Guild Wars 2

There are several events in game that are still bugged. What’s it going to take to finally get these events fixed? Is there anybody working on them? Here are some examples:
Bandits have constructed a roadblock to stop Shaemoor traffic
Stop the bandit thief from stealing the pumphouse blueprints
Defeat the dredge overseer

“Bandits have constructed a roadblock to stop Shaemoor traffic”
I have never, ever seen this event active in thousands of hours of gameplay. I had no clue there was even supposed to be an event on that bridge. I have occasionally seen some barricades on the bridge, which was quite odd, but never any enemies and especially not an event notification.

“Stop the bandit thief from stealing the pumphouse blueprints”
Never seen this either. I think I’ve heard an NPC there mention their successfully getting the blueprints back or having stopped the bandits from trying to take them…but I’ve never known what they were talking about.

I love doing DEs and this makes me rather disappointed. This makes me wonder how many fun DEs I’ve never experienced simply because they’ve not bothered to fix them in 20 months of the game being live.

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The first two are probably “filler events”.
There were some events that were added mainly for when the game was launched to ensure there were enough events to do. Apparently one of the conditions for triggering them is having a certain number of people around. I think there is also another one with a quiz about Destiny’s Edge. This was mentioned by a dev a while ago. Forgot who.

The first one actually happened very frequently around launch. I’ve also seen it more recently as in during sometime this year.

Some of these events won’t actually appear unless previous events have failed. For example, I believe that roadblock event only occurs if the bandits have destroyed the pumping station AND the event to repair it hasn’t been completed for at least 10 mins.

With the introduction of the Megaserver, it’s likely that many of these events will go unseen now since there are more players to prevent events from failing.

The Devs mentioned, waaay back, that some events in maps won’t trigger until a large enough population inhabits the area. We should be seeing some events popping up (I know I have) that some of us haven’t seen for a very long time.

And, conversely, because of fail event criteria, some we won’t be seeing for awhile.

I’ve done a little research and I do not believe either of these 2 events are triggered by population.