Guild Wars 2

Basically when I put on the commander tag I cannot invite ppl to party or join them by choosing option in the ‘right click’ menu. I can only join or invite when I manually type the magic formula in the chat /invite or /join, but it’s troublesome when the player name is long or has weird letters from other languages.
When I put tag off the problem disappears though.

That’s not something exclusive to using a commander tag. It happens to everyone. I’m not sure what factors cause it.

Atoss.1056:

Basically when I put on the commander tag I cannot invite ppl to party or join them by choosing option in the ‘right click’ menu. I can only join or invite when I manually type the magic formula in the chat /invite or /join, but it’s troublesome when the player name is long or has weird letters from other languages.
When I put tag off the problem disappears though.

Often this happens because the person is already in a party or is already invited to another one. (Other times, as Rose says, people can’t fathom a reason.)

Here’s a work-around that gets the job done when out-of-combat, especially if they use diacritical marks:

• Add person to your Friends list
• Right-click and mail them.
• Copy their character name from the mail.
• /join [paste] or /invite [paste]

(Often you can avoid the “friend” part — I included it for the 20-30% of the time you need it.)

Here’s an easier work-around: ask them for a simpler character name. (For this reason, I try to remember one easy-to-type character for each of my friends.)

tl;dr It’s annoying and as Rose says, it seems random. There are some work-arounds, although they aren’t as convenient.