The solution to the free account problem would be to not link low servers with high servers – but I haven’t had a look at NA lately, so no idea whats going on over there.
The base problem still is bigger = better.
How does that relate to the context of battle groups with a proposed 1000 player account cap?
That does relate to “ban free accounts, only let people with xpac play”.
That is a general problem and the 1000 player thingy is made up for now anyway. I don’t want anet to pick and single out the issue of free accounts and chose the wrong thing. Sorry if you wanted to talk about other things.
ETA: To me your discussion is as offtopic as it can be, sorry.
The solution to the free account problem would be to not link low servers with high servers – but I haven’t had a look at NA lately, so no idea whats going on over there.
Jayne and I are listing the issues linking will/would have since day 1. So I guess this discussion doesn’t really matter anyway as anet will do whatever they want regardless.
I persuade myself that they listened to me with the first EU linking, but then they went fully overboard anyway and destroyed EU. So whatever. We will never really have a say in this and anet will never really have a clue about what they’re doing.
No offense, although I know this sounds bitter.
ETA: I agree on your poll issue though: “Do you want bad or worse?” I don’t really feel as if I have a choice and often it’s too soon or too late to ask a certain question.
It’s not victim blaming, is it? Who’s the victim, the guy who’s on EB and complaining about not being able to “get a doly” on team chat? Yeahh…
If people were denied intelligence I would call them victims, otherwise.. naah.
Cross team chat is a great tool, people just need to use it smartly.
And besides most servers only have one bay, hills and one garri and if you’re attacking an enemy keep you usually don’t need help from other maps.
I really have no idea what you’re trying to tell me – maybe it’s me but “I want something like [RBL] , I said I wanted something like that, I made suggestions, That were suggestions to players, I don’t spam but I get supressed all the time my scoutings are usually spam, doesn’t mean I spam”
Yeah, alright. Have a nice day/evening, night.
All we need is that people become a bit smarter and that the map chat supression is a bit streched and all is well.
Mine is the biggest – a friend of mine said that long ago (I’m a woman).
You had no solutions that made sense – that was why I was referring to you – adding “RBL, GBL” and so on just promotes spam – who should find anything that’s important in chat if anyone just goes on spamming their [RBL] 10 TC GARRI? How about if players were a bit more sensible and accurate with their information instead?
Would be cool if people were a bit more meaningful and not just spam what comes to their minds. That’s why I said how I scout.
I use to be a scout so I made a lot of calls on enemy movement and defense positions, doesn’t mean I was spamming:
10 TC at garri wg!
10 TC at garri wg!
10 TC at garri wg!
10 TC at garri wg!
10 TC at garri wg!
10 TC at garri wg!
The suppression exist whether you get it or not, if you don’t then good for you.
Map chat for local calls, Team chat for major calls, I think everyone gets that.
Now why are you on me for making suggestions?
You didn’t make suggestions, you were unable to find a solution to your problem – and that was where I chimed in.
ETA: On NA I have really been called “best scout NA” – no one ever appreciated my scoutings on EU, but I know I’m “good”.
My usual reports:
“10 TC heading Garri”
" 10 TC watergate, rams up, gate 90%, rams disabled"
“Gate down, 10 TC inner southgate”
“gate down, 10 TC garri lords”
ETA²: My approach: take it or leave it – I won’t repeat myself.
Then maybe you guys shouldn’t spam that much. I have no idea how you manage to get supressed – and even then it’s a minor fix you could ask anet for – there’s no need to demand you can use team chat for all your bad jokes (I use map chat for that).
I usually always use map chat.
Back in the day we’ve had the rule: Team chat for all non offtopic, map chat for all offtopic, I still used map chat for my scoutings – I guess people will get used to it really quick.
And I have never been supressed.
[EB] for EBG, [ R] for red, etc. would be the most succinct.
More like [RBL], [GBL], [BBL].
Scouts are going to have to watch where they make calls now because normally use cardinal directions for place call outs.
35+ blob to NET!
which bl? we own 2 NET!
Or just start adding the above acronyms in callouts I guess
35+ blob to net rbl
You can still use mapchat to make callouts (which I usually do).
It’s usually only keeps for which one would want to use a cross map channel.
ETA: I agree on your last 2 paragraphs though. Although I’d rather seee permanent links between the lower tiers which can be broken up at some point. Right now nothing is made for the monsterblobs that were created, so I’d go away from that anyway. But alas, that also depends on what happens to the rest of the game.
Yo anet, if you read this and decide to fix auto targeting (to how it has been) – please note that in the patchnotes.
Honestly, what currently baffles me is why there’s so little emphasis on combat in this game.
ETA: Daggerstorm is about a third worse without auto target. So if we’re talking about what should be balanced we now need to say which game mode and which targeting mode we use so that others get where we’re coming from… …. ….
Or I need to decide: “I’m going to do some solo roaming, so auto target off – waaah a blob fight, I need my auto target LET ME OC SO THAT I CAN SWITCH.”
I’m basically a noob again and that sucks “ahaha look at this platinum rank who just leaped into nothing”. It will take me a few weeks until I’m used to combat without auto target.
It was definitively my problem and D/D works better without it. In zergfights I’ll have to spam tab instead of F now, otherwise I’m not hitting anything with auto attack.
Tried actioncam again but I twist and turn too much – too fast for the cam.
I was amazed to find that Viz has moved from 10 to 3 since the linking.
I have no idea what the intention is/was, because now it really is that the tiers are locked and that can’t be fun, we know that.
It happens even without auto-target. It is rather buggy and been like that since launch. I even had my character turn around and backstab a pet instead of enemy i am targeting and don’t have auto-target on soooo….. I reported it couple times but Anet as always couldn’t care less as long as it only affects thief.
As far as next target goes – i just have cam zoomed out almost at max – gives you great field view and you can target most of enemies. In pvp anyway since maps are small.
Oh now that i think about – nice thing about pvp is you have standard models so you don’t have to struggle targeting tiny asuras in middle of miriad of minions. They probably should add such feature to WvW tbh.
I know, I think anet changed that because mesmers were complaining (it has become worse but that might be because of my auto target), it is still annoying.
All that’s left in wvw is small scale or monsterblobs, it’s very hard to find single enemies because the balance is so broken, but I have to admit that I haven’t really seen Asuras for a while. All that’s left is human/norn female bunker druids, female sylvari eles, human male dragonhunters and charr zerker berserkers. And necros, but they’re usually a pile of cloth – hard to tell what race.
Maybe you can toggle action cam on, select someone, and then toggle it off. The targeting with action cam is smooth and you don’t need to be really precise with it.
I do that sometimes on p/p.
I never saw you play, but It might be one of the most epic thing to see :p I’m joking here, but still curious.
I have no time to toggle.
Yeah, it probably is. If my thief wasn’t that broken I’d make some videos.
But hey a few days ago a condi mes I fought for 15 mins came knocking on or door so I would duel him again. I just passed him, he had perma aegis.
Weirsd. Never would of thought that auto target would do that. I have the target option on, forgot it’s name now but for example if I use rush on and in selected target then target mid rush, the skill would change direction to that target but I doubt that will do anything to melee hit’s.
And no cnd worked normally for me as I use it vs clones/pets.
I have the most troubles if the target moves, clones and even pets often don’t.
And maybe there’s more than one reason for my “misses”.
With mesmers I mostly hit their clones when trying to BS them and even having them in target. But that was with auto target.
You can actually try CnD with and without auto target. If you’re used to click “next target” you will probably not notice a difference, but if the target isn’t selected the chances that you’ll miss are pretty high – even in PvE. And in wvw it was really bad tonight, for whatever reason, maybe I was tired.
Look in your keybinds and the action cam toggle keybind. When active, action cam places a dot in the middle of the screen that is functionally your cursor. When running action cam right click is select/deselect target at the dot. left click is your 1 skill.
I can’t play the game any other way. Mouse wheel click is a perfect place for the toggle imho. Hope it helps.
I tried it – doesn’t work for me. And I’m not so sure I could make it work because my playstyle is a bit weird and probably not how others play – If I’m hitting someone I’m running sideways.
Fun fact: My first post on the forums was: “Anet your targeting sucks”.
I started as a clicker and still am running around in blobs. We had a very short time in which the mouse cursor was always centered on the screen – I so wish that was an option.
I will try to make my non auto target combat work – I’m pretty sure this time around I’ll make it.
Thanks guys and in all seriousness: I love you – we tried to kill each other over the years but there’s no real grudge – thanks for that =)
I’m a D/D power thief, I don’t use Black Powder – so far leaping has been worse without auto target as far as I remember – mixing up when I tried what, but I did have troubles with leaping recently.
But even without auto targeting I should click on my target, because otherwise the target assist will trigger again and chances are that I won’t hit what I wanted to hit. Like I said, haven’t tried it in wvw yet and just killed stuff in pve which happend to be rather far apart, but the “next target” button usually selects the second target that’s farther way. I will try that some more the next days.
And where do I lose control over? I’ll never lose control over Jost (he’s my one and only hero).
Hey, don’t generalize like this. I haven’t had auto target on for years. Then again i play d/p – auto target is suicide on dp.
I just use tab binded to next enemy, call target, target called target, mouse click – those suffice for me. Never had issues targeting anything with it, even mes among 1000 clones.
I knew that at least Deceiver would say something like “whaaa autotarget – you noob” that’s why I tried to take the fire out of that. I know that other girls are more pro than I :P (and I mean that).
Next target is really the only thing that halfway works and that only without auto target.
If I have 5 enemies around and want to hit the one who’s right in front of me, do I really have to click on him? That’s my issue, I guess, and autotargeting took care of that until 1,5 years ago and by then I forgot that I’m using it. I just remembered it because my unknown Gandara ally was killed because I jumped against the wall I had in target. Sorry unknown guy, at least I solved (?) what plagued me – that’s a plus, right?
Everything that is availlable in wvw should be availlable to everybody.
We get Siege balancing updates because there’s a disabler but it’s not taken into account that maybe 20% of all players are actually carrying and using these disablers. As an example. Same with emergency WPs – what’s so wrong with how it has been back in the day and everybody was able to port every 3 minutes?
Same would apply here: Stuff gets balanced because something more powerful comes along but only a small percentage really have access to the powerful stuff.
I couldn’t really explain what upgrades and what stuff I mean, but I hope you guys get the idea.
I’m having troubles with targeting lately, or decided to tinker around with the options, and “nearest target” doesn’t work at all for me. Sometimes the mob behind me is targeted, next target doesn’t work after that button and so on.
The only thing that halfway works (only tested in pve for now) is next target, or clicking manually.
I didn’t get the firt part to be honest – and really have problems to play without autotarget. I can’t always manually click on target that fast – so how do you guys do it?
I turned it off for a testrun in PvE and there’s still target promoting which doesn’t work as well – it’s better but I’d really have to manually click everything if I want to hit.
Actually, I guess I know what my problem is, auto targeting. Question is if I can finally make it work without it as I never could.
ETA: And it seems as if that was/is the problem (stuff is still autotargeted even if turned off) – need to test it in wvw still though.
Anet, pretty please, could you work on that? I can’t manually click on everything and the “next enemy” and “nearest enemy” options don’t work properly as well – if they would that would be enough for me.
Also it would be cool to lose target automatically if watching a wall and being attacked – but that is superior stuff that’s not THAT needed.
People who know me also know that I complained about a bug that let my CnD miss everything (speaking of wvw mostly and it was also buggy in pve).
That bug was shortly gone and is now back as it seems (very hard to find real 1 vs 1 ‘s in wvw). I have no idea if it’s this time server lag (guess not) but it looks the same like the stuff I’ve had with CnD for 1,5 years. My internet connection is at a flawless 26 ping (pingplotter check).
Just saying: not all is fine, CnD and/or D/D thief still needs some attention when it comes to programming.
Well that’s the thing. If the guild leader is having drama with people, that’s a personal issue and those in the guild have a choice to follow him or stay or try something else. If it’s one drama after another, folks might want to evaluate the leadership.
All 150 of them left and that’s the case with most guilds – if the leader decides to transfer they follow.
If a doubling of transfer costs is incurred each time the guild leader has a fight with someone; it’s going to provide a longterm solution quicker than this 500 gems here, 500 gems there situation.
He didn’t have a fight with anyone – he was bored and that’s usually the reason why guilds transfer “Yo guys, this leads to nothing – there are much better fights on server xy, we need to transfer – play pve the next 2 weeks”
I’m not so sure that those on the satelite servers are really guilds, I guess that’s rather people like me.
The bottom line for the game and the rest of the population not involved in the drama is stability.
Choice remains with those who still want to jump. It’s just going to cost until someone makes a firm decision.
We’ve had a lot of drama while that guild was on our server – I still like them but they were a pain and I’m glad they left. Drama is never any good and mostly coming from those wo feel entitled and those are the ones who transfer.
So, really, work on the reasons why people transfer and one of the biggest is: Bigger = better. Population imbalances will always be an issue, no matter what you do, cause if you force people to stay somewhere they don’t want to be they just stop playing – problem solved?
ETA: Also linking low populated servers with high ranked servers wasn’t the smartest move.
That is all more complicated than you guys make it out to be.
We’ve had a really huge guild on GH. The leader was bored and wanted to transfer. They might or might not have been trolled by another guild on our server (haven’t been there) and left (huge drama and people still think it’s GHs fault). So he decided he wanted to leave and everybody had to follow – and that’s how it goes. The costs wouldn’t matter much anyway as the guild usually pays for transfers if neccessary – in case of Ash.
I had/have different reasons to transfer and one golden rule (I broke with Piken) is that I stay at least for that long that I have an idea what the server is like – which is a bit complicated in times of links and blob-facerolling. I will likely return to Gunnars at some point.
Which is a bit unfair, cause I transfer a lot. Not really to bandwagon, I guess you guys know that. In the end: 15 is my favourite number (yes I was born on a 15th – I’m that creative).
Again: work on the reasons why people transfer and lock transfers from time to time. And don’t link low ranked servers with high ranked ones. That would likely solve a lot of the issues.
Changing to 1 month relinking wont change much as transfering to a medium population server only costs 500 gems, which is currently roughly 81 gold. You can get that amount by farming PvE for 1 or 2 hours.
Create a free account. Mine is completely independent. I won’t be able to go full ascended, granted, but other than that I’m a splendid zergling. Just look at all the scouts and invaders: Free accounts.
ETA: So yeah: Remove links, make links of the former T8 and T9 and permanently merge/link them with each other. Stop transfers here and there like it was once linking was introduced, work on wvw combat and leave it alone for a while. Once the weaker servers recover make an interim phase in which the scoring of the now fatter server is toned down, then separate them and give them more points for what they’re doing for a while.
Yes, I do think that wvw can recover. And I want lower populated servers to have a chance to become independend again.
I finished all JP’s also the annoying Aether + Divemaster but this one i will skip.
I was nearly at the end today when I fell, couldn’t get up back again and had to WP and wasn’t ported.
Watching Dulfy’s video alone gives me a headache because there’s no strategy and no puzzle behind it but spamming the space key and that get’s exhausting really fast.
Other than that: Not really my favourite map but easier to navigate than most HoT maps. I love the skritt quest though – the emote of the Skritt when you give them a weapon is priceless, I love little things like that, like the crabs in Bloodtide Coast who threaten you and run away when you threaten back (I can do that for hours). So for that I’m grateful for the renewing hearts but I don’t really care about the stuff one can buy there.
PS: I’m doing the JP as a thief and have SA – Shadows Embrace, Shadow Protector And Shadow Rejuvenation as traits. Together with Shadow Refuge, Bliding Powder and Hide in Shadows it’s more than enough condi cleanse – you only need it for the first part anyway. You can also equip Blinding Powder the trait to not die from falling damage but once you’ve reached the checkpoints you rather die anyway.
ETA: You don’t need the elites on HoT maps, no matter what people think. In case that’s the reason why you think some classes don’t have enough condi cleanse – I bet all of them have but not neccessarily in the Elite traits.
What you guys forget: People want fair fights and they want to know that they’ve won/been defeated because of skill. If no amount of skill can conquer the bigger group, then people will leave – that’s the reason people are leaving wvw. The problem you guys on NA have is also that you are convinced to need a 24/7 coverage which was never an issue on EU – but also EU is dying and also on EU the people are moving to more populated servers because bigger = better.
Yes, if I had my preference, they’d revert EU to the way it was and continue this grand experiment on NA only.
We were fine before.
Yeah and anet should know that. They should give us a real choice and not ask “do you want a 1 up and down or rewards for skirmishes” (what a choice is that anyway?).
Hey Anet: Link former EU T9 and 8 with slightly higher ranked servers, balance professions, balance siege, balance upgrades, rethink guild upgrades (the “buggy” WP was way funnier than the Emergency WP I’ve seen in use maybe 5 times) and then leave us alone, we will pull through.
