Open all servers. That’s the solution. Period.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again…..
Remove the server lock, and allow everybody to join whatever server they want. The queue system will balance out the problem naturally. Bandwagoneers will flood BG en masse, and the lineup to play will force players to either wait hours or have them transfer to less populated servers as the system intended. Those unscrupulous stacking guilds will find the competition to enter WvW maps, located on stackgate, confounded by the flood of other like-minded “players” trying to take advantage of WvW manipulaton.
Anet has caused this problem, and are directly to blame for the current situation by limiting access, and rewarding server stacking. Remove those limits, and watch the titan fall.
Sounds like a bad attempt to bolster mindless blobbing, and nothing more.
The OP doesn’t have the foresight to understand discouraging players through truncated rewards on “low priority” objectives means NOBODY will engage them.
This suggestion is as short-sighted as it is selfish.
So let me get this right….
You guys are complaining about how some players are running their personally funded, privately accessed chat server?
Unreal.
I suppose they are bulling you too now? Honestly, the degree of entitlement is astronomical at being offended for being “excluded” from a privately run chat server because you are too paranoid or stuffed up to follow their rules for access.
At this point, I’d be shocked if they didn’t blacklist and block those complaining.
these things are all 100% on you and your personal L2P issues.
Precisely. Asking for a Zerker buff shows a fundamental lack of game knowledge and the mechanics at the most basic level.
……I’m sure we’d love flocks of roaming one-shot thieves. lol
Just remove the home world limits. Problem solved.
Lets be real here. Anet is not going to do anything about population problems or server stacking. Anet made transferring servers a monetary service. They aren’t going to hazard the crap storm of players that paid $20 to unbalance WvW by breaking up the sponge pit.
Now, what should happen, is that ALL servers should be opened up for paid transfers, no matter how many play WvW there. No “full” servers any more. This will make stacking the winning home servers useless. Map queues bloat to the point where the undermanned servers become more attractive due to not being able to play on the bandwagon servers. It also confounds those bandwagon guilds by limiting their access to WvW as a team (while playing there).
Allow free transfers to lower tiered ones, but let everybody wanting to stackgate, pay that $20…
I think the transfer from any “full” server to any lower capacity server should be FREE.
I find it pretty silly that Anet merged so many servers, yet won’t touch the Stackgate server problem.
It’s REALLY annoying to get get paired up with servers that are under-performing, then get rematched/paired with servers you fought against. Anet’s “balancing” servers in WvW is a horrible joke. They have ruined any sense of server pride for those servers that are constantly paired up with others.
It’s clear the home server system is a failure in WvW.
Stop playing on bandwagon servers.
If you want to be on stacked puff WvW homeworlds, get ready to queue. Transfer to a lower population server.
That T3 chest piece makes PVE players DROOOOOL.
Is there any chance that’s an alt account with less than 72 hours on it?
110% positive he’s cheating with a lag switch.
The only bullying going on here is by those trying to get Anet to force players into allowing caustic people to play with them.
Seems like most of these excluded players have a history of being difficult, trolls, or otherwise confounding players. They are being excluded for a reason.
It’s every squad/group’s prerogative to choose who they group with. Period.
Seems it’s not entirely a quick shot vs full charged shot either.
From what I’ve seen the cats now give extra damage for holding the charge past the quick fire alone.
One would even think the squad leaders on Black Gate read the forums, and specifically don’t want certain people to join due to their attitudes. That’s 100% within their rights. Unless they are harassing you…. leave them alone.
Where does the TOS/COC or kick function say cmdrs have 100% “right” to exclude people from squads due to their attitudes (I.e. – “we don’t like u, go away”)? O u mean cuz they can push an available button? I don’t agree. Just cuz they can push the button to exclude people for mean prejudicial reasons doesn’t mean they should, and it certainly doesn’t mean Anet endorses it or meant for that simple function to be utilized to ostracize people.
And lest u all forget, the exclusionary behavior as well as the initial vitriol came from the squad leaders in control of the button pushing in the first place – I never initiated the bad attitude – I reacted to it. But now, somehow I have the bad rep? LOL (And btw – I have never spewed the kind of vitriol against anyone in squad or here that has been spewed against me – and why, cuz in my instance, as a deaf person unable to use the "required"TS I said it was unfair to get booted – which squad leaders/members then escalated into a nasty insult fest?).
Yah, I can see why I would have a such a bad rep that no squad should want to play with me. Guess I better go home now tuck tail and hope they all leave me alone.
There’s no reason players should have to include anyone they don’t want around. The fact that a commander can lock his squad is evidence alone that this is intended. Why shouldn’t a player be able to ignore a troll, or under-performing player?
Your position holds as much water as saying it’s not fair party members in raids and fractals can kick players, or not allow them to join in the first place. You’re not entitled to force yourself on others.
So all players who play for loot are horrible players lol? Great logic, I can see you have an axe to grind.
No axe to grind. Those that play the game modes only for the rewards are not wanted for a tightly knit PvP group, and that’s one reason to keep them from joining their formed party/squad.
Another could be that they just don’t like the person. This is also a valid reason to exclude somebody from their party/squad. There’s no reason or rule to force people to play the game with anybody.
Has to be a bug. If not, get ready for the tsunami.
Well the way they went about giving extra pips was wrong, especially when you consider broken/unbalanced servers like Blackgate and under-performing servers like TC.
The extra pips according to how well your server is skewed as a function of the poorly balanced WvW servers due to bandwagoning and server transfers on the whole.
If u r forced to go solo because of mean girl tactics by squads/cmdrs u r being deprived of most of the main featured content of the wvw game mode, one third of the entire game u purchased. Also, u r then running solo w/o benefits of squad, like buffs/heals/rezes/loot/xp. SO then basically, ur entire WvW experience is completely different from the game mode as advertised – no where does anyone say wvw is unique fun and rewarding cuz u get to run long distances in borderline maps by yourself after waiting in hours long ques and popping food/boosters w/. ur zerg constructed build/armor to get picked off by those with gank builds not allowed in any other game mode. Hmmmmm. And all because some commander/squad is a mean girl and doesn’t like u or has some other “reason” which might make sense if the squad was full, but its open – theres plenty of space and everyone benefits if u join squad.
How does it help to boot a person to solo status who is not equipped to deal with that – he will die more, hurting the server. How does this help? Especially when admitting that person to the non-full squad would protect him more (causing less death) and giving the squad the advantage of his tailored zerg build.
Easy mode loot fest? Seems to me that any vet player like OP knows enuf about wvw to know how to play and that wvw is not an easy loot fest, and if it is, its prolly cuz of vets like OP. Seems to me the squad is benefitting from ANY wvw vet since even if they’re dying, which OP rarely does from my observations of him/her, they are prolly killing way more than defensive builds or newer players – for which the squad is benefitting via loot bags.
The game doesn’t guarantee you the ability to latch onto any other player. Commander or otherwise.
Booting a loot jockey prevents a horrible player from acting like a rally bot that is a detriment to PvP groups.
Being a “vet” player is not mutually inclusive to being decent, or worthwhile in a dedicated party/squad environment. It’s certainly not a metric of value.
One would even think the squad leaders on Black Gate read the forums, and specifically don’t want certain people to join due to their attitudes. That’s 100% within their rights. Unless they are harassing you…. leave them alone.
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It’s fine the way it is.
If you can’t get into a squad, make your own. If you can’t make a squad, make a party. If nobody wants to be in your party, go solo.
WvW isn’t supposed to be an easy-mode loot fest.
Likely these commander are locking their squads to prevent players that aren’t contributing to the tactics of the fight, and are not wanting players that are just concerned about rewards.
You’re forgetting the time difference between the seasons and now, and between the back piece and the legendary armor.
Your attempt to put it in perspective is silly. Stop it.
That doesn’t matter at all. Just because you’re lamenting your choices, it doesn’t change the fact that you don’t deserve a refund. You spent your currency on something you wanted, and now that there’s something you want MORE, it’s ok?
lol…
No.
You spent your tickets on available rewards at the time. There’s no reason you should get the refund because a new carrot was added.
Let me put this in perspective for you….
When tickets were first given as tournament rewards, many of us spent them at the vendor for items we liked. Those that didn’t like any of the items held on to the currency, waiting to see if anything else came down the pipe that they felt was worth spending the tickets on.
What you’re doing would be exactly the same as if those that bought the initial rewards felt that they were entitled to get a refund merely because some new reward was being offered.
Your position is silly at best. Stop it.
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You’re the one that tried to make it a narrow point. I’m the one correcting you.
You’re also basing your comments dripping in assumptions. You have nothing but a LOT of conjecture about their database structures or reasons for having a limit. Unless you have some specific insider information on what and why they are doing this, I’m going to stop you right there.
It’s a fact that they increased the maximum slots from 64 to 69. It’s a fact that this limit increased during (and after) that period if you bought the expansions. This evidence proves that the intended current limitations can go higher under the current structure. Period.
You’re grasping at straws with nothing to back up what your’e saying. You’re simply wrong with what you’ve said.
They are artificial.
Here’s some help to understand:
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made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural.
You are 100% wrong in saying that it isn’t. The choice to implement the limit is in the programming, and therefore artificial by nature.
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I’d like to hear what’s going on too.
I finished my diamond rank chests before this patch too, and am out the difference of the new time gated limit.
I’ll give it a couple of days, and let Anet have the opportunity to address it. Otherwise, I guess it’s time for support tickets, which not the best solution….
That’s kind of what I thought.
The devs could do it, if they wanted to, support can not.
As the game ages, and more and more of us altoholics are reaching the maximum, it’s time to lift these artificial limits, or at the very least be consistent in the gem store about addons.
But until they fix the bug you’ll be able to repeat diamond which ppl who don’t get there before the fix won’t be able to do. If not for the bug I would sort of see the point. I still don’t think it would be a big deal but I do understand that some ppl want to be the ‘first’ to get things and it isn’t surprising that those ppl would gravitate towards a competitive game mode so okay, this should have been an expected reaction to the patch . . .
But since there is the bug, who cares . . ?
Well, since they were VERY quick to patch it out, that opportunity to grind out Anet’s mistake is gone.
They should have left the repeating rewards in place until Friday’s reset. There’s lots of kittened off, dedicated WvW players now.
With you on the removing limit. Wish they would make it happen. But it is what it is. Same, still waiting, sent my ticket in yesterday.
About a year or so ago there was a character slot combined with something else in store. I thought I would be able to get it. So bought it. No luck. I had a back and forth with Anet devs doing a ton of things to make it work but they ended up being unsuccessful. At one point they asked if they could log on my account and try to add it that way. I was more than happy for them to try. They tried adding it on their end and by logging on my account and attempting to add it. Just wouldn’t take. They did refund my gems.
Was it actually the devs, or was it senior support staff? From what I heard back from support was they simply do not have the tools to access the game on the level required to add characters past 69.
The devs on the other hand….do.
The expansion packs each have no issue adding that bonus character slot to 70 and 71.
Unfortunately Anet ignored all the feedback on this issue, and simply carried on without addressing their oversight.
A solution would have been to leave the repeating ticket rewards, or waiting until WvW reset before dropping the reward patch. I certainly doubt they will take the time and effort to calculate who gets what partial compensation. The ball was dropped, and now it will be swept under the rug.
Repeating tickets for WvW are now gone.
A couple of things to address now though:
1) Are the repeatable PvP rewards being removed too?
2) How is Anet going to address the issue concerning people that had significant progress finished on their weekly WvW chests before this update, and not being able to acquire the new weekly ticket cap because of it? I’d say it’s pretty unfair to have a difference of a 200 or so tickets.
You are correct.. I bought 2 thinking I would be able to get more and I got everything except the the character slots. Disheartening really. Waiting for Anet to get back with me. But I have a feeling they are going to refund my gems instead.
I recently had an exchange with support about the character slot issues. They say they are unable to do anything due to the fact that they do not have the tools to work around the limit, and that the devs are the ones that would have to deal with this issue.
As such, the best we can do is request a refund for the gems. Still waiting for a response on that though.
On a side note, I think it’s high time to remove the character slot limits.
A warning for those that own accounts with the maximum number of character slots:
Even though the bonus character slots that you can get from the HoT and Pof expansions can increase your account’s character limit past the 69 slots, the new PoF prep pack in the gemstore cannot.
Even though it says you’re eligible to purchase up to a quantity of two you will not get the bundled additional slot.
I have a ticket open with support for a refund, but the devs might like to know this and change the offering in the store so others don’t get stung.
22 weeks if you need the T2 armor is the minimum. Raid armor takes 12 weeks.
If you want T3 armor it takes 29 weeks, plus bring rank 2000.
Then this needs to change. Anet said themselves they wanted the WvW legendary armor to match the acquisition time for raid legendary armor.
This is just another reason to remove the weekly ticket cap in WvW.
Pvp gets repeat, why cant we honestly.
If that’s true, then there is no reason to remove the uncapped tickets in WvW.
no more Ticket cap , i just got 14 tickets on the first Diamond Chest after finishing diamond tier.
This is unintended. There is supposed to be a weekly ticket cap and we will be fixing this.
Well if it’s unintended, consider leaving it alone for this first week.
Those that are finished or in the progress of finishing the chest progress over the weekend will be at a disadvantage. The new weekly limit won’t be attainable due previous ticket progression earned, prior to the new limit.
A lot of those doing it weren’t farming PPK. It was for the loot and player kill title. If the loot was removed, I’m curious about the kill credit for the individual player’s title progression.
Around 2 months ye. Around 4 hours per week in a semi decent group.
And that’s why Raid armor is easy mode legendary……….
Why not Steam?
I have 30% reasons…….
;)
Yeah, and won’t die as long as it ll still be a new pve meta:P
And so, this thread has no merit.
Take the opportunity to hook some of those PvE players, have fun.
There are queques cuz pve plebs still wanna their shinnies :P
Tomato ……tomato.
Still spells out more players lining up to play than the server can accommodate. Read: as in the population isn’t dying. Just like the sky isn’t falling for chicken little.
If you actually look up some of the videos of this, it was entire servers in 3-way collusion doing this, and Anet saying it was fine.
Wait what? Anet disabled loot bags in the OS in addition to moving the spawn points far away from each other.
Making changes to the core game mechanic didn’t fault the player. Go run in OS and kill yourself over and over again. You might not find it as rewarding as it used to be, but you’ll find it A OK, just as before.
Also….does it still credit a kill? Because that’s what they were doing it for.
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Blah…blah…blah.
What Anet SHOULD have done to stoke even more excitement was had the “Lily of the Elon Permanent Pass” functional on preorder.
…..literally a no brainier.
The player queues seen on WvW maps completely counters this OP’s post. This is a false issue.
Clearly, I’m not going to convince you, but your insistence that WvW is not PvP earned a double eyebrow raise. Kudos~
If this was happening in OS, I wouldn’t care. Do note that participation can’t be gained in OS, so it wouldn’t work there anyway.
WvW has a PvP element. Nobody is contesting that. It is player vs player.
You quoted terms that specifically addressed PVP as it relates to the other game mode. To try and deflect this, is disingenuous at best. Again….nice try.1
Fair enough. There was a lot of tier shuffling at the time and I didn’t see anyone in my server’s other matchups doing it, but I won’t claim this was one-sided.
My point still being that these things usually don’t get the attention they deserve and such moves have been made by people for a long time.
Not only is it “fair enough”, but precedent was clearly set that WvW is exempt from what you quoted. This happend When T1 servers worked together against a single server to overthrow them. You can’t apply stipulations meant for PvP to include WvW.
Now, if Anet wants to step in and say “dont’ do this”, that’s their prerogative. However, as stated above (and in other threads about this), it’s entirely within the complainant’s ability to mitigate if they so choose to.
This isn’t anything really new. When they introduced buffed loot/loot on OS and PPK there were entire guilds in mag (that were also reported a lot) which camped alts in OS to farm kills/bags/ppt.
I’m not really sure how this type of larger-scale behavior could be fixed, but it’s not exactly anything new.
It certainly wasn’t just Maguma. Not by any stretch of the imagination. If you actually look up some of the videos of this, it was entire servers in 3-way collusion doing this, and Anet saying it was fine.
So, a single guy running his alted-multiboxed accounts to kitten kills is certainly ok.
Again, if you have a problem with him doing so…..go kill the alt or main. It’s in your power to do so. That’s way less effort that posting here about it.
It’s simply not against the rules.
Do something within the game’s mechanics about it, if it rustles your jimmies to the degree that you feel you must post about it.
……which apparently it does.
I was quite curious about this. Sometimes, people say things are true without actually knowing, but I thought I’d give you the benefit of the doubt.
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.
Since there are two characters that are not participating, this behavior is a violation.
No…you’re not understanding the context of that snippet. And I won’t give you the benefit of the doubt, because it’s clear you don’t understand what you’re quoting. That which you quote is in reference to PVP, not WvW (and there IS a distinction despite players vs players). Where a single person has a large influence on the outcome of a match.
Nice try.
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The only one responsible for what you’re paying is your local government. PERIOD.
If you have a beef, it’s with your policy makers. Knowing where to kitten is half the battle……
It’s simply not against the rules.
Do something within the game’s mechanics about it, if it rustles your jimmies to the degree that you feel you must post about it.
……which apparently it does.
Does anyone else find it incredibly hilarious that pvers were crying that the new wvw reward ascended was way too hard to acquire and are now crying that it’s all too easy?
It’s not lost on me one bit.
It’s also a funny 180 that instead of WvW players being elitist towards PvE players coming into their game mode, the PvE players are now being elitist saying that what they do is more work.
I’m just waiting on the second wave of QQing about how hard the rewards in WvW are. Just like a zombie…they’ll be coming back.