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8.45 gold per 100 gems?

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You’re telling me that because I spent money you have to?

Thank you for proving my point about people with an attitude towards a person like me just because I spent money.

If you do not see that a company caters to the need of people that spend money, at the expense of people that do not spend money, then there is really nothing I can say to help you understand.

Call it an attitude if you want. That doesn’t make it wrong.

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8.45 gold per 100 gems?

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The thing that kind of irks me is that people take an attitude towards those that can afford to buy gems (or choose to should that be the delimiter in deciding to buy or grind), no one HAS to buy gems.

Unfortunatly, this is not true.

People that buy gems with dollars ‘force’ others to do the same. It is because of players that are willing to pay-to-win (read: get top DPS), that others have to pay too.

There is no way for a player to make 3,000 gold by ‘just playing the game’ so that he can buy the top-DPS legendary. That is 300 hours of pure hard-core, mind-numbing grinding. The only realistic way to get 3,000 gold is to spend real money.

Because some people spent that money, ANet will never give a non-pay-to-win way to let us get that top-DPS weapon. Why would ANet do that, when they can get people to pay dollars to have the best gear?

So, yes, it is because of people that spent 700$ on a game, that others need to spend money too to keep up with the insane legendary (read: top DPS weapon) price.

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[FUNK] recruiting (Tarnished Coast)

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A bump for funk. Cause… they’re funk!

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How do we report this?

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Unfortunatly, the previous posters are right.

ANet is very well aware of these cheats, but they simply do not care. We posted about these hacks, we reported these hacks, we posted videos of these hacks… they simply do not care.

WWW simply doesn’t get the resources to stop these hackers.

That, the server with the most hacks happens to be the server where the DEVs are rumored to go play WWW, so…

You got two choices: accept that the other side can cheat or simply quit playing WWW. There is no 3rd choice.

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16,000 Kill Shot

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Even a permavigour engi doesn’t have enough dodges to dodge EVERY skill that comes out in a 3v1.

No one says you got to dodge all the skills.

Just the 16k ones.

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The effects of Glicko scoring this week :(

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First, in case you didn’t know, the probability that the number 4 server ends up against T1 servers is only 5%.

No it’s 0% (impossible) since several weeks and it will remain 0% as long as rank 3 nd rank 4 are 160 (or more) pts apart.

Where did you get that info? I never saw a reference to the odds being determined by the points, just the tabel where it’s determined by the ranks.

But I admit, I don’t read the DEV posts religiously anymore, so i might have missed that one.

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The effects of Glicko scoring this week :(

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new to WvW?

Rankings don’t mean kitten when you know you’re stronger than them. If FA gains enough score and end up getting matched up in T1, they’ll lose a lot of score again (unless by some weird thing, T2 actually is balanced against T1). It balances itself out.

No, not new to WvWvW.

First, in case you didn’t know, the probability that the number 4 server ends up against T1 servers is only 5%. That’s not even once in 4 months. It’s hardly something you can use as an argument to balance things out.

And TC fought T1 servers in the golden league (because we did not drop a tier on purpose to avoid those servers, thank-you-very-much), so I know about the effect that they have on the T2 servers.

But that’s not the point. The point is not ‘will a server lose ranking when fighting against a T1 server’.

The point is that when a server consistently beats another server, the scoring should reflect that and has the consistently-winning server higher rated than the consitently-losing server.

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Got to love it! Night capping blobs. so PRO!

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I Just love when log off after a hard shift in WvW and your top, wipeing the floor with other server’s, then log in next morning to see that we lost all the hard work put in, all upgrades on keeps gone, Anet when are you going to come up with a solution to this?
Been a problem since day one if you havnt noticed.

A possible solution – Get rid of localisation, make international server’s and merge Eu and NA server’s for a 24 hour player base on all server’s

And to all the random player’s if you don’t have anything constructive to add don’t post at all! Fill the thread up with your rubbish please…. Kthxgoodbye

I agree.

It’s one of the really, really bad parts of WvWvW: 50 people at nighttime do the same for your score than 500 people during the day.

Apparently ANet values Asian players 10 times more than American or European players: each individual Asian player contributes 10 times more to the score than others.

If they really value each player the same (which they claim they do), they should add a correction mechanism.

This has been asked several times, but they don’t add that mechanism, so Asian players continue to contribute 10 times more than others.

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The effects of Glicko scoring this week :(

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So…

Tarnished Coats wins pratically ALL matches against Fort Aspenwood (the current score is like 21-2 or so).

But with the current scores this week, FA is juming over TC in the ranking, because FA got to play against the 7th & 8th ranked server and wins big.

How is that fair? How is it possible that a FA always loses against TC and still can jump over TC in the ranking?

This ranking system is very unfair, it should be impossible that a server jumps over another server when they always lose against that server.

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FA/TC/Mag... 3rd week in a row...

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I guess the moral compass of WWWers is even more broken than I thought, when you got 4 people defending tonic tactics to prevent the other guy from getting his deserved kill.

So, I apologise for calling you a cheater, apparently chea… euh… preventing getting killed by using a tonic and turned into a moose is perfectly acceptable behaviour here, so sorry to think that there were some principles at stake here! Continue what you’re doing, you should be proud the way you prevent someone from getting their kill!

<rolls eyes>
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FA/TC/Mag... 3rd week in a row...

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And in those two cases, you felt robbed of victory because one person happened to escape and WP out? Needing to get the kill to feel like you won, to me, also seems like pride.

So, one person is blatantly cheating to not get killed, the other person wants his kill, and here you are, actually attacking the person that wants his kill.

It’s a strange world out there!

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Dec 27 TC/FA/Mag

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Conflicting stories… one saying FA takes it easy deliberatly and one saying FA just suffers more from the holidays.

Hmmmmm… since the second statement is made by the same (albeit friendly) person that claims FA did not drop to silver on purpose, I’m gonne belief the other guy

It’s hard to believe that FA falls to 6th place AFTER THIRTY-SEVEN WEEKS IN TIER TWO juuuuuuuuuust in time to be in silver. That’s too much coincidence for my little brain to hold!

Enjoy being 5th in Gold. Mags scares me a lot more than you guys.

3rd, my friend, we were 3rd in gold league, not 5th… server pride!

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Dec 27 TC/FA/Mag

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What’s happening with FA these weeks, losing so badly?

Is the new season coming up and they want to drop a league AGAIN, so they can win some matches?

Seriously, show some pride!

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Dec 27 TC/FA/Mag

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NOPE CERN pub central at TC WK very very sad. Entire queue inside of a single keep and they won’t push out and play with 30-40 Mag. Spam building siege ftw I guess.

Glass cannons die quick to siege. So many bags thanks dude!

I doubt that. You tried to push us on bridge, on the inner walls, outer walls, outside your S gate, inside SW camp, and NN camp at least 3-4 times each. Every time save the last inner walls push when we bailed we wiped at least half of your zerg before the rest ran and hid.

Sorry kid, TC got farmed hard.

Wait, I’m confused. Your first post complained about TC not pushing out, your second talks of multiple TC pushes. Can you clarify what you’re whining about pls?

You’re doing it again! You’re trying to reason with these people! Stop that, lol.

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Dec 27 TC/FA/Mag

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Honestly, the only reason why Mag ever attacks your keeps is to force the people inside to fight us. If you want to guarantee your structure’s safety, just constantly fight us open-field.

I think you are SERIOUSLY overcounting, lol. I think we only queued EB after reset this week. Even not at TCBL, which is odd, cause you only got a dozen RPers there.

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Dec 27 TC/FA/Mag

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For those who got bored in the first paragraph, here is the summary of the post:

I’m a Maguuma player and my server is better than your server.

Which is, of course, nonsense, because MY server is better than your server!

And for the record, we had three commanders on TCBL at reset plus scouts plus a roamer group plus the usual north camp… euh… north camp campers!

If we were one big blob of a zerg, we probably would not have lost hills to FA after 30 minutes or so.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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PPT or not when we have 18 omegas ready to throw at FA’s EB keep

I rarely command, but if I knew there were 18 enemys Omegas on a map, I would prefer it when they were nicely Inside a keep too. You say they were for fA keep, but after that, where would they go then?

You can’t blame a commander for keeping a Omega zerg locked down, it’s a reasonable thing to do.

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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Tyrion – Best commander on NA servers. Hands down.

On TC, about half the commanders repeat each order 4-5 times too. I am not sure why they do that. It drives me insane, so I usually mute them in mumble. If I want to be yelled at, I’d just call my ex-boyfriend and tell him how money he owes me, lol.

If you yell each order 5 times, you’re probably taking this game waaaaaay too serious!

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Dec 20th - FA/TC/MAG

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What happen in FA Garrison just now TC ^^ you bring like 10 omegas and 50 people and cannot take it ^^ … on the other hand FA took your garrison and is still paper GG !!!

I think some of you really thought that im not goin to play this weekend, jajaja ^^

Yeah, 10 Omegas is not enough versus 15 ACs. It’s the 3rd time we fail at taking the garrison with Omegas, but our commanders keep thinking 10 is enough.

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Gem Store Item - Royal Terrace Access

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I heard this is where [HATS] has its weekly guild meetings about what to corner next in the market.

Tsssssk, tskkkkk. According to ANet there are no market disturbances and the TP is working perfectly.

How dare you suggest that it is not! How dare you suggest that 4,000 gold for a precursor is manipulated! Go wash your mouth in soap, ANet says there is no manipulation!!

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Is gold to gems rate fair in gw2?

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As always, depends on who you ask.

Current rate shows that not as many people are buying gems and turning them to gold as there were in the early stages of the game. Might see a dip in price as X-mas season comes and goes with new players coming in and gem cards given as gifts. Or not…who knows.

Do you really think that the gem prices will ever go down?!?

Gems are ANet’s only source of income. The less players there are, the more gems for dollars ANet needs to sell. So you can safely bet that ANet will drive the gold price of gems will go up, else people won’t spend dollars.

The game depends on that price never comming down.

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Same servers for 5 weeks - Random MU really?

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Well, the result of their new system, is that there was no queue on all maps in TC at reset. That was a first since I started playing GW2; they actually managed to make people less intrested in WWW with this new system.

That’s what happens when DEVs implement new systems without asking anyone <sigh>.

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Wauw... can you say 'denial'?

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This heard headed attitude of continuing to do something that you KNOW is going to cause problems is exactly the reason that this forum has to be shut down.

No. This ‘’hard-headed attitude’’ would be very easy to fix if ANet wanted to. All they have to do is suspend those people from posting for a week/month when they do bad things. Problem solved. Easy as peasy!

But, no, instead, ANet shuts everyone up. THAT is the reason why the forum ‘has to be shut down’, cause they simply don’t want to hear anyone complaining anymore about bugs & exploits they don’t fix.

Apperently, they prefer to shut down critisism instead of fixing what caused it.

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Same servers for 5 weeks - Random MU really?

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If you read their odds table, they odds are indeed so that 1, 2 & 3 have a 95% chance to play against each other. There is a 5% chance of a 1- 2-4 match. And a 0% chance of a 1-2-5 match.

So, 1 & 2 will always play against eachother, 19 times out of 20 versus server 3, 1 time out of 20 versus server 4.

It’s sad, really, seeing them fail so hard

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Wauw... can you say 'denial'?

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this has nothing to do with reports of exploits/bugs/hacks but rather the rampant accusations

Euh… no… people get infracted when they post a screenshot of someone from the other server exploiting. Even when ’ people post it, they all 4 get infracted; this has nothing to do with ‘OMG this-or-that server hacked’. I even remember posting ‘this person clearly hacked into the keep, but your server was so correct not to take the portal in’.

But… I can not tell you how incredible annoying it is to WWW, see someone cheat into a keep, sent in a screenshot and then get infracted YOURSELF.

Especially if the same cheater has been doing THE EXACT SAME THING for months.

But this is anet answer: shut down the forum. <deep, deep sigh>

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Wauw... can you say 'denial'?

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So… ANet gives ‘’Accusations of hacking, exploiting, & griefing’’ as one of the reasons to shut down the www-forums.

Instead of actually fixing the bugs that we have been posting about for months and month, ANet now simply stops the forums that they are mentioned in.

It’s a first, I think… a company actually shutting down the communication of their customers to the company because the customers have the guts to point out what’s going wrong.

This shut-our-customers-up decision is the same level as the infamous ‘DEV don’t need to listen to players, DEVs already know what players because DEVs are players too’ attitude from earlier this year.

Must be nice, living in a world where you can just shut people up, just because they have the nerf to point out certain things that go wrong.

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Dec 13 TC - FA - SoS

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Do you take all jokes personally?

Your “jokes” get boring fast.

@Everyone else – anyone else getting extremely bored with this game?

Yeah, same old, same old, really. WWW became less fun for me with the implementation of WXP which encourages blobbing. Pffffft.

It’s fun to run in a blob with a good commander. For about an hour or so. Then… meh. Running with your guild commander is fun too, but that’s rarer too

Alot of people are probably waiting for the-next-patch-that-will-fix-everything, but I personally fear that the next WWW update won’t save it and that even more people leave.

We’ll see. Untill then, I’ll kill some more FAers to keep going!

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Season 1 - What happened? Anything?

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  1. Who won?
  2. Who surpassed themselves and climbed the tables during the season?
  3. Who stumbled and dropped down the tables?

Or did it all end up back right where it started? (Please tell me that wasn’t the case.)

1. No one cares who , cause some servers gamed the system so much that it was a disaster.
2. The servers that gamed the system and dropped tiers so they could win their league, they are the ones that climbed the tables.
3. The servers that were so honest NOT to game the system and jumped over the gaming servers where the ones that dropped down the tables.

Then the rewards came… which were… let’s say… ‘underwhelming’. So people just all went ‘meh’ and moved on.

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Dec 13 TC - FA - SoS

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About late SEA timezone.. Is it possible if FA and SoS stop PvDoor and try to fight or something? So tiring running around maps finding your groups for fights..

/notroll

Why don’t you just get ahead of the PvD train?
We did that against JQ during leagues and they lost their freaking minds when our zerg busted out of inner hills right into their downlevelled karma train.

Of course you aren’t likely to see downlevels from either us or FA; but the concept is the same.

It’s a bit difficult when they randomly waypoint across 3 BLs and cap stuff. Vale camp to NW camp then somehow NE tower without taking NE camp then suddenly water camp. We literally spent 2-3 hours chasing their 30 with our 10.. Geez.

Sounds similar to TC on occasion. Its almost as if people are trying to be unexpected and not leave a super obvious trail across the map…hmmmm. let me get back to you on that!

That’s true, hehe. We’re trying to learn how to map-hop too. When we have only one commander on the map and only 30 people (plus the usual 10 RPing in TCBL), we try to group up and map hop.

But it’s tricky. We’re not good at it, so it’s usually obvious where we go, lol. Mostly because alot of www TCers aren’t in mumble and just follow the commander and the WPs, so they don’t even hear the ’don’t kill the yaks’. It takes some whispers before they stop doing it. And then new people come in and kill the next yak, ofcourse!

But one day, we’ll learn not to kill the yaks and the sentries and skip the camps. That day, we’ll take your garrison before you even know we’re on the map.

You’ll see!

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A kitteny decision I have made

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It’s an ooooold debate that the DEVs just don’t listen too. There are indeed builds that are OP, plain and simple. But we discussed this a 100 times on the forums and they just don’t care. They just don’t.

It is impossible, as in literally im-pos-si-ble, to kill this type of builds. That is the very definition of being OP. But the DEVs refuse to do anything about it.

And so, yes, a certain type of play enjoys being invincible and killing other people. There is nothing you can do about these people, because they have the support of the DEVs. They won’t go away.

So, you just got to live with the fact that these people exist. Nothing you can do about OP people if the DEVs allow it.

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CDI- Character Progression- Vertical

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1. We didn’t want another tier of gear; you guys knew that and implemented it anyway, so now we’re stuck with it.

Players rarely ever want their pet class nerfed, but its still necessary to the health of the game to do it from time to time. Consensus and Balance are distantly related on the best days and full-blown adversaries on more than a few.

While I have some issues with the specifics of Ascended acquisition, it’s not that hard to recognize the pressures at work that convinced them that the concept needed to be introduced to the game.

Keep in mind that prior to the release of the first Ascended items, the single most efficient way to advance your character was play the Trading Post. Full Stop. If you spent your time doing DEs or running dungeons you were a serf laboring in the fields in the service of your Trading Post betters. It was soul-sucking. Nothing you could do swinging your sword came close, and even today most people have this obsession with amassing gold when doing so mostly fattens you up to get fleeced at the market. The range of rewards that must be earned rather than bought is still astonishingly thin.

If anything the current crafting-only model of weapons and armor is a bit of a backslide towards ‘TP-uber-alles’. I sincerely hope that the currencies of heroism like skill points, karma, and various tokens get moved back to center stage as the means and the measure of characters’ mechanical advancement ~ vertical or horizontal.

I really just set out to summarize the thread to see if anything new was actually being said about vertical progression, or if we were just going in circles, this far into the discussion about it. And, truly, without more meaningful feedback than “Interesting ideas” there’s not much more that we can do with the discussion, in my opinion. Regardless, that was basically the first sort of comment that was picked up and addressed in the thread.

I’m in total agreement about consensus vs. balance, but I think it’s clear that balance isn’t being discussed here, on many levels.

I’m all for progress, and there’s truly no way to please everyone, but given the possibilities for vertical progression in a game like GW2, it seems like a middle ground other than “gear treadmill” might have been a more viable solution.

Hi Guhracie,

Will all due respect there has been a huge amount of dialog, discussion, ideation, summary and proposals. If you want to add value to the thread then I suggest you read it. Until then I am going to take everything you say with a large handful of salt. Sorry.

Chris

Wauw… just… wauw.

With all due respect… but I don’t think that it is a good idea to post that you won’t listen to a Customer, just because he didn’t read 100s of posts.

If someone has the feeling that you people aren’t listening and that he doesn’t like the format of this discussion, you should listen to him. Even when you disagree. ESPECIALLY when you disagree. That’s kinda the point of feedback, no?

The reason why I do not contribute to this thread is exactly the same as the poster. A dialogue means that both people talk. Not say ‘I can not comment on this’.

And when a poster voices my opinion, he gets scolded at. Nice, nice! It just fuels my opinion that this isn’t a very useful feedback thread.

Don’t scold at customers. Don’t focus solely on people that post in the form that you prefer to listen to. Don’t shut people out. You will learn alot more about your customers that way.

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Dec 13 TC - FA - SoS

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I put on my robe and wizard hat……

Oh, I like to play dress up!

Anyways… nice piece of RPing there. I bet you’re TC!

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Yay for taxes on artificial currency?! (Gems)

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Agreed, you are buying a good. If I went to the Target and bought a Gem Card it’s taxed. Forget about the EU where the tax is already built into the price.

I buy Gem Cards all the time and they’re never taxed. The purchase is always exactly $25.

A gem card of 25$ will buy you the same as 25$ in the store.
So, the tax is already included, plain and simple.

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Playing for the inflationary compensation

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One thing im curious, do gaming companies get revenue from gold sellers?

That’s a taboo topic, really.

You can’t accuse them of taking money from gold sellers, because you can’t proof it.

If ANet would got a decent gold-tracking system in place, they could easily see where sold gold comes from. It’s not that hard, just log all transactions, contact a few gold sellers, pay them 5$ for gold and track the source down.

They don’t do that. Other gaming companies don’t do it either.

You can choice to believe that they don’t do it because they don’t feel like doing it.
Or you can choice to believe that they don’t do it because they get money from them.

It’s a choice: no one can proof it this way or the other, so…

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Playing for the inflationary compensation

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IMO, the economy is manipulated by ANet to some degree. They have to make a minimum profit. Any company knows this if they want to survive and/or blossom within the economy. Why introduce so many sinks within the game? RNG, DR, no loot on mob kills, tax on sales, and finally the mystic toilet.

Are all of these there to fit the purpose of the game only? I doubt so. The quickest and easiest way to get rich is not getting caught out with own devious acts. I can speculate that DR implementation was more than just to tackle bots – something that many players also believe. This is a sink, like many others, to maintain the economy so it does not fall appart – and who controls these variables? Have a guess…

I 100% agree with this.

They can’t post ‘we admit, the gem price is purely decided by marketing, we set it to maximise our profit’, but you can be pretty sure that that is exactly what companies do: maximise thier profit. Their is no reasonable way to get -say- Dusk, without giving ANet cash. And people really think ANet has nothing to do with this? Come on!

I find it very, very odd that there are players that seem to believe ANet doesn’t control the system. Even up to a point where I suspect that ANet has posting accounts to defend them and attack critics here. Kinda like Apple that pays actors to stand in line when a new product comes out and give nicely marketed 20 second quotes to the journalist when they get interviewed.

ANet maks their long-term money with the gems. IT’s really incredible to read that people say ANet doesn’t ensure that the gem prices maximise their profits.

That’s what companies do: they try to maximise their profits. It’s hard to understand why people think that gaming companies are different.

As brief as his comments usually are, they are always truthful without any fluff or doublespeak. If he says that such-and-such market is not being manipulated, it is not

Your faith in people is really, really astonishing.

It’s hard to argue with people that belief that gaming companies are different than other companies, but I’ll give it a try…

The gem store is ANet survival. That is where the money comes from. You know, the money that they need to keep going… That they got to pay their shareholders with. That they got to pay their employers with. That they got to pay their servers with.

And you really belief that ANet let players decide that price?

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Dec 13 TC - FA - SoS

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TC I know why you don’t like FA now. right now they have lead. They brought a 50 man zerg to SoS and zoom hacked to destroy treb behind gate/acs… pathetic server blob that has to cheat when they outnumber defenders 5to1 easy

Well, to FA’s defence… ANet considers it perfectly legal to ‘zoom hack’. I don’t know what these people are thinking, but for ANet it is perfectly acceptable to make your GW2 screen a 1:30 ratio so you can shoot ACs around gates or over walls.

Personally, I consider it cheating, but since ANet allows it, you can’t really call it cheating, I guess.

I put it up in the same category as camping the spawn exits, ganking people in JPs, dancing on people corpses after 3v1s or killing people’s yak parades: technically it’s not cheating, but it’s not really decent server-behaviour either.

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GZ on capping our garri, FA. The circle was not even red. It just insta-capped 2 seconds before we could WP more people in and defend. Bizarre.

Yeah, that was weird… I was inside with my banner ready, the Lord was rezzed by someone else and out of nowhere BOOM, garrison flipped 3 seconds before WP was up. No circle, no warning, just all of sudden flipped. Weird.

Maybe FA would have gotten Garrison anyway, we barely killed their golems and only few of us left inside, but it sucks losing a garrison with glitches like this.

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WvW Season One Rewards Are Unacceptable

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- rushing it if you’re not a usual WvWer. Why not. The 15 achievments needed could easily be done in a week, a few days if you really wanted it done asap.

This is simply not true. Or not for all servers anyway. I dare you to play against T1 servers and get this achievement done in in a few days. It won’t happen, plain and simple.

The rewards were indeed… bad.

And servers that fought against T1 servers in gold league got even WORSE rewards than servers that played against T 7 servers.

In my opinion, the main problem in WWW is that the décisions are taken too fst, without actually thinking things trough. You see that in alot of the décisions, they simply don’t analyse things, they have an idea, don’t talk it through and just go ahead with it.

The same with their latest décision, narrowing the range of servers you play against. That one wasn’t even communicated until 4 days AFTER it was IMPLEMENTED, lol.

It’s sad, really

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Issues granting Season reward chests

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Issue 3: despite outrage with the players, we decided that the servers that ended 7th or 15th in the season, receive a BETTER reward than servers that ended 3th, 4th, 5th or 6th. We will not fix this issue, because we think that servers that gamed the system by and dropped a league juuuuuust before the season should be rewarded for this unfair behaviour.

There, I added a third issue that you forgot in your original post!

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Was the intention to not reward servers?

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FA is now holding it’s own against Gold League servers and YB is beating SBI and Mag (who actually would’ve made silver league interesting) this week. But that’s irrelevant because FA was put into Silver League.

Funny how that works out right? Those rumors of FA sandbagging into silver that flew around for weeks come to mind…bring it up to a die hard wvw FA player, it always ensures a good time.

Even the biggest die hard FA fan can’t deny what’s plain to see, lol.

They dropped a tier, they won their little kids league matches, they got their precious winners reward, they ponded on theoir chest yelling how great they are and now they are getting beaten again by TC.

All is exacly like is was before!

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Dec 6: TC - FA - SoS

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For all of how TC is diminished, you were able to beat SoR in your current shape.

That was pretty cool of us, wasn’t it

Man, were they mad! Beaten by a bunch of RPers… the griefing that went on was outright hilarious!

Then they added their whole ‘you only won cause we went to play TESO beta this weeked’ argument. So, ofcourse, we were double as motivated to beating them during the week too, duh!

Good times, good times!

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Obviously nobody is going to believe this, but we didn’t tank on purpose….. we got weaker, dropped into silver league, got some guilds and got back to regular FA.

You’re trying to convince us that it is coincidence that you fell to 7th place juuuuuuuust as the season started.

After you were 6th or 5th for (I checked) 33 weeks!

Come on!

I know that these forums aren’t exactly the most truthful place around (I may or may not have exagerated thiongs in the past myself), but this is a bit too much spinning.

Even for FA!

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Wait What?

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I’m not sure if my explanation was fully clear, so here’s an example picture of how the servers would be matched up next week, if this system were in place. Do you think something like this could work? Maybe ANet could give it a try someday.

It was clear, but ANet wanted to add some ‘resistance’ to the scoring.

With your system, 100 people could go to a T8 server and level it to tier 1 in 7 weeks, just win the match each week.

With the current system, that is impossible, because you can’t win enough ranking each week to jump 3 places.

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Dec 6: TC - FA - SoS

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Blob blob blob. Everyone blobs. Seriously. Everyone. Your noble server does it.

I can’t believe this is still a topic a year later. Blobbing might not be efficient or pretty but it is effective. Blobbing is here to stay until it is no longer effective.

CORAL NO. FA does NOT blob. They only run in small-man groups. Only TC blobs, didn’t you get the memo? o:<

He probably missed that memo because he was laughing too hard when reading the we-won-this-week-because-we-won-reset memo!

TC oceanic? wtf

Let’s see if I get this straight… according to your chat, you got 28 people repping at that moment. There are 20 TCers in front of Garrison from different guilds. That’s LESS that you got repping your ONE guild.

But here you are, talking about coverage… FA logic is hard to follow!

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Some things are weird, especially in the NA charts, (SoR and TC not meeting, close servers having few chances of meeting), but it would change as ratings go up and down.

Yes, that’s the result of the fact that the will never pitch the 1st or 2nd server against the 5th: it will always be either 1/2/3 or 1/2/4, so 3 and 4 will never meet.

This system is blatantly unfair to 4. 4 will meet servers 1 and 2 TOGETHER. They will be blown away, like we have seen over and over in season 1.

While 5 will never, ever, ever face server 1 or 2. They will only meet servers 3 or 4 (and never together) and servers below them.

It’s like they specifically designed a system to punish server 4 and reward server 5.

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Garnished Toast

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Well, as a TC player I can tell you that…
- most players have a great help-each-other-when-you-can atmosphere
- there are alot of players like you that don’t RP on TC but are only here because RP-servers tend to be nicer servers
- you can blob on TC or you can go solo or you can go in a small group, your pick
- we have pretty long queues on all BLs on reset night, but the rest of the week, it’s exceptional that there are queues everywhere
- about… hmmmm… 2 in 3 WWWers use mumble, but it’s not a must-have (except in some guilds)

For the rest… just be nice, talk about pie and we will certainly welcome you with open arms! Unless you steal our cookies. We’re not nice to cookie-stealers, no we’re not!

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Dec 6: TC - FA - SoS

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So this guy glitched into LLK and is chain stealthing… Normally we would ignore him but he’s also keeping LLK contested indefinitely.

If you don’t know by now that there is a thief that cheats in the green keep in EB, you’re new to WWW: he’s been doing it for about a year now.

My guess is that it’s a DEV, because you can report this guy 150 times, he keeps doing it.

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Seriously. Does anet play on yak's bend?

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It’s just that they don’t care. Simple as that.

They don’t care that you can glitch in garrison walls and kill siege with some AOE attacks. Mesmers been doing that for about a year now. Most players don’t do it and when it happens, often the other people from that server tell the player to stop. But every now and then there is a newbie that does it anyway.

The same with the green keep glitches in EB. You can sent in 5 videos of a thief cheating there, you can report the cheater with your entire guild, they simply don’t care.

And if you link to a video with clear evidence that this cheat still happens, the moderator here simply deletes your post, gives you an infraction and everyone pretends the problem is solved while the cheater just continues to cheat.

It’s kinda like the police destroying your evidence of a crime and punishing you for daring to accuse someone, lol.

Don’t get angry about it. It’s just a game. Just forget about it or you’ll quit this nice game. Just accept that they simply don’t care about a few players cheating.

There is nothing you can do about, nothing at all.

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Ah, I see the “our server is mature/their’s is immature” part of the show has started already.

And it started right after the ‘you only win cause of coverage’-part has started.

Funny how that goes.

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but… TC owns smc right now. More so, its been held for over an hour… I seriously have no idea what you’re even asking.

I think he might have been in Obsidian Sanctum when SOS had smc. When in there and looking at the map all keeps appear to have wp.

No, SOS actually had a WP in SMC monday. Everyone was like ‘WTH happened’, lol.

We tried to break it and made it to the Lord’s room, but than it felt like 500 SOSers came in, lol. We got pushed back to the 3rd floor where we held our ground for a while with some ACs buid and all, but eventually we got ran over and got wiped. It was a pretty epic fight!

It wasn’t until a few hours later that we managed to break SMC, with a set of TC’s finest Omega golems!

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How can I show casuals the importance of TS?

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I feel like a lot of the players who join our map zergs do not understand how important voice chat is for winning zerg fights. How can I show the usefulness of voice chat to people who don’t use it, and don’t want to try?

TC has the exact same problem.

But… it is not that people do not know that voice commands are important. That’s usually not the reason why they don’t use voice.

There are alot of reasons why some people don’t use voice.
Some people use computers in shared rooms and can’t do voice.
Some people can’t use sound because they got parents walking around and the things people say in mumble aren’t exactly family-friendly.
Some people don’t like the swearing that goes on in there.
Some people don’t like orders yelled three times at them.

Lot’s of reasons other than ‘people don’t know that voice is important’.

Once you know the reason why someone doesn’t use voice, you can much easier convince them otherwise.

Wait a second. You’re from DB. You’re an ENEMY. I just gave advice to the enemy! Wo on me!!!

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