Showing Posts For timmyf.1490:

Anet... play how you want.

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The issue is… Zerging managed to at least get close to killing all 3 knights in time.

Now, even if you’re in a full overflow, it seems impossible to manage 6 minutes to Knightfall.

People don’t seem to understand the whole calibration mechanic.

“Oh, I’m hitting 0. No idea why that is. I’ll just keep standing here using auto-attack.”

What do you mean I have to attack from behind the Warden?!? And why is my bear not doing any damage?

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Do people still want quests?

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I think the #1 reason people begin to dislike this game is because they try to relate things in GW2 to things they already know. Hearts? Oh, those are like quests. Let me do all of them. Leveling? Oh, that’s grinding I have to do to reach end-game, hello champ train. Achievements? Oh, those are like quests too, better grind them all.

Obviously, people expand from that and find other reasons later, but I think that’s where it starts.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I hate that dev.

-snip-

All she did was create a large number of escalated reports for the support team. Goodness I hope that gets her fired, that costs the company money.

Well that’s an entirely inappropriate thing to say.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Tell you what, since standing still is going to be considered a Bannable Offense now, I’ll make certain to keep attacking the Legendary Knights with my Full Condi Tormment Grenade Engi. Too bad the event will likely fail again and again as I wipe so many people out.

This is obviously griefing.

There’s an achievement requiring inaction! Blame the Dev’s for another design that promotes inaction. Which is exactly what they are trying to do to “teach” players. Do NOT blame the players for trying their best to get achievements.

The achievement doesn’t require inaction. The achievement requires you to be aware of what you’re doing.

So many complaints because events are failing. Meanwhile, I’ve been targeting my fellow players to check buff statuses and most aren’t using any food/utility buffs. Certainly they are purposefully NOT playing up to their capacity, right? Is that grieving or leeching too??? Can I start wholesale reporting every player on map not playing well? Think about that slippery slope…

I’m not asking for anybody to play optimally. I’m asking for people to PLAY.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

If this is an overflow then your afking doesn’t even matter because you’re not occupying any slots.

You’re occupying slots in the overflow.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

And the event is 1 hour long so i think people should be able to go afk if they got to take a kitten or rest there hand from mad button pressing.

Except that they walk around occasionally or respond in chat.

My be they are fricking reading up on the evets on how to do them.

“I’m just getting the achievement.”

Maybe they want to get there map completion done and looking how to get somewhere

There is no map completion on the Breechmaker.

You cant force people to do what you want cause everyone is init for themselves. hence the zerging for drops instead of event completion.

This is the philosophy that people like myself are trying to counter.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Why 3 seperate fights on the Breachmaker?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I would say it has nothing to do with splitting people up and everything to do with which portal you enter.

Can verify this is false.

Source: my party all went into the same portal and had 2 groups of 2. Twice.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Why 3 seperate fights on the Breachmaker?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I thought there were three? I’ve only ever been in the Rox one. I’ve had a lot of guildies in the Kiel+Heal-o-tron one, but I’ve never had the luck.

I assume it’s to keep the effects down to make it easier to find the attunement pools. They’re still pretty hard to see as-is.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Things happen with people. This is not a job and people play for entertainment. If something requires people to go afk – they will. The minute that becomes a problem a lot of people will look for another game.

It will be a sad day indeed when all the people who stand in the corner during events decide to go stand in the corner for events in another game.

For people playing that other game, I mean.

The amusing part is you think that’s the reason why this event has issues and or fails.

Afk’ers are not the problem in the event. A clueless player base when it comes to basic raid mechanics is.

Problems include:
1) Players not understanding the event or not having appropriate builds for it
2) AFKers
3) Performance issues due to high player count/effects
4) Players leaving when group members in other areas complete their holo event and enter the instance

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Things happen with people. This is not a job and people play for entertainment. If something requires people to go afk – they will. The minute that becomes a problem a lot of people will look for another game.

It will be a sad day indeed when all the people who stand in the corner during events decide to go stand in the corner for events in another game.

For people playing that other game, I mean.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

My events DID fail last night with 3-5 AFKers. (Did it twice, both failed.) That could be in part because I’m a “bad” or something, or it could be that 10-20% of the players were standing in a corner. Luckily, I had guild members in a different zone of the fight and went into the instance with them.

No offense to you personally, but zoning out with your guildies when they defeat theirs leaves your platform empty handed. I’ve heard reports of several people doing this, leaving that one last platform short handed at the end and ultimately fails.

Actually, this was a concern of mine. When my guildmate’s platform finished, he asked if we were ready. I told him to give us more time to try to beat it. He kicked it off with 30 seconds left on his window when my group had only 2 minutes left and still had 50% health on the blue holo.

We had already seen a bunch of people leave. I think that splitting groups up is a also a large contributor to failure. Very good point you brought up here.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Szamsziel i have no idea what your statement means towards me can you please clarify thankyou.
And for the record as i have stated i have tried and will keep trying to get the achievement by fighting if it get to the last day and i havent then i may have no option to stand outside the attack to get it done

You know what? This is fair.

If you spend two weeks trying to get the stupid achievement and can’t and finally, on the last day, you decide AFKing is the only way, I’ll give you a pass.

That happened to me with rubble runs: I didn’t want to do rubble runs because I wasn’t contributing, but Monday before patch day, I didn’t have enough Heirlooms, so I did some rubble running. I felt guilty for it, but I thought it was my last chance.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

No where is there an ingame law that says i must be fighting whilst im in game, whats next no afk or hanging about in towns.
It’s time people stopped acting like kids and grow up

But this isn’t a town. That’s the point. If you want to afk, play TP, etc, don’t do it in the middle of a large scale battle.

My events DID fail last night with 3-5 AFKers. (Did it twice, both failed.) That could be in part because I’m a “bad” or something, or it could be that 10-20% of the players were standing in a corner. Luckily, I had guild members in a different zone of the fight and went into the instance with them.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The issue is – the only thing you can do is ask. And I may follow … or nor. But both are in accordance with rules.

And just one thing – question is why people are standing doing nothing? Because there is a reward associated with that. Remove the incentive. You are not participating? Fine, no reward for you. Simple as that. No achievement, no killing chest – nothing.
But also the person is not counted for event scaling. Then you can AFK all day long.

I can’t say whether people who are AFKing on Scarlet’s ship count toward scaling or not. We’d need Anet to confirm/deny that.

If the rules are currently such that you can AFK to receive equal or better rewards or achievements than players contributing to the event, ArenaNet needs to update the rules.

I hope they see the responses of players on these threads, recognize that there is a problem, and develop a solution quickly.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Contribution should be significantly more rewarding than standing in the corner doing nothing. Period.

When you get equal or, in this crazy case, BETTER rewards/achievements for doing nothing than something, there is a problem.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490 – what do you do if I’ll answer: “Sorry, trading ATM, maybe later?”
;)

I’ll ask you to WP out of the event and trade elsewhere. I’d even send you the 2-3 silver for taking the WP if you’re too lazy to go through the Mists.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Alternative to AFK

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.

Sorry, I missed the guide that ANet issued detailing how to play the content properly.

Oh yeah, right, they didn’t put one out.

Play how you want, I’ll play how I want.

Except you’re not playing. You’re hiding in a corner.

Actually, you have no way of knowing what I am doing.

It has been said many times by the devs that playing the TP is a legit way of playing the game. You have no idea of what I am doing during this time, and I could very legitly be playing the TP for a bit. Among other things.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I report everyone who makes threatening and harassing comments in map chat toward AFKers. Any mention of the term ‘leech’ gets reported immediately.

Harassment is most definately against the CoC, while AFK is not.

OP, please do not let threats like this keep you from reporting leechers using the Botting option.

Not a threat.

Report anyone you like. If you are abusing the report button, ANet will do something about that themselves.

If you are making harassing comments in map chat towards other players, that is against the CoC and you will be reported if I see it.

Sure. I usually say something along the lines of “Please don’t just AFK in the corner. Please help us with the event.” before reporting.

That is CLEARLY not harassment.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Alternative to AFK

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.

That’s an awful lot of effort though. /popshisthoughtlesspotion

You devil, you!

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I agree that achievements and rewards should not be given to people who hide in the corner and that the blame for this primarily relies on the design of the event.

Sadly, many players in this game are all too willing to park themselves inside an event and do nothing to get those achievements and rewards instead of working to get them in a legitimate manner.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Alternative to AFK

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.

Sorry, I missed the guide that ANet issued detailing how to play the content properly.

Oh yeah, right, they didn’t put one out.

Play how you want, I’ll play how I want.

Except you’re not playing. You’re hiding in a corner.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I report everyone who makes threatening and harassing comments in map chat toward AFKers. Any mention of the term ‘leech’ gets reported immediately.

Harassment is most definately against the CoC, while AFK is not.

OP, please do not let threats like this keep you from reporting leechers using the Botting option.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

i suggest to punish leavers, lower-leveled players, norn, asuras, humans and everyone who breathes aswell. in my experience, afking was the only way after 11 try to get two achievements. deal with it.

You could also try:
1) Being better
2) Not getting the achievement you didn’t earn

You don’t deserve the achievement. That’s why it’s an achievement.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Report AFK people under "botting"?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Yes. Report them for botting since Leeching is not an option.

Don’t let them threaten you back. They are behaving in a way which hurts the majority of players for their own gain. This is contrary to the design and spirit of the game.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Alternative to AFK

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The other alternative is to actually earn the achievement by playing the content properly.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

[Constructive] Whole-map event vs. Zerg & AFK

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

My Prime Holo fight last night had 3-5 AFKers. I reported them all for botting.

Their defense? “Getting chivos.”

In Guild Wars 2, you get achievements for standing in the corner avoiding combat. You get rewards for standing in the corner while you do something else on your computer.

It just boggles my mind.

ArenaNet: PLEASE at least add an option for Leeching to the report menu so we can correctly identify why we are reporting a player. The AFKers try to scare people away from reporting them by saying “You can’t report me, there’s not an AFK option, you’ll get in trouble instead for a false report” which keeps a lot of people from filing the report.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I’d love to see those early Fractal 80-scale folks be “compensated,” but I’m not sure there’s a way to do it without making things worse.

Suppose you get a super-exclusive Fractal Pioneer title for hitting 80. You don’t think the forums will have a handful of angry people who maybe were in their mid-70s? And that’s assuming Arena can even access that information at this point.

Compensation will just anger all the people who would have done X had they known about the compensation then.

But for those of you who did it, do you have an ask? What would satisfy you? All I’ve seen are vague “compensate me!” posts without much detail.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

GW1 had much more thought in my opinion, the writing wasn’t sloppy and Twilight like.
What is the point of any MMO asking for opinions if the fanboys are just going to come in and pat Anet on the back and snarl at anyone who doesn’t have an opinion aligned with their own. The fact of the matter is they have gotten sloppy and most of us hope they will tighten up.

I agree there is room for improvement in the story, but I also think you’re romanticizing GW1 quite a bit.

For example, here’s some Factions material for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8gHHFWOjHQ

Curious as to whether you think the writing now is significantly worse.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I loved the Kasmeer/Jory scene. Period. I couldn’t care less about their genders. It’s nice to actually see something happen, so my next request is Queen Jennah harshly rejecting Logan, which makes him seek solace in alcohol and brawls.

I thought the consensus was that Logan is under her charm. Or that’s how it was depicted in the novels. She has really no reason to dismiss him, since she’s got him by the bal…. leash.

That’s probably true. To be honest, I haven’t read the novels… I haven’t even finished the dungeon storyline yet xD Then how about a drunk Logan proposing to her? Ok, ok, I’ll stop, it’s getting off topic.

I get the feeling it’s more nationalism and hero worship than sexual attraction on Logan’s part.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

At least there will always be fond memories of GW1’s writing.

From the GW1 Wiki:

Writers
Stacie Magelssen [Design Lead for GW2]
Brian Campbell [Design for GW2]
Sean Ferguson [Design for GW2]
Cory Herndon
Caitlin Kittredge [Editing and Localization for GW2]
Will McDermott [Design for GW2]
Bobby Stein [Design Lead for GW2]

I guess all those great writers really saw their skills atrophy. (Or maybe you’re just being overly critical?)

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I might be biased because I proposed it early on in this thread, but I’m wondering if we could all agree on this statement:

For a variety of purposes (including training, practice, leaderboard ranking, limited time to play, and potentially more), Fractals should include a mode where a party can select a single Fractal to complete.

Is that fair?

Single, Yes. A whole set, No.

With the caveat of no daily chest/boss completion chest and no level up.

Agreed.

Fractal Leaderboards could be based on fastest completion time for each Fractal at each scale. Being able to choose a single Fractal will allow speedrunners and leaderboard folks to easily choose which Fractal/scale they’d like to attempt.

For people like me concerned with training my guildmates, I can easily choose the Fractal I’d like to explain.

For people like Lost Witch who have never seen Thaumanova, well… you can just go start it.

If you like the randomness of Fractals, you just launch the regular 3+1 mode and do it that way.

Other concerns or objections?

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I might be biased because I proposed it early on in this thread, but I’m wondering if we could all agree on this statement:

For a variety of purposes (including training, practice, leaderboard ranking, limited time to play, and potentially more), Fractals should include a mode where a party can select a single Fractal to complete.

Is that fair?

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Theres the newlyweds in Ascalon Settlement in Gendarran Fields that come outside for the first time in days and then go back in after a few seconds.

My favorite hetero relationship in the game is the bandit man and the seraph woman, hidden away. I don’t remember where it is, but when I found it I sat with them for a while.

Harathi Hinterlands

Thanks for that, do you happen to remember their names?

I thought it was just “Romancing Bandit” and “Romancing Seraph” or something?

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The last few patches have given Jory and Kasmeer more dialog about themselves than the actual story and most of it is lusty, paperback romance novel stuff in my opinion.

What, the curtains?

No! Not the curtains!

;-)

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

But when they have a second romantic relationship taking center stage centered around two females AGAIN, thats what made me begin to wonder what was going on.

It wasnt the fact they exist; its the fact that two in a row took more major screen time back to back.

There are a variety of relationships in the Personal Story and in the Living World. If we just look at Living World, we have:

Hetero Romantic: Peneloopee/Bloomanoo, Faren/prettymucheverybody, Braham/Ottilia
kitten Romantic: KasJory
Hetero Non-Romantic: Rox/Braham, (hinted at) Braham/Taimi, Kiel/Magnus, Kasmeer/Faren
kitten Non-Romantic: KasJory before it moved to the other column, X-o-Tron/Marcello, Thorn/Edrick

There are many relationships and dynamics, it’s just that one of those pairs kissed in a cut scene.

The romantic relationships that took center stage, however, have been pretty much one type.

I totally forgot that Rox had a romantic thing with a ‘bandmate. So that’s another one.

Anyway, we’re obviously never going to agree on this, but I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy the in-game representation of an often-marginalized segment of society. Hopefully ArenaNet will include more heterosexual relationships in the game, center stage, as you say, so that you don’t feel so uncomfortable.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

But when they have a second romantic relationship taking center stage centered around two females AGAIN, thats what made me begin to wonder what was going on.

It wasnt the fact they exist; its the fact that two in a row took more major screen time back to back.

There are a variety of relationships in the Personal Story and in the Living World. If we just look at Living World, we have:

Hetero Romantic: Peneloopee/Bloomanoo, Faren/prettymucheverybody, Braham/Ottilia
kitten Romantic: KasJory
Hetero Non-Romantic: Rox/Braham, (hinted at) Braham/Taimi, Kiel/Magnus, Kasmeer/Faren
kitten Non-Romantic: KasJory before it moved to the other column, X-o-Tron/Marcello, Thorn/Edrick

There are many relationships and dynamics, it’s just that one of those pairs kissed in a cut scene.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

*Spoiler* Surprises?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Zhaitan’s minions will disappear from Orr etc.

Don’t be so sure. Have a source on this, or are you assuming?

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Look, I just want to add that I personally don’t see much evidence that the OP is homophobic. Or that the posters here defending him are homophobic. I think that’s a pretty strong word and we shouldn’t just casually toss it around.

What I do think is that you are privileged. As am I – a white, college-educated, straight male.

What do I mean by privileged? Specifically, in this case: a relationship which mirrors the kind that I would have in real-life can be represented in game without being seen as social activism or social commentary.

When we make a big deal over this sort of thing, we’re sending small, (I assume) painful messages to people who are already marginalized that the behavior or choices they find most natural are somehow unnatural, strange, unwanted, or wrong.

For my LGBT friends who constantly have to deal with this nonsense: don’t let the kittens grind you down. <3

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The kiss was completely unnecessary and pushed. A hug would have been perfect for that situation.

“Oh hey, person I’ve grown to love over time, in small ways at first, but now truly and deeply, who just rushed in to capture the person responsible for destroying a great city and was knocked out, who I thought was dead, taken from me suddenly, who now has just woken up in my arms…

Hug time! Glad you’re still with me, pal!"

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

If you don’t like Kas and Jory, that’s fine. You’re allowed to think the writing is poor or the story doesn’t make sense or it’s pandering to the audience.

What doesn’t seem right is complaining that there are now two lesbian relationships in game – seemingly at the expense of hetero relationships – when there are tons of hetero relationships that are being ignored. Including one in the Living Story that’s been just as much fun to follow: Penelopee and Bloomanoo.

A laser-focus on one particular piece – the lesbian relationship – while having blinders to the rest of the game and then crying oppression? That makes quaggan angry.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

(edited by Moderator)

Romance Repetition

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I’m a 29-year old man with a 25-year old girlfriend and we’ve both been cheering KasJory on this whole time. Those two are adorable.

http://less-l.deviantart.com/art/I-SAID-BLACK-432529661

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

So.... what now?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

LS is supposed to be endless. Every two weeks.

Right. But there is a bit of a break here.

Sounds like we’ll get some closure to the story on the 18th. WvW Season 2 is starting up, I expect we’ll hear more about LS2 after that gets underway. For now, Anet will be quiet to give everybody a chance to experience the new content.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Could you guys seriously stop this daydreaming? There won’t be perfectly challenging and fun content with unique surprises each time you run it.

This thread would be about 10 pages shorter if people thought, “is this proposal remotely possible considering development resources available?” before they hit Reply.

I too find this frustrating, but at the same time, I have an engineering background and am able to make rough estimates of the implementation effort.

I assume that a lot of people here are just fans of the game, not coders/artists/etc, and don’t understand that they’re asking for things that would take a 10-person team months and months to complete. Or more.

The most egregious requests, if anybody is wondering, center around user-generated content/sandbox features. That is way way out of scope. Full randomly-generated content is also likely out of scope, not necessarily due to coding, but due to QA/testing.

Now, all that said, that doesn’t mean that the devs won’t find some bit of inspiration in these ideas and use a scaled down, heavily modified version. So have fun, everybody.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

*Spoilers* why(hiccup) did u guy (hiccup) add the hicup?

in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Agreed on liking it. It’s an established character quirk. Makes me laugh every time.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Permanent Guild Shield Finisher

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I’m so excited for this and my unicorn-inside-heart logo.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

Finally I have sort of a meta-question which is: what place, if any, does random have in the Fractals? While it’s easy to dismiss it because of the drawbacks, I think it’s important to talk about the drawbacks of not having it (or having another system) would be. Assume we solve re-rolling and make Dredge more reasonable, does random fractal selection add or detract from your satisfaction of playing in the Fractals? Was it more interesting at one time than it is now? Can we compare that with Instabilities, which are very predictable? Imagine if we completely strip random out everything possible and conjure a system where you complete specific sets of combinations of fractal/instability/difficulty to build specific items. Does that entice you or sound like a big grind?

I like the randomization. I think, especially if there were a larger number of Fractals, it leads to a bit more of a unique experience each time. (To a point.) What could be useful is if you could choose how many Fractals you get. If not any number, then from a list. Do you want 1+1, 3+1, 5+1, 5+2, etc. Higher numbers in a set would lead to higher chances to loot Ascended gear or Fractal skins from the end chest.

I haven’t hit instabilities yet, so I’d obviously prefer more Fractals rather than more instabilities, but I certainly could understand the argument for instabilities.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I do completely understand that 2 and 3 are by design, but it’s bad design. Charging that much in-game currency for the enjoyment of a game mode just keeps people from enjoying the game mode. It isn’t worth it. Since this CDI is about evolving the experience then the feedback is valid. If you don’t enjoy this design now is the perfect time to say so.

As far as your solution to the artificer being the only profession that can combine infusions, that’s cool; but my artificer is my guardian and I play him extensively. Just leaving a character parked anywhere whether that is the home instance, a Ori node, or the TP vendor is counter-productive to actually PLAYING the character. Again, now is the time to give feedback and make valid complaints.

Oh yeah, I wasn’t trying to suggest you weren’t welcome to leave feedback or that your feedback was invalid.

I think it’s worth mentioning that, because AR only seems to operate at intervals of 5, I don’t think it’s as big of a deal. For example, if you slot a +5, removing it to upgrade and re-slot as a +7 doesn’t make sense.

I haven’t spent long enough figuring out what the best strategy is – I haven’t done Fractals higher than 24 so far. But I have a +7 infusion and a handful of +1s waiting for me to get to a higher level. I’ll probably slot when it hits +10.

I guess that brings me to a question for those of you who do a lot of higher-level Fractals: how frequently do you feel the need to remove an infusion, upgrade it, and re-slot it? Are we talking weekly? Monthly? Every 2-3 months? Or is it every AR you can add? Or every 2-3 AR you can add? And how often is that?

I’ve never needed or used an upgrade extractor, but $3 doesn’t seem overly expensive for something that saves tens or hundreds of hours of gameplay.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

Suspicions about AFK'ers in Lion's Arch

in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

I really wasn’t expecting this thread to hit Godwin’s Law levels so quickly. I probably should have expected it…

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

The problems with infusions:

1.) Must be an artificer to combine infusions. My mesmer, who I generally play Fractals with, is a tailor and a weaponsmith. So to create higher level infusions I must either run back and forth to the bank by way of the log-in screen to get my infusions to my artificer so that he can combine them and I can repeat the tiresome exercise in reverse, or I must switch crafting discipline to artificer and pay to switch back to my preferred craft after I combine my infusions. It is inconvenient and irritating.

2.) Combining infusions is expensive. The exponential increase needed to create a new level gets quickly out of control; a +1 infusion from the TP is currently 11 silver, a +10 infusion is 69 gold and a +12 is 275 gold. There are multiple infusion slots which helps, but the expense is still incredibly high. Many people aren’t willing to go past the point of the simple +5 infusions in each slot, so 30 AR. It’s cost prohibitive and consequently it prohibits who is able to participate in high level fractals.

3.) The component extractor. 250 gems. At current transfer rates this costs over 20 gold. This gold is spent to get back an infusion so that it can be destroyed in the creation of another. This is just wrong.

These problems need to be addressed.

Well, #2 and #3 are working as intended. I can understand (and maybe even agree with) disliking the intent, but… yeah, that’s intentional.

For #1, I just leave my artificer at the crafting station. Remember that the crafting station also functions as bank access. Just drop your +1s and extracted +whatever into the bank from your Mesmer, log in on your artificer, up-convert, drop the completed one back into the bank through the crafting station with no running whatsoever, and switch toons.

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org

(edited by timmyf.1490)

CDI- Fractal Evolution

in CDI

Posted by: timmyf.1490

timmyf.1490

This is my own personal view of what people who might not be following closely should know to “catch up” a bit. There were topics discussed which I left out, some on purpose, others by accident, but I still think this is a relatively representative summary.

Thanks!

Leaderboards?

I’m also not sure how I feel about purposefully leaving stuff out.

Leaderboards was an oversight, but that said… I’m not sure there was either a) a consensus or b) a structured discussion based on certain core beliefs. It was more… some people care about leaderboards, others don’t. Everybody has different opinions on how they could work. Still, probably something I should have mentioned.

As far as leaving stuff out, I’d call it editorial discretion. I greatly respect the work that Lost Witch and others (one person specifically, though I forget his name atm, sorry dude… I’ve been drinking all night…) put into creating long-form link posts detailing all the proposals. I wanted to try something a little different to see how everybody responded to it. I’d like to think I was fair, but I’d very much accept feedback – positive and negative – ideally via PM. Or in-game, if you’d like to chat!

Karaoke – Guild Leader – [MEGA] Super Mega Happy Fun Time
www.getunicorned.com / northernshiverpeaks.org