, there will be people who will, will seem lucky, or those who seem unlucky, when compared to the data. This is the normal expectation of the bell curve.

So whether it is a bug or not doesnt matter. The point is these people are bound to exist.

My take on RNG, isn’t that it exist or it’s broken, it’s just that it’s practically everywhere. Neither of those solutions would work anyway, since the game would have to predict what you’re after in the first place, then reward you for failure of what exactly? Do we put a merchant in the game that carries everything a player might want in exchange for a loser token?

This was the first problem I thought of as well. It’s simple to say failure and success, but that’s not an easily definable concept in real life.

This is a spinoff of the economy thread to talk about RNG tactics in games in a general form.
Here’s the premise. RNG is evenly distributed on aggregate. On an individual level this means that while almost everyone falls into a reasonable range in the middle, there are outliers on each side of the distribution that are either highly rewarded or not rewarded at all. These individuals become sample cases and spotlights for experiences that maybe shouldn’t exist.

We do need to be very careful about ideas that flatten the experience entirely as that quickly becomes not fun at all.

There are two concepts that have been discussed in the other thread that I’ll briefly summarize.

1. Use a specifically non-random NG. The NRNG functions similarly to a RNG, but has characteristics that either squish the distribution so that outliers exist much less or specifically manipulate a player’s experience for loot in a more complicated way that makes it feel rewarding.

2. Implement measures that counteract low-end outlier behavior inside of game design. This would be a system that is something like: If player hasn’t received a rare drop in X time send them Y tickets for random drops.

2.5: “Add secondary reward mechanisms (ie. token based system) alongside the primary RNG system; allow progress to be made even when you don’t get the result you want.”

Obviously these are hyper-simplified descriptions, but I don’t want this to get too long.

edit: added 2.5

I think the RNG as a concept might be a topic large enough to warrant a separate thread. I’m going to spin one up where we can discuss different theoretical tactics with dealing with the inherent problems in RNG.

Iason Evan.3806:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Iason Evan.3806:

This CDI has been amazing. I am ready for the next one though.

It has indeed been an amazing CDI. The team has reading through it diligently. I think we should move onto the top three priority items for everyone soon. Do we have any more discussion points or proposals before we move on folks?

Chris

P.S: Sorry I wasn’t on over the weekend, I just wasn’t able to get on.

• 1.) Cosmetic only progression. Crafting involved in this process with scaling for guild sizes.

• 2.) Basic services(Merchant, Armor repair etc.)are of minimal cost.

• 3.) Guild Hall Customization to allow player agency for unique feeling guild space.

1 and 2 are also points I care about.

Chris

Ok cool let’s start it of then Donari:

Note these are my personal top three priorities:

1: The ability for guild members to be able to show of their prowess and achievements through Guild Halls and their own avatar customization.
2: The ability for players to work together in a fun way to build something different and exciting.
3: The ability for smaller guilds to enjoy guild halls.

Chris

I also want to point out that we shouldn’t be using language like ‘This is a terrible idea’. I think we have got to the point now where we can prove or disprove ideas on based on their merits and discussion. The reason we shouldn’t use language like this is because the more members we have and the more ideas we have the more problems we are likely to solve and the more opportunities we are likely to find.

Chris

Iason Evan.3806:

This CDI has been amazing. I am ready for the next one though.

It has indeed been an amazing CDI. The team has reading through it diligently. I think we should move onto the top three priority items for everyone soon. Do we have any more discussion points or proposals before we move on folks?

Chris

P.S: Sorry I wasn’t on over the weekend, I just wasn’t able to get on.

Blackarps.1974:

Wait a second. The/A Producer for Anet hadn’t played WvW prior to that? Yikes…

There are many producers here! I am quite new to the company, and I do not produce for a team that is related to WvW in almost any way; trust me, if I were I would have played WvW prior to my starting here

Seiishizo.7162:

how would you explain this?
http://imgur.com/jjHRu8W

Worst case scenerio, assuming this is all solo players queued for team arena, this likely because team arena does not shuffle teams to make them even and you were put into best fitting team available at the time the team was formed.

Best case, this spread is caused more by the self selection of players forming their own rosters to play together.

The truth is probably somewhere in between.

However, there is a known (to us) flaw with team arena matchmaking. It will never try to reform a team (to try to find a better fit) once its been created. So you are stuck with the best team it could do at the time, and have to wait until it finds another team within range comes along. This is also why team arena queues can sometimes take longer, or why even a bad match can pop quickly.

Seiishizo.7162:

But if it’s based on MMR i would assume that the MMR of a #3 player would be way way higher than a 97% player.

That is an incorrect assumption. The MMR spread between a rank 3 and 97% can actually be very small. Your leaderboard rank (for the top players) is your position in a sorted list, and does not represent the distance between players other than to say one is lower than the other.

wwwes.1398:

John Smith.4610:

There isn’t such thing is some accounts getting stuck lucky. Yes there’s an RNG, yes it’s random and there are streaks and outliers and an even aggregate distribution.

Can you confirm whether it is an RNG that uses some sort of value from the user’s account or whether it is purely random/session based? I have a friend who swears that smack-talking an anet dev during a beta weekend pvp match doomed his account to poor rng for life.

Absolutely it does not use anything to do with a user.

There isn’t such thing is some accounts getting stuck lucky. Yes there’s an RNG, yes it’s random and there are streaks and outliers and an even aggregate distribution.

Hey guys!

I wasn’t able to make an introduction post due to not having a proper shiny account, but I’d like to thank Hordes of Denravi of HoD for the great time I’ve had! I hadn’t played WvW prior to this and it was a super cool experience to run with the guild, learn the ropes, and get their amazing feedback on the game! It’s been a grand time and I look forward to my continued WvW playing.

Hey there,

Glad to see you were able to get this resolved!