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Short answer is usually a hybrid, but you also have to wonder how much is long term investment for profit and how much of it is investment against inflation. Holding liquid wealth in any economy is a mistake.

Ok, I just opened the thread again. I would like to apologise for the confusion regarding this; however, those comments that go against the code of conduct in the forums will be dutifully moderated.

Sorry again for the inconveniences.

Players offering an “Investment service” or “a Gold Bank” or a “Sales Service” or other things of this nature are essentially offering systems that allow them to profit from players through non-game-based systems.

We’ve seen a lot of tickets from players who decline to use the Trading Post and instead use email to trade or buy items. This often turns bad. These players then ask Support to “right the wrong” when the trade or sale goes bad, and we’re simply not able to do that. (Action the scammer: Yes. But go onto accounts, pluck off items and return them to the other player: No.) Arrangements of this kind are called “Gentlemen’s Agreements” and they, like most guild politics, are things in which we do not intercede (except to take action on the account involved in provable instances of abuse).

So players “invest” with a player and find they do not get a return, or get a return less than they expected, or find the player disappears with all their hard-won gold. They come to us to say “Do something!” and we explain that this was a private arrangement and we cannot mediate such arrangements. (Even while, again, we’ll look into the matter and, to the best of our ability, close the accounts of anyone involved in scamming or stealing form other players.)

Bottom line: We’re not going to give you overt permission or approval to do this. We will not say “Your account will not be terminated if you do this.” Conversely, we will not summarily terminate your account if you do offer this service. But be aware: If you offer this service, you do so — and those who use the service do so — at your/their own risk.

Gosh, that all sounds so grouchy and I don’t mean it to be! I can see how the system could work for everyone concerned. I just want to make sure that folks know it can also go south at high velocity.

As we have said in the past, we do plan to have guild halls one day, but it’s not a feature we’re currently actively working on.

“Fast cast ground targeting” in options will also automatically target ground effects on the mouse cursor, as if you’d double-tapped the skill.

If you watch the gameplay closely, he’s swapping utilities and weapons frequently, and to serve different purposes. He has a knowledge of the bosses and event mechanics, and mitigates what risk he can through smart play and knowledge. His dodges and blocks are well timed, and rarely are they unnecessary when he uses them. He knows which attacks he can soak, and which attacks he needs to avoid.

While we appreciate the sentiment in this thread, we will have to unfortunately close it because this thread is not discussing topics related to Guild Wars 2.

Please help keep our forums focused and on-topic by discussing Guild Wars 2.

Thank you for your understanding.

Note: if you wish to gather together to form a guild of former CoH players, that is perfectly fine. Please go to the appropriate sub-forum to do this. The Guild Wars 2 Discussion forum is not the correct place for it.

Hello Daemon.

No, at the moment we are not offering this feature any more.

Good morning.

It looks like I had the wrong information about how guild influence works with guesting.

The correct answer is: You still get influence for your home world guild when you are guesting.

Sorry for the wrong information yesterday.

No problem. Then we proceed to close the thread.

Best music in a gameplay video ever.

That being said, good job again on another feat. I’d not thought it was possible to do the Hodgins library event solo, but good job in finding a way. Although to be honest, as the designer of that content, I did a facepalm when I saw your thread title.

Hello everyone.

Yes, we are aware of those issues and therefore we would ask you to keep on reporting those fellows through the in-game reporting tools (using the botting or scamming tab as a reporting option) and/or sending your reports to exploits@arena.net.

Thank you very much for your reports and patience, it´s greatly appreciated.

yeah, that’s an issue we’re aware of that is going to get solved in the next patch. Thanks for the report though!

Hello everyone.

Just a quick message to let you know that we have deleted already a great number of posts in this thread that were off-topic or just plainly aggressive towards other users. Please, remember to stay “classy”; a little bit of competitive spirit is necessary, healthy and fun, ok, but do not forget the sportsmanship, please. You can be competitive and respectful at the same time.

Thanks for your cooperation!

The correct address is exploits@arena.net, rather than exploits@arenanet.com.

Hope this clears up any confusion. Thanks for taking the time to send a report as well!

Hello everyone.

If you would like to join already the discussions around this and other issues, please, do check the following stickied thread in the Gw2 discussion subforum. We rather prefer to have all your feedback in one official place rather than scattered all around the forums.

We close this one. Thank for your understanding.

Hello Saoi.

Please, try to delete some messages from your in-box inside the game. Most of the times these items do not arrive to your account because you have the in-box rather full; delete some till you are with three or four and see if the kit arrives. If it does not arrive in the next hours, please proceed to write a ticket to Customer Support.

Thanks.

Hello everyone.

Since there is already an official sticky where you can discuss these question, we will proceed to close this thread and invite you to give us your feedback here. Thanks.

CassieGold.7460:

I think a-net support (Gaile) has said on a few occasions that there’s not much they can do in this instance as they consider it an internal guild issue

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This is true. Cryo, you could nevertheless report him in-game or through the ticketing system as a scamming denounce. However, and as it has already been said, this is an internal guild issue; although unfortunate, it can be a lesson so your guild does not suffer the same episode again.

We close the thread now. Thanks for your understanding.

Hello everyone.

Haelis, we are glad to hear that you can sell in the TP again and that Support helped you promptly. To all of you, thanks for all your contributions. Since the problem has been solved, we proceed to close the thread.

Perfect, then we proceed to close the thread.
Thanks, Esplen, for your answer.

Hello there, Terrastrasza.

I am afraid to tell you that you are right in your assumption. Customer Support won´t return your armour skin as this is a human mistake and not something out of a bug or an in-game error. In this case, you need to purchase again the entire armour skin set, yes, if you want to have it back.

We close the thread now. Thanks for your understanding.

Hello to both of you.

Rhamza, you could certainly try with a ticket to Customer Support although do not build your hopes up that much. Although very unfortunate, this occurred by a personal mistake and not due to any in-game error or bug.

Thanks for your understanding.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Astraea.6075:

To make up for my last couple of off-topic posts, here’s a couple of things I’d like to see in terms of statistics:

1) Some kind of index to measure inflation – there may need to be more than one index to cover different groups of items, but it would be useful to have some solid data to prove or disprove claims about how inflation is affecting the economy.

2) Wealth distribution – this may be tricky because it should not just be focused purely on gold held by an account (in real life a person’s wealth isn’t measured solely by their cash assets), but it won’t necessarily be easy to assign values to some items that people are holding onto.

3) Trading volumes/values – As well as the raw figures, I’d be interested in seeing this broken down in a similar manner to a Lorentz curve for buyers and sellers (e.g. percentage of players by both volume and value of activity)

Players can actually measure inflation for themselves.

I got bored in my Public Speaking class today and was determining the Elasticity of certain GW2 items, heh.

With Spidy you could easily track data and determine inflation based on a decent sample size of goods.

You could try, but you’d be wrong 99.9% of the time. You also most certainly cannot measure elasticity through spidy because 1. It updates slower than trading. 2. It doesn’t show actual trades.

anonymouse.9053:

ArenaNet isn’t going to divulge how they are revealing their methods of finding bots, nor should they. When I farm for materials, I just do it, sometimes for hours in the same areas, and I don’t worry about any bans. Hasn’t been a problem.

This is true and a logical course to take. Thank you for posting.

Updated: 16 January 2013

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Notes:

• Reviews of issues related to botting, RMT/gold selling, and fraud can take time. Please be patient.
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If your ticket is at least three days old, and if you still need assistance, please post in the  Tickets for Review – 3 days and older [merged] thread, which is here at the top of this forum. Provide your 12-digit incident number in every post.

Updated: 16 January 2013

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130106-002397 Thanks for your update; the team will review it
130104-003085 Final response sent yesterday

I suspect the issue is that you have autoattack turned on for the #1 pistol skill, and stealing initiates combat, so it’s firing your pistol. You can try turning off autoattack (ctrl-rt click on the skill) and see if that does the trick.

I would suggest that you contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page. They should be able to assist you. (I might file this under a technical support issue so the right people look at it, but the team will be able to route it to the correct agent.)

Are you exploiting when you farm, that is, play the same area over and over again? Nope, not unless you’re using a macro or a bot to do it while you sleep. What I was told was that the devs felt that the time spent was acceptable in relation to the rewards. John later confirmed that it wasn’t an exploit, so I believe the question is covered now.

In addition, my comment about change was general in nature, simply a way to say that, as we’re all probably aware, things can change in a game over time. I didn’t mean you to be concerned, pulse, with the lost of attained rewards.

Remember, folks, that Error 7 is common because it simply indicates that you lost connection to the game. It could be us. It could be your modem or router. It could be the ISP. It could be a minor or major outage in the Internet backbone.

Each case can be slightly different, so submit a ticket, indicate it’s a technical support issue, and please follow up with our agent gets back to you, so that he or she can help you identify and resolve the problem.

A team member just review this and you submitted a single support ticket, got a response from Technical Support, and never responded back. They cannot help you if you don’t respond.

If you still need help, please update your ticket providing the info that they requested. They’ve helped many people with this issue, so I am confident they can help you, as well.

Hmmm… I think you need to contact Support by filing a ticket through the “Ask a Question” tab on that linked page. They should be able to assist you.

For tips on what information to provide in a ticket, please read this post.

This is not an account issue. I will ask the TS Team if they can review your post in that forum, but I need to close this to keep the focus in this forum on the proper topics.

Pinkus.2860:

Fiontar.4695:

Fozzik.1742:

It all sounds really good. The only thing that is a tiny bit frustrating is the TONS of achievements I’ve already completed and gotten nothing for. I wish I could do them over again once they are worth tokens. =\

Indeed. There better be a way to get rewards on previous achievements, because we can’t reset achievements and veteran players will really be at a pretty big disadvantage.

Either retroactive rewards, or a reset of completed achievements, with the current AP totals not being effected would be fine. I don’t mind having to revisit achievements I’ve already finished, but retroactive token rewards would be nice to have. (I’ve been focusing on achievements recently, now I have to wonder if I should stop that until there is some clarification on this).

They have explained in another post that once the initial system is implemented (Daily/Monthly for crowns), they will retroactively reward players with crowns for their already completed achievements. It WONT be part of the initial release though.

Since I think all of this can be a little confusing until seen in practice, and because some of the details aren’t yet fleshed out, a few points to help clarify:

• Previous daily and monthly achievements will not be reward retroactively with crowns, it will be newly completed daily/monthly achievements only. (January achievement if completed after the release will not give crowns, monthly from February on will qualify.)

• We will develop a separate reward system you’ll see later for other types of achievements, this system hasn’t been finalized, it’s entirely possible this system will not reward the crown currency at all. This system will retroactively reward achievements you’ve already earned (except dailies/monthlies) and may possibly cap out the rewards you can earn from infinitely repeatable achievements, so no one has an unfair advantage.

Hope that helps a bit, more info once we’ve finalized more of the details.

Gold or item transfers, in and of themselves, do not result in account closures. A number of accounts are closed daily for gold or item deliveries (RMT) that involve real-world purchases. A few players have been flagged for RMT in error and were quickly reinstated once the error was identified.

The huge preponderance of transfers go through without a hitch, and tens of thousands of them take place between legitimate players every day without any sort of suspension.

No, it’s no ok. I mean, technically speaking, the minute someone else logs into your account with your permission — that is, you gave someone your credentials — you are sharing your account. Which you should never do, and which the UA strictly prohibits.

Now, I don’t think that the Big Eagle of Banningness is going to swoop down and terminate your account. But you should do two things:

• Change your password: Use something complex and something you use no where else. Use a password_that no one else knows_ and never tell anyone that password.
• You raise your right hand and swear you will never give access to your account to anyone, for any reason, at any time, forever. And mean it.

I am joking with you a bit, but if you knew the number of sad, sorry cases we’ve seen of account thefts, ownership disputes, and other issues over the years, you’ll understand that my concern is legitimate. Account sharing is one of the major issues that results in closed accounts, and you do not want that to happen to you!

Kain Nosgoth.4218:

Yes we still get jugs and the other stuff.

Forgot to ask if we get crowns from PvP daily and monthly (meaning 80/month not 40). I hope not, I don’t want to be forced into doing pvp just to get my ascended and precursor at 2x speed.

You do not earn crowns for the daily or monthly PvP achievement, and the items you can earn for spending crowns are not intended for purely PvP players. We don’t want to make PvP players feel like they need to do PvE achievements to maximize their daily rewards, or PvE players feel like they need to do PvP achievements to maximize their daily rewards.

We’ll be evaluating progression and rewards in PvP with a separate system that takes players from all sides into account without making them feel like they have to play one part of the game they may not be interested in.

If you did not receive Tixx’s present, please make sure that you have enough space in your inbox to receive mail — if you delete some older items, the letter should arrive. If you are still not receiving the letter, you can contact support by visiting https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ and they may be able to investigate your situation.

As this issue has otherwise been resolved, this thread will now be closed.

We will do a livestream on our Twitch channel tomorrow.

Systems Designer Matt Witter, Game Designer Jonathan Sharp and Lead Content Designer Mike Zadorojny will talk about design and topics currently being discussed in the Guild Wars 2 community.

The Livestream starts at 12:00 PM Pacific time, make sure to tune in: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

And there is more! After a quick lunch break, we will be back on air at 02:00 PM, and our developers will answer questions from you, keep an eye open for a dedicated thread on our official forum where you can post them!

Hi xiao – While not the most ideal solution, if you’re connected through a router, I would recommend either disabling your SPI Firewall or removing it completely to see if it resolves the issue for you.

As noted earlier, this is not an exploit.

However, I wanted to add that things can change, and the devs may make adjustments to the rewards if they feel that would be a good thing to do. But at the present time, they do not consider these runs exploitative.

Celery and Zilent Night,

Your Crash logs are showing CRC errors, what this means is that something has caused a file to be the wrong size and corrupted the installation. The first thing we want to rule out are issues on your drive.

Please do the following first to check and repair your drive:

1. Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.

2. Right-click the hard disk drive that you want to check, and then click Properties.

3. Click the Tools tab, and then, under Error-checking, click Check Now. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

4. To check for both file errors and physical errors, select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.

5. Click Start.

Depending upon the size of your hard disk, this may take several minutes. For best results, don’t use your computer for any other tasks while it’s checking for errors.

Once that is complete, Please navigate to your Documents > Guild Wars 2 folder and in there you should see a file called Local.dat. Delete this file.

Next:

1. Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 installation folder.

2. Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”

3. Rename this shortcut to “Guild Wars 2 Repair.”

4. Right-click on this shortcut and select “Properties.”

5. Edit the “Target” line to include -repair at the end.

Note: Please make sure -repair is outside of the quotes

Correctly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe” -repair
Incorrectly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe -repair”

6. Once completed, click “Ok” to save your changes.

If you get an error trying to save, your target line may not have the correct format. Please try step 5 again.

7. Double click “Guild Wars 2 Repair” to start the repair process.

Once completed, please try starting Guild Wars 2 again and see if this resolves your issue.

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Hi Myrana,

Error 10 is typically caused when you click the Join or Invite button without putting a name in the character name field.

Please try the following steps and let me know if you are successfully able to invite another member to your party.

Click on the party icon in the upper left of the screen. You should see a box that says character name with the buttons join and invite underneath.

In order to invite someone to your party their character name needs to be in the character name field. You can either type the characters name in or target them. Once their name is in the character name box, you can then click the invite button. Doing this will send them an invite which they can either approve or deny.

A gem cost to transfer to a different World has always been the plan, and this has been communicated since before the game launched. The ability to transfer for free always been a temporary situation. During the beta phase of the game, we actually had a gem charge in place for transferring during the beta events.

The cost to transfer to a different world will start when guesting is available, as mentioned in today’s blog post.

That will be fixed in the next content update at the end of January.

perfect.5198:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

To answer the question about guild influence:
You will gain guild influence on the world you are guesting on.

So what is the advantage of Guesting over, say, a transfer that can’t participate in WvW (which is what we have now, right?)?

I can go to a different server to play with friends but not progress my Guild in any way. What you have done is made the community make a choice between Guild and Friends. Is that truly how a “Global Community” is supposed to work?

With the ability to be part of up to 5 guilds – considering you are playing with your friends on a different server, you can be in their guild and advance that guild.

The same was true when you transferred a server or were in an overflow server, so I do not see how this is perceived as a “new” issue?

To answer the question about guild influence:
You will gain guild influence on the world you are guesting on.

Let me explain to you why you cannot guest on worlds in another region.

There are two databases: European player data is stored in our European datacenter, American player data is stored in our American datacenter. This is to ensure that people in these regions can still properly play in case there is an issue with the connection between the datacenters.

When you do a world transfer from the US to the EU (and vice versa) your player data is transferred from one datacenter to the other. This is not the case with guesting, as you are still “registered” on your home world.

I understand that some of you are disappointed that you cannot guest on worlds in another region, but considering the complexity of internet routing, our main priority is to ensure that players have as much of an uninterrupted game experience as possible, which is the reason why we have two datacenters.

On another note: I will try to get an answer to the guild influence question that has been posted a couple of times.