Guild Wars 2

My 10krpm hard drive thrashes like crazy, and my load times are well over 10s per zone.

Definitely would like to see more tail ornamentation… so yes, let’s make this one actually work for both genders of Charr.

It’s a pretty absurd outfit, IMO, but clearly some people like it.

Hah! The fact that this thread was moved to the “bugs” forum does further reinforce my feeling that it is a bug.

Xenon.4537:

They just “announced” they found that bug and are fixing it “soonish.” REJOICE!!!

http://i.imgur.com/9WzwG45.jpg

That’s actually what prompted this question – despite that word, there are still people steadfastly sticking to the idea that it’s an anti-botting feature.

So this message from the Black Lion Trading Company has been around for a long (long) time. Many people are convinced it’s an anti-botting feature. Some of us think it’s a devious database/UI/server synch problem.

Can we get an official word on which it is? Bug, or feature? I’m not sure anything will change some minds, short of code samples… even that might not be enough. But I’d love to find out for sure.

And how about you, populous at large? Bug, or feature? Explain your answer. Would anything change your beliefs? Have a muffin.

Yeah, it’s silly that I can’t right-click on an emote generator’s name. Many people use this to get around being reported and/or blocked.

How about giving a speed boost for being on the road. That’d be nice, and actually make roads useful.

Another vote for this.

Having robbed us of the ability to dress like any of the bathers at Lion’s Arch or Southsun Cove beaches, or be the way the game forces you into, at Pearl Inlet… give us some actual CLOTHING (not tonics) suitable for swimming and basking on a sunny beach!

And please, for Smodur’s sake… make some appropriate for Charr? If you’ve gotta have something to hide the nothing… the default drapey bit isn’t too bad. But dye-able now, please?

It’s really distressing to see this thread, with almost a thousand entries, go over a month without any input from ArenaNet. Not even a ’We understand you think there is a problem".

A short list of things I think are absurd for a game like this to be missing.

1) Guild halls. C’mon. Promised before the game even launched.

2) Player housing. Having a player ZONE isn’t the same thing. Again, promised a house that would react to your personal story… what we got was a zone where certain NPCs turn on or off.

3) Chairs you can sit in. C’mon, other games have solved the ‘very different body sizes’ thing.

4) A decent variety of town clothing. We’ve taken a big step backwards with this, now. It’s ridiculous that I can’t mix-and-match outfit pieces.

5) The ability to filter out items I can’t use, from every single shopping screen. Again… this is a silly thing to be missing. Especially since the BLTC already has a filters section, and even has a ‘show only available’ checkbox. Why no ‘show only usable’ as well?

6) Some way to group RPers, and show an RP flag. Getting us filthy casual roleplayers out of your hardcore PvPvW soup is just good for everyone.

I’m happy with almost everything about the megaservers. The larger populations are nice, in most cases.

However, it’s utterly wrecked any sense of community within a server.

Most events have become absurd zergfests.

Roleplay … well, there’s plenty written about that.

No mounts, please. Thanks.

However, I would like to see roads offer a speed bonus. Maybe even a slight defensive bonus. Basically… let there be any reason at all for roads to exist, ‘cause they sure don’t have one now.

It’s frustrating that ANet created a game with one of the best environments for roleplay… and then seems to have abandoned that very part of the game.

Well over a year after launch and we still can’t even sit in chairs? Really? Other games have solved this problem, even with races that have a wide range in sizes and shapes.

The town clothes debacle… argh. There’s so many better ways they could have handled this. Even just making it act like a fourth class of armor. They had it so close, then wrecked it.

I’d love to see them spend a little time and effort on retaining the very people who stick with a game for a long time, and buy lots of gem items. Give us a feature and content update that focuses on roleplayers. Please. Because there’s a lot of games out there, and I don’t want to lose more of my guild to them than I already have.

Remember – you have to actually be IN the zone, to see if the waypoint is really contested.

Thanks to the Megaserver system, every waypoint that COULD be contested, IS contested, on the map view. Unless you’re actually in the zone. That’s because the MS doesn’t know what shard you’d wind up in, if you chose to go there… and thus, doesn’t know the true state.

Kind of an obvious shortcoming. I hate having to pay (and load!) twice.

I’ve been getting SO much more gold-spam since the megaserver went live.

I just report and block, but there’s no hint that it actually does anything.

20 days and 15 pages since the last official comment. That’s really depressing. It’d be nice for someone to at least give a token “We’re working on the problem”.

Some very rational solutions have been proposed, many of which seem like they fit right in with the technical concepts of the megaserver.

My Charr warband guild has gained one new member entirely as a result of the megaserver (IE: from another server), which is very cool… and a great example of how it CAN work, with a little fine-tuning.

It’s really sad that some of the Charr CULTURAL ARMOR, armor made for them and only them… still doesn’t fit right. How can you make Charr cultural armor without any kind of space for the tail?

The armor that does it right is great… but it’s really absurd that those pieces made specifically for the race could get it so wrong.

Of course, this kind of issue is exactly why most games don’t even bother with a real beast race like this – they all look like “Star Trek Aliens”. Humans with clip-on ears and tail.

Traikill Stormshard, Shard warband, Iron legion. /salute

Started out as just another engineer grunt, and through a year of RP and the collapse of 2 previous warbands and one company, is now guild leader & legionnaire, and trying to rebuild.

I’m really frustrated by the way the megaserver system has broken up the sense of community that TC once had.

Though I find it very frustrating that ANet has refused to officially indicate any server as an RP home, I understand why… and that’s not the point here. The point is to try to find opportunity instead of frustration.

If the megamap system really does group people by certain preferences, specifically those indicated in the LFG system… why not add “RP” to that LFG list? Or in some way make it possible for that RP preference to be known to the system.

Then, regardless of server, roleplayers would tend to be grouped together, rather than being split apart as seems to be the case now.

I do sincerely wish ANet would just commit, and actually label TC & PS as roleplay servers…. or maybe just as ‘roleplay friendly’.

I understand this is a mixed blessing, and a potential pain for them, but roleplayers stick with a game for a LONG TIME. And they buy lots of gemstore items.

It’d be nice to have a ‘roleplay’ tag … or add ‘roleplay’ to the LFG tool.

What I don’t understand is… why not simply treat town clothes like armor… just like you said. JUST like armor, it’s got head/shirt/pant/shoes/etc pieces.

The real problem is that you didn’t provide town clothes… you provided Halloween costumes. Each race gets one outfit they ALL wear, and then there’s some ridiculous outfits, and a couple of hoodies and other things. Nothing like the variety that NPCs get.

It’s really ridiculous that pet names aren’t remembered. C’mon, guys.

I want to see
1) The last time they represented the guild
2) If they’re online, what level the current character is, representing or not.

• A /follow command
• Anything NPCs can wear as town clothes should be available for players. And should be droppable loot, just like armor.
• Remove culling in PvE

As a bonus, it’d be nice if they’d actually implement the long-promised Guild halls and personal housing.

While I appreciate the effort made to make the spawns less camped, and give lower level players more of a chance… all the newest update really did is make them almost impossible for many people to solo. Which just makes the camping worse. And now people just delay their massive AOE attacks for a few seconds.

I suggest this simple change:
When active, the projector should stay active for a random 5-10 seconds, releasing a random creature every second.

No need for invulnerability at all, because the staggered release counteracts the burst attacks. And it will, IMO, look better.

ColinJohanson.2394:

For the next week, all the medium population servers will be free to transfer to. Might be worth giving one of them a look!

I’d like to see transfers to the lowest-population server -always- be free.

I’d like to see this be an annual event, at the very least.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

Check in with the heralds for updates. There are hints of things to come already in the game.

Heralds? What heralds? Where heralds? I haven’t seen anybody who’s heralded anything, anywhere!

Yeah, I put a post about this up in Suggestions, a little while ago. Because it’s a suggestion.

They’re one of the few beast races I’ve ever seen that really LOOKS bestial.

They play hard, drink hard, fight hard, party hard. They are metal.

And their lore makes them fascinating to role-play.

I love they way they run, I think it’s awesome.

It might be nice to allow a toggle between running on all fours, and the upright ‘jog’ that the NPCs usually use.

Answering only the OP – I find the Citadel to be incredibly simple. It’s MUCH easier than the Sylvari or Asura areas, to me. And faster to get around in than the human city.

Most of the female Charr could stand to have a growly effects pass. The voices are just too smooth, IMO.

I like the waypoint system as it stands.

I can walk anywhere I want, if I choose to. If my time is limited, and I’m trying to join up with a party or meet someone, I can get there quickly with a waypoint.

I wish roads offered a speed bonus to movement, but that’s about it.

Just adding my support to the desire for a linux client. The -only- thing keeping me in Windows at this point is games, and more & more games are supporting Linux. FTL gets so many hours from me.

Transportation to your home city should be free, from anywhere.

That would revitalize the home cities, AND help keep them full of their own race as well as visitors, making for a rich play experience.

Ranger pets, obviously… but that made a title too long for the forums.

This is, of course, of particular use in WvW, but I think it would be handy everywhere.

Just give the pets a small chance of detecting invisible monsters or players, every few seconds.

This is easy to tweak, by modifying the chance of detection, the interval of check, and even the animals this is possible with. You might limit it to pigs, for instance – Thieves taste like truffles!

Pigs-only, the more I think about it, is kinda nice. They’re a pretty useless pet, and it would allow thieves to spot, very easily, animals that are a threat to their cloaking.

Thanks for the info! I hope this is a step toward allowing us to filter out items that are not usable for our profession?

Please please please?

Because when 2/3 of the armor is, by definition, NOT of interest to me… I don’t want it taking up 2/3 of the list.

Yeah, as said above – they’re collectible bragging items.

If you don’t want to collect them… don’t buy them.

Guys… don’t forget, this event hasn’t even run 24 hours. There may be more down the road.

Then I suppose their attitude is – anything we can destroy is not a god.

Very interesting observation, and it completely jibes with what I’ve seen too, now that I think about it.

I’m actually OK with dragon-controlled creatures going after the Ranger, and not the Pet… it’s a very interesting tactical change, and makes some sense.

Elric of Grans.7684:

Yes, ArenaNet have confirmed this is working as intended. They have never allocated resources to save the names, because they were never designed to be saved.

Citation needed.

Because seriously, this seems like a very silly thing, and they aren’t prone to doing very silly things.

If only you could jump, when using tonics, this would be a non-problem… AND make tonics useful.

Charr are Charr.

They need no petty animal analog.

Being atheistic means you don’t believe in gods.

The Charr believe in gods. They know gods exist. Because they crushed them.

Personally, I love the idea. And in large part it’s executed well.

I do wish my female Charr’s voice was more snarly and growly, but I wish that for ALL the female Charr. The males sound great, the females mostly sound too smooth and soft. Just a little SFX pass would do wonders.

At this point I really haven’t noticed these personality traits making any difference about anything.

Do they actually have ANY effect on the world?

I hate to dogpile on anyone, but… wow. His lines are stilted to begin with, and his delivery… oog. I mean, he’s Sylvari, so wooden is the perfect descriptor.

To paraprhase, he runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Yes, please! While I’m sure there are some differences in my Charr home instance… I can’t really see them. Partially because I don’t feel like I, personally, have a home there.

One of the great rewards to the personal storyline could easily be getting promoted from living in the barracks to having your own quarters.

But I’ll admit, having more town clothes is higher on my list. I just want to have the same options as the townsfolk.