Guild Wars 2

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Opps I was thinking of the Asuran Butler Golem in betas. That was removed after release. Why though? It would be nice if we paid 80+ dollars for the game, we could open our chest for free again…

Ahhh fair enough

Yeah would be nice to have something like that. However, any method that would increase the rate of chest opening would result in the price of chest to soar.

Still, IMO, the rate of keys could be slithgly improved.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Ragnarok Online has this and a series of check boxes to prevent abuse.

GW2’s system would be like this below:

[ ] Allow inspecting from everyone.*
[ ] Allow inspecting only from people I know (gw2 contacts: followers and friends).
[ ] Allow inspecting only from people that both know me and I know myself (both you and person must have each other on contacts not just followers).
[ ] Disallow all inspection.
*excludes ignore/blocked list.

Agree. If you want certain player group or individiuals to insepct your gear then you have the right.

There is no room for truth on the internet.

If this is not ANet trolling us then I don’t know what the kitten to say anymore… LOL

Glad you feel that way.

Zomorros gives you a letter stating the following:

“Due to suspected exploitation of the mystic forge, your account has been temporarily closed until further notice.”

Yes that pact group surely is running on empty stomachs by now…

P.S. It is still bugged!

What? two similar thread? This is what I posted in the other.

LOL, and it happend again.

600 Gems for bank slot (Gold to 100 Gems BEFORE 1.95G ave.) – 11.7G

480 Gems for bank slot (Gold to 100 Gems NOW 2.32G ave.) – 11.1G

Yes I saved 0.6G! Computer syas NO to 20% OFF SALE.

Another manipulation fiasco.

LOL, and it happend again.

600 Gems for bank slot (Gold to 100 Gems BEFORE 1.95G ave.) – 11.7G

480 Gems for bank slot (Gold to 100 Gems NOW 2.32G ave.) – 11.1G

Yes I saved 0.6G! Computer syas NO to 20% OFF SALE.

Another manipulation fiasco.

Olba.5376:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

John Smith.4610:

Any official reply to this would shock the precursor market. All I can say is we’re watching.

In other words ANet has been/is/will be manipulating the precursor market. If ANet is watching, as John has stated, then they are willing to (or have) intervene(d). On the other hand, if they are not (watching) then there is no point in responding or would say so.

Did you ever consider the option that ANet is monitoring things because the in-game economy ties directly to the longevity of the game? Heck, the fact that they employed an economist at all should tell you that.

And honestly, “manipulating” is a really weird word here. They’re the freaking developers, of course they’re expected to manipulate things. And by manipulate, I mean implementing things which will affect the prices. Hell, just doing anything to change the game is going to affect the prices. Change loot tables? Prices changed. Put in a holiday sale? Prices changed. Put in a sale on some item? Prices changed.

Hell, remember the Karka chest? That sure as heck wasn’t a mistake on their part. Ask one of the big conspiracy nuts and they’ll tell you Anet did that so that the gold sellers could buy cheap precursors that they would then sell later on for a massive amount of money, of which some goes to Anet.

Why monitor something if you are not going to do something about it…or have done something about…or is doing something about it? What John said was an open ended statement becasue he is “not allowed” to specificaly say a) or b).

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Just pay 2000 gems for deluxe upgrade. You get banker golem to open all your chests.

Yet we still need an alternative option once that runs out as its only temporarily.

Huh???? How is that possible? I thought only keys open those chests?

I can imagine an Ele with Meteor Shower or Glyph of Storms if that were true.

Well i really hope that the ‘tag = no loot’ will be fixed int he upcoming patch. Yesterday I spent about an hour in Orr and a fair portion of my kills resulted in either nothing or porous bones!

Got one yellow dagger and one yellow putrid dust.

Sorry, bad idea. As other’s said – one opens all – not good.

John Smith.4610:

Any official reply to this would shock the precursor market. All I can say is we’re watching.

In other words ANet has been/is/will be manipulating the precursor market. If ANet is watching, as John has stated, then they are willing to (or have) intervene(d). On the other hand, if they are not (watching) then there is no point in responding or would say so.

John’s answer is market mind games 101 – let your opposition think what they want.

Well Diablo3 is going to be released on PS3 and PS4. It would not surprise me if GW2 did as well.

Agree. Need zones that look different to what we already have.

Go to 5.40 onwards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntpE4y5t7h0.

Also, Desert Gate POI in Fields of Ruin has two guards standing there. So one can assume that Crystal Desert will be open in the future as explorable zone(s).

For simplicity.

Makes seeing the zone perimiter better. But at the same time when going to an adjacent zone it still feels they are separated in a non-linear fashion.

I think it is a good design.

Glarelion.8472:

No one noticed the Asura gates are actually from Stargate? They’re an almost exact copy.

I have but that is nothing… When you listen to the background music it actually resembles music from Stargate, LotR and RtCW!!!

Now that is an easter egg…or is it copyright infringement?

Cosmetic effects can be easily implemented. The only thing that the player would need to do is download an x MB patch. Before you do the Arah story you have v1 of Orr, after you do the story you have v2 of Orr. Simple

I just received another 7 chests in the past two weeks – not even one key!

This ratio is way biased.

ANet why don’t you improve this?

Katai.6240:

Zaitan just fell into an abyss. We didn’t even check to see if he was actually dead.

What better way to suggest he will be back in expansions……

Finishing him off on ground while he is downed and weak would have been awesome. I wouldn’t mind if this game mechanic was similar to that of the other dragons we face in PvE.

Trahearne had that sword for a reason…in the end it wasn’t even used to slay the dragon…pitty.

Don’t worry, we aussies always get the short end of the stick when it comes to things like that. Good example: buying games, especially as digital download over steam.

The reason for 1Euro=1US=1AUS is based on the economy on the most part, which IMO is a load of kitten garbage anyways. Why is it BS? Because the currency exchange is not 1:1!

Astralporing.1957:

Depends. The blues can just take place of “no drop”, junk and whites category, with green/rare/exotic/mats chances remaining unchanged.
In which case killing a champion will still be completely not worth it.

Indeed, and this is the question I would like answered. Are the removed categories, with respect to RNG % chance, now filled by blues, or, has the RNG % on rare/exotics now been increased?

Still, IMO, champs should drop minimum green and overall the RNG % with respect to green/blue minimum should be scaled based on the mobs level.

Firstly, thank you for the positive feedback.

However, minimum BLUE from Champs? You gotta be kittening kidding me!

For low level champions perhaps, but for mid-to-high level champions it should be minimum GREEEN; same goes for veterans.

I sincerely hope that the rewards are appropriately scaled to the level of the mobs.

Osculim.2983:

cinemapaula.8673:

I dunno.. since reviving seems to be accomplished via gentle groping, Im sure many of the employees would enjoy it thoroughly.

In this case i have to add another one

Dodge sexual harrasment lawsuit 0 /1 (0%)

Since we can rotate dailes, my addition is:

Engage in non work-related “duties” with 2 customers and don’t get caught by the boss 0/2 (0%)

Tim.9850:

These new “dailies” are actually a hidden/disguised nerf to the dailies in my opinion. They made them harder to complete because they don’t want anyone getting any karma.

Crafting 10 items daily? That is ridiculous.

The TROLL FESTIVAL IS THAT WAY —-———————————->

Sericenthe.5310:

Undeniably it’s created a situation of non-cooperation in PvE which is sad and against the norm. I think the healing thing needs to go.

Healing friendlies does not take long, it also promotes players to heal event-based NPCs; which may aleviate bugs asociated with broken DEs. Also, the degree of non-cooperation in PvE would not have increased; actually, from my perspective, I find that it has improved.

The Law of Averages

GG

morrolan.9608:

Osculim.2983:

Southsun cove – full explorer gear – 6 superior pirate runes – full explorer jewelry omnom bar 30% bonus – 25stacks on sigil of luck – 542 karkas killed

drops = 4 shells & 6 potent blood not one other item except a few whites

common now that is just insane no one is that unlucky

I’d like to see someone from anet or any of their apologists justify that.

See, your DR problem really begins from your 20-30th karka kill. After that you are farming too much in the same area so, by ANets definition, they make you hold hands with a DR buddy whilst continuing to roam through karka-island.

IMHO, the number of complainers about DR is insignificant in ANets opinion. We are an outliner bound by RNG, therefore we are a minority that gets crap most of the time, while the rest gets decent loot because they don’t complain.

Pitty that we are the minority of the GW2 community – but hey, doesn’t any minority in real world also get shafted?

The boss fight was epic…………………..FAIL.

I would have prefered if the battle continued on the ground after he lost his wings.

I’ll take certainty over RNG any day.

IMHO opinion, not worth the gem price. Based on RNG for getting useful items, it’s not worth it. This is just another SINK on ANets part…don’t fall in!

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Amos.8760:

I went down to the local BB&B and they said I could only get one per day.

Also, they said if I didn’t want to pay for it, I could do the following:
– empty trashcans 0/5 (0%)
– update price tags 0/10 (0%)
– wake up hungover employees 0/5 (0%)
– greet customers 0/25 (0%)
– sweep aisles 0/10 (0%)

Nothing to add, except win post of the day :P I doubt their employees want to be revived though.

I also think this thread will be deleted once a mod wakes up tomorrow since it’s fun.

FIXD!!!

I think you are taking this slightly too literaly. It’s a game, items need to drop from somewhere and dissapear in the mystic toilet….ahhhh the circle of life.

Group events are not made for lone heroes. Whoever tries and fails should not complain.

This boss regens health – it’s not a bug unless you move it far enough away from its spawn.

Iures.2894:

That’s funny, because the supplies of Blood, Totems, Fangs, and Claws have all gone up. This leads me to believe that people should be experiencing an increased income. After all, they’re seeing more of these valuable commodities coming in, so they’re either saving them (and their value) or selling them.

Prices for Mystic Coins have also gone up, but the supply has remained pretty constant. Again, this would lead to higher incomes for everyone.

Prices for Ectoplasm have gone up, but the supply has remained the same or increased, so people should be making more off of selling them.

Of your three choke points, the only one I haven’t been able to get to 250 without purchasing is Blood. Ectoplasms I’m selling for money, and Dust would be well over 250 by now if I hadn’t converted for most of my lodestones. I’m not really sure why you included dust in your list of choke points, considering that it’s barely in the top half of the list if you sort by cost.

With regards to dust:

1) Needed to craft gift of magic (part of any legendary)
2) Price is constantly going up and supply plummeted drasticaly since 14th Jan
3) Low sell, high buy listings
4) Acquired mainly via Risen (or spectral weapons)

(http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24277)

Perhaps people are hoarding large volume of these and do not wish to sell them, however, the drop rate seems to have been reduced, hence generaly speaking player will look towards TP to get it.

Also, I have considered price rise/fall since about November 2012 – when the infamous patch was added.

tentanseum.6275:

^—-why not try cyberpower.com or ibuypower.com?
you’ll get much more for $2000

Afcourse I could get much more for 2G via these websites….IF I were in US, but sadly I’m in AUS and we get ripped off from all sides.

Went around timberline falls for about an hour today (havent played for about 24hrs prior to that), which I have not in a while. Mostly mats/rags, whites, few blues, one green, 2 skulls (rare) and the other half pure junk.

This is so kitten weird.

thisolderhead.5127:

I think we have both misinterpreted out posts. My intention was never to imply it is not random enough. What I meant was that the RNG is based on an algorithm, which effectively makes it pseudorandom.

So as such what is the point of the statement? You are not saying it lacks enough randomness, so what – just wanted to make it clear to everyone you know a basic computer science principal or trying to undermine the concept of “random enough”?

Was my statement incorrect? NO. /FF

thisolderhead.5127:

Furthermore, wheneve you have gotten the BSOD (blue screen of death) on your Win OP, it was spitting out RNG-based values because the computers algorithm resulted in an illogical output. Basically, the computer could not compute.

This is so incomplete/innacurate I am having trouble addressing it, I hope you do not work in the ICT industry. You really do just make kitten up for the internet in your spare time, its true.

In simple terms, computer code requires logical input which then gives logical output. Any illogical output gives a nosequential anwser, thus it can be interpreted as RNG.

/FF x2

thisolderhead.5127:

Go to hardware random number generator on the good old Wiki and begin your research again from scratch.[/quote]

Ahh I may have found something about this – http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0 – Analog-based CPUs.

Oh and I give you /FF x3 for suggesting wiki.

Have a nice day

thisolderhead.5127:

Read more carefully.

I am well aware of how computer based pseudorandom generation works (and further to that how it relates to real crypto and not just games), and again will ask you – is it your opinon that pseudorandom is not random enough for use in games like GW2?

As far as a true random generation method – a lot of them use radio static, point a camera at a lava lamp, or grab cloud shadow patterns from satellite images, not a broken CPU.

I think we have both misinterpreted out posts. My intention was never to imply it is not random enough. What I meant was that the RNG is based on an algorithm, which effectively makes it pseudorandom.

The broken CPU test was the first true RNG based on logical input that gave illogical output; i.e. not a physical experiment! Furthermore, wheneve you have gotten the BSOD (blue screen of death) on your Win OP, it was spitting out RNG-based values because the computers algorithm resulted in an illogical output. Basically, the computer could not compute.

P.S. I’m still trying to find that CPU test example, but I think it had to do with overheating it.

They will be converted to laurels…eventually.

funkyfrosty.1784:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

Is your $400 budgest so stringent? For $700 you have many more options. I suggest you save up or wait for some of the parts to drop down in price.

Sorry to say but your low budget will kill your rig sooner than you would suspect. These parts are not meant for gaming and their longevity will be affected; which might mean that you will need to cough up twice the price.

Are you talking about the parts solar linked? and like what about 550

The rig he listed is decent and it is around the $700 mark. I was generalising that a gaming rig for $400 won’t last you as long as you would like it to because the parts are not designed to work hard for prolonged times.

A decent gaming rig starts at around $700-900 mark. Anyone willing to play games on a rig that costs less than that is considerably shortening the PCs life span.

Why risk it? Save up some more and getting something better and that will work more efficiently…and build for its purpose.

P.S. This is the kind of rig I would like http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/CMNm

@ Zaxares.5419

You would be suprised what is kept in the bank. I have opened one extra slot and it is nearly full. My items range from few sigils, W3 blueprints, boosters, few exotic armor/items, wood/stone/food overgathered, some event items and then there is the wintersday/halloween stuff that needs to be stored on my alt otherwise my bank would require another extra slot at least.

There are many items that fall into the “do I sell, use or equip” category. When I was leveling up my char I had to constaly remove items from the bank slot because it was being filled up with new items. Now that my main is level80 and full set of exotic crafted armor/weapon, the bank still gets maxed out at two slots!

Now imagine 3+ characters per account. Two, even three, banks slots would not be enough. There is too much variety which causes uncertainty, thus the safest way is to put the items in the bank.

You said that it would promote hoarding. Well that may be true and perhaps its effect might mean less items would be shuffled within the economy. If this is true then one could presume that ANet is “forcing” the player to sell the item on the TP or use it up. Would this be another sink for the economy? I would suspect so.

I identify them. I could sell a few and buy all of the common ones but I would rather open up for the rare ones than buy them of the TP.

Currently I have about 10 rares – some of them are: arctic, burgundy, midnight ice and white gold.

Pre november 15th, the exchange rate was half of what it is now. I paid 6G for extra banks slots – now I would have to pay 11+G. Bank slots are not a luxury item since majority of players require more slots NOT want more slots; so why the kitten are players punished?

Yes players are becoming wealthier, however their bank balance (on overage) does not go up because the money is being used up by buying many items – which are also going up in price. So in the end the average player still has similar gold sitting in their bank account while items are going up in price – Sounds very much like inflation to me.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Mr eX.3420:

John Smith.4610:

Tallis.5607:

Lenneth.1372:

I really think they need to adjust lodestone drops.

Then the prices of lodestones would drop

In a virtually economy like this one, that isn’t necessarily true. Because of the ease of entry, it’s not uncommon to see an item become more common, more players receive the item naturally and enter the market, creating more demand and increasing prices instead of decreasing prices.

I had the same observation as Vol about Powerful Blood. Very interesting.

Out of curiosity, if you did want to lower the market price of an item in the game, how would you do it?

Increasing the drop rate of a popular item can increase the price, because Demand outpaces Supply. However, if Anet wanted to truly drop prices in a player controlled market, they’d have to compete directly with the players by offering the Powerful Bloods in the Gem Store.

Yep, that is one way.. To lower a price of an item, the acquisiton rate/volume needs to saturate (i.e. be past the threshold) its use. Just because something can now be obtained twice as much or fast, doesn’t necesseary imply that the price will drop.

Risk vs. Reward

This needs to be always balanced. However, how this is perceived depends on which angle it is observed from. It all comes down to statistics and distribution of data (in this case game rewards) – i.e. mean, average, outliers, confidence interval etc. The problem here is that we, the players, do not have all of the data to accurately determine whether Risk vs. Reward is balanced. We normaly take one aspect of this and try to argue its merit, however, tend to omit other things that are crucial to seeing “the bigger picture”.

Then there is the “enjoyment” factor in all of this. The risks and concurently rewards should be fun and enjoyable with respect to gaming, however, if generally this is not then it will make it unbalanced. Currently, IMO, several aspects of the game (i.e. DR/RNG/TP) are skewing the Risk vs. Reward system. How? IMO, there is too much emphasis placed on players to use TP than move around the game to gain the rewards. Whether this was deliberatre or not is another thing.

What ANet should do, IMO, is add incentive for players to not use the TP and be less “manipulated” by RNG/DR.

Is your $400 budgest so stringent? For $700 you have many more options. I suggest you save up or wait for some of the parts to drop down in price.

Sorry to say but your low budget will kill your rig sooner than you would suspect. These parts are not meant for gaming and their longevity will be affected; which might mean that you will need to cough up twice the price.

Went to do some more exploration and started of in the ‘Windy Cave’ minidungeon (south of Mistriven Waypoint in Lornar’s Pass). I have not been there in ageeeees. The first veteran imp dropped a friggin EXOTIC HAMMER!. Followed by few blues, no greens, and some rags. I died in the cave by accidently falling and when rewent there i suddenly started to get junk. I then finished the cave with 1 green, several blues, and half junk. When I went to anotehr area I loot was no better than a green. Not even once did I receive above green after this.

DR really needs to go. It just makes gameplay unpredictable, which results in me being forced to change areas/zones even amidst doing DE’s.

thisolderhead.5127:

Death Reincarnated.3570:

GW2’s Random Number Generator (RNG) is not completely random per say (i.e. pseudorandom), because it is based on code; an algorithm. The only true RNG, in terms of spitting out random values, is when you CPU fails and gives errors. Instead of giving zeros and ones it starts to give other numbers. I forgot what the test was but it involved physically failing the CPU so it generated errors which gave random numbers – this was a true RNG.

Did you just honestly try to say that a pseduorandom number generator as is used by GW2 lacks the randomness required for a GAME?

By the way – most true random number generators are not “broken CPU” based, do you just make kitten up for the internet in your spare time?

LOL I suggest you read into pseudorandom generators and algorithms, specifically look up the term pseudo.

Also, computers are based on logical inputs which give logical outputs depending on the parameters set in the algorithm. Have a read:

- http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question697.htm
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/windows_random_number_gen_flawed/

Oh and here is good old wiki:

“There are two principal methods used to generate random numbers. One measures some physical phenomenon that is expected to be random and then compensates for possible biases in the measurement process. The other uses computational algorithms that can produce long sequences of apparently random results, which are in fact completely determined by a shorter initial value, known as a seed or key. The latter type are often called pseudorandom number generators.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation#.22True.22_random_numbers_vs._pseudorandom_numbers

Siiighhhhh… /FF