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Has there ever been an official reason given for why enemies appear as ‘Server-name Invader’? Does this reflect a deliberate gameplay design decision, or a technical constraint?
Some of the reasons behind enemies appearing as ‘Server-name Invader’ where to avoid harassment issues, let other servers identify what server you are from, and to help establish server rivalry. The way your server name reads is something we would love to adjust, and I am hopeful that we will!
This is interesting as I can go play hot-join sPvP and hear about every insult and curse word I know of thrown at me. But maybe the rage would be worse in WvW with the JP camping and all.
There are plenty of MMO’s with large scale PVP like Perfect World where you can see the name and guild of each combatant.
Trash talking exists, but that is part of the dynamic and part of the fun.
Getting rid of anonymity is the best way to get rid of griefing. If you know who it was who did you or a friend wrong, you can track them down with friends for payback. Or you can report them. It actually adds to the whole war experience.
Same thing with K/D ratios. Knowing them allows the elite to seek their opposite number out for the best challenges. Again, I don’t see the kind of bad K/D behavior mentioned here taking place in Perfect World.
I am almost tempted to resort to trotting out Ayn Rand show how silly and infantile these unfounded fears are of recognizing individual performance.
All the flimsy excuses thrown out for why it is the way it is, seems to be a cop out, to gloss over the fact that perhaps it was:
1- A mistake and
2- That it is hard coded deep in the code and would be expensive to revise.
Few things here I want to comment on:
As the poster you quoted stated in Spvp there is no anonymity and the trash talk can be rather extreme. So the idea of removing anonymity fixing grief-ing is pretty much wrong. For the most part I don’t have a problem with trash talk tho it can be fun sometimes. But in WvW I assume that’s what people use the forums for.
Considering the focus of WvW is server wide play/grouping/zerging I’m pretty sure things like individual k/d ratio’s are rather irrelevant. Especially when k/d ratio’s could be easily inflated by just running with a guild zerg and stomping pugs. You’ll always have people being carried by groups.
And then you have specific builds/professions lean much more towards group play than solo pvp. For example Necro can be very strong in 1v1 situations but, it is not regarded as a strong 1v1 class. However, they can be rather devasting when played in a group with all the AoE conditions constantly applying pressure.
“Look how good I am at running away and not dying” does not have anything to do with being an elite player. If there was any type of K/D ratio ladder it’d be all thieves and eles.
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The part about this that is the most frustrating is that this thread will likely get merged into the 18 page “OMG WERE LAGGING AND DISCONECTED THREAD” and then never get replied to. I played the game for almost 4 months with no issues and then suddenly around Christmas I started getting severe lag in Spvp.
I’m not to sure about other areas as all I really do is spvp but for instance last Saturday I disconnected nearly 15 times in a couple hour period. Tonight it’s happened already 4 times in the last 30 minutes. There’s also the sudden lag spikes where skills don’t activate etc and then it “fast forwards” And a bunch of out of range errors, damage figures and a death breakdown pops up. I’m actually pretty infuriated at this point.
The thing that makes this even worse is there’s know acknowledgment of this as a problem leaving everyone to believe it’s on their end. But after as many complaints as I’ve seen I’m starting to think it’s not me.
Same problem and it’s dreadful. can’t even finish a Spvp game anymore with out lagging out/dcing. This is ridiculous.
I really think most of the posts above nailed the fact that you bring a unique set of support tools as a Mesmer to a party. Feedback, Null Feed, Time Warp, Knock Backs, Illusion of life, Interrupts , Projectile Reflect from focus phantasm, group speed buff and group chaos armors from ethereal fields + blast finishers might stacks to melee from mirror blade. I’ve had thieves/warriors/guardians thank me for giving them 12 stacks of might constantly.
Honestly, I have a harder time picking my utilities on my Mesmer than any other class with 4 80s. I’m sorry our support utilities are just that good.
The worse part is this isn’t a new issue and it’s a known issue for months. It has gotten much worse recently tho.
Why would/Should anyone that didn’t do the event get access to the chest? I’m so flabbergasted by this idea. I didn’t get to do the event but this idea of yours makes no sense. Might as well give everyone all the gear they need at level 80 in a chest as a prize for making it to 80 too amirite?
This was a fantastic read just wanted to let you know I posted it on my server forums with a link to the original post.
Thanks for a great post.
I’m not certain if this is a bug if it is I’ll gladly submit a bug report in game. However, I’ve been having several issues with the cancelling my bids on the TP – I’m able to cancel the bid but then am not returned my Gold.
Is this some new issue or did anet implement some kind of refund delivery time?