Guild Wars 2

Grevane.6570:

I had no idea the Whiteside garrison was bugged. That’s a shame really as Whiteside, as a medium population server is against two full servers and we have outmanned regularly. I thought we were pulling off a heroic stand against the two larger servers.

Let me say you’re fighting heroic but you lack the numbers. On Whiteside Ridge Borderlands we can’t progress further because we can’t capture the Garrison, and there is always 2-3 trebs at garrison hitting our Bay Keep continuously that we can’t do much against them

On the other side we have Ring of Fire which is more close to our power. So they keep their stance and rarely progress towards you perhaps not to take your attention from us But I guess by this time our night crew started to cap all maps slowly

Even while being on winning side, I don’t like the “night capping” thing which breaks the fun/competition. What you all guys invested on upgrades or siege engines will be gone by tomorrow morning

We ported some golems using Mesmer Portals about 5 hours ago. I confirm it works

EVE has completely different gaming mechanics and server cluster architecture. It’s just not technology, it’s the game itself helps EVE’s servers.

But still EVE has lag and a lot. Have anyone of you experienced 100% Time Dilation?

HoukaKetsueki.6924:

Hope they take out those stat buffs for the winning team, they’re already winning and still you want them to win some more? lol

I think this is the major problem in WvW apart from hacks.

My guild only have 80 members but they are all great guys/girls. I’m a commander also thx to them.

I think in whole server we have 4-5 commanders and all are great/dedicated on WvW. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t get such tells. Instead people are sending pms giving intel from various sides of the map, or asking aid when a structure is under heavy pressure.

It seems we picked the right server even tough we’re at middle when it comes to ranking.

Lohengrin.8573:

thanks for reply. may I ask you to investigate this? your server got our garrison (inside ring of fire borderlands) at 23.45, something like that.

Some Notes:

I was in Ring of Fire Borderlands yesterday pretty late time, and we (Underworld) capped pretty upgraded garrison pretty fast with 4 siege golems. 1 minute is very quick for a keep with reinforced doors, but in 5-6 minutes it’s possible. I have no idea what happened today as I was at Whiteside Ridge Borderlands. My guess is 3 treb firing from tower at NE and 3-4 golems hacking the inner door, which is something we do regularly. However 1 minute is too short time even for that. The only valid solution for 1 minute is Mesmer Teleport, though you say it’s not possible.

The bugged Garrison is not Ring Of Fire’s but Whiteside Ridge’s Garrison. Keep Lord immunity is stuck so there is no way to capture it. And i guess it will stay like that till the end of the match.

About Bay Keep, defenders generally forget to repair NW gates (both inner and outer). Due to that again yesterday we captured that keep within 5 minutes, while RoF defenders fighting with WR invaders at their tower. However as Siege Golems can not swim there is always some siege machines left behind when attacking Ascension Bay.

EDIT: I hate hacks and I hope our server and/or any guild in it didn’t participated that action. You have my full promise that I’ll report anyone I will see doing something like that. I’ll make an announcement for my guild also to urge them to do the same.

When I see a camp I leave the puzzle and do something else to get back in a few hours. That’s how I solve this problem.

If that’s developers’ intention to make such camps with siege weapons possible, and if it’s expected from players to leave the zone and come back after a few hours, I’m OK with it. I don’t loose much when I leave a jumping puzzle and do something else. But of course if don’t have much else to do at that time, I leave the game and come back later.

Some players suggest to bring some guardians and counter siege weapon tactics. Considering how easy to plant a ballista or an arrow cart compared to find and bring rightly specced guardians, I say camping is the way to win.

However I doubt developers would be happy about some of their players leaving a zone/game “which is meant for continuous PvP and fun” all the time. I really doubt ANet wanted EB jumping puzzle as a “continuous camping” zone. If that’s the case I think it was a bad idea, but Jumping puzzle is not the only piece of the game I care. I just pretend there is no such feature and continue.

For the solution, it’s pretty easy. As you might have figured it out already, you can’t plant siege weapons on spawn areas, so it should not be hard to bring the same restriction to Jumping Puzzle area.

IMO players talking about “this is whining”, “create counter strategies” etc.. are just spending their time here. In no way on a proper game design “blocking progress” with such “easy to achieve” “nothing to loose” tactic can be acceptable. For some strange reason ANet couldn’t foresee this but 100% I’m sure they will fix it soon.

I believe a good starting point might be while counting the gained score each 15 minutes, it should be multiplied with total current player number on the map (all servers included). So for example on a prime time, where full numbers included what you “hold” means more compared to 03:00 AM where you or your opponent’s numbers are diminished.

I can’t claim this will solve all the problems, but it might be a start to make “good fights” mean more than “night capping” which I believe is the way to go to make WvW “more fun”.

Also as a comment against “Point by Kill” argument, such a system would change the value of objectives in the game. For example if “point by kill” is too much, people will start to fight on places where they will get more kills, rather than trying to capture Supply Camps or NPC Villages or other strategic objectives. Also as “dying” will mean more, people will start to move “more as a zerg” which will reduce the strategic variaty game presents. These are not speculations, just what I’ve seen on the past on other games where “Kill counts more than objectives”.

I’m one of the guys believing Queues (except bugs) are working as intended and will be the best tool to spread WvW population over several servers. IMO it’s essential for the health of long term WvW.

For example one player advertising an item on shout, and made a deal with another player through chat. He sent the item through mail, but the second player did not pay back.

Is it considered officially as a scam?
Is it an official offence that might have consequences?