Guild Wars 2

You mean personal story?

Somebody said that crafting is too expensive for casual players and I strongly disagree. I went from 0-400 in three crafting professions (jeweler, huntsman and chef) in about 12 hours time, started with 8g that I had got with my level 80 main and ended up with around 6g, loads of awaiting sell orders in TP, stack of Feast of chickpea fritters and a Pearl stinger for my main. I also bought Crystalline blade in the meantime. I got the money to start with by playing the game, and did the crafting by researching what is profitable to craft, bought mats with buy orders and sold products with sell orders. And did some flipping as I waited for my orders to go through. Surely you can argue that this is playing TP that isn’t casual, but if you aren’t willing to do a bit of research and think what you are doing then why should you have quick rewards? If nothing in this game required any effort, everybody would quit when they hit 80 or even before that. You can absolutely max two professions with your main in reasonable time and effort for casual player. And if one isn’t willing to get money for mats, or harvest them, or do a research of what to craft (I did this and 0-400 jewelery made me +2g, all mats bought from TP), why should one have maxed out crafting disciplines? Achieving things in MMORPG’s is going to take effort, and in my opinion legendary weapons are the only thing not achievable by casual players.

EDIT: Ant to clarify, I have clocked 180 hours in, about 150h of that is with my main. I haven’t done any farming and haven’t done even half of the dungeon. I haven’t traded any money for gems (bought an additional bank space, though). All this just to clarify my casualty, I am the 99%. Still I have three crafting professions at 400 (huntsman actually around 450), exotics on my main and whatnot. Still some cash on the bank. I don’t really see the content that casual players aren’t able to play because of money.

I fixed it, at least for myself.

As a background I can’t remember how long BLTC has been unusable for me, but it’s been long time (at least 12 months?) as I took a break from the game as I got frustrated of this problem. From time to time it has been loading but working really slow. 30sec-1min loading time for each tab and huge lag with interface. At the same time Google Chrome started working really slowly and after some time also my Spotify search started to lag in the same way. I though these were linked, but I never figured out what was the problem until now. I got back into GW2 and BLTC was still really slow, none of the tricks never worked for it. I was lucky after all compared to many, as it wasn’t always completely broken but practically unusable. Now I reinstalled Chrome to do some troubleshooting and noticed that it works pretty much all the time via SSH. And I guessed BLTC works via SSH also, because there’s money rolling and the whole game economy depends on it.

So I started to do troubleshooting and furious Googling about slow SSH connection issues on mac. And came up with solution that has now fixed my Google Chrome, Spotify and – wait for it – Black Lion Trading Company.

Full credits to this guy (and thread): http://jeromejaglale.com/doc/mac/fix_ssh_connection_delays

Here’s what I did (from the tips of that thread):

Made following ‘config’ file under ~/.ssh/
Host *
GSSAPIAuthentication no
GSSAPIKeyExchange no

Edited the following line in ‘/etc/sshd_config’
‘#UseDNS yes’ (the original line) TO -> ‘UseDNS no’

And restarted.

Now it works. If you need help with editing those files via the shell (as it can’t be done in other ways, to my knowledge) here’s tutorial: http://www.howtogeek.com/102468/a-beginners-guide-to-editing-text-files-with-vi/

But remember to be careful as these are core files in the system. Be sure what you are doing. I don’t take any responsibility for there actions, but I can confirm that it worked for me, after I had tried everything with no success. If you need any further help ask here, as I will be monitoring this thread.

EDIT: I should mention that if this is the problem many people are having with BLTC there’s not much Anet can do to fix it. As far as I know there is no way for applications to edit these core files. Heck, even root user can’t edit those files with Text edit, it is shell only.