Guild Wars 2

MiLkZz.4789:

….Or give them Shooter like menu with standard sentences like, attack!/retreat!/move!/follow!/…. even I can program such a thing.

I personally love that idea. Create a whole new Commander UI that spawns when a Commander puts his tag up. Why not?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

The chat suppression needs to be looked at for sure. But keep in mind that it is also there against abuse.

One chat-spamming commander could make the life of every commander on that map a living hell. All it takes is just one big jerk, and the internet has plenty of those.

If there would ever be such an idiot, he would get reported in a second. So I don’t think that will be a problem.

Habib, and any other ArenaNet employee, please do something about this! Read the posts on this thread, there are a lot of great suggestions post already, and probably even more to come!

I hereby ask you, ArenaNet, to listen to the community and do something about this, and by doing so, to make WvW a better place to be. Thank you.

ExTribble.7108:

I believe he means the spam limitation. I suppose it would be alright. I doubt gold-seller-advertising bots will be willing to burn 100g to avoid the default spam block when most people ignore them rather quickly.

I would like to suggest that there still be a limitation when the current threshold is reached, but obviously much less severe. How it is now keeps you muted for a long time. Something like 5-10 seconds between messages (for a minute or so?) in case a troll commander decides to annoy the entire map to allow people to ignore/report the kitty.

Exactly. I think chat surpression should at least bw removed for Commanders with their Tag up in WvW. A Commander can’t do his job in a decent way as long as he keeps getting surpressed.

Atrophied.8725:

Uhm… really? You’ll run your force the entire length of a map rather than use a WP to get you there in seconds?

Yeah, since I’m mostly running EB pugs, of which a lot are actually braindead, as Cruz calls it :p
I have to keep running all the way across the map in order to keep the zerg behind me.

Bump, since this thread has been moved to another subforum

Jeknar.6184:

Unfortunely if they remove the supression for commanders, the gold-seller spammers would problably buy commander tags and start the spam again…

I doubt that, because of the following reasons:

Pvp.2758:

Commander is 100 gold and if a person is abusing the ‘no suppressed commander’ feature then they will get reported and punished for it so I don’t think people will abuse it.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Spammers wouldn’t last long in WvW, I’m sure the entire map would report and block them in seconds.

Also, I like these ideas:

XxNuggetxX.7823:

keep chat suppression but lower the time you are supperssed if wearing the commander hat like 10 sec insted of the like 2 mins now 0.0. The hat must be on, this will deter spammers

kuora.5402:

IMO, commanders should get this:

You know when you played CS or other FPS games, there are chat codes like “Follow me” “Roger” “Negative” “Go,go!” as easy access hotkey.

Commanders need this.

And to answer Cruzyo’s post:

Cruzyo.7304:

I had this problem aswell, however another Commander made me aware of how to avoid this.

Basically you get surpressed when you spam Links (waypoints or point of interests) in the chat without adding anything to it.

For example, when you want your zerg to teleport to a waypoint, not only link the waypoint but also write “teleport” behind it.

that way you shouldnt get surpressed.

Ehm…you do know that’s the one thing you should NEVER do as a Commander, right?
You can only use portals when you get killed, or when EVERYONE in your zerg is on TeamSpeak, and you’re doing an organized WvW run. Otherwise, a great deal of the zerg will just stay where they are to stand around, which will tear the zerg apart.

Yeah but as I’m usually running with a bunch of EB puggs who just run behind the Commander without really knowing what’s going on, I need to keep typing in several different chats at the same time to give orders, which gets me surpressed once in a while, which is incredibly annoying.

I really think Commanders should never get surpressed in public chat. At least not when they are actively commanding and what they are saying is probably important to the team. It’s terribly annoying when I’m commanding and I want to give an order, but I can’t say anything due to chat surpression.

It would be awesome if ArenaNet thought about this and removed chat surpression for Commanders with their Tag up. Everyone who plays WvW at least once in a while would be very thankful for this.

I really think Commanders should never get surpressed in public chat. At least not when they are actively commanding and what they are saying is probably important to the team. It’s terribly annoying when I’m commanding and I want to give an order, but I can’t say anything due to chat surpression.

It would be awesome if ArenaNet thought about this and removed chat surpression for Commanders with their Tag up. Everyone who plays WvW at least once in a while would be very thankful for this.

Have fun this week!
I can’t remember ever having fought Baruch Bay. At least not after I got skilled in WvW
Drakkar Lake has been quite a long time ago as well
I’m looking forward to an exciting matchup!

Epic fights over SM today
Such a shame I couldn’t take it from the Spanish :/
There were just too many of them :p

I want to thank the FS Commander who was Commanding in EB Wednesday afternoon (Norn Guardian with green armour, idk the guild tag though) for putting up some epic fights against us, for example at Bravost, when you had an ENORMOUS zerg and we were greatly outmanned (Outmanned buff included) and you put up several rams, though I was Commanding for UW at that time of crisis. I started Commanding after we lost Duri and Quentin btw. managed to put up some siege inside Bravost and got down your rams when gate was less than 5%. We managed to hold Bravost, wipe your zerg and take back Duri and Quentin. Then you started fighting against the reds at Mendons, and our epic clash was over. Shame. But I left anyway after that. So if you read this: hit me up at any time for putting up more of such epic EB battles

Thanks for the banner, XT! :p

Just a lil’ bit later…have you guys given up or what?

Underworld style!

@Ilesyt: only small skirmishes? Yesterday we even managed to take the German Keep in EB, along with surrounding towers. You call that a small skirmish? We almost completely wiped them off the map there.
True, we do focus on RoS rather than Dzag, because we think you are more of a threat to us than Dzag is. Take it as a compliment

Have fun and good luck to all!
But to all RoS/Dzag people: be prepared to have your kitten kicked by some Underworld ownage! ;D
Make sure to put up some good fights! I know you guys can do it!

I love the fights we’ve put up over the past few days
Keep up the awesome fights, and don’t make it too easy for us!

My ranger :p
I’m Underworld’s glass cannon Commander :p
All hail Commander Jarni!