Guild Wars 2

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Yeah… lets talk about display names. I had mine fixed via ticket before I quit the game shortly after launch. I’ve since come back and become addicted once more, but i’m not even bothering with my display name again because it reverted to my old key again (not my gw2 cdkey dont worry). My guildies have begun lovingly referring to me as “cdkey” or “serialguy”

Oh but changing your name would result in anet being a serial-killer…. :O

I posted this elsewhere, but it was suggested to repost it here so here is my feedback:

SQUAD UI
What I wish for, what I need, and what it shouldn’t do – aka „What I think the Squad-UI should be. “

This Betaweekend (BWE3), the Squad UI got shown off, and while I was really longing for it – I definitely was able to figure out what it was meant to be, what it actually was, and how I would like it to be…. In some cases.

Sub-Parties
So, as we all know, a Squad can contain multiple parties (sub-parties, sub-squads, however you want to call it). This (possibly) should/could/ought to make it possible to get rid of the old party system completely.
Having a Squad with 5 or less members would make it possible to enter a dungeon, PVP or any of the content available in core GW2.
Having a Squad of 6 or more people would disable that. Having a squad with exactly 10 members makes the entry to the raid available.
Squads housing a max. of 5 players would make use of the standard kick/votekick system. Squads housing up to 10 players could make use of a votekick system for sub-parties and require commander-confirmation. Squads housing more players would solely rely on the commanders vote (aka totalitarian decision)

Inviting, Visibility
Oh well, I don’t really know how it was SUPPOSED to be working and how it actually was working, here I can only say what I want from such system.

1. It should be possible to invite any player located at the same datacenter, not restricted by map, ip, homeworld, relation.
2. Add the “invite to squad”-context entry consistently to all context menus at all username/nickname/charname* occurances.
3. Add a “join squad” button consistently to each occurance of a commander’s username/nickname/charname*
4. Change the Commander’s Green/Orange rectangle, which shows up when you mouseover a person’s name or which is located in the friendslist from the rectangle to the shape of a commandertag, indicating this person is actively commanding a squad.
5. Change the “Commander” in front of the /d- chat to a colorized icon of a commander (if possible) – this is not purely cosmetic but also makes a better visible distinction
6. Make the Broadcast/Ready-check window more transparent.
7. Allow the head commander to see each targeted enemy from all subgroups. Allow him to reset that target (could be a more complicated key combination too, because it wouldn’t occur that often)
8. Under no circumstances add the faces into the little boxes of the squadmembers, like how it is with parties right now.
9. Add a button to either the Guild-UI or the Squad-UI saying “Invite all representing Guild-Members”, which should show up if you are active commander.
10. Add a game-message in chat when a commander invites you to a squad.
11. If a commander is on your blocklist this game-message in chat should be the only thing indicating that you got invited.
12. If a person who wants to join your squad is on the blocklist, a game-message in chat should be the only thing indicating that.

One last thing about that: As long as people are “in range” of each other (when it comes to showing up as “green” in the squad UI – add a distance number somehow. If a person is low on life, but is 1400 units away, I would probably love to run there faster. This would make it easier for supporting classes (guardian, tempest, druid, herald) to see if they are positioned perfectly.
*Could be friendslist, whisper, party, guild roster, etc…

Well, this is all right now – I don’t know some of this stuff is actually implemented, or planned, or if there are good reasons not to do this – if so, I am perfectly fine with that. This is just a compilation of how I think the squad system could or should work.

(from: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Squad-UI-aka-This-is-what-I-would-love/first#post5566513 )

for me the problem is not the price, its the slots/price/limit ratio.

700 gems for 4 slots, times five (discounted 2800 gems for 20 slots) would be reasonable for me. On the other hand it is amazing QoL

9/10 before – I loved doing stuff for receiving stuff.
3/10 now – why is it an elite-specialisation now? It’s just another specialisation. Nothing elite about getting it thrown at your face.

• If the special Chat-Icon is being abused, can it be revoked?
• Does it have it’s own channel, or is it some sort of highlighting within all chats?
• Do we still see the icons if we block that person?
• Are these and the /g1-5 the only chat changes we get (probably not going to be answered)
• Are there different tiers of that icon (e.g. based on actualy community work or player-help?)

I actually think its heartwarming that people genuinely start to worry about Gaile when she is not around! Also I wonder if the European river happened to be the Danube

My thoughts are the family and friends! I hope you guys do fine! (As fine as possible)