Summary of Day 1 of discussion:
With that out of the way, I have some more questions.
1) What is an acceptable amount of chat suppression for a commander? It’s important to realize that if the system remains as it currently does, with 100g for a tag, no chat suppression would mean that people can spend 100g to spam you with whatever they feel like. That’s not an acceptable solution. I think there are other things we could do, like provide a commander only channel that has no suppression but that people have to opt in to.
I think it’d be easiest to remove suppression for the squad chat channel. When there are multiple commanders on the map, they are giving commands to whoever is with them. This can get confusing and can clog up the team/map chats with different orders. It’d be better if commanders were encouraged to use squads more.
2. To combat griefers, increase number of people joining squads and better coordinate what happens when, make it so that only people in a Commander’s squad can drop siege. This combined with the already suggested ability to kick people from squad would diminish the griefing while still allowing casual players to help out with blueprints.
I like this, but to modify it a little. How about, when you’re in a squad, you can only build siege dropped by someone in your squad. Then a commander should be able to kick people from the squad who are throwing down trebs/ballistas/AC’s at a gate and wasting supply. Maybe the commander should be allowed to see who dropped the siege as well so they know who to remove from the squad.
The problem with having to be in a squad is those off moments where a commander isn’t on the map and you have a group of 5 trying to take a tower, they need to be able to drop siege as well.
Also, how about letting guilds assign members to be “commanders” (maybe give it a different name) that only their guild can see. Even if it’s just for PvE, it’d help quite a bit when doing guild missions.
THIS. I’m generally not a complainer, I was fine with the random match-ups from the start. I didn’t even mind the orb buffs too much. But this is getting to the point where we can’t even get to play the game mode properly anymore. I just want to WvW and have fun with my guildies, servermates and friends. But, sadly, less and less people seem to be turning up in TS3 or showing up in the BL’s. It’s just getting more and more boring each passing day.
I think I remember reading something about “If we see a population decrease we have reason to do something about it” (paraphrased, of course). I really think, that if we continue on with having the top 6 servers fight each other, morale will decrease on the T2 servers and you may start losing even the more dedicated players. It’s quite demoralizing for players currently in T2, fighting a T1 server. I’ve spoken with a few people on my server (Sea of Sorrows), we’re all starting to feel beaten down and tired after just one week against a T1 server.
T2 servers are already starting to bleed guilds over to T1 already, imagine how bad it’ll get after we are stuck fighting against a T1 server every week. I can’t help but think a lot of the people who are stacking on the top 3 servers only want easy wins (because if they favoured competition it would make more sense to spread the population out over the 6 servers who would be in the gold league).
It’s not fun anymore. Playing against someone you KNOW will beat you with barely any competition is NOT fun. This is a game → Games should be fun. Please don’t take the fun out of WvW by making us play boring matches where the outcome is already known before we even start fighting.
