Guild Wars 2

Haha, yeah. And it seems to bug out even more now. Gandara has 3 “active” right now: Lornar’s Pass, Bloodtide Coast and Fields of Ruin. I’ll see if I can make a proof of concept too.

I see what you mean. At this time of writing, your site says Dredgehaunt Cliffs is active, but I think it’s (or was) Lornar’s Pass.

Hmm… if this is happening on multiple servers, then there might be a workaround (only in this case, other events still suffer from this).
Instead of watching only one server, you can take all servers, and check if a specific map is active on all (or most) of those servers. (Because as far as I know, every server has the same map right?)
I think this is somewhat more reliable than watching each event individually.

Hey!

In order to save myself for being ingame all the time for completing the 13 maps achievement, I’ve written a program that uses the Scarlet events from the API to see which map is being invaded. However, on my server (Gandara), there was a bug with one of those events, which resulted into two maps being invaded at the same time (according to the API): Bloodtide Coast and Mount Maelstrom (see the screenshot).

I decided to look into the JSON, because I was not sure if this was a failure on my end. However:

{"world_id":2003,"map_id":39,"event_id":"FE5F6233-DAD6-4C63-921D-F132DFCF3397","state":"Active"},
{"world_id":2003,"map_id":73,"event_id":"11442531-6B20-411F-B0A6-D2A2C31DD668","state":"Active"},

Those two lines are from the Scarlet events from Mount Maelstrom (map_id=39) and Bloodtide Coast (map_id=73). According to one of my guild mates, Bloodtide Coast was active just before Mount Maelstrom. So I guess the server failed to update the event state? I haven’t checked the other servers though.
For reference, Mount Maelstrom was being invaded at 16:00-16:45 CEST.

And just as I was typing this, the API updated with Mount Maelstrom as failed, but Bloodtide Coast is still listed as active.

EDIT: I’ve changed the title to reflect it’s a known problem for every EU event now, instead of only the Scarlet events, as it seems to confuse people.

Gaile Gray.6028:

What I am concerned about is the emails that say “Someone is trying to access your account from [insert someplace not yours, usually Asia].” That usually indicates that the would-be account thief does know your credentials and is only being stopped by your having used e-mail authentication.

I’m so glad GW2 has this kind of forced authentication. It certainly helps to prevent accounts from being stolen. I can remember one of those emails when I had my account for just a couple of months. Someone tried to access my account from China… while I live in Europe, go figure… you can imagine what I went through at that moment.
I don’t know how they had gotten my password, but then again… it was a password I had used more frequently in the past on other sites (not so smart). Thankfully the password of my email was different, otherwise I had lost my account (and my email for that matter…).

Since then, I’ve changed my password to a more longer and difficult one. It’s a wonder I can remember it myself. But yeah, you definitely don’t want to have the same passwords for your GW2 account and email. Also, you can change your passwords once every x months, just to be sure.