Guild Wars 2

Bullshizle.2675:

Is the influence needed a bug aswell ?
Small guilds can never reach that amount unless it’s based on percentage of the guild members.

My guild consists of three members and should not have any trouble earning the influence to do so. I don’t understand the unwarranted amounts of whining about the amount of influence required or that it’s unfair to smaller guilds; it’s not.

Grouping up while doing activities actually has a cap on the maximum number of people who can contribute towards that influence gain.

Then will we have the 300k influence my guild burned speeding this up refunded?

even my guild of 100 cant get that amount of influence efficiently it’ll take at least a month to get, plus having to wait to do content that was just released is a huge downer, it should have a temporary no build time… and not all of our guilds WvW so my guild has to waste 1000s of influence to get up to bounties or just the research for bounties this is just going to encourage smaller guilds to fall apart its like when a walmart comes into a small town…

+1 Bullshizle, how are we, small guilds/casual players guilds, going to get that much points ?

Thread derailed in record time.

What he is trying to say, is that the Guild Bounty mission T1 was not able to be completed. We can see and kill some of the NPC’s, and recieve the one chest for the first kill and only a coin/Karma/xp thereafter.

Stop complaining about the costs of Influence, this thread is not about that it is about the bugged mission panel.

kenzuro.1073:

Stop complaining about the costs of Influence, this thread is not about that it is about the bugged mission panel.

There was no mention of UI until your post.

kenzuro.1073:

Stop complaining about the costs of Influence, this thread is not about that it is about the bugged mission panel.

on some level you cant really blame them

It’s a shame. We just spent majority of our guild influence to unlock Bounty Hunting Missions. Hopefully this will be resolved soon so you don’t have unhappy kittens!

Am I correct in my conclusion that no Guild Missions will be completable until the Bounty category is fixed? From what I can tell, every other Mission type requires Merits, which means you have to complete Bounty Missions first before unlocking the other types.

This is very frustrating after we just spent 150,000 influence speeding it up. Most of that influence came from members donating gold to buy drinks at the Guild Promoter. Unless ANet fixes this bug in less that 31 hours, we just wasted all that gold buying influence.

I am sad.

silverfire.2547:

My guild consists of three members and should not have any trouble earning the influence to do so. I don’t understand the unwarranted amounts of whining about the amount of influence required or that it’s unfair to smaller guilds; it’s not.

Honestly, I just do not understand you not understanding. I also do not understand how you can be making 1k+ influence per day with a small 3 member guild.

My guild’s average online per day is between 7-12 members. We average ~500 influence per day whether we are merely doing instances or doing events/dailies. Our playtime is limited to 2-3 hours per day and since fractal participation STILL does not reward influence we have days where we make about 150 influence because our time online is relegated to fractals.

At our average influence levels it would take 73 days to go from AoW0 to AoW5 not to mention the other 30k worth of influence it would take to work towards unlocking the Bounties themselves.

I have zero problem with putting real amounts of influence to access the higher tiers of the content. However Tier 1 bounties should have been within the first 2-3 levels of a section and not Rank 5. They should have cost 5-10k to unlock tier1, and 20k for 2 and 30k for 3. Instead of just 30k for everything.

Honestly, I just do not understand you not understanding. I also do not understand how you can be making 1k+ influence per day with a small 3 member guild.

My guild’s average online per day is between 7-12 members. We average ~500 influence per day whether we are merely doing instances or doing events/dailies. Our playtime is limited to 2-3 hours per day and since fractal participation STILL does not reward influence we have days where we make about 150 influence because our time online is relegated to fractals.

At our average influence levels it would take 73 days to go from AoW0 to AoW5 not to mention the other 30k worth of influence it would take to work towards unlocking the Bounties themselves.

I have zero problem with putting real amounts of influence to access the higher tiers of the content. However Tier 1 bounties should have been within the first 2-3 levels of a section and not Rank 5. They should have cost 5-10k to unlock tier1, and 20k for 2 and 30k for 3. Instead of just 30k for everything.

My girlfriend and I started a 2 person guild a little over a month ago with just us in it to unlock the guild bank for extra storage. We have up to level three research in every category done, an armorsmith, a weaponsmith, guild bank (lowest level), and 8500 spare influence to save up for future needs. Depending how much time we have per day (which is usually under 2 or 3 hours, both being full time undergrads), it is relatively easy to reach at least 800 or 900 influence a day.

Though you did seem to acknowledge your own problem, seeing as you are aware most of your members are doing fractals for essentially 0 influence reward.

Every patch, every single one launches with problems like this. It’s past time you started a Public Test Server to iron these issues out before they are put into the live client.

Durden.5032:

+1 Bullshizle, how are we, small guilds/casual players guilds, going to get that much points ?

You aren’t! Neither is my <10 player sPvP guild getting any fun.

Time to move on, people. Nothing to see here. Inb4 infraction.

Regina,

Will something be done for the guilds who already spent the influence and let you guys know that the UI was broken?

Acolytes [Aco] purchased and sped up the Guild Bounty with 330k influence – most of which was purchased using gems purchased with real money to be able to do the Guild Missions today. We started the Guild Bounty missions long before this announcement was made. We have hunted and defeated over a dozen Guild Bounties tonight, but with the UI broken we are unable to actually complete the triggered missions.

It’s a ton of fun and we don’t want refunds of our money or gems – but could we be refunded the influence since we spent hundreds of dollars for something that isn’t yet available? This was all queued and purchased before the announcement was made that the UI was broken. It’s likely that most of your reports came from our 40 members we had hunting down mobs without the hints and crashing when we tried to view the Active Missions tab.

Here’s a link to a screenshot of my guild panel open, showing Guild Bounties unlock being completed. It also shows how much influence we purchased and I have my inventory open to show that I actually received Guild Commendations.
http://imgur.com/PjLMUz5

This is a great update and we did have a ton of fun hunting and killing the mobs without hints. I just hope that we’re somehow compensated for the money, time and effort that we put into helping find this evil bug.

How does this even get to the live servers? It’s like there was no testing done at all or something.

I like how Anet can’t even be bothered to reply to anyone’s concerns. Since day 1 my Black Lion is almost always bugged, every new update is untested before it is launched, now they release this messed up update as well as once again changing AC em for who knows what reason, and no matter how many times you tweet them with problems they’d rather reply to funny pictures people post (ie. otters). There is no forethought in their updates. We actually purposely as a guild did not spend any influence yet on the Guild Missions (or lack there of) because we knew it was going to be bugged for several days at least. No surprise there…

a new feature turns out to have a game breaking bug within the first day – sunrise, sunset.

100s of dollars.. what the hell, you people are just nuts.

So… did you guys just fix it?

lynspottery.6529:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

This issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience!

You really need to implement a Public Test Server to prevent issues that you seem to be unable to prevent due to lack of adequate testing. I really like this game but am very frustrated because it seems every time you launch anything new, it is broken before it gets to be used.

I am sorry if you do not like my statements and if you infract me for telling you how I feel about this then you are actually letting yourselves down as well as the community.

An issue that takes all of 10 hours to resolve does not call for a test server. Suck it up and enjoy the now fixed game.

Edit: And I mean that in the nicest possible way

niwaar.5631:

Honestly, I just do not understand you not understanding. I also do not understand how you can be making 1k+ influence per day with a small 3 member guild.

The trick is WvW. I’m in a 15 person guild, we make more than 1K per day. Even more if we pop the +influence from group events upgrade. Of course, we spend a lot of influence already on WvW upgrades….

If you’re in a small 3 person guild and want to do this new content – join a big guild. Simple. If you don;t want to do that accept that it is your choice, and leave it be.

Durden.5032:

+1 Bullshizle, how are we, small guilds/casual players guilds, going to get that much points ?

Dunno, how did you gain Influence so far? We are 3-5 active players and we’re burning Influence on consumables because we have little else to do with it.

I really don’t get where the current income is supposed to be slow. 80k sounds like a lot, but it really isn’t for an unlock. If it were a consumable, then yes, that’d be harsh.

so... about guilds that spent alot of influence to speed up the unlock?

what happens to them again?......

Zasa.7154:

lynspottery.6529:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

This issue has been resolved. Thank you for your patience!

You really need to implement a Public Test Server to prevent issues that you seem to be unable to prevent due to lack of adequate testing. I really like this game but am very frustrated because it seems every time you launch anything new, it is broken before it gets to be used.

I am sorry if you do not like my statements and if you infract me for telling you how I feel about this then you are actually letting yourselves down as well as the community.

An issue that takes all of 10 hours to resolve does not call for a test server. Suck it up and enjoy the now fixed game.

Edit: And I mean that in the nicest possible way

Well if it were only one or two random events I would agree with you, but it seems that every time new content/patch comes along a lot of bugs are introduced as well. And a lot of bugs that were in the game from launch, still break too frequently and some even have remained broken still.