Guild Wars 2

TheGuy.3568:

Very awkward histrionics

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ITT: People who use MF in dungeons to the detriment of their compatriots rally against OP; OP states the obvious. Anet responds with platitude.

Also, it’s “players’” not “player’s”.

But all around a good topic.

Are useless.

I suggest making them worth the space they take up.

Tyvm.

So can we get an ETA on a fix, or at least an acknowledgement, for the terrible lag spike and disconnect epidemic?

Seriously it’s on the verge of being unplayable. I’m 7000km from the servers so a 260-300ms ping is perfectly acceptable but you can’t seem to even manage that, or haven’t since the late January patch. Before that it was fine.

Qui cosa.

1. Remove the NPCs that stand near the TP/Banker in LA, you know the ones – they stand there, you walk up and hit F to open the TP or Bank and all of a sudden some NPC dialog box is open, necessitating closing it, moving forward, and repeating the excercise. It’s pointless and frustrating having them there.

2. Clarify the AH interface so that people manipulating items by putting in false floor prices will be unable to do so. It’s frustrating having to go through the motions of buying each and every item you’re trying to sell before you can actually sell them, so as to not be shortchanged in the transaction. It’s also tantamount to scamming, and I would like to see a way of knowing who you bought or sold items to so that they can be reported if they’ve been deceptive.

3. Remove the excess of knockdown attacks in this game. It’s a cheap and demeaning game mechanic that nobody likes and only seems to work in the enemy’s favour. Devourers and the harpies in FOTM spring to mind.

4. Be more transparent. Saying “we’re working on it” and giving us sporadic, fortnightly (at best) updates is inane and and an ignorant way of communicating with your playerbase. Do weekly run-downs of what’s been worked on and what’s yet to come. Low hanging fruit, gentlemen. You understand the yao but not the ti of what you’ve invested yourselves into.

Not that any of this will ever be read by anyone who can change it.

I’m pretty kitten sick of being disconnected or shunted into an overflow because of poor server management and application.

Anet, what are you doing to fix this? When is it going to be fixed? When are you going to address the constant and sometimes play-crippling lag that’s been prevalent for months now?

From as an objective point of view as I can have being a customer, it seems plainly obvious that you’re doing a rubbish job of addressing these major issues. You’ve had ample time, but you neither inform your players of developments nor seemingly tackle the issues in any meaningful way whatsoever.

But, inevitably, you won’t do anything and this will be deleted; I’ll be infracted for daring to show a contrarian view and for having the sheer nerve to ask for a small amount of transparency.

Hilarious.

Some sort of official response would be pretty much expected but good luck with that. Anet just don’t give a kitten. They know about this, what the causes are and how to fix it but that just ain’t gonna happen.

This thread needs to get to the top of the pile so that it can be ready for Anet to post in.

Pretty sure they’re going to post about how this cold blooded move they pulled with the old ‘the rings were broken from the start, but that’s your problem now’ trick was actually some sort of… test.

10 pristine relics plz

Edit: Oop, forgot to say yeah nova but I’d be concerned about the direction and management of the company if that was the sort of thing they were doing.

P.S. Anet I will also graciously accept, in lieu of the 10 pristine relics you gypped me out of, the mist essences I will require in toto to infuse an alternative ring until which time as proper remuneration and resolution of this debacle can take place

Thanks?

Silly page you don’t belong on the second page

You belong on the first page, being looked at like a page

page page the page

The 5 extra agony resistance from infusing I don’t, but should have, is the difference between taking 12% and 6% hp per second from agony ticks at my level!

To the top!

…of Anet’s priority list for easy bug fixes that shouldn’t have been ignored for 6 hours, let alone this long

And again! Back to the top!

It’s about time this went back up to the top!

Initia Nova.5917:

What do you mean by “not working”? I’ve got plenty of ascended rings, both as drops and through relics, and haven’t run into problems yet.

Obviously you know that the new fractal rings that were introduced on the patch on the 26th aren’t currently able to be infused right? They do not show up in the mystic forge, so are unable to be infused. By infused I mean infused, not have an infusion applied to them.

Very disappointing. I got the ring I want to infuse but because of this bug I am still taking 12% agony damage / tick in 20-29 fractals due to lacking inherent infusion. I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew how much it would hold me back for so long, and it’s not as if this is an irrelevant complaint. I can’t put an exact figure on how much harm this has caused me but over several 20-29 fractals I can imagine it’s fairly significant.

And no, I can’t just infuse an old one for the time being because I have barely any vials, globs or shards, and besides none of those are the ring I want to use. The ring I want to use is the Ossa Family Signet Ring but I can’t and it sucks.

Come on, Anet, what is going on?

Thanks for not taking the time to read this thread and also pretending this issue and this thread doesn’t exist.

P.S. I’d still like my 10 pristine fractal relics back, or a bug fix, or a working infusable item.

P.P.S. I’m going to keep bumping this until I get a dev reply, or at least a timetable for a fix other than ‘when it’s ready’.

3 mini patches later and it’s still not working.

Pretty shoddy, Anet. Can’t help but feel I’ve been conned.

Can I have the last 10 pristine fractal relics I spent back please?

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

LOOK for the Fn key on your keyboard. Laptops needs this to use the F keys and not the extra features such as volume and brightness controls.

But pressing Fn is what you hit to perform the second action your function keys have, not the first. This would only be accurate if the Fn key was stuck.

Anyway, try closing the support junk that’s being opened in your taskbar or whatever Win 8’s equivalent is, if it runs automatically when windows starts.. Then hit WinKey+R, type msconfig, hit enter, go to startup and untick the annoying support stuff so it won’t start when Windows does. Assuming Win 8 is still windows.

Lexandro.1456:

maxie.9620:

Anyone who’s almost got the patch finished know exactly how big it is (in MB)?

Aprox 880mb / 436mb @ 50%

Nice, thanks a lot

Darkom.4058:

lol sometimes i do get true but this isthe result from it ^^

You should remove your email address from that image man, it’s not safe..

Anyone who’s almost got the patch finished know exactly how big it is (in MB)?

The servers shut down to rollout the update less than 30 minutes ago…

Last update took I think 2½ hours, so plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Edit: And as soon as I post this and try the client again, it starts downloading. Perfectly timed lol

Good that it’s not a heat issue

Try the process of elimination; in your driver control panel’s 3D settings menu, set everything to application controlled. Then, in-game, in your options > graphics menu, lower/raise individual settings. If you still see no change, try forcing settings one at a time through your driver cpl then testing in-game.

For example, start with anisotropic filtering as application controlled, check in-game, set anisotropy to 4x, check in-game, set to 8x, check again etc.

Yeah, it’s a great patch but it’s missing one thing…

The ability to salvage/forge unwanted ascended rings.

It’s called artifacting and it’s usually a result of an overheating video card or malfunctioning drivers (vendor-side).

Try updating your drivers to the latest catalysts from http://www.amd.com/us. Make sure you uninstall your current ones before installing the new set.

FurMark or 3DMark should be able to verify if its being caused by overheating (if you can run either of those for 5-10 mins without it freaking out, it’s not heat).

Possibly something to do with the card switching between 2D/3D speeds while in game, shouldn’t happen but they’ve never had the best drivers.

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Only started after the last patch, been getting terrible lag and same thing as OP.

Just gotta say that I am still seeing bots. They log off right next to gathering spots and log in, harvest, then log off again with only a few seconds for you to be able to get their names before they disappear again.

But since we’re not privy to whether or not people we report actually do receive bans I am boycotting reporting any of them until Anet does the right thing by us and informs us of how many scalps we’re responsible for. Nothing is more frustrating than reporting the same prick ten times and never knowing if the kitten actually got caught or just moved areas.

So the OP is saying he wants GW2 to be more like WOW. Yet, despite this highly intelligent and thoughtful suggestion (probably a demand judging by his acerbic writings) has not actually engaged in the activity which he is requesting be modified/annulled to suit his own idea of what this game should be like.

Pretentious, illogical and puerile.

I am ashamed that this is the extent to which I can lambast this individual without being the target of official censure.

On the topic of the actual topic itself; it’s a terrible, horrible, kitten idea straight from some neurotic’s handbag of goofy suggestions. If you want to run dungeons but don’t want to play them with other people, and haven’t even attempted to before starting this thread of shame, then that’s your problem. I don’t see why the game should be modified to suit your perceived rights and desires when it works perfectly and efficiently.

Going to add the OP to my block list to avoid the misfortune of accidentally communicating with him in-game or, god forbid, being thrown into a group with him while running a dungeon. Smart money is on others doing the same.

But that’s just my 2 cents.

When I click the BLTC icon or hit O after I’ve closed the TP I don’t want to be taken to the gem store, I want to be taken to the Trading Post or at the minimum the last open tab in it.

It’s frustrating and unnecessary to open it, have it show exactly what I was looking at a second ago, then quickly steal focus from me and stick me in front of the gem store.

A config with the option to set ‘remember last opened tab’ should have been implemented at launch, frankly.

The buy/sell interface is atrocious; it lacks detail and only provides you with a superficial and usually highly inaccurate overview of what prices to expect.

Why should I have to go through entirely separate trading post functions to buy or sell an item, and to check prices and volume of other similar orders for the same item?

Why is there a hidden tax? ’nuff said. List it or remove it.

I search for ‘potent potion of’ and I see the item I desire in the results outside of the search field 2 seconds before the search field displays its list; I click on it but it has a seizure and forces me to perform several tangential clicks and another search to be able to click on the item I want, and then buy it.

Why? It’s annoying and shouldn’t exist.

My final suggestion, Anet, is to concentrate on the low hanging fruit. I don’t care about fancy stuff you have planned for 3 months’ time, because that is 3 months from now. I suggest looking into the initiative that CCP started in EVE Online to put a strong focus on the small errors, issues and annoyances that abounded at the time.

I imagine that for every player who vocally complains about an aspect of the game, ten times that number fume silently over basic issues. The problem is that recently it’s only the 1/10 whose complaints get redressed.

Low hanging fruit.

Akame.1073:

no

Message Body length must at least be 15.

wrong

80 Thief: 472 hours played, 527 deaths = 1.11

Munrock.3092:

Krimpton.4879:

Bott detection algorithm’s testing and blah blah blah what else…?

What wrong with the good old Mk1 human eyeball….

You know its an amazing thing the old Mk1 if you use it to ‘’look at things’’ you spot things like BOTS… Speed hackers….. flying hacks…. CHEATS.

You go oh look a guy flying in the game…. teleporting from mob to mob. did we program that into the game.. Hmmm no i don’t think we did… = BAN HAMMER..

Oh look 20 naked rangers all running in a line in a circle path around Orr.. hmm hello rangers.. no reply = BAN HAMMER.

Im sorry but i dont believe a word of what Anet says right now, it’s a horrible thing to say i know and i will apologise if im wrong. BUT…
When i see MORE bots now running around than i did before, and they claim to be baning 10k every few weeks… sorry but i dont believe it.

Get some Mk1 human eyeballs on the ground in the game Anet.

Good old Mk1 human eyeball? Do some good old maths. If a human used the Mk1 eyeball to get a ban rate of one bot every 10 minutes (and that’s generous considering once botters realise what’s going on they’ll sacrifice bot efficiency for stealth), how long would it take for that person to ban 10,000 bots if they worked a 40 hour week?

Now some more advanced maths: A RMT company can get a new account for $60. In order to cut a profit, a batch of x accounts would have to earn a total of $ x * 60 before they all got banned. Say that ANet has 20 people using their Mk1 eyeballs, and there are 5000 botters in China each running x bot accounts. Using the gem store prices and gold/gem exchange rate as a reference, how much copper per second do bots have to earn for the following values of x to cut a profit: 5, 15, 30?

Next, the botters also run levelling services and account hacking. 20% of their bots are unpaid for, borrowed or stolen from players. A further 10% of the accounts are funded by revenue from their levelling service. Recalculate those copper earning rates.

Lastly, in an alternate scenario ANet develop a semi-automated process to detect and ban all the bot scripts. The process uses a neural network which can detect bots with 100% accuracy after 4 hours of training by a team of 15 supervisors. However the neural net needs to let bots run free until it has recorded a total of 100 hours of bot telemetry to analyze. Calculate the copper earning rates required by botters for this scenario.

It’s called ‘arithmetic’

Hi there,

I’ve been seeing and reporting a bunch of bots over the past few days and was wondering if there was a way to see if anything actionable had developed as a result.

It would be nice if the person who reported someone was informed of the action taken. I don’t know if anything’s happened and therefore I don’t know if it’s worth my time and effort to continue finding/reporting them.

Thanks.

I just finished installing the game and I’m getting this error

Got no idea on how to fix it

Hi,

My friend bought the retail version of GW2 today, and I bought the digital one. He’s installed the game on his computer however I don’t have a DVD-ROM with which to install from his discs.

I could download it but I’d rather not until I know I absolutely have to.

Is it possible for him to copy the installed files from his computer directly to mine via a memory stick?

Probably not but it’s worth asking

Thanks