Guild Wars 2

When I look at my influence history, it is only showing 1 member logged in each day even though I know more members have represented the guild. Not sure if the history log is wrong or if I am not getting the proper influence.

All members are in multiple guilds and will switch which guild they are representing based on what they are doing.

I think thats the daily check in. Its a random type of thing which gives you influence for only those who rep.

This has been an issue for awhile, I posted this a few months ago on the guild problems sticky that was recently unstickied:

Many problems arrive because of Lions Arch! Also, as for guild login influence.(I personally, haven’t had any guild admin issues knocks on wood)however, I went through one day and filled out about 5 bug reports for daily login influence (one per character logged with a problem each and one for an end of day tally). My findings for those experiencing issues as well will now be listed in hopes this can help some of us smaller guilds.

1. Stay clear of lions arch at all costs! Do not log any character in la and expect points… Just doesn’t happen, and if you get stuck in an overflow, kiss the points you would’ve gotten goodbye. You can get points rarely, but again, it’s rare! Drop them in the Bloodtide coast or take a gate out to somewhere else, then log out.

2. Avoid zones with overflow, you won’t get them.

3. You will only ever get credit for a max of 5 characters per accountper day. Even if you have 8 characters logged a day, you only get 5 of them, so make them count.

4. Make sure each character you log is in a unique location. (don’t log 2 characters located in Rata Sum, for example, you’ll only get the points for the first one) As a precaution, make sure when you log off of a character, you drop them off in a unique location (unique map) before leaving them.

5. Now this one makes no sense at all, but it seems there is a connection between characters on different accounts within a guild and their locations. Say one person is logged in already (currently) at the Black Citadel, and you log on to your character in the Black Citadel, it seems, you won’t get your login points. I’ve tested this several times over the last few days and it has happened multiple times. So there you go… Go figure how that is possible! Still happens, tested it 3 days ago.

6. Timing also seems to be related. If 2 people log in at virtually the same time, your guild may only get credit for one character… This includes switching characters. Not sure how that works either, but I’ve seen it happen. It may not be consistent, but very possible. Still happens, tested 1 week ago.

I can’t guarantee that any of you will have the same problems, but after tracking this for almost a month solid (2-3months now), I’ve found these issues and tested several of them multiple times. I’ve observed the guild login influence issues since november, but have only narrowed down specifics in the last 2 months. And sometimes, you still don’t get points on every character, for no apparent reason. But these problems still persist and it really makes problems for us smaller guilds. I mean, how many people leave their characters in Lion’s Arch due to convenience?!?! And if you leave multiple characters there, you shoot yourself in the foot.

Small guilds count on these influence points to build currency for upgrades. If you only have 5 players, 1 who logs almost daily and plays a lot, 1 who logs for a few hours on weekends only, and 2 who log only about 2 hours a week if lucky… Most on only one character, at 2 influence per event, it takes a long time to gain points for anything useful. Pve guilds barely stand a chance unless points accumulate smoothly and without fault.

So, I hope these tips I found can help other small guilds to maximise their influence gain. Sorry this is so long, I just wanted to be thorough. And please, refrain from telling us small guild peeps to find a larger guild or change guilds, because we are in these small guilds for a reason, so that’s not helping. These things need to be fixed!!!!

Didn’t feel like chopping it up to shorten it, but added notes. I also recently checked the wiki on guild influence, so several of these points have been confirmed there (ie unique maps, 5 chars, overflow might still be listed -it was when I originally made this post)

I do hope this helps you figure out your issue… Oh and representing is a given lol, you can confirm a player is representing if they have a solid green block next to their name, if it has a horizontal bar through it, they are not.

Yeah, it’s long, sorry!

P.s. you gain influence immediately upon a player choosing a character to login on, but you don’t see the tally until around 2-5 pm server time (US), somewhere around there. And you don’t always see it everyday, sometimes, it skips days and will add 2 days together, which really sucks if you have over 10 peeps login each of those days, after 20 characters, you only 5 points per character. (example if 11 players log in Monday and 11 players log in Tuesday, you should get 220 pts, but if the tally doesn’t show up on Monday, on Tuesday, you will see 22 members for 210 pts)

I have a very small guild that only consists of my husband and myself, I have 9 characters represented and my husband has 4 represented. Each of my husband’s characters are on separate maps. I have 5 characters each on different maps and those are the ones that I typically see generating points on login.

Recently, however, (over the last month or so) I have noticed that the guild “day” got stuck and lumped nearly two weeks together as the same day. As a result, only the first 20 daily character logins generated 10 influence each, the next 30 daily logins generated only 5 each and then finally the next 8 generated only 1 each . . .

. . . until FINALLY the guild “day” randomly reset. At that point, at the top of my guild page it said I had 58 characters log in on June 1st (it may have been the 2nd, I can’t remember).

Now first of all, 58 character logins on one day for my guild is impossible for obvious reasons – there are only a total of 13 characters representing the guild if they could all possibly count (which they don’t because only 5 of mine count each day, resulting in a total of 9 possible character attendance logins per day).

My problem is, as a small guild I have a great deal of difficulty generating guild influence as it is, but to have this awful bug added on top of the issue makes it nearly impossible to generate enough influence to do anything at all. My recent bug resulted in my guild generating 358 influence from 58 recorded influence rewarding attendance logins. That didn’t even count the many times only 4 of my characters counted instead of the first 5, even though they were all on separate maps and not on overflow upon login. This should have been at very least 580 influence, thus I lost out on 222 guild influence, which to a large guild doesn’t seem like much but to ours is a huge difference.

Is there any way to fix this issue?

I feel your pain completely Jade! My guild is also fairly small, I have 1 left, 1 representing their own guild, 2 completely inactive, 2barely active but 1 day a week, my hubs who barely plays, and me… The only active player. I’ve convinced hubs to log in on 5 daily to help and I do as well, but at 2 points per solo event it’s impossible to “level” a small guild. And I abhor when peeps say “join a bigger guild” uh… No!

It’s hard enough being a small guild, I don’t even have enough peeps to do the training bounties because anyone who can login hasn’t explored anywhere but the main story areas and some don’t even have a lvl 80 yet.

These influence bugs are terribly detrimental to small guilds when login influence gets more than half of the daily influence gained on a marathon play day.

I’ve submitted in-game reports on every character that misses influence for no good reason and a follow-up report after the tally completes. I wonder if this bit will ever be addressed. I mean having 2 characters on 2 different accounts who happen to log on to the same map (one player running around on a map, you don’t know they are there yet, you log onto first character of the day only to see, they are there and you didn’t get your points…fail!) that’s just silly!

Anyway, maybe we’ll see some word on this soon. (end rant)