Guild Wars 2

For pity’s sake ANet, can’t you do something about this? I don’t know how many times yesterday Commanders found their ability to communicate on map & team suppressed…so much so that they were asking in voice for us to relay their requests to the team.

If nothing else, how about instituting a Commander Only toolbox of Chat macros that could go out to either team, map, squad or whatever combo of chats? Maybe something like :

“insert commander name here” Go to Citadel…or Hold…or On Me…or whatever.

Not to mention that trying to type and fight has its own issues.

Agree with all your points

This was annoying yesterday, said 3 things in chat and bam suppressed…

Chat suppression is a good thing. I don’t want to hear your so called “commander” all night. Take it to party chat.

ARM.3912:

Chat suppression is a good thing. I don’t want to hear your so called “commander” all night. Take it to party chat.

Then turn off map chat

ARM.3912:

Chat suppression is a good thing. I don’t want to hear your so called “commander” all night. Take it to party chat.

Party Chat is limited to 5 people, Commanders lead numbers in the 60+ at times, or less even.

And that should mean I have to see them spam because…?

ARM.3912:

And that should mean I have to see them spam because…?

They are wanting to lead an army of members from your server to win against two opposing servers?

Hes just a bad troll, ignore him.

Just because you paid 100 gold to get an icon doesn’t mean you are some master tactician that everyone should have to listen to. I can do more solo than most of the commander lead groups on my server.

You must be on a pretty bad server then.

Masamoon.3864:

You must be on a pretty bad server then.

Probably

However, I agree with this idea, but I don’t want it integrated now, as it’s easy as is to get a commander title. When they decide to make commanders a ranking system, then I’d like to see this.

And generally speaking, if the sever knows you’re a good commander, you’d only need to say something once and everyone would do it.

Raf.1078:

For pity’s sake ANet, can’t you do something about this? I don’t know how many times yesterday Commanders found their ability to communicate on map & team suppressed…so much so that they were asking in voice for us to relay their requests to the team.

If nothing else, how about instituting a Commander Only toolbox of Chat macros that could go out to either team, map, squad or whatever combo of chats? Maybe something like :

“insert commander name here” Go to Citadel…or Hold…or On Me…or whatever.

Not to mention that trying to type and fight has its own issues.

If the squad mechanic were improved to where it became natural for everyone following that commander to use it (see suggestion threads), the commander could use squad chat and not worry about being suppressed.

Chat macros are a nice idea, would be an improvement over having to find a spot to autorun while typing.

They should make a new commander chat with a different color.

They could always add an additional channel to the maps (WvW and/or Pve areas) that is just for commander chat. Then, if you see one just mindlessly spamming and you dont want to see it, you can suppress that channel. Commanders could then command their forces, and people who don’t want to see it, don’t have to.

I do hope they change the message suppression a bit. i’m actually been suppressed once from double clicking on a POI. how frusterating is that??

Now the other thing i did notice is during those times i was suppressed i was able to still chat in my Guild and /say chat.

Also since we’ve never had issues with Bot’s and gold sellers in WvW why not ease it up a bit.

Raf.1078:

For pity’s sake ANet, can’t you do something about this? I don’t know how many times yesterday Commanders found their ability to communicate on map & team suppressed…so much so that they were asking in voice for us to relay their requests to the team.

If nothing else, how about instituting a Commander Only toolbox of Chat macros that could go out to either team, map, squad or whatever combo of chats? Maybe something like :

“insert commander name here” Go to Citadel…or Hold…or On Me…or whatever.

Not to mention that trying to type and fight has its own issues.

So you think commanders should have the right to spam chat more often then non-commanders? Are commanders more important then non-commanders? Is the $60 I paid for the game of less value then the $60 you paid for your copy?

For pity’s sake, learn how to use squad chat.

NEVER had a problem with chat suppression and I’m an incredibly vocal commander in chat. You shouldn’t have to say three things in a row or more but if you do, try to add variety to the sentence.

Squad chat isn’t a viable solution. 9/10 people need to know where other commanders are if you need a position reinforced which isn’t yours or something.

Spamming in chat has been steadily decreasing in the game as a whole, and is rare in wvw. Thanks ArenaNet.
Now, can you ease up on the spam filters for “similar” phrases. I’m good with 3 times repeat and you are “silenced”.

KinkyWarrior.1879:

Squad chat isn’t a viable solution. 9/10 people need to know where other commanders are if you need a position reinforced which isn’t yours or something.

On top of that, people don’t always join the squads… I always do, but my general impression is that most people don’t

Genev.2450:

On top of that, people don’t always join the squads… I always do, but my general impression is that most people don’t

If the commanders were only speaking in squad, how would randoms get the information? Sooner or later they would ask, and people could tell them to join squad. Commanders insisting on giving generic orders in /m and /t is compounding the problem.

Squad chat is for the group following you, /m and /t are for communications to other commanders or so scouts/small mans can keep everyone apprised of situations. The real problem is commanders insisting on using /m for crap that should be said in /squad.

I guess it would depend on how quickly they can ban gold sellers. And whether having unrestricted access to spam chat will be worth the 100gold price tag for the gold sellers.

I know that map and team chat can get a little cluttered, but didn’t think that it was to the point of requiring some form of suppression.

I know that some suspect that inter-server spying is fairly common. Moving tactical and strategic discussions from map wide to more local channels (e.g. say and squad) should make such spying more difficult. If Arenanet wanted to increase awareness of the squad mechanic, I suppose they could make one of the daily events entering WvW and joining a squad…

Whole C&S system needs a facelift.

It’s a one trick pony system with no flexibility.

Tekyn.5376:

Raf.1078:

For pity’s sake ANet, can’t you do something about this? I don’t know how many times yesterday Commanders found their ability to communicate on map & team suppressed…so much so that they were asking in voice for us to relay their requests to the team.

If nothing else, how about instituting a Commander Only toolbox of Chat macros that could go out to either team, map, squad or whatever combo of chats? Maybe something like :

“insert commander name here” Go to Citadel…or Hold…or On Me…or whatever.

Not to mention that trying to type and fight has its own issues.

So you think commanders should have the right to spam chat more often then non-commanders? Are commanders more important then non-commanders? Is the $60 I paid for the game of less value then the $60 you paid for your copy?

For pity’s sake, learn how to use squad chat.

For pity sake…learn to use “ignore” ((shrug))….don’t really see your point.

i consider it anet just nerfing me… seeing how i can command without being able to talk.

Tekyn.5376:

So you think commanders should have the right to spam chat more often then non-commanders? Are commanders more important then non-commanders? Is the $60 I paid for the game of less value then the $60 you paid for your copy?

For pity’s sake, learn how to use squad chat.

/ignore

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