Guild Wars 2

This may just be my experience, but I have noticed a distinct likelihood of becoming suppressed while I have my commander tag active, that I do not notice otherwise. If I do not have my tag on, I can generally ping waypoints, chat in /map and /say, and be as communicative as I like without much issue.

However, when I have my tag on, I get suppressed constantly. It happens at least one per Invasion, and also happens during Teq and my Guild’s Missions.

I suspect that this is due to the fact that much of my commanding involves short or one-word orders (“stack here,” “go north,” etc), and pinging waypoints to help control zerg flow. It is beyond frustrating to not be able to communicate with people who are impatiently waiting on you to tell them what to do or where to go next. Here are my main issues, and my suggestions:

1. Suppression in /map also suppresses /say, and vice versa. Short of whispering someone to convey my message while suppressed, I am left with no option to communicate with the people surrounding me. Perhaps at least give me the chance to speak in /say after suppressing in /map, and vice versa.

2. There is no warning when you are approaching being suppressed. There’s no explanation as to which actions with what frequency contribute to suppression (for example, people seem to be able to spam /laugh and other emotes with alarming frequency with no ill effects, which frankly annoys the kitten out of me), so it’s difficult to avoid. A list of guidelines, or a warning in the chat box when you’re nearing suppression, would be immensely helpful. Also, if emotes could suffer the same penalty as regular chat, that would be a great QoL improvement.

3. There’s no way of knowing when you’re not suppressed anymore. Additionally, there seems to be a double standard of suppression regarding chat vs pinging waypoints. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that I can say “wp please” much earlier than I can ping a waypoint, and I suspect that pinging the waypoint actually increases the amount of time I spend suppressed. If there was a timer on suppression, and if there was a transparent explanation of how that timer works, then it would make my life much easier.

I understand the reasoning behind suppression, and I respect it. But it (along with the somewhat ridiculous 2-mail limit) is aggravating, and affects me far more often than I feel it is appropriate to “just deal with.”

I’d really like to see some response to this issue.

tl;dr: suppression sucks when you’re a bossy person