Then at the end, you loot the grandest, most epic looking loot chest in any game ever and it yields 1 green and 3 blues <- not enough to cover your death(s) if you failed once.
Yeah, what’s up with that? Is that because of DRs too? Did a long event chain in Orr today (main event?) and got four blues from the epic looking chest at the end.. the loot I got during the event was better…
Region locking will make things worse, not better. Nightcapping crews will consist of students, shift workers and the unemployed. There will be less people to recruit into nightcapping crews overall, giving a more powerful advantage to a smaller number of servers.
That’s possible to deal with, borderlands capping out at night because of cross region players.. that’s a bit too harsh.
So what are my options?
Joining a server with a high nighttime population, so that I can zerg down doors, and an occasional enemy aswell? That does sound like as much fun, as being zerged, but at least I would get way more rewards, for doing less.
The solution, as I see it, atm is to learn French, or move to NA
Yep, Arborstone (FR) looks identical to that on the Deso match.
It’s even worse now, I just logged off and the whole map was green. That will rack up a good deal of points until tomorrow when we recap and start the whole cycle again
The Canadians are good players though wich I got a taste of when I stayed up to 5 am, you have to give them that. Don’t like the French taking credit though.
How we’ve came to this conclusion is that no player’s time is more valuable than another.
This is the problem, the north american prime time players feel their time is completely wasted because no matter what they do, the server with the more active night/morning crew can take everything and upgrade with no resistance whatsoever. This means that anyone who plays during these “off” hours time is more valuable.
You can spend hours during primetime making little headway, taking some towers and a keep, maybe getting pushed back and then losing it all again, but the amount of points night and morning crews can gain for their server is by far more valuable.
This a thousand times yes.
If all playtimes are supposed to be equal in value then why is it that one of the Region primetimes is completely pointless? Currently US primetime is completely dwarfed in value because all other region primetimes are immediately after it. Take everything during US primetime? Go to sleep, now lose it all to Euro/Oceanic Primetime and allow them to hold it for 6-8 hours before US primetime.
What actually merits an infraction are a mystery to me.. I got one for stating that the flapping noice dragon mounts do in “another game” is the most annoying thing.. in context it was even relevant to the thread. The reason was that I should “refrain from frivolous posting” ?? I’m not sure if I’ll get one for this post but then so be it.
It’s annoying, it’s hard to have some kind of discussion going when you can’t quote half the time, sometimes the whole thread becomes invisible to me.. then there is the edit bug where each time you make an edit it includes the unedited text as well, making the post unreadable. All completely random.
The other HUGE issue here is the loot bag system. If I am pushing through an enemy Im not going to take my time and stop for my loot bag to generate so I can grab it. The loot either needs to fall instantly and not take an extra second or so… or better yet – Just add the loot into my inventory! Its a joke that those who are hurting their server by ‘farming’ kills and getting loot are rewarded while those of us who are in constant movement of battle suffer because we are out of loot grabbing area by the time the loot is there.
Fix this.
This! Make the lootbag pop into my inventory instead, a lot of the time stopping to loot means death. And have a look at the droprate of badges, something seems off compared to the effort of getting other armorsets.
I am NOT against night capping or people playing at night, but im feeling its abit bad that US people are allowed here and some of the other time zones aslong as they have their own servers to play on.
Ofcourse i understand some of this aswell and if things were diffrent and more of the people in another game i play played this then it would be very possible that i would be playing on US servers.
So in the end, yea it kinda sucks when people on the other side of the world can easily ruin a whole day of upgrading and defending just because that’s their prime time, but at the same time.. its a tough subject to find a right and wrong.
I have been playing WvWvW between 1am-4am my time, fighting the french horde
I think you mean Canadian, but I agree with what you’re saying
90% of comments defending night capping are simple one-liners that don’t contain a single argument and rarely go beyond “Don’t be so selfish”, “my night is not your night” and “why do you hate Australians”.
Because this is what it hinges on when you devalue the efforts of players that are playing the hours that are in their primetime.
This game is global, and WvW is 24/7. Up to you to work out how to make your server deal with this (hint: organise and get some representation during this time, if your server keeps facing another server that has already done this).
Eventually it will balance out – there will be 24/7 servers who face each other all the time, and then a bunch of other servers who don’t bother organising themselves.
But it’s not global, is it? They will never match the EU against NA servers..
Fine.. I give. Then I have only one thing to ask of Anet, don’t divide the score keeping based on regions AT ALL, let the EU compete with NA. Why the split? it’s stupid given the position they have..
Fine.. I give. Then I have only one thing to ask of Anet, don’t divide the score keeping based on regions AT ALL, let the EU compete with NA. Why the split? it’s stupid given the position they have..
Ok I’m going to start rejoining this ridiculous debate and post virus that is “night capping”
First off, Night capping is not a problem. People should be allowed to play on an equal footing 24 hours a day, if you bring more people you should win. if you bring more people over a longer period of time statistically you should win.
What is the current problem is that the nighttime capturing is now the main way to win, because the massive ammount of scores that can be made using the current scoring system at night far outweigh winning with the most objectives during prime time.
We are in the situation where. 100 vs 10 vs 10 is where you win the game not 150 vs 150 vs 150. what happens during the time of day where servers are maxed out in WvW population is now irrelevant to the entire matchup.
The scoring system is the issue not night capping. People with irregular sleep/work patterns, day time gamers, students, people in different time zones should not be punished because of a bad scoring system.
I totally agree, the scoring system are to blame in most cases. But what do you do when a server basically has 2 communities ? And borderlands are full at all times?
How about score tick is proportionally represented? Right now a minority of people can swing the score so much its completely unfair to the MAJORITY of the people.
So during prime time, all servers full, the score tick is multiplied by 100%.
during sleep time, servers are mostly empty. score tick is multiplied by 20%.
This is true fairness. 10-15% people playing at night should not account for 60% of a night cap server score at the end of the week.
Well.. that doesn’t work when you are matched against a server where the borderlands are capped (full) of French during the day and when they go sleepy the borderlands fill up with Canadians.. I think they have pretty much 100% coverage 24/7.
Well.. that doesn’t work when you are matched against a server where the borderlands are capped (full) of French during the day and when they go sleepy the borderlands fill up with Canadians.. I think they have pretty much 100% coverage 24/7.Here’s an idea, match VS (EU) against HoD is it? (NA) that seems like it would be fair…
Well.. that doesn’t work when you are matched against a server where the borderlands are capped (full) of French during the day and when they go sleepy the borderlands fill up with Canadians.. I think they have pretty much 100% coverage 24/7.Here’s an idea, match VS (EU) against HoD is it? (NA) that seems like it would be fair…Edit: what the fuff happened to the post..?
This just tells me Anet is clueless about the issue a few servers are having.. I guess the solution is to transfer to where I don’t have to deal with it. Might even join the “night crew” on the NA servers instead.. nah, I won’t.
I think it’s just frustrating for competitive players.
I play WvW in far shiverpeeks quite a lot, now we’ve gotten to a point where many now state in-game they want to be 3rd this week so they don’t have to fight against VS again, since it’s getting repetitive.
What i’m seeing is the following: whenever there is high time in FS we cap quite a few things and are fairly dominant in WvW, if there wasn’t any nightcapping we would be on the first place, competitive players are bothered, i believe they just want the glory for their hard work, and i believe they feel it’s unfair VS is known as the “best” EU WvW server while they gained this by killing NCP’s and not players.
I can see the point of these players, and why they complain about it, whether Anet does something about the outnumbered buff or not, i won’t lose any sleep over it.
However i do wonder, if Anet says that nightcapping is a game mechanic, why don’t we ever have US vs EU then?
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VS is ahead because they’ve got a truly massive Canadian force that clears the whole map each night (their primetime) so it’s not really “night capping” either, the issue is that the server is packed 24/7. No “normal” EU server is, and there’s no way to fight that really.
It’s not the French that are beating us, those we could handle… there’s nothing that can be done, short of convincing NA players to come over and bash the Canadians during our nighttime ;p
1095 kills and 174 badges.. 8 are from killing the grub, and mostly when I get any it’s 2 at a time.. so perhaps somewhere around 100 of those kills dropped badges for me. I don’t think I’ll bother with them.
This happens to me too, doesn’t matter what soundcard I use and it’s only big events / sieges that triggers it.. if I just go on playing it will eventually crash the game..
Hmm.. I had forgotten that there were such a thing until I read this, I’ll have to go have a look but I can’t imagine what they are good for? Seems to me this is something they had plans for but put on the backburner..
Imho the issue isn’t really if those who bought the box should have realized it was an unreasonable deal or not.. it’s the fact that the box is still in the game when it clearly doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do.
I’m downloading now, can people post their specs, frame rates and general thoughts on the Mac version?
No need to download anything beyond the Mac installer, just run that and before patching copy Gw2.dat from your windows partition into the c_drive/GW2 folder in Guildwars 2.app. Saves you some time..
An native client would have been better, this is just a Cider port and you’d get pretty much the same results using Crossover or any Wine variant, either way it’s nice of them to support the Mac community even if it’s not optimal.
Another guild with an empty queue, the influence is gone but nothing shows, luckily I can see in the log when the research started so I guess we wait until it would have finished before doing anything.. seems there are no other display issues though.
