Guild Wars 2

So it appears the removal of culling melted my graphics card. It just spontaneously combusted last night after several massive zerg fights.

For the record, it was a decent card on a decent system*, was only a year old, and when I went into WvW I turned my settings low and got rid of shadows. But apparently the new changes were too much for it, alas.

Anyone else in mourning?

*system: quad, 8gigs ram, 6970 card, liquid cool

Furiousbeard.7602:

A certain unnamed source from Kain who recently moved to our server has verified all this information. They are quite outspoken about this farming alliance, but certain folk wanted nothing to do with it.

I applaud their disdain for such awful abuse of the wxp system.

lol, I think this fellow is pulling your leg. Honest

You know the type. Axe to grind, makes stuff up, swears up and down. Then sits back and laughs as the conspiracy theories gain strength through whispers in game.

So everyone in T1 enjoying seeing all the zergs in their entirety now?

Bet you missed this zerg.

Lol this thread. Poor guy having to wade through it all.

That said, to the OP: best advice I can give you is to send a few of your guys to the top three servers you’re interested in. Spend a week there. Get to know the community a bit first-hand.

Because while you can indeed transfer again if you don’t like it, that will add up cost-wise over time. Find a community that means a permanent home for you. And while WvW is fundamentally an entity unto itself, it’s like picking the right girl for you …. you may adore her, but realize you’re going to spend a lot of time with her family, too.

Good luck in your search.

Perhaps a toggle-able title like achievement titles? For your team to see I mean …. And yes I’d love to have it as a drop down.

(I’d also love to be able to see my own name too! Hint, hint)

Thustlewhumber.7416:

Also TC; thx for the non-violence while in EB jumping puzzle a bit ago. Got in, got chest, got out… no issues. I got no problems returning this favor for you guys.

You of all people deserve this kind of respect. I can’t count the number of times you’ve trucked over to our side of the map to try to help resolve an issue. I’m so glad you got in and out unscathed.

Felt like reset a bit tonight … if you looked left (see score 1), you saw one group. If you looked right (see score 2) you saw another group, lol. FA’s garrison swiss cheesed, but oh my it was awesome.

Glad to finally see you all! I waved.

Note: Scores are from about 30 mins ago, they are changing/flipping back and forth rapidly. And as I logged FA had secured their garri again.

Jonathan.1580:

that a Dev has come here and said to bad to sad we can’t fix that lag even tho it makes makes the game unplayable. but HEY lets remove culling but add EVERYones title that you cant turn off.

You may not be able to personally turn them off, but each player can. I would think most mesmers already run without them.

That said, aside from the 1 fps I’m getting during big big fights (40-man zerg v zerg v zerg is fine, it’s when you hit in the hundreds of players the lag starts), the rest of the patch is quite good. It’s amazing to see all the players (both enemy and allies), and it gives you such a surge of morale to see the numbers running with you. The ranking system doesn’t seem to be too grindy and levels up quickly. Overall, quite pleased with this update.

Thank you!

Go into your options > graphics … the adjustment is near the bottom. It appears to work for me well, I’m seeing the entire zerg.

Oh but they can use other types of siege and be just as offensive.

See if you can spot the repair agent in this mess. We have the troll siege builders name, reports have been sent in.

Bedstain.6735:

All I ask is that the wall slaves build faster.

Time warp them.

Elochai.1280:

Thank for the replies so far everyone. Anyone else have an suggestions? I’ve got a general idea of what I like now plus what I’ve learned over time. I have liked and respective TC for a while now and enjoyed fighting against DB. NSP I don’t know much about you folks. If any of you would like to share more information about your servers and/or guilds I’d be happy to hear about it. Any other servers are welcome to share what they think of their server or even if they aren’t on said server.

This might help from the TC perspective (plus a lot of feedback from our competitors too):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/TC-needs-Oceanic-Asian-EU-Guilds-Players

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Spies-Saboteurs

Look what I found! I found the answer to culling! (Mind you I found it in a different game, but I can use it here no?)

Monsoon.2589:

Jayne.9251:

While it’s fine for us to all debate the right/wrong of this, it’s ultimately Anets decision on whether to ban or not. They have tools they can use to monitor player history and can make a decision one way or another. But if this kind of griefing is making folks throw their hands up …. It means losing playerbase (at a certain point people just get frustrated and thow in the towel) … And that’s death for any gaming company, heck any company … and something I’d rather not see happen because I love this game.

Personally I hope that Anet pursues this the same way they did with the bot infection.

I think you are exagerating because you are on one side of the equation. I don t think it is that abysmal as you say it is and the point is that you are able to do the exact same thing by buying a second account and going wasting supplies of the enemy.

Let me put this one other way…again.

You zone in wvw but spend you whole time doing nothing but picking up flowers and onions and mining. Should you be actioned and banned? Should you be removed from wvw? I mean Anet put onions to be picked up in wvw so should that player who is not fighting be banned?

What about people who waste slots when there is a queue by jumping in the dark in the Jumping puzzle…should they be banned? See the problem? I hate people in the JP but its apparently perfectly ok to waste slots that could be better used fighting for your map…so how come one thing is ok when it is detrimental to map progress and the other is potentially grieving players?

see…a fine line hence why nothing has been said officially because it would create a precedent and it would be a mess and open a can of worms. If you think wasting supplies is a reason for a ban then wasting a slot on the map should also be a reason for a ban…you can t have one and not the other

You can have varying degrees of griefing. Some are more patently obvious than others and easier to make a decision about. I get that you like spying and endorse it, but if actions taken by one player (or a string of them) are affecting another player’s gameplay to the point they don’t want to play anymore because their efforts are wasted or their hands are tied, that’s against EULA. And based on the number of posts in this thread and others, it’s pretty rampant.

All my post said above is that we should stop arguing about what is valid and what is not, and let Anet decide. That is out of both our hands, regardless of how many posts you or I (or others) write in its defense or against it. And we, as players who don’t like this sort of behaviour, can help them by sending in reports. Simple as that.

While it’s fine for us to all debate the right/wrong of this, it’s ultimately Anets decision on whether to ban or not. They have tools they can use to monitor player history and can make a decision one way or another. But if this kind of griefing is making folks throw their hands up …. It means losing playerbase (at a certain point people just get frustrated and thow in the towel) … And that’s death for any gaming company, heck any company … and something I’d rather not see happen because I love this game.

Personally I hope that Anet pursues this the same way they did with the bot infection.

Nnekk.5806:

Would a spy want to drop a 100G on that ability alone? I doubt it.

But, if they did, that’s why I suggested a time allotment per piece of siege; to limit the amount they can destroy in a period of time.

I’d also make it so that the Commander HAD to have the tag ON, and there was a “/map” message about the siege being destroyed. “Commander so-and-so destroyed flame ram at Bluebriar”

Oh I think in the higher tiers they could cough up the 100g (and have, lol, don’t you remember WvW in its infancy and tales of suddenly unknown commanders popping a tag and leading zergs to their deaths?).

But I like the idea of the map wide announcement. That could work.

Anyone can drop 100g and get a commander tag tho …. Which could prove disastrous … intentionally or not.

Lifewaster.5912:

Jayne.9251:

C: according to anet rams have their own personal siege cap of 100, independant of other siege on map. (But I do agree something needs to be done about the griefing)

Rams have their own cap regarding the overall map, meaning 100 troll rams wont prevent you placing siege overall on that map.

But,

Rams still contribute to the local area siege caps, meaning 8 troll rams inside a keep gate will prevent you from building any arrow carts/catas to defend that specific gate, because the local area siege cap at that gate is maxxed out.

This should be fixed.

Yes. Agreed.

I guess I’m just wary of putting in code to auto destruct simply because that would be used universally for rams, and could just see a ram needed in a strategic spot disappearing when it’s needed most, lol. I’m not sure they could create code for “if ram is at spot x, then auto destroy” ….

But this is just indicative of deeper issues within the game … Outlined in that spies/saboteurs thread. I’d personally like to see that resolved so that siege like rams can work “as intended” … The only way I see that happening is if Anet becomes proactive with complaints and reports. I’m sure they are, they don’t divulge which accounts have been banned etc for privacy reasons, but it’d sure be nice if they were as aggressive about this as they were with their bot sweeping a while back, because it really is ruining gameplay for a lot of players.

I’ll give you an example:

I went on eb, noticed the enemy had flipped mendons. Ran over, it was empty, and dropped a ram …. even ran by myself to Speldan four times to build it. I didn’t kill the enemy rams because it was only me and it would have taken forever. However, I managed to get the gate down by my lonesome with the enemy rams still up. Proud moment for me in my super secret (tragically solo, lol) ninja of mendons. Thankfully as the gate came down some friends arrived we capped the tower, then killed the rams.

Gab Superstar.4059:

Jayne.9251:

A: you can dump your ram bps on top of existing enemy rams and build/use and destroy their rams after you’ve taken the tower.

B: flame rams can be used for so much more than just knocking down gates.

You will often hit the enemy rams instead of the gate with your rams.

Really? Have never had that happen when I’ve done it … Hits the gate every time.

A: you can dump your ram bps on top of existing enemy rams and build/use and destroy their rams after you’ve taken the tower.

B: flame rams can be used for so much more than just knocking down gates.

C: according to anet rams have their own personal siege cap of 100, independant of other siege on map. (But I do agree something needs to be done about the griefing)

Nuzt.7894:

You gave a fictional story to backup your other post, I call it fictional because what you posted would not have happened. Giving someone a reason to investigate and proving fault is two completely different things. Gaming companies reserve the right to ban whomever whenever, but thats not smart business.

Lol, I think you just like to argue And how are you so certain it wouldn’t happen?

I was avoiding naming the guild and server because I have a lot of respect for these folks and those who have paid close attention to these forums know who I’m talking about anyhow. It wasn’t fictional, and the bans were real and taken from WvW. They reported seeing anet-tagged players following their zerg for a full week before it happened.

I’ve been in game and fighting merrily along in WvW next to someone and then suddenly they pop an anet tag, whereas before they were guildless, or in another guild. They do send anet folks into game, I imagine both for diagnosing bug issues but also to monitor. If these guys are seeing griefing going on while they’re in there, they’re going to flag their own guys, too. The guy next to you in WvW could be an anet dev.

But they don’t even have to do that, which is my point. They can simply use tracking systems to monitor player behaviour and determine if griefing was invovled or not. It’s not hard to see transaction history, for example, of buying ‘merchants’ over and over again, nor is it hard to see 100 rams being built repeatedly, and no other activity by that player. It’s harder if the player just stands at spawn and does nothing but relay info back to their team, but I imagine because anet owns the software, they could easily monitor and review chat logs too. But I’d think they wouldn’t start doing that unless a complaint was received.

But the onus is on us the players to report this stuff. Out of the thousands of players in game, it’s like a needle in a haystack, unless they’re pointed in the right direction.

Nuzt.7894:

Jayne.9251:

Sure they can. If a report is sent in, and enough people indicate it’s the same player, an anet guy can go into game, without tags, and monitor the player … They’d know exactly where they were on map, etc … There were incidents of this happening to one guild, many many players put in reports which wound up in accounts getting banned. Whether those reports were just a mass trolling or not is neither here nor there. Anet does take action, although to be fair to them they can only go by what they’re fed. And I have heard the accounts that got banned were monitored in-game by untagged anet folks for a week or so.

I would personally send in reports and images and let anet decide what to do … Enough people indicating the same player and I would suspect action would be taken by an untagged anet guy at least checking it out.

I find this hard to believe, this is why … Anet would not have come on and said to anyone “hey thanks for putting in all those reports, we logged in tagless and followed said person around for a week and then decided to ban them”.

I think someones blowing smoke up your bum, or they have an unfounded opinion of what happened and ppl ate it up like cake.

Typically A gaming company would announce something along the lines of “we have procedures in place to track the individual(s) under suspicion. If they are found to be exploiting the game in a way that is unintended, we will take action that could result in suspension(s), and or permanant ban(s) dependant on the sevarity of the situation”.

It would also typically be posted somewhere for all to read (such as the forum or main paige of their webby) as this is meant to prevent it from happening before it happens. In the case of actual bans, its very rare a company will tell you the process they used, once people know how they track certain things, then someone will find a way to avoid it.

I could be wrong but I’m finding your post hard to swallow.

But none the less its still a pretty crappy thing to do.

Any company getting multiple reports about a single user will investigate. Because they designed the game/software it’s fast and efficient to locate the person complained,about in game to investigate. Other mmos I’ve played I’ve had a gm magically appear beside me in game to resolve a petition, etc. because they have the technology to track and trace.

I’m suggesting if this kind of griefing is going on (and face it, that’s what it is) they have the ability to monitor and subsequently ban. Enough complaints about one user and they have the documentation to start determining a course of action.

Again, let anet decide how to handle it. Submit your reports and let them deal with it from there. But DO submit the reports.

Sure they can. If a report is sent in, and enough people indicate it’s the same player, an anet guy can go into game, without tags, and monitor the player … They’d know exactly where they were on map, etc … There were incidents of this happening to one guild, many many players put in reports which wound up in accounts getting banned. Whether those reports were just a mass trolling or not is neither here nor there. Anet does take action, although to be fair to them they can only go by what they’re fed. And I have heard the accounts that got banned were monitored in-game by untagged anet folks for a week or so.

I would personally send in reports and images and let anet decide what to do … Enough people indicating the same player and I would suspect action would be taken by an untagged anet guy at least checking it out.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Jayne.9251:

Lol this is totally untrue. Goodness people like to invent all kinds of things.

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/forum/m/2737230/viewthread/5482182-skinned-clown

Yeah can’t say I’ve run into that fellah. Is that you visiting TC?

gnarkiller.1862:

Murderin.8269:

Asudementio.8526:

Murderin.8269:

T1 and T2 both sound great.

Gonna be hard to pick a server. Thanks for the info guys.

If you have any questions about TC in tier 2 feel free to contact me and i’ll find a way to get you what you need to know.

My GF wants us to go to TC. I heard it has a great community too.

Is there a lot of really awkward role playing going on? Thats my only concern with that server.

It can be really annoying if you don’t like that sort of thing. Imagine doing a fractal or dungeon and someone is roleplaying a character that is dumb and clumsy and “accidentally” sets off every trap, goes in the wrong direction, or falls to his death. People do stuff like this and think it’s ok because it’s the character they created.

Lol this is totally untrue. Goodness people like to invent all kinds of things.

That said, to the OP, if you are worried about WoW-like RP, it’s not like that at all.

*takes thread out for dinner and a movie.

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

Kain and TC are pretenders.

Kind of like those people who fill management positions at lower scale workplaces. Y’know they got there by kissing major bootay.

I don’t pretend.

kfarb.6732:

Maguuma is probably the most polite. Is that what you’re asking?

Lol, only after I wrestled you to the ground and stuffed you with cookies :p

Have you tried putting the different wood in different orders, to see if say putting stack a,b,c,d doesn’t work, then try stack c,b,a,d, etc…?

Only reason I ask this is because sometimes when I’m building superior siege in the forge, if I put one or two things in first it will sometimes gray out the other components I KNOW make up the recipe. It fixes itself when say I put the blueprint in first.

Worth a try?

Jonto.2160:

i’m more scared of the queue times :/

And NA would win, more people around the clock.

Lol. I love your sig line

Here’s one thread on it:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Lag-is-making-WvW-unenjoyable-and-unplayable

There are others.

Who would win the forum wars though?

Tyaen.5148:

Jayne.9251:

Tyaen.5148:

Ah yes, but the good stuff is Wheat. Kind of like SoR. The common mass produced stuff is potato, kind of like BG.

;-)

I see you entirely missed the point of the joke. I guess it was pretty subtle.

I guess so, I watched it twice and still don’t get what your going for. Sometimes I can be obtuse though.

I just thought I’d tweak some noses.

I find its nicer to hug people. And give cookies.

Tyaen.5148:

Ah yes, but the good stuff is Wheat. Kind of like SoR. The common mass produced stuff is potato, kind of like BG.

;-)

I see you entirely missed the point of the joke. I guess it was pretty subtle.

Tyaen.5148:

Jayne.9251:

Pvp.2758:

Vodka.3958:

Pvp.2758:

Vodka.3958:

Aurust.8961:

WTF QQ BG and JQ 2v1 us in SM QQ wa wa wa wa….. someone call me a wambulance 2v1 no fair in a 3 way matchup.

Edit*** SOR wins 1v2 gg

The immaturity level of the SoR community is astounding.

The only thing SoR manages to win is third place, just like last week & the week before that… I’ve gotta give it to you though, you do have a strong weekend warrior crew largely composed of 12-17 y/o gamers which is why you aren’t able to perform up to T1 standards during the weekday and probably why your server doesn’t get any transfers. The whole being mushed into 1 huge zerg ball bouncing from map to map together is a pretty good strat for your server, really shows your all about quantity over quality.

(P.S. that post is probably the most mature comment I’ve seen coming from an SoR player, especially the “wambulance” part; lol very classy. Keep up the good fights kids.)

That level of troll is off the roof lolz

Edit: In before edit LOL

Almost on your level potato

He knows my name <3

Well of course he does. How do you think vodka is made?

Wheat.

Sometimes. But more often this way:

Pvp.2758:

Vodka.3958:

Pvp.2758:

Vodka.3958:

Aurust.8961:

WTF QQ BG and JQ 2v1 us in SM QQ wa wa wa wa….. someone call me a wambulance 2v1 no fair in a 3 way matchup.

Edit*** SOR wins 1v2 gg

The immaturity level of the SoR community is astounding.

The only thing SoR manages to win is third place, just like last week & the week before that… I’ve gotta give it to you though, you do have a strong weekend warrior crew largely composed of 12-17 y/o gamers which is why you aren’t able to perform up to T1 standards during the weekday and probably why your server doesn’t get any transfers. The whole being mushed into 1 huge zerg ball bouncing from map to map together is a pretty good strat for your server, really shows your all about quantity over quality.

(P.S. that post is probably the most mature comment I’ve seen coming from an SoR player, especially the “wambulance” part; lol very classy. Keep up the good fights kids.)

That level of troll is off the roof lolz

Edit: In before edit LOL

Almost on your level potato

He knows my name <3

Well of course he does. How do you think vodka is made?

I’ll just leave this here:

We had a 9-year-old kid take not one, but two golems out into a field to “play” while his mother was frantically yelling at him on map to stop. Embarassment aside for the poor mom, I thought it was kind of funny. The kid was having a blast. (The mom later repaid the cost of the golem to the guild that built it).

You will show to them the same as if you were playing invisible. You’ll be constantly “offline” in their list and they won’t be able to message you. I believe your account name remains in their list, but not the toons name. You will no longer see any of their comments in map chat. However, if you’re in the same area, I believe they can still use /say and you will see it. Those you block you can see their characters and zone, but they can’t see you. Unless of course they block you too.

That’s with blocking.

With just removing them from friends list, allowing them to “follow” you … They will be able to see if you are online, but unless you friend them as well, they won’t be able to see where you are in game. So there’s still privacy that way. But they can still message you that way.

Silke and her husband are my favourite people here.

Hickeroar.9734:

iCryptik.1496:

Yarr Hickeroar, just remember this be ‘da slow time ’fer TC, ye will receive some backups soon enough, but just ye be rememberin, there be a lot o’ TC that be doing other things.

We be not able ‘ta close ’da point gap with KA, ’n FA be not able ’ta beat us in points ’ta win 2nd, so a lot o’ people be galavantin, drinkin ale, ‘n playin with FA’s wenches.

Don’t worry lubber, ’da action be startin again around 7 est.

xD TSP doing WvW? Haven’t seen any of you guys in ages.

I think what they know is that if they can maintain a 400:100 (or better) lead on us for the next five hours before reset…they’re gonna take back the 2nd place spot. They’re probably a little more than enraged over the trash talking imparted in this thread this week, and looking for blood. If they manage, or almost manage to take it back…they’re gonna rub our noses in it.

And they’d deserve to. :-P

Unless something dramatic happens in the next couple of hours, FA has already secured blue keep for reset.

Here it is .. my beloved thread!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/WvW-Missed-Connections

Secret.6813:

FA wipes TC in every engagment nearly and if we hang out to long, sure enough Kaineng will show up wipe us then leave. No big deal…. Good team work TC and Kaineng. Glad you enjoy fair game.

You have a remarkable way of looking at things!

Arkard.3970:

Two little known interesting tidbits about TC:

1.) Dulfy of Dulfy.net calls Tarnished Coast home.

2.) TC is also home to Karas.

I have also heard rumour that Felicia Day plays WvW for TC

So if you want to play side by side with Zojja, come on over!

Hickeroar.9734:

PooHBooT.4590:

Tarnished Coast Field Medics !!! why do you exploit your way into Anzalias Post to flip it, I know it takes no skill to do it proper but at least try!!
I was I there for 5 minutes after it flipped so dont say you had someone in there stealthed the whole time.

Unless you got an actual name or screens to report them….I call bull. TCFM are not the exploiting type.

This.

TCFM has a particularly talented mesmer that hides really really well .. flipped anz several times this week because the enemy failed to thoroughly sweep. Watched it myself.

JudgeD.5673:

Heh heh. You TC boys are a piece of work now. I think someone has been getting into Jayne’s cookie jar.

My cookies are made to spread joy and sportsmanship, and a little silliness. People trying to get into my cookie jar who aren’t like this will likely find their fingers nibbled off.

That said, we all knew that the match between FA and TC would have it’s “moments” … we managed to do ok in the BG/TC/FA match, would love to see that make a comeback so we can show our Kaineng friends just what good people we have on ALL servers. I kind of feel badly for the Kain folks having to witness our, uh, history. No wonder they are silent, for the most part, in this thread.

If you find yourself writing a short novella in response to something someone posted here, I urge you to hit “cancel” and go take your dog for a walk instead. You can only get dirty if you fall down into the muck yourself. Let the trolls troll, and just be the best representative of your server you possibly can be. Nothing you can say in any post is going to change them, so any effort to do so is wasted energy. It’s the nature of the interwebz.

To my lovely Toasters, please keep off FA’s forums. It’s their hangout, not ours. They can say whatever they want there. As we can say whatever we want on ours. If you go there to read, remember you’re a guest there. If you don’t like what you’re reading, stop going there.

ghtchill.7613:

Jayne.9251:

ghtchill.7613:

Jayne.9251:

ghtchill.7613:

Jayne.9251:

ghtchill.7613:

I dunno. I may have to agree with Evalana. Our Supreme Commander Walken was invited to a TC Keep by PINK and he of course graciously accepted…and look what the evil doers did to him! Outrageous! We want blood!

Aw who DOESN’T want to be a bunny though?

(That’s a good look for Walken )

I dunno. Look at his face…he’s seriously about to go all Walken and kitten. I am not sure we can forgive you! Perhaps if you came for some Champagnya, we would learn to forgive…oh and wear that little number I…WE like so much, if you would be kind…

How did you get that photo of me?!! :o

Oh, you don’t remember. That is cute. I…WE, put NOTHing in your drink. You enjoyed yourself immensely…really you did.

Gasp!

Forget the dolyaks!!. I must be avenged!!!

No no no…wait. We joke with you, we joke. General Walken would never be so untoward.

We do have to say though, just between you and me, your friends at the FA should look out a little bit and be careful checking their keeps and towers because…just maybe…

Ok that made me burst out laughing. Well played

ghtchill.7613:

Jayne.9251:

ghtchill.7613:

Jayne.9251:

ghtchill.7613:

I dunno. I may have to agree with Evalana. Our Supreme Commander Walken was invited to a TC Keep by PINK and he of course graciously accepted…and look what the evil doers did to him! Outrageous! We want blood!

Aw who DOESN’T want to be a bunny though?

(That’s a good look for Walken )

I dunno. Look at his face…he’s seriously about to go all Walken and kitten. I am not sure we can forgive you! Perhaps if you came for some Champagnya, we would learn to forgive…oh and wear that little number I…WE like so much, if you would be kind…

How did you get that photo of me?!! :o

Oh, you don’t remember. That is cute. I…WE, put NOTHing in your drink. You enjoyed yourself immensely…really you did.

Gasp!

Forget the dolyaks!!. I must be avenged!!!