For the umpteenth time, if this is implemented put a toggle for players to disable the option to participate and I won’t care.
Whut?
Who would make a dueling system save that it have an accept and decline option respectively? That would be broken and lazy.
The on/off toggle would be an auto-decline, I don’t want to have to click a decline or accept option when I have and never will have the inclination to duel.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
IMO what SHOULD be done is to either; #1.) Close all dormant accounts 1yr or older, or, #2.) MOVE all those accounts to a dead server so others wanting the chance to move to a higher tier server a better chance to do so.
How exactly do you plan on determining a dead server ?
I would think the owners/administrators of this game would know this, after all it’s their game.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
IMO what SHOULD be done is to either; #1.) Close all dormant accounts 1yr or older, or, #2.) MOVE all those accounts to a dead server so others wanting the chance to move to a higher tier server a better chance to do so.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Whelp… wild guess… if it has been brought up multiple times, and each time it isn’t even deemed worthy of a response by the powers that be… what do you think that should tell you?
Oh… that tells you to bring it up AGAIN? Oh. Okay then. Makes sense…
Colin Johanson mentions adding open world duels in this interview…it really couldn’t be a more straightforward answer either, haha. He says it at 14:11, the link wont start at that time for some reason.
I got an infraction for name calling GW2. Wonder if you will too.
More likely you’ll earn another one for discussing moderation policy instead of discussing the topic at hand. namely whether AP are contributing to some of the problems in living story releases.
^^What he said.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I absolutely love questing and GW2 does have a few but not near enough and doesn’t add to the/a story-line like other MMOs usually do. You can be running through a camp/settlement and have someone try to get your attention with; “Excuse me, do you have a moment”. I just wish there was more of this, but, usually most people don’t/won’t even acknowledge this.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The ability to perma-stow our(Rangers) pets until called for by the owner(and NOT by the game from the ranger being hit) since BETA but only got deaf ears turned towards the lowly ranger(except for the continued nerfing of that class), the ONLY LOVE the ranger ever got in this game was a ludicrous buff to a few pets.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
For me 3 times in a row no loot AND only 2 icons over my head at the end so no entry to Scarlet. The"Assault on LA" LS was great but the “Battle For LA” LS is horrendous.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Yep, GW1 IMO was/is much better in many ways, there are only a handfull of things that blows, but, the good far outweighs the bad. It’s a shame these people tried fixing what wasn’t broken in GW1, the ONLY THINGS I find as an improvement with GW2 is the ability to jump giving us the abilty to traverse rocky areas, the ability to dodge incoming fire, the graphics and the ability to swim and have underwater combat(although it lacks enough of it).
Don’t forget the auction house!
Sorry I could care less about the auction house, IMO the personal trading is MUCH BETTER.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I wish they implemented these cosmetics differently, in that IMO they should be made to stay active until turned off, NOT reset if you zone out of an area.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Yep, GW1 IMO was/is much better in many ways, there are only a handfull of things that blows, but, the good far outweighs the bad. It’s a shame these people tried fixing what wasn’t broken in GW1, the ONLY THINGS I find as an improvement with GW2 is the ability to jump giving us the abilty to traverse rocky areas, the ability to dodge incoming fire, the graphics and the ability to swim and have underwater combat(although it lacks enough of it).
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I can’t see any reason for guilds other than to have another form of a type of extended friends list in this game being there is no effective GvG in GUILD WARS2.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I think destroying LA forever is a dumb idea. It was a great place to congregate and there is something to be said for that. The new area has no crafting place unless you want to pay Anet – pfft.
What is going to replace it? Who wants to be stuck in Divinity’s Reach or any of the other cities and see no one – towns that are totally inconvenient to anywhere.
Is it time for guild halls?
Wrong, you can go to Divinities Reach at the “Commons Waypoint” ALL crafting stations are located right across from there and down the street East of there and is well populated since LA’s demise.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The ability to use an entire stack of items in one go would be a welcome addition for many players in the game. Having to double click a full stack of items to use them is annoying. If ANet could add a Use All in addition to Use on the right click context menu that would be great.
This request presumes the requisite programming is not overly difficult and relatively minor.
LOL, all the clicking in this game has worked two mice to death already, working with mouse number three and hoping that feeding it more cheese will help extend this ones life.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
If I remember correctly, it was maybe year 4 or so when they put this into GW1. The basis of that technology should form a groundwork to put it into GW2. Lets hope the Devs are at least having a discussion about it.
That is about the time it was introduced into GW1 and since GW2 is using an updated version of the old GW1 engine there is no reason or excuse I can think of for it to not have been emplemented into the GW2 codeing from the beginning.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
In those cases, Anet disabled the content, investigated, punished the “Worst” abusers and made the information known to all.
They have yet to address anything on the LA “issue”, and did in fact implement the event with no participation required. They haven’t changed that. They haven’t announced anything re AFK in LA. They have not responded to it in any official manner out of game. They have not given a rules framework.. ie.. 5 mins inactive, 10, 15, nothing. No rules to go by. As it stands now, you could participate 30 mins, take a short break… and be suspended upon the whim of whoever sees you standing still with no real investigation done.
What has happened is one.. perhaps 2 Anet employees have taken it upon themselves to “police” the event by handing out suspensions for macro use or offensive behavior, apparently on their own time and on the spot snap decisions.
But you hit on the crux of the matter for you I think. A remote chance at an item worth “hundreds of gold”. It isn’t about citizen rescues at all… is it. It’s about your bag farming, and resentment that somewhere, someone may get the item you wanted..by not playing YOUR way. That thought makes me warm and fuzzy, actually.
As far as whether Anet “intended” it… they coded it. No participation needed. A person doing a JP will get it. A person taking screenshots, exploring, doing Vistas will get it. A zerg farming champs will get it. A person only doing other activities will get it. You do not have to rescue to get rescue rewards. Seems fairly clear.. and if not “intended”, then, fixable by other means than capricious suspensions.
But you seem fine with capricious, summary, inconsistant suspensions.. because you have preordained that anyone who gets one.. is “offensive” and deserves it, no matter the circumstances. GG.
You missed the part where I said to debate whether or not Anet intended for people to be rewarded for doing nothing. Once you get away from defending the AFKers, and ask yourself that primary question, you’ll find it much harder to defend your position. Just because it’s “coded” that way, doesn’t mean it was “intended” that way. Same as saying “Anet didn’t specifically say it’s not ok, so it must be ok.” That, my friend, is a fallacy.
Now back to the GM. It’s been said that he didn’t suspend anyone for AFKing. That’s fine. Getting kicked isn’t much of a punishment, save for not being able to get rewards. If someone was suspended by mistake, Customer Support will fix it.
See you’re just being very persistent in saying that Anet didn’t intend this when all the bug fixes they’ve done and the lack of any statement regarding a change in afk policy CLEARLY say otherwise.
As designed yes but NOT AS INTENDED and the suggestions forum is no more. I will report AFKers that I find that are mindlessly sticky-keyed running against a wall or cave or mountaintop, plain stupid.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
So, with the Watchwork Pick it gave a controversial 20% chance to harvest sprockets. This new sickle has no extra chance for anything. Does this mean that the pick was a one time thing, perhaps an experiment on customer reaction that showed the community called foul?
What are your thoughts?
You think an uproar was caused the first time? If they added another P2W item in the gem store the kitten would hit the fan.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
In any case I hope the dev in question is given a stern talking to. There is a difference between those that afk for 30 mins and those that go to grab a drink, I feel that distinction was not made.
If players sitting around isn’t intended; they should make an accelerated log-out timer for players in the event not moving for 5 to 10 minutes. It’s not some devs job to police the server leaving customers vulnerable to human error.
I hope he/they are promoted to game operations managers.
I can probably say with a bit of certainty that 99% of the nay-sayers abuse the run-against-the-wall AFK situation and are just upset that only now are they being rallied against by the powers that be.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I as well have NEVER read or even seen a forum topic on this and would have said then and now that IMO would be ludicrous at best, BUT, the availability of a wider choice of underwater weapons I totally endorse.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
The medium armor choices are absolutely hideous. My 1 wish for GW2 is to have GW1 armor skins(and other GW1 skins) to become available in the gem store. NOW THAT I would break out my CC to buy.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
On the live servers, special Dev abilities (like immortality or teleportation) are limited to GMs, and all dev commands are logged and reviewed to make sure no one is abusing the system. The integrity of our live servers is very important to us.
It’s a shame Chris can’t use the immortality to help us kite a Wurm into the wall. Darn these morals! :P
But yeah, I’m very glad the GMs take the time to kick AFK leechers. I would go as far as calling them exploiters, since they’re abusing an in game mechanic that supposed to reward for rescue participation. Getting full credit for 1200+ rescue rewards while AFK is like buying Rare weapons for 10 Karma.
Over react much? AFK has been a part of every open meta, and never addressed until now, since it is perceived to be effecting Farmfest 2014. It has been an issue since launch and ignored. Some people are doing what they have done, with impunity, for more than a year. Now it’s an enforceable issue? Cuz bags?
Calm the rhetoric. I’d rather see 5 afks at the port in then deal with dumb zergs scaling every escort to champ level and ignoring civs.
Not sure you understand what’s going on here. When we do mass guild runs, each one of us is putting in efforts to help the server we guest to get the 1200+ loot drops. Even if there’s only 5 AFKers, each of those AFK players reap the benefits of our hard work. I’m completely fine with newbie players only doing what they can to help, since they’re actually doing something. But to let a character sit for 45 minutes and benefit for free, my opinion is that’s close to an exploit in the mechanics. But I’m sure it would be difficult for Anet to alter the way loot is rewarded without causing problems.
TTS back patting? Well, technically, every person that zones in to do a JP, explore the zone, do Achieve Events, hunt rubble is ALSO reaping the benefits of “your hard work” and not working on the civ counter. People mindlessly hitting 1 hugging a dorito are also “leaching” your civilian count.
You want GMs to also enforce those people to play “your way”?
It is not your call to “be completely fine” with what other players do. It is an open zone. If a new AFK policy needs to be in place, it should be in the TOS, effect all zones and all meta events, and be equally enforced throughout the game and not driven by players looking at one aspect of a zone full of different options and goals.
Im not in favor of unattended play, but this is all just “new event, different scapegoat”. Can’t blame bearbows, zerks, bads, etc so.. omg its all the AFK people’s fault!!
Blame. It’s what this “community” does.
DEWD, the point is at least they are DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE not just mindlessly sticky-keyed running against a wall. Be thankful I don’t work there. -LOL
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
I don’t see why people expect so much from Baby’s First MMO. It’s meant to be a simple, casual-friendly game that you get to play for free. All the extra stuff you’re asking for may have been possible to finance with a cash shop years ago but perhaps it’s no longer true in 2014.
They can’t win. Every time they put something in the gem shop, people cry, but how else are they supposed to pay for development?
They could, I don’t know, charge a box price for any expansions. But maybe I’m asking too much, not like Anet has ever done that before or anything.
This is not a sequel to GW1. It’s a game in its own right and the devs have decided to go with Living Story, and frankly most people shouldn’t be complaining because they don’t buy much, if anything, from the cash shop.
And I decided that I won’t do microtransactions in paid games because the prospect of all gaming becoming smartphone rubbish is not something I’m interested in, not to mention the stupid $/€ conversion (or more precisely, the lack of).
I’d be happy to preorder all their full price expansions though.
I have a feeling you’ll be waiting a long time for those expansions.
Sad, but, so true.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
Why would you get banned for farming mats? What is it that you’re doing that would be considered an offense?
You’re repeating the same events over and over. Not really an exploit.
I heard you can get banned, but as ArenaNet haven’t said anything about it, i might just ask. To be safe.
If this were true then the champ trains would have been banned long ago.
Blackgate Megaserver – [LaZy] Imperium of LaZy Nation
Mud Bone – Sylvari Ranger
