Guild Wars 2

Thanks, really had me worried there – I’d been “saving it” to get the achievement with my guildies on our regular Thursday night session, just saw the post on the date changing from the 16th to the 14th, logged in in panic to get it before the end of the 14th server time (in a couple of minutes)… and was hugely disappointed that the bonfires were already gone. Very relieved to hear they’re coming back, thanks for clarifying :-)

Apparently fixed now in the latest newsletter… you DO listen! ;-)

Our whole family loves this game, so we have three game accounts between us. For many months now, I’ve been thinking that the silly “game client lost its connection to the server” error which I get pretty much whenever I switch accounts would be on someone’s TODO list and would eventually get fixed. It hasn’t, so it’s probably not on any TODO list (yet – hence this post).

Searching through these forums for the same issue, I’ve become aware that many people have far more annoying problems, so I understand it’s not as high priority as someone who constantly gets disconnected from the game. I’ve come to actually expect that minor annoyance when switching accounts, but since I haven’t seen the same issue reported, I thought I’d post it here and hope you may get around to it in a year or two…. I can’t imagine that this is difficult to fix, seems like a simple logic error somewhere in the login code.

Here’s what I do to reproduce this at will:

1. Log in with remembered username/password from previous GW2 session (works fine, no errors).
2. In the game: Log out > log out (as opposed to character selection) and I’m back to the GW2 login screen. (Pressing log in now without changing anything would work at this point.)
3. I copy/paste my (different) account name and password from a text file into the appropriate fields, hit the big red log in button, and… get the infamous “lost connection” error.
4. I ok the error, hit the log in button again, and… get an error that I’ve got the incorrect password.
5. I sigh and take a deep breath.
6. I paste the password (still in the clipboard) again, hit the log in button, and… I’m playing on the other account.

Obviously by now I’ve learned that I can shorten the process (I just hit log in after pasting the account name since the password is ignored anyway, ok the lost connection error, then paste the password and get in).

Can anyone else with multiple accounts confirm this issue?

I’ve subscribed to the GW2 newsletter from guildwars2@ncsoft.com, but for quite some time, the links in those emails haven’t been working. They keep trying to go to http://guildwars2.ncsoft.com/ which doesn’t seem to be an existing server. For example, the latest newsletter titled “The Razing Begins in Guild Wars 2 Today!” has links to “learn more about the razing” that go to http://guildwars2.ncsoft.com/ct/xyz (xyz being some parameters that I’m guessing may be account specific for tracking) which gives a “could not locate remote server” error. I’m guessing it should instead link or at least redirect to https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-flame-frost-retribution/ or similar.

Just thought you guys might want to let the newsletter people know so they can fix the links in the emails. I know the marketing people at my place of work would have a hissy fit if they found out about something like this not working ;-)

Well, call me crazy, but now it’s back to 10 rep for a login… maybe there is something like a weekly/monthly cap on rep for logging in?

The guild I’ve been using to test this theory was my own, with a grand total of three accounts as members (all of which are owned by my family), so I know exactly when the login rep is occurring (and when it isn’t), and there’s a maximum of 16 distinct logins per day (one extra character slot between the three), so there’s no way I’m hitting that cap – the past few days, it’s been 5 rep across the board for logging in. If you’re still getting 10, then I must be getting guild-nerfed or something….

Also, the stats from your guild history log may well be different depending on what those members who logged in did, i.e. how many events they completed, so I wouldn’t necessarily assume a direct correlation between how many logged in for how much guild rep from that alone.

Interesting theories… I have also gotten +50 per day (on an account with 5 alts) previously, without doing anything other than logging them in, so I doubt the bit about the “x minutes passed” is correct. Perhaps there is some merit to the “significant actions” though, and I hadn’t considered the part about having to be on different maps.

I just tried logging on and got no guild rep with any of 5 alts on my first account, but it has been less than 24 hours since I last tried. So for another account (the whole family loves this game) I logged on my first character, got nothing, did a couple of events (+4 rep) and a bit of the living story, then logged in the other alts and got 5 rep each (it’s no longer 10 at the moment, I take it that’s global and not just for me).

So my guess is that the times where I was getting rep for logging in each alt was when I’d done something “significant” less than 24 hours earlier… but something about it still doesn’t quite gel. Maybe I should note down what happens for a week… but I’m probably too lazy for that :-P

Hmm, it’s been several months now and it seems to me that ArenaNet is experimenting with the values (the guild rep you gain for logging in changed from 10 to 5 to 1, then back to 10 and now back to 5), but not fixing the underlying problem that sometimes you seem to gain rep, sometimes not (i.e. they’re changing how much you gain, but not when you gain it). Maybe the pattern/formula is just much more complex than I think, but I’m a pretty mathematically-minded guy and I fail to see a consistent pattern.

I agree that HawkMeister’s “max 4 alts per account” theory could be valid sometimes, but I’m also pretty sure I’ve had occasions where 50 rep were added for logging in 5 alts (without doing anything else that day).

Things that may or may not be factors in the formula:

- has that character logged in yet on that day (with a “day” starting at midnight GMT)?
- has it been more than 24 hours since last login?
- has the character represented the guild for > 24 hours?
- has some sort of cap (account-wide or guild-wide) been reached yet?
- has reputation been earned recently by that account by means other than just logging in?
- is it a Tuesday night somewhere in the world?
- is the temperature in Seattle above freezing?

Clarification (from any source, official or not) would be most welcome.

Oh, and just for the record, the number of bugs relating to guilds mentioned above has been significantly reduced if not eradicated, thanks heaps ArenaNet… so surely now there’s time to look at this issue, right? ;-)

Yeah, I wouldn’t mind getting some clarification on this as well. From what I understand, you’re supposed to be rewarded for logging alts in regularly, but I’m not sure that the “once a day = 10 rep per alt” formula is working correctly (if that’s what it is). Sometimes I seem to get the 10 points as soon as I log in a character, sometimes I don’t.

I have a suspicion the problem might have something to do with when the “day” resets. My local time here in Australia is quite different from the server’s time or from GMT; or perhaps you only get 10 rep if that character hasn’t logged in for over 24 hours? I haven’t been able to see a consistent pattern yet, anyone else have a clue as to what the rules governing this are?