Guild Wars 2

The power of the forum bug

Is this the famous Susan that told us the WvW Maps were going to reset and became famous overnight ?

I really like the idea of auctioning off space in maps – pay more to get put in a fuller map. You pay a exponential fee based on how much space is left in the map.
This would be a good gold sink – and encourage players to get into maps sooner rather than just before the event starts.
^ please make the above so.

^ as above.

But there is very little reason to have a personal score of 0 (If you are not a bunker)- even then something should have died which you touched.

I think it’s safe to say scoring 0 in a match – you probably need to do something different : better.

Dhuum wins every time.

Problem is it is hard to equate personal score to your contribution to the teams final score in some cases.

It could be you bunked down an already held point 2-3v1 allowing your team mates to boost there score.

The only thing I can say for sure right now :
if you have a personal score of 0 and are a DPS (non bunker type too )- look at your play style there is probably some room for improvement if all your buddies > 80 personal points.

I love a good spaghetti code story…do share.

Funny thing is this is what the ELO Players asked for they got it.

I think the above person misunderstands manipulation.
If you are buying something for a lower price and selling it for a higher price – you are helping set its market equilibrium- the thing could have been undervalued,

It’s as simple as that.

Check out gw2pvp.de – I think that site has some leaderboards

Chance of winning is not calculated for the matchmaking in ranked.

It’s only pip ranged now.

Yup- welcome to the slot machine.

Also odds on winning in slots are quite low – the house always wins (they need the money)

So what about a 500 vs a 100 MMR Team with no chance of winning ?

A full team of solo Q (1+1+1+1+1) vs 4+1 : we won solo Q – just outplayed the 4+1 team by a large margin 500v200. It is possible as there is a MMR bump for that team > 3 people- so they should in theory have a better +1.

If anything due to the way the system works 3 people grouped together get a MMR bump this is probably the optimal way of bumping your teams MMR to get better teammates.

The reason is simple you have to get other achievements apart from the professions – there was a deliberate time gate due to daily unlocks. You may be diamond right now but depending how quickly you hit legendary you may need to hit legendary again for th cross 4 divisions for the last achievement.

There is still plenty of time – just buy the item..do the next one and plough through.

Magnuma if your working on those specialisations for the plated weapon salvaged things.

Emmm…one word:
NO

Now learn to research what is actually required for the stuff before – it was clear enough in game. Besides we can’t lose you as a PVP player – the numbers are thining out.

Good luck in your future games you have many more seasons to complete the rest of the achievements.

Which will not be much use due to runes !

Swap stat on armour you need diff runes in many cases – so may as well just make another set of ascended.

Why?

You’ll always lose – people will just create alt accounts. Problem doesn’t be solved.

This system of win 1/lose accelerates the problem. We explained after season 1 beta why it was bad .. So they changed it for season 2 beta to be points threshold…
Then ANET does a real season with points threshold now full u turn … It’s win or lose only for points.

Does anyone not learn anythihg?

It’s defn quieter – most new players don’t rad the forum and won’t understand why they loosing so many.

Considering the que changes and 3-5min ques at sapphire (mid) – there is a problem.
It is always possible that my MMR is so low that finding a team prepared to carry me is near impossible

Daily guardian….

Let me guess the score 500v150

Guildies wanted Dungeons – more of them.
Fractals – got killed. They did them for a bit – faceroll easy booring swampland each time.,

End Result: Logout Play other games.
Strong > 30-40 active guild down [>300 peeps] to 10 (at most) who can be bothered to log in.

ANET kittened up.

If you quit can I have an item from your stuff?

The thread above shows how wrong this system has been – very detailed and comprehensive

Someone sent me 5G for getting them up the disco ball achievement in TD.
I returned it said I don’t need the money – I have plenty and kept on smiling.

Yup- it’s possible to buy quickly….
Now the interesting thing is how long would it take to relist them?

The ‘you have listed too many’ is a fun story…
Any math on how long it would take to sell2.5 Million ?

Or a Million?

Yes – MMR is deciding games before they have even begun.
Eg 2000 MMR team (5×2000 MMR Players) vs 500 MMR Team (5×500 MMR Players)…

You can guess I think what the above outcome will be before the match starts.

It’s funny alt accounts for people…-)

These amounts of gold are nothing for some people – trust me

Its funny people may try to pump n dump the market – false advertising.
Ecto cannot be manipulated above certain prices as we can talk to the famous skritt vendor to make more with our RNG Gambling.

That seems a bit silly considering the amount of smurfing which was going on.
Looks like Primordial Legend this season will be harder for many individuals.

Its funny.. as ecto prices are actually been tanking and have been for a long time.
If you think about it ecto prices are an indication of gold to x worth ratio.
The only reason for a small spike is groups asking for 100 ecto for raid clears- but the amount of uses for it is going down.

Bit like the MACBurger Price index for foreign currencies.

Don’t worry my first match 3 people took the animal out in Amber – needless to say they wondered why they lost the match.

Scarlet war invasion in LA
Karka Invasion in LA
Tower of Nightmares all say hi !

So why are you complaining ?

As a Necro in PVE what’s the problem?
If it’s a problem in PVP – see PvP threads all about it.

If it’s a profession breaking mechanic only which makes no Sense – goes in Nexro forum .

Chill makes sense to do dmg….if you think about it necros are the master of death which if any ghost story’s will tell you things get very cold before spooky things happen.
Frostbite hurts …try telling me at -20 a chill isn’t going to hurt (it won’t kill you instantly).
So some of our more experienced necros are more in tune with the deadly spirits and can cast a strong chilling effect ..whoo hoo light a fire turn and put a blanket on.

Oh wait the fire got gusted out by the wind, and then some rain comes along magically cleansing water from the sky out of nowhere. Then the heat gets turned up and a tornado of fire appears and the ghosts vanish – I ain’t afraid of no ghost !

Who you gonna call ?

The 3 – are partied which means that they can be grouped against a 5 man.
If it was 5 solo Q they cannot be grouped up with a 5 man.

I have seen a duo Q be pitted against a 5 man.

Its stupid not to have a pure Solo Q for those that do want to guarantee solo Q vs solo Q players to avoid these kind of matchups at all.

Hi All,

Situation is like this…
Finish a PvP Track progress adds onto a random track – which I may or may not want progress in.

Solution:
I want to keep repeating a track – allow me to checkbox it as my default track after completion of my current track. This would allow you to repeat a track without any exp loss or choose your next track in advance.
This will allow individuals to keep progressing tracks they want without waste.

Like over wintersday – I only wanted the wintersday track… Now I want Magnuma Wastes only (I don’t want it to restart one of my other random tracks). I hate wasting time progressing random tracks with XP.

Now does anyone else think this would be a good change?

Many Thanks

Not all of us can play NA or EU Prime time – so should we be doomed from the start?

Hi All,

Okay this is the second beta season – with some major changes to the system…
They are trying to design something which is fun and has some meaning.

They are watching, listening and putting ideas on the table |~|. The question is how can we give constructive feedback to how we (a) would like to see things (b) what we enjoy © what we don’t like about this system.

We have had 1 MMR based leaderboard – pre Dec, 2 beta leaderboards, 1 ladder (completed), 2nd ladder (in progress)…

Personally I preferred the first beta leaderboard of them all – as it rewarded players who grinded it out with some dedication to at least give them something as a output (even if they had a kitten win/loss ratio – they were dedicated souls), 2nd beta leaderboard was screwy with the -points system , we know about the smurfing in ladder 1 (if there was a way of fixing this it would be fine), 2nd ladder (too early to comment – I’m sapphire – but really have lost complete interest given the setup so far to want to compete at all).

Thoughts ideas how to improve and get a decent system seem to be few and far behind.

Some want the legendary for the ‘best of the best’ – well we know who all those players are already (see prologue ESL) others would prefer it that dedicated but consistent or most improved (get legendary).

Your thoughts on how it should be..

Yes – unbanked has a different MMR compared to your ranked MMR.
Also the matchmaking is different

Wouldn’t it be more fun if the two teams being matched were at least in the 40-60% win chance rather than the 20%-80% or 0-100% win chance we have now?

There should be some form of limit on the max MMR team vs low MMR team.
I can’t imagine many of the higher ranking MMR players have had much fun rofl stomping the noobs.

And this is why people AFK … bad team vs good team. No point playing – mostly can tell within the first couple of mins with most games

Yalora Istairiea.6287 – No its not market manipulation in both scenarios.
Milkshake.4038 – No its not market manipulation (mystic coins)

Both scenarios are speculation.

With items such as recipe of lyssa / dwayna / grenth – (these luxury items) lets take this example and compare it to real life items.

AUG 15, 2014
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the most valuable car in the world selling for $38 million at the Bonham’s Auction in Carmel, California on Thursday. But the gavel price disappointed the Ferrari cognoscenti, who predicted that the car might bring as much as $60 million.

The Car was purchased for much less in 1962.

In theory it is impossible to compare speculation on luxury items compared to ordinary bulk commodities.

Nope – that is speculation of a ‘luxury’ item.
There has been no new supply – as ANET controls this.

I don’t see how MMR can accurately update with this tier system atm either

Nope – someone buying up all the pent up items for sale is not interfering with the market at all.

Its not bad either – they have not bought all the supply up at all.
To do that they would have to purchase the players themselves or ANET – the supply is still being generated by players.

The market has not been manipulated – it is operating correctly.

I would disagree on your term of manipulation its too broad Yalora in this context that we are looking at- we are interested in ‘market manipulation’.

Market manipulation is a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a security, commodity or currency.

So IF ANET decided to FREEZE production of Leather Squares = Manipulation.
If player BUY lots of Leather which is on Market = Speculation if they relist at higher prices.
If player BUY lots of leather and then sells to merchant = Speculation by forcing supply which is left to raise in price (esp if loss is minor). They fixed this to ensure that players now lose 15% instead of 1% of cost by selling to vendor a while ago.

ANET are the only ones which can manipulate the market in this case.
ANET has manipulated the market by reducing the output of salvaging from items.

Players cannot manipulate the market – they can speculate

Forum bug – read this good example of manipulation:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/25/investing/oil-production-freeze-opec-qatar/

Sarrs.4831:

Ayrilana.1396:

So if someone were to create fake patch notes that appeared credible and showed ascended crafting for jeweler. This caused everyone to buy up silver and gold ore and lasted until Anet came out and said the notes were fake. Whoever sold their ore during that time stands to make a profit. Again, this is just one example.

Manipulation isn’t simply only one person (or a group) trying to corner a market.

I’d honestly be surprised if many people didn’t already have a Silver nest egg.

That said, what’s considered market manipulation is really up to ANet. I doubt they’re going to say that pulling the supply of a commodity from a market, allowing the price to rise and then re-listing the items is manipulation; at least, an unfair one.

This is speculation…. the above.

Manipulation is something completly different –
You would need to hold the supply itself and the generation of supply.
e.g. need to be a monopoly or cartel with 90% of the supply going via yourself.
Lookup OPEC.

It doesn’t work though as there are enough players holding supply of items to bring to market to correct it very quickly.

Try it with 2-5 Million of one thing …you’ll make a big loss.