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There’s several it looks like. That being the case, it might be an issue if you can’t figure out which one is being used by the commanders that are currently on the map…..
To be fair, I’m not exactly keen on socializing when I’m crafting or inventory-twiddling. Those times I am usually tunnel-visioning on my set task and don’t take any notice of other people.
That being said I had not used the stations in WvW either. But as others have suggested, if the primary motive is to avoid squatters and artificial population inflation, putting the stations in EotM instead would help at least as far as loading times and participation reset are concerned, right?
edit: Also, regarding people “idling” at spawn, are you sure they’re actually idling? I know I’ve sometimes waypointed back there first before getting up to pour a glass of water or whatever, because ten seconds is more than long enough to get killed on the open road and anyway the home base has supplies.
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I thought the context of this post was specifically about being outnumbered ten to one, not just “PVP”.
Actually, when I was logged in, the commander kept putting the CD TS into chat and trying to get everyone into it and verified and so on. There was even one person who, in encouraging people from non-CD servers in the link, pointed out in map chat that they themselves were Kaineng and still used the CD TS for now. Maybe the fact that you did not see such a thing is “time zone strikes again”, only this time in a less advantageous way?
It’s really specific/uneven in PvE, actually. Great Jungle Wurm (in Caledon) always has a higher risk/intensity of skill lag than, say, Shatterer or Shadow Behemoth. I have not the slightest idea why.
@Rastaaa: Sweet Sanity said they were from FC. That’s from the three-server alliance, not the four-server alliance. It looks like they are currently second place in that matchup right now, although there does not seem to be a massive difference between SF/FC/GoM and and DH/EB.
From what I understand of what others have said, the links (alliances) change every two months, but the matchups (enemies) change every week.
I see, that makes sense. I did wake up Sunday to see the maps pretty swarmed by red before slowly giving way to a more reasonable division; it is easier to understand that as the work of SEA/OCX “guilds of a feather” all flocking together rather than enthusiastic night owls (—hoo don’t flock at all, as far as I am aware).
I do wonder if it’s possible to match/link based on coverage, if guilds are so prone to clumping together with their timezone comrades rather than spread out.
Hm, somebody pulled the emergency waypoint in SMC last night when the outer wall was breached, and got chewed out by a commander who said that it should only ever be pulled if the invaders were already getting in to fight the lord (i.e., after breaching the inner). Given that the tactics all seem to have very long cooldowns — and that we were constantly under assault — I could understand the commander’s ire. But this seems to be a different opinion here.
edit: Regarding location randomization, it could always be randomized to some point still within the lord’s room. But the point that it’s still going to be visible to enemies no matter what is going to be true no matter where you put it.
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@Hesacon: Well, yeah, this is only the second ever linking, so perhaps we are still being guinea pigs.
@all: Something that I don’t quite understand about the whole “coverage” thing: we’re all NA servers, right? It’s not as if each server consists of people from one particular NA time zone, no? Then if and only if each link has approximately the same total population, why would a link consisting of four tiny servers have better coverage than a link consisting of three slightly-less-tiny servers or two yet-less-tiny servers?
@Blinding: It’s every two months, right?
Anet, your autocensor has gone haywire if it can’t recognize the common contracted form of “is it not”.
I’m in the four-server linkage, and we actually had the outnumbered buff sometime on… Saturday, I want to say. Morning PST/afternoon EST maybe, I don’t recall. So if it’s a numbers thing, it’s probably either still pretty close, or people are just playing at different times?
I mean, there is such a thing as the targeting indicator. You don’t need TS to see that.
Also, I am very enamored by the idea of thirty pug puppies running around carrying supplies to a formation of catapult build sites. It could improve morale.
I skill-lagged worse defending SMC last night than I ever did in similar fights while we were linked to TC. Not sure if it was just a coincidence that there just happened to be more people in one place than I had previously experienced, or if the servers were hiccuping for other reasons.
I haven’t been able to get supply from either home-borderland citadel (my server was a “guest” server in both linkages). Because I only picked up this gamemode in the past week, I just assumed this was normal somehow and that the supply depot in the citadel was some kind of placeholder. So that’s NOT how it’s supposed to be…?
Clearly I, who chose Kaineng at the beginning because I liked the way the word sounded, joined this gamemode at a very opportune time.
Yes, change it.
“Slap two impractical AND anatomically wrong boob domes on it” is not the only way in the world to make something “feminine”, kitten .
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