This will probably never happen. Back pieces are sold for gems as vanity items, the very definition of vanity is to show off to others. Less people will buy these items and ArenaNet will lose sales for these items ( no one would buy a Ferrari if when they drove off the lot everyone saw a Hyundai Accent). So while I personally don’t care, well actually I lean towards allowing people to express themselves cause that’s just who I am, I just don’t see this ever being an option.
I do agree that at times they can be annoying and block your view, however it is not hard to reposition yourself, wait for them to pass, or prove to them all the money they spent on vanity items will not make them as good a player as you and leave them in the dust.
edited to add: The fact that so many people have wings and other vanity back pieces shows a healthy economy for GW2. Many of these players are the reason we all get living world, and frequent updates.
Has anyone ever made the suggestion for trait templates. This is something I would really like to see.
The ability to save 2-4 trait templates and load them up at the click of a button so you could have a template for open world pve, one for dungeons etc. and you would not have to go through the trouble of refunding all points and then adding the 7 traits, sometimes reading through them all to remember which one it was that you wanted, etc..
I know it is not that important it is just a feature I would like to see in the future. I mean trait refunds are free and if you’re like me you re-trait daily depending on what you’re doing and/or who you’rer playing with, so why not just make it easy.
I don’t want a work around I want a fix. It should be trivial to add a disable option. Why do people keep suggest to join a squad that I have no intention of doing anything with, it makes absolutely no sence.
And even BEFORE the 9/9 patch, the number of Commanders on any PvE map was out of control. I do not believe the people who say it’s going to die down, since the multiple colors and the switch to being Account-wide only makes them more exciting.
Commander tags in PvE are mostly just “vanity plates” for people who think that the point of commander tags is so people can see them map-wide.
Give me that check box for PvE. Now.
Yes the commander tags annoyed me before the patch but now I just want the choice to disable it. It is my screen, my playing experience and no one else should feel threatened by my choice to turn it off.
I have been running around quite often doing personal story with my wife and even before this patch there was no loot drop in personal story instances.
I’m not too sure but I think loot drops may have stopped in personal story same time as they removed loot drops from the intro area. Oddly enough once in a blue moon a chest will drop with loot.
Off topic but I miss the early launch concept where you received karma for helping citezens in the intro. Instead of just rushing to get the intro story done it felt good to go around and save the citizens from the centaurs and you got a little reward. It was only like 2 or 3 karma but still.
It’s a happy fad, that won’t last. Everyone is all excited they now have colored tags,a nd are just showing them off. After about a week or so you’ll start seeing it die off when people realize that trying to coordinate with so many tags causes them to fail everytime. Then you’ll see only colored tags when they are needed. Like red for attacking teq, Yellow for running interferance where needed. Blue for North defense, Green for south defense, purple for middle defense. Or something like that. I can almost bet TTS already has something figured out.
What if someone is not partaking in the tequault event? Do they need to see the tags. Like I mentioned above, it is such a trivial task to implement a toggle on off option that I can’t see any reason why it should not be available. Do players take offense because I have toggled their name off and can not see it? To me it is the same principle.
If you are not participating in said events where tags are usefull, then it shouldn’t be an issue. This issue now is tags are everywhere with people showing them off, which by some reports is causing these events to fail as no one knows who is actually in command and showing off a tag. Which leads to confusion. My point is, it will die our, and tags will be used to organize, and life will continue on as normal.
So the potential for abuse exists as has been proved and a feature to prevent that abuse should be implemented.
The 9/9 feature build has brought forth an easter festival of colored triangles. Is there any hope that a feature to toggle commander tags off might be implemented?
It’s a happy fad, that won’t last. Everyone is all excited they now have colored tags,a nd are just showing them off. After about a week or so you’ll start seeing it die off when people realize that trying to coordinate with so many tags causes them to fail everytime. Then you’ll see only colored tags when they are needed. Like red for attacking teq, Yellow for running interferance where needed. Blue for North defense, Green for south defense, purple for middle defense. Or something like that. I can almost bet TTS already has something figured out.
What if someone is not partaking in the tequault event? Do they need to see the tags. Like I mentioned above, it is such a trivial task to implement a toggle on off option that I can’t see any reason why it should not be available. Do players take offense because I have toggled their name off and can not see it? To me it is the same principle.
First people turn off commanders tags because they don’t like several days of happy people, then whole maps yell at hordes of clueless randoms who turned off chat and commander tags simply ’cause they could change “something” in options, and ruin Teq and Wurm runs for the rest of the map.
We’ve had it with chat lang filter. No, just no.
Making commander tags 75-50-25% opaque? Yeah, okay.
Could I have the option to set the opacity to 0% then?
I am just imagining people constantly asking “do we have a commander?” only to realize that they have tags turned off and forgot. >.<
Perhaps the toggle off could work the same way as when you toggle names off, just press Alt key and the commanders are visible. The developers are paid a lot of money surely they can come up with something that works. I’m not on the payroll, so I don’t won’t to commit hours out of my day to form a focus group and do the work for them.
In any event I’ll take the band aid. As I mentioned above. Once the trivial task of turning the commander tags off on the clients side. They can then focus on how further to fix commander tags.
Actually, to have any hope of making an impact, one needs to both stop spending and let the company know why. If enough people stop spending and don’t say why, ANet will form a focus group which will tell them people stopped spending because the gem store was too complicated.
Agreed, however I don’t believe ArenaNet is provinding the correct channels to get player feedback. It would be nice to see some kind of effort to hear players concerns.
I am also very disappointed by alot of the changes. Not everything is bad, however there are so many changes that I don’t understand. Why is the power of choice being removed from the players. The game is becoming way to easy.
I firmly believe that the goal for any game should be to provide more options (Like a difficulty mode, with a reward for those that choose the harder difficulty) and not to remove options.
I’m not leaving the game or anything, however it would be nice to know that my concerns are heard. I feel like there is a wall between the players and ArenaNet. It is possible that after seeing how alot of new game developement teams are being very interactive with their community it just feels like such a closed loop and the players are on the outside.
There is not even a suggestion forum. I see no real channel to voice our concerns on the direction of development as a whole other than coming to the general forums where valid suggestions\discussions get lost amongst the plethora of unrelated posts.
I get that, but can you honestly say that you would still want a toggle off so badly if there was only 1 or 2 commanders running around at any given time?
Yes I think it should be an option. I would think it would be trivial to patch in aswell since the implementation exists to toggle it on and off already.
Honestly the feature should have already existed, recent changes have just highlighted the oversight.
Anytime something can be placed can potentially be spammed by many users it should have a toggle to keep the playing field clear of obstruction. The same that I can turn player names off so the screen is not a big green mess. See. It’s nice to see players names without having to press ctrl however the potential to have to many green player names on the screen at once warranted a toggle to hide the names.
edit: sorry the grammer of the past 2 paragraghs is not so great however I think the ideas presented come through just fine. English is not my first language and it is getting very late.
This does need some kind of solution. The account-bound feature has pushed the tag situation solidly over the edge into gameplay-hurting territory.
The system has always had its share of issues – it’s just becoming more apparent now.
I don’t think a toggle setting is the answer though. The beauty of the system is being able to walk into an area and find a leader through their commander tag. A toggle just makes tags pointless – it still doesn’t solve the problem of trying to sift through and find a commander who is actually trying to be a commander.
Yeah, you can join someone’s squad, but it’s not the most robust or user-friendly of features. And it doesn’t help that squads are limited to 50 players.
There absolutely should be an option to turn commander tags off for the players that have no intention of using them. It falls in with all the other things on the screen I can toggle on and off.
After that they can implement whatever changes they want to the commander tags. This post is about players having an option to turn a feature off on our screens that we don’t want to have on our screens. The title does not say “What can be done to fix commander tags”. That is a very good topic but deserves it’s own thread and is a seperate issue.
I’m not crying I just think it is pretty funny though. I don’t care about the birthday gifts and I wanted to remake the character anyways. I have 5 other lvl 80’s to get gifts.
I can’t bring myself to spend money on a slot so I can have 2 lvl 80’s of the same class.
Oh boy. You want to laugh. Yesterday I deleted one of my level 80’s so I would have a new charecter to experience all the new changes.
I already bought charecter slots so I could have one of every class and I have a friend who I envited to buy guild wars and start playing. sigh. I don’t know. I don’t see what the patch added I only see things taken away.
Even the class balances they had me excited for. they said they would make the elite skills more viable choices but after looking some over it just seems like they _kitten other traits to make the _kitten traits seem more appealing.
I haven’t posted on these forums much, if at all, since the beta weekends so I don’t come here all the time to complain but this patch forced me to have to come here to voice my opinions. And the worst part since there are no channels to voice your concerns to ArenaNet I don’t even feel like it will do any good.
I’m waiting for when they finally get to rework the mouse cursor so it doesn’t disappear during combat anymore and hype it out to be a “major” release / game update. I’m not even playing the game but it will indeed be a great laugh.
This comment made me laugh out loud. Really my wife looked at me funny.
Didn’t you know the mouse disappearing in combat and when trying to recycle things in your inventory is a feature so you can more clearly see on the multi-colored commander tags out there.
I have a feeling the tag spam will die down after several days. It’s often how stuff is with new stuff. Everyone does it and then it’s meh afterward.
I still don’t see why it should not be toggleable (is that a word?). I can remove plenty of other tags and info from my screen why can I not remove the commander tag? I don’t need to see it if I am not following any commanders.
When I go back to WvW where I appreciate it I could then turn it back on. To take it one step further I think commanders should have options aswell on who they want to see the tags, like friends only or guild only etc.
Things like this just make sense. Even before todays patch it was anoying seeing commander tags all over the place when those players are soloing and not leading anyone. Or the flip side 50 commanders are all bunched up leading 12 players.
I would think things like this would be game design 101.
From what I’ve been hearing you will not need aegis and levels 1-10 have become cotton candy land with no downed state, no condition damage and no dodging. Nothing is a challenge and unless your a three year old messing around on your older brothers account there is no way you can die. The three year running around bumping in to trees and agroing left right and center and not knowing how to play will probably not even be able to die.
I have not tried a low level zone to verify for myself the state but I was already bummed that the difficulty since launch and gone down several times.
Personally I wish difficulty would return to beta weekend 2, now that was fun.
Enemies below level 10 may not dish out condi dmg. You can get it if you tangle with an enemy above level 10 even if you are below level 10. So it is probably more important now to be aware of the level of the enemies you are fighting whereas before you could be a little more foolhardy.
New players I do not think are going to notice the difference as much. Veteran players will because we know what we can or should be able to do. My biggest adjustment was the loss of the F2 skill with my ranger. I don’t think I realized how much I use it until I didn’t have it to use anymore.
Thanks for clearifying that for me, I know my info was not very accurate. However I still would have to say that there are lots of changes I really don’t like and really just don’t understand.
Instead of just adding information and making tutorials and giving players options on playstyle \ play level. They just removed options from players all over the place. It is really taking the joy out of leveling your charecters, and I’m an altaholic.
From what I’ve been hearing you will not need aegis and levels 1-10 have become cotton candy land with no downed state, no condition damage and no dodging. Nothing is a challenge and unless your a three year old messing around on your older brothers account there is no way you can die. The three year running around bumping in to trees and agroing left right and center and not knowing how to play will probably not even be able to die.
I have not tried a low level zone to verify for myself the state but I was already bummed that the difficulty since launch and gone down several times.
Personally I wish difficulty would return to beta weekend 2, now that was fun.
ANet can’t allow you to disable them. The 35-year-old kiddies paid good coin to be one of the cool kids, and knowing that not everyone can see how cool they are would be infringing on their “right” to enjoy the feeling.
That is just plain silly.
First of all the 100G or now 300G was not implemented to show off it was implemented as a way to assist in leading large groups of players in various WvW or guild pve events.
Second I can turn of a players name from displaying with a check and now you can even replace an entire charecter model with a generic so it should be well with in a players rights to turn on and off anything that can potentially spam the screen with clutter and ruin another players experience.
Yes. Please allow individual users to disable commander tags. It is one check box it must be easy to toggle on and off on the clients side since it can be toggled on and off by the owners of the tags.
My game play is greatly affected by this, and those saying join a squad, this is not always an option. I might be doing something unrelated. Also 95% of the users with the squad tag have no squad they are just showing of the 100G tag.
I was dealing with the blue tags but I can not deal with GW2 turning into constant easter feel with multi coloured triangles everywhere and it is an eyesore. Seriously ANet, you made a beautiful game why allow it to be filled with multi coloured spam.
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can’t use amd grapics card in 6000 series becuase it will shut off your pc in 15 mins !!!!
I have an asus 6970 DirectCUII and it never shuts off. I have done 13 hour GW2 marathon and the card has not shut off. Usually this kind of stuff is caused by faulty hardware though I have seen(and experienced) that faulty drivers can also cause this type of behaviour. It could be anything from faulty sound driver to graphics driver, chipset driver. hard to tell. One thing is for sure, you need a tech to diagnos your system.
