Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet has the data to see the score earned from previous matches at each hour. They can look back at previous weeks and calculate how close the matches would be under different victory point reward schemes. They could have done this with matches from the last weeks and see that this makes matchups more one-sided. As a result, this the current skirmish reward scheme shouldn’t have even been introduced as a beta for us to try because they should have already known from calculating. Why is this being beta tested? They should calculate different VP reward scenarios and see if they make matchups closer. If not, don’t introduce them.

It’s useless for people who do not work for ArenaNet to come up with a plan that counters bandwgonners. Server transfers give a lot of money to ArenaNet and you could come up with a plan that makes bandwagonning tougher but doesn’t give ArenaNet more money. Since you have to come up with a plan that gives ArenaNet the most money, it’s hard to come up with a plan since you don’t have access to their gem sales.

Is blackgate going to open up?

Working as intended. The plan is for you to want to transfer to a host server that is full. You will then pay 500 gems to transfer to the guest server of that host. After 4 months, you will get linked to a different host server and pay 500 gems again to transfer to the new guest server of the host server that you like. As a result, you will spend 500 gems every four months in order to play with the host server that you want.

I saw 4 different guilds exploiting this bug today in eotm

Some things to consider before jumping to conclusions…

1) We get impersonated a ton. People have pretended to be us on both reddit and these forums. There has also been fake guilds using an accent in the guild name to impersonate us. If you believe everything you read and fall for it, that is your fault for being oblivious-not the people trolling us.

2) We get up to 100 recruits per week and have up to 50 people in edge of the mists at a time. They could be any color and between the 5 or so overflows that are open at a time, which is 15 different map chats. It is impossible to admin everyone under these conditions so we can only do so to the best of our ability. You cannot judge an entire guild off of one random person who our officers may not be in the same overflow to catch them doing something wrong. We do accept screen shots and have banned people from our guild as a result of seeing a screen shot or video evidence sent to us.

3) I have never seen anyone in our guild threaten to mass report. That is laughable because it only hurts the people mass reporting. From 2) it’s possible that that happened but, again, I’ve never been given screen shots of it on any of the times I asked the accuser for evidence of that.

4) No one is above our guild rules. If you break the rules, you get punished. It doesn’t matter how good you are. We use our judgement when determining how to approach the situation. It is not necessary to send an announcement to all 500 people in a guild with screenshots when someone gets a warning or kicked. If you don’t trust the people in charge, then you should leave the guild.

5) Most of us do like to karma train. If the game mode was changed to give a win incentive and not be 85% up-levels who just want to get level 80, then who knows-maybe we would have a different mindset. However, not everyone who plays a game mode is going to want to play the same way. If any of our guild members say inappropriate things to someone in the map because they want to play a different way, you can send screen shots to an officer. If you are not in our guild, find someone else in our guild who is not the offender and send them a pm asking for an officer’s name.