Guild Wars 2

sororsrca.1239:

“Without saying too much, I can say we are making progress on culling.”

considering I waited 30 minutes in que after reset tonight, then waited another 60 minutes requeing every ten or 15 minutes….I don’t see it. I logged off to go watch TV since my time sitting in town or gather materials while waiting just isn’t as fun as I could be having with my guildmates as I listened in VOIP. Just stating it as it is, not trying to start trouble but when a game isn’t fun, no reason to play it.

You are mistaking ‘culling’ for ‘queuing’. Culling is the visual suppression of players out of your range. But some people are having issues with these ‘invisible’ players when they should not be. THAT is what he said they are working on.

I think the cap is like 166 per side per map.

I thought the jumping puzzles were broken atm. Are they broken on some servers?

Some of us aren’t even home yet :P

Thanks, Matt! And thanks to Habib who I am sure is working too hard :P

cole.2450:

Im probably a bit older than you boys and girls and there’s a good chance I’m not completely aware of the “young peoples” language……

What the heck is Kitten?

other than an animal that is far inferior to a dog….

By inferior I am SURE you meant SUPERIOR.

2 Myself. All fixed now.

Invisible enemies: Who here does/does not have issue? Also include whether you have:
1) always had the issue (NOT fixed)
2) never had the issue until that recent problem (FIXED NOW THOUGH)
3) never had that issue until that recent problem (NOT fixed yet)
4) never had that issue ever
5) other?

I am trying to figure out which issues are new, which are old, which are culling etc.

gosu.4128:

This. It would entice people to make sure dolyaks reach towers/keeps, so upgrades can be purchased.

Right now not enough dolyaks reach, and too many people steal supplies from towers/keeps.

It enticed too many players when there was a reward. AKA there were massive bots following dolyaks so they had to disable the rewards.

The sister server idea is brilliant!

(hehe it was my original idea :P)

Anet is quite respectable. Asking if they are capable of telling the truth? really?
As stated above you can never permanently address botting or hacking issues. It’s an ongoing process in every online game.
Nightcapping has already been addressed. Just because you don’t like the answer doesn’t mean it wasn’t addressed.
I have not had any invisible issues lately at all. I had those 2 days when it was a known issue and then it was fixed. I am not sure why some people are still having issues.

Nevron.9413:

Setch.2398:

You can always queue for another borderlands/EB while already in a borderland/EB. The post by Anet referred to queuing for 2 things at once would actually only put you in the queue for the last thing you queued for. You would not be in a queue for both things.

Like I said, I queued for two maps at once. I got a pop for one, accepted it, and then 15 or so minutes later I got a pop for the second one I queued for. I did not requeue for one while in WvW. Both pops were from queuing at the same time.

Ah, I have never heard of or experienced that happening before.

You can always queue for another borderlands/EB while already in a borderland/EB. The post by Anet referred to queuing for 2 things at once would actually only put you in the queue for the last thing you queued for. You would not be in a queue for both things.

When was it proven false that you can’t queue for more than 1 map at a time? 100% of the time when we queued, it would put is in the last thing we queued for. Are you saying that is no longer the case?

It is not supposed to be a ‘lottery’ but people have been spreading that around as fact when they see their friends get in before them. Last I read Anet was looking into that issue.

No. You only earn for capturing points. And a sentry only awards 1 point ever, (not recurring)

I can only speak for my small guild. 3 of us jumped on lastnight and were outmanned on all 3 borderlands. Usually we don’t care about that as long as we can cap a few things and have some fun. Hopefully contribute to the cause.

Well, we weren’t contributing to the cause because as soon as we capped a camp it would be taken back. With a 15 minute timer for score countdowns, best case scenario would be +5 points but that was rare because with 1 thing blue on the map, people would zerg it. (not complaining… I would do the same thing hehe)

We simply couldn’t keep ahead of the enemy zergs. And there weren’t enough players to form our own zerg. At that point it just seemed silly. Take a camp. Lose the camp. Take another camp. Lose the camp. Timer countdown= 0 points. Start again. Take a camp. Lose the camp. Take another camp. Lose the camp. Timer countdown=0.

We tried some covert missions on towers and keeps with no supply camps. (guild cata) and getting supplies from another map but just because they didn’t know we were blue… didn’t keep them from investigating the cross-hairs :P

Pop caps= to the lowest pop will never happen. First off, a higher pop server would be given incentive to log out to keep their lead. Second, some people would never be able to play wvw at all and have no idea when they were in queue if it would ever pop at all.

Dutch Lion, please elaborate on ‘restricting xfers’.

I was responding to Selwynn.2758’s post btw when I said, ‘well thought out post’ Then this thread was merged.

I think this is a well thought out post. Although I do think they should have locked server transfers a long time ago… I wonder what would happen if they locked them now? Would we have JQ as the new HoD forever? Would even more people xfer to JQ once the announcement went out?

What are some options? First off, I think that once guild banks can be carried cross server, more guilds would be willing to move. Any sort of semi-forced xfer can’t really occur (imo) until that feature is in. I am not sure if that can even happen technically.

Do we need a semi-forced server xfer? I think we do, but how would it work? It would seem unfair to JQ since they are now in the lead. (and other servers that are currently dominating)

What would people think if they announced mandatory moves for a fairer game play?
How would it effect pve and larger guilds, and people who don’t even play wvw? There would be an outcry. So by semi-forced xfer I guess I mean a large incentive to switch. But how would that work? What sort of incentive would it take to get people to disperse evenly? How would we even know if we were dispersed evenly before the next match?

Do we separate wvw from our actual home servers? Then we possibly risk losing the incentive to win. Right now it is about server pride. Would the pride still be there if you were on Red#1, Blue#7, Green #12 etc? Maybe?

Hour an 1/2? Rookie.

Looking forwards to SBI. I have much respect for that server

Looking forward to playing against SBI. I LOVE those guys.

edit: urtv, this thread is about the NEW match-up coming up in a few minutes. Just FYI.

My favorite commander was Ruphio from ELTE. Why? He made things happen. He didn’t stand around EVER. I know that TA was a well coordinated alliance but I mainly only got to see him. He was a well oiled machine. Many times he was leading militia while his alliance was running less obvious missions. He had the game down to such a science I am sure that is why he got bored.

The invisible players is a bug plain and simple. People are confusing that with culling so this thread is a mess.

A friend and I popped over to Kaineng lastnight to check it out. It was a culture shock lol. The people there did all seem nice and friendly though.

Having only played a few hours for one night I am hardly one to judge the efforts of an entire server, but there were a few things I didn’t understand.

If a keep is under attack… people wrote it off as dead without defending it. Also, they would take a keep and say, “We don’t intend to hold this”. which goes back to nobody defends anything. That also leads to no one upgrading anything.

The ‘zerg’ attacking it had maybe 10 people.

Also, if an enemy is repelled at a tower… not one person stopped to repair the door. They just left it that way, which was over 1/2 down. (I repaired it)

I upgraded a few things but then realized that since nobody comes to save anything it did seem pointless. I don’t think anything on any map was ever upgraded.

Oh, my friend and I threw a ram down to take a tower. We ran back to get supplies at the camp and the enemy showed up and pushed us back into the camp. Once they left we ran back to the tower and our ram build site was still there! Luckily the guards hadn’t respawned until we got back there so we were able to save it. But that was just crazy! The enemy zerg left the build site up lol.

Had this happen on Henge Borderlands / Sunny. I was on the inside and my pet could walk out through the door and hit people. People on the outside could send their pets inside to attack anything they could target.

SKYeXile.2716:

Loving been on JQ.

Ok, funs over.. come on back so we can clean this mess up

What time is it right now Nocturn? IE what is server time.

Same thing happened with HoD originally, so I know how you feel. The worst part is trying to get your A team in there in a timely fashion. Weekends are the worst. Oh, and you go from having friendly chat to total randomness and trolling etc. Believe me, I feel for you.

I had zero issues playing 6 hours lastnight. I am assuming a lot of us were fixed?

It is uncharacteristic for Hod to camp the jumping puzzle. That is usually what JQ does every single match. I always thought it was a waste of time myself.

Anyway, does HoD even drop out of first if we come in second?

ET does great considering their lack of players. You will see the outmanned buff on them a lot, and here they are tier 1.

Thanks
I was hoping no news was good news… but it wasn’t lol

Hopefully someone was able to report the person via right click… but yeah, tough to catch the speed hackers because they are gone before you can react.

I wish I knew the backgrounds of the people who cheated in games. What kind of people are they? Low self esteem? High self esteem? lower class =?

When making a thread about hacked orbs, make sure and explain what happened. Was it the flying hack?

The reason I say this is some people are claiming hacks when there are legit ways to release the orb without taking the castle. The quaggens lightning can destroy the altar thus dropping the orb on the ground too… etc.

Screenshot update pls

Keep in mind that the person who is claiming this is not from HoD.

No. You go for the low hanging fruit first.

People talking about alliances makes me laugh. There aren’t any alliances, there are just strategies, or heck, random coincidences.

In case it helps, here are some screen shots from lastnight.
This one is the camp which is actually full of NPC’s only. I see nothing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw604_fullcamp_Blind.jpg

This is the same camp with just the supervisor up. I see nothing but the target.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw605_blind_OnlySup_left.jpg

And maybe not related.. but earlier I saw 2 blue bubbles that could not be explained.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Ferrydust/gw608_bluebubbles.jpg

The only points I am aware of is camps, towers, keeps and stonemist castle. With the exception that each sentry gives 1 point. Not 1 point each score… but 1 point total, ever.

The issue is NOT culling. (afaik) There is something else going on that started a while after the patch.

Same happened to me. I have never suffered from invisible anything before. I tried various graphics adjustments trying to get people to show but nothing worked. The shopkeepers etc. (wvw) I could see nameplates only. I could see the person I was in party with just fine but I could not see enemies or other teammates. I could see all pets.

Prototype, I think you are reading something into my post that isn’t there. I am the one who is trying to point out that these are probably the acts of a smaller group of individuals and not the servers they are representing or claiming to represent.

As I stated, having played matches against SBI, ET, and JQ before I found those servers to be upstanding.

Although I am saddened by the orb hacking, I would like to remind JQ that last week people from their server did the same thing to HoD. They destroyed the altar at DB and it wasn’t repairable. We eventually got the orb back and moved it to Garrison.
Then they destroyed the altar at Garrison which wasn’t repairable… so our only choice was the let the orb reset up north to JQs altar. (SBI owned the eastern Keep.)

Also last week we had a person on our team causing chaos whose name was Jade Quarry Spy (lol). And another person abusing resources and trying to cause a problem the entire time. Someone in chat asked if the person was from SBI or JQ and the person responded “ET actually” and we weren’t even matched with them at the time.

My guess is these are all acts of a small group of individuals trying to cause server drama and they might not have vested interests in any side. Basically I think they are trolling all 3 teams or they are recent transfers from less upstanding servers.

Having played matches in the past against SBI, JQ and ET I can say that the shenanigans just weren’t there before. So I believe that those servers as a whole are pretty upstanding, they have just inherited some dishonorable players.

Are you sure they are hacking and it’s not speed buffs?

It’s not supposed to be true :P But yeah, we have all queued before someone else to the same borderlands and gotten in after them, or vice versa. Anet last said they were looking into it.

neoxide.7320:

Setch.2398:

The best you can do afaik is 70 per dolyak if the supply camps are upgraded for increase supply.

Dolyaks bring much larger amounts of supply to keeps. It’s 70 supply for towers and 140 for keeps.

Oops. Thanks for the correction.