Your reply is what makes no sense.. never since SW was patched from the original buried chest spawn has there ever been 10x more event maps than there are CF maps…
Event maps are hard to find most days unless your prepared to sit and wait a whiles for one to pop, or try to get lucky jumping maps to hit an empty copy where you can start your own.
Chest farm maps are a poor lazy game design aimed at trying to retain as many players in game for as long as possible in the hope that more gem sales will happen to buy the latest re-skinned, re-themed item in the store. But ANET like it that way, they like all the failtrain and chest farms because it does just what they want… keeps players logged in longer meaning they don’t have to take more time than necessary actually developing meaningful content that has a lot better replay value.
You are a funny guy. I do every day around 5 eventmaps/vw per hour. After I have done one it takes around 1 min. in average until I have aa lfg group with SW events 70%+.
I can underatand that it seems hard to NOT get a sw 70%+. So if you want todo full event map from 0-100% then I have an awesome solution for you: Just relog! You will get an empty 0% SW like 99% of the times.
Ther you can grind solo these events up to ~80% and for the Rest people will join ‘automatically’!Your rant against cf is out of place. It is really hard to find a cf map during primetime and it takes alot time and effort to get one. So if you are lucky to find a cf map, then you should embrace the farm, so you have at least a little bit fun ingame
Ooh rubbish every map I ever land in is a chest farm lazy kitten copy… the reason SW chest farm was allowed to exist is to keep numbers in game.
You think the cf is fun content – any other MMO developer looking at it must be laughing their socks off at such innovative development ideas.
But your last comment has at least some merit… the events within the game hold very little replay value and the fun is sucked right out of them pretty fast, which added to some of the grind aspects of the game only serve to make SW cf an easy, if not braindead option.
Personally I don’t care which option players take, that’s not my issue – both events and cf have merit to the game…. but don’t try making out its a cf map that’s hard to find.. they fill up in under a minute and 3 more appear on the LFG… everyday all day it is littered with them.. open event maps are much fewer and far between and once one event map is completed 99% of the time it turns straight into a cf map.
Do I hate chest farming – nope, whatever floats ya boat, I even join one maybe a few times a week for a circuit before dieing of boredom… but they hugely outnumber event maps for sure. Creating your own event map, as I already said in my original post isn’t hard if that’s what you want…. I merely said it was harder to find an open event LFG compared to an open CF.
Its not only about dungeon selling, its about people in general not respecting the demands of a LFG.
Anet should implement certain filters to the LFG tool, that would make this game a lot more enjoyable for a lot of people.Title of your thread and main issue is dungeon selling and how f2p ruin it so it seem to you it is most about dungeon selling and reason for your post.
My main issue is the dungeon selling part, since I have a guild and friendslist I do dungeons with and therefore never have to pug something.
But a lot of people complain about people that aren’t asked for joining a LFG that has certain demands, and I feel like Anet should do something about this.If you go to a restaurant and order a steak, would you like it if you get brought fish instead?
You have a guild and a friends list and therefore never need to PUG…
Yet your own post blows that theory out of the water .. of course you PUG, how else would you sell dungeon paths… at least get the facts of your story right and then blow thw the smoke away from your own eyes…
We get it, your mad cos your not making enough coin out of the new influx of F2P accounts wanting to run a dungeon… sure it’s allowed on the LFG but it is not supported so deal with your losses or find something else to come to the forums and whine about.
Personally I think ANET should quit muddying their own LFG abuse rules and stop dungeon selling all together but they like to have one rule for one but allow it to be circumvented by others.
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Ive played for the 3 years and I havent seen all of this broken content lol Maybe I am dumb. Ive seen a few bugs here and there like most MMOs.
Lols.. a few bugs here and there… hmmm
Admirable attempt at least though
It’s something you want but don’t need. It’s not a new tier
many players would argue the same thing about ascended in fact i know quite a few players who haven’t even bothered to make ascended yet coz its stat gain benefit is so insignificant
so anyone who made it didn’t relay need it they wanted it coz i think we can all agree that you can manage just as well without it using exotic armours
i think too many players are hung up on the fact that theres no better stats on it and compleatly missing the fact that this armour IS better than ascended simply because of the option to change stats
no matter how i look at it i see this as an upgrade and the next step up on armour quality
Way to go.. you answered your own question and then argued with yourself over your own answer…
Do you do much debating in real life, maybe politics would be a good line for you
Its a cosmetics and convenience feature, it’s not a gear power creep .. in fact, as you rightly said you don’t even need to have it if you don’t feel you want it.. how much more simple can that be for you.
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Of course.. I have even taken the time to whisper a few just in case they didn’t realise… but well its just the same outcome as with players that continually lay out verbal abuse to players cos they don’t wanna do as they say or play the way that he/she wants… same players, reported often, to no avail… nothing new.
As I said I guess its something we are going to have to get used to seeing.
And how do you know that they aren’t being punished?
Oh c’mon.. some of us have been round the block many times… when you add players to lists, and continually see them doing the same thng time and again over long periods of time.. like certain players in PvP lobby who purposely go out of their way every day to abuse others in chat in order to get their fun fix, or the “LEET” puzzle portal sellers who advertise every single day often for long periods during each day.
The only thing that seems to have reduced of late is the selling of items via the LFG… I wonder why
In the end its all well and good saying don’t do this and don’t do that… but until proper actions are taken against those players it will be looked at as nothing more than empty words.
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Gees you must have your map chat turned off or one heck of a lot of players on your block list cos desperado guilds are spamming chat in every map of the game, every few minutes of every single day.
Can we swap chat systems pleazzzzz
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SW chest/shovel farm is essentially the same thing as champ train….
You run in circles pressing two buttons and the reward is a champ bag…
Whoosh. O for two for you so far today.
Well. I went throught Queensdale the other day with a friend and we were not in the same maps, meaning that at least one instance of the map was near full. So the map isn’t empty, that’s just not true.
New players don’t give a crap that 4-5 bosses are veteran and not champion. They won’t even notice it. So in the end I think that new players are liking it.
It doesn’t matter that new players were in minority. We can find ways to satify most people. That’s where I disagree with Anet decision to simply change QD Bosses from champion to veteran. They should had make sure that we had good champion train in other map. It would have been a great way to improve some map where nobody go normally like Brisband Widlands, Field of Ruins, etc.
Dailies, friend. Dailies made a map full. With the train, the map was full at any given time all the time. Apples and oranges. But regardless, that bolt of lightning isn’t striking twice.
Fun times though.
Rubbish.. I was on QD levelling a new toon with a few guildies not 2 hrs ago and we were placed on different map copies for a while.
The maps are not under populated, there are always players on them doing a variety of things.
There is still a World Boss there on an egg timer, there are still vet players levelling, there are new players levelling and exploring, there are certain quests that need to be done in order to unlock/obtain items for collections and there are some players that just like to flip maps and do openworld stuff or farm supply bags.
The champ train in a low level starter map was not just a toxic playing field it was also a bad way to introduce players to the game.
You think players spent max 10 level sthere… errr wrong. Players were literally camping new toons there and doing nothing but levelling 0-80 from the champ train… great advertisement for the GW2 Openwold ideas.. not.
Personally I am glad it got nerfed, it was a toxic nightmare caused not just by overly entitled players whining and cos they lost out on a champ bag after someone else killed outta a champ rotation , but also by the players that started to purposely try to disrupt it or new players being abused for not following the Tags and trespassing on their champ zones.
The game already had a plethora of farming zones like CS or Frosty combined with the WB egg timer show… now sadly even those maps have been spoiled by the same toxic breeds and then came ANET’s lightbulb moment and the brain dead SW map was developed … thus allowing another map to be spoiled by farming, like CS has become and Frosty was before they acted on the Coil event .
However Frosty and CS are at least at end level maps and provide something to do.. even though I the fact that my favourite map has been reduced to nothing more than an endless farm of Shelter def, Jofast failtrain all day long on almost every map copy.
But the fault is not of the player, its the fault of lame content quality and lazy player retention farm mechanics that have been implemented.
After earning my keys throughout the day I just followed a chest train for a few hours :s
I made around 60-110(lucky!) each time. I salvage and sell the materials and things I get which is how i get all the gold. I hope that helps.
Yeah of course you did.. a few hours – more like a whole day.
Even with salvaging everything and selling everything you wouldn’t even come close to half what your claiming in few hours.
Wakey, wakey, rise and shine time to come back to reality for a whiles
Its not just on world events… finally getting some game time after the map hanging and random game crashes last night… nothing happened yet except load screens seem to act weird almost likeits loading then stops then reloads with a small intermission of a black screen.
But more frustrating is that just running around maps and firing off skills seems to be a little laborious.. almost as if everything has been put into a slow down mode and skills don’t always fire off when they should, it’s only small delays though currently.
In fact taking falling damage is the funniest thing.. I can jump from a high point take no damage run on and a second later I am dead… something isn’t 100% still, but at least I haven’t been crashed or hung in the 30 mins I have been in game… that’s a small victory
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Well if your buying now (you must of just won the login lottery) you may still have to wait to get to play with that friend tonight and beyond
No ANET.. please do more than just look at them… actually fix them then stand back and look at them all you like
Not just login issues.. trying to change maps is now taking a lifetime and longer.
I would hazard a guess its more behind the scenes tweaking without checking what the knock on effects are.
Server performance has nose dived lately.. skill lags are back, game lags on most maps, load times getting longer and longer, frequent serious error crashes at certain world bosses, logging in issues, mass DC’s and now game hands during load screens.. beginning to feel like this is being run on a shoestring maintenance budget, except someone forgot to hire the maintenance team
Well cant argue there.. what I find weird now is that since the login screen was changed you never actually get told your logged in ..
I put my username/password in, then put in 2-step verification passcode, hit login and … nothing screen stays exactly as it was , the internet loading page animation is silent – nada.
It just simply looks like it has stalled in time and is still waiting for a new passcode, which if you put in and try again simply say an error has occurred…. I hit the forums page, click login again and tada I am logged .
Just another “we didn’t bother to check what we actually did” thing I guess.
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Most organized groups prepare well in advance and if they do leave maps, most do with plenty of time for the map to organize themselves. Teq is easy folks. You need very little time for set up these days. Triple trouble was intended by Anet to be for large organized groups. It makes sense that large guilds want to get as many of the people on teamspeak on a map to better ensure a triple decap. They have every kitten right to be on the map as you do. If you want to place blame, place blame on Anet for not giving us instanced content. Even so, most of these guilds that run TT gladly accept non-members to join in and openly give their teamspeak out for people to hop on. These aren’t troll guilds at all and there is no problem for Anet to “fix.” That is unless you’ve run into a real troll guild who is badgering and being rude to you. Because that is unacceptable. But simple organized groups that kill teq or TT? Sorry, not an issue.
Your mixing up two different things.
TT normally has an organised approach by a handful of community guilds that prep, organise and run thro the event before a designated jump – which is always announced in chat and via teamspeak etc…. that is not the issue the OP is talking about.
What is the issue is certain small guilds who continuously map flip for an hour or more to try and entice pugs to come to their “organised” TEQ even though their idea of organisation leaves a lot to be desired, then spend 20 mins berating players for daring to turn up asking questions, placing their own guild banners, their own selection of foods etc etc… then that said guild runs out of insults and just jump off the map they originally jumped to in order to run the event… and yes one of those guilds did the very same thing last night.
I will say one things tho, if your in need of some comedy in your gaming.. join one of this guilds “organised” TEQ’s… guaranteed to make you not wanna come back again if you happen to get their focused attention.