Guild Wars 2

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

rapthorne.7345:

I suggested several months ago that they rebuild LA with community involvement using events like resource gathering and the like, but I suspect ANet’s plans here are pretty set in stone other than the names of the places (ie, the thing that requires the smallest amount of effort to change)

They had all that time to figure out what to do with LA’s rebuilding process back then, and that would have been the prime time to ‘get the community involved’ like what happened with the Karka farce.

For those that remember, we were forging armours, food, etc. for shipment to aid people, troops in particular, in exchange for Captain’s Council Commendations. If you listen to Miyani near the Forge, when you talk to her, sometimes she says a relic of that time… “I hope you’re here to help”. The point of that exercise was that it got us involved in the process of getting things back on their feet again, same with Wintersday 2013, we were an integral part of helping things being restored (LA, DR, it didn’t matter) with donations as such.

Missed opportunity, devs. Very short-sighted indeed.

Yes, an absolute missed opportunity.

In their news announcement, they mention, “But while we don’t have a date for the final unveiling, we can say that—due to the advantages of off-site construction—one morning in the next few months you’ll awake to a newly refreshed Lion’s Arch.”

I shuddered reading that. I’ll just wake up to a new Lion’s Arch? No effort on my part?

Yes, it will be fun exploring the new version of the city, but the devs really could have made us more interested by allowing us to “help” in some way, shape, or form.

I completely agree!

Community events in Lion’s Arch so that we, the players, are rebuilding the city in some shape or form is exactly what I want!

Right now, I’m farming events in Silverwastes which is fun – and lucrative – but that’s pretty much all I’m doing. (And I pick up “rubble” to rebuild outposts there everyday, so…) Lion’s Arch hasn’t even been on my mind and when I waypoint over, I just pass by the npc builders without a second thought. I’m completely disconnected from the rubble of the city because I accepted awhile ago that there was nothing that players could really do about it.

But if Arena Net could just throw us a bone and create a few community events in Lion’s Arch, that would be awesome! As a player, I’d be more excited about the upcoming changes, I’d be playing more often, and I’d make sure not to miss any celebrations after the building is complete.

The events wouldn’t have to be all super involved. And the events don’t all have to be action/combat-related either. They could be diplomatic and fund-raising (like some of you have mentioned.)

Maybe we have to help calibrate the new Asura gates which actually could be combat-related if there is any issue with the gates and monsters come through. *Maybe even – surprisingly – out of a gate there is one appearance of an upcoming monster that we will see in the expansion, reminding us of what’s coming to Tyria. (Wishful thinking!)

Maybe we have to venture to all the major cities to bring back something unique that will help forge a new Lion’s Arch. Maybe we also have to bring back supplies from locations around Tyria or from bosses we kill.

Guys! Maybe we have to kill the world bosses (like the – ya know – dragons!) who each have a new unique drop which we then need to take back to Lion’s Arch. Maybe we have to create something out of all of them using the Mystic Forge!

See, there’s lots of things that just involve developing some inventory items and and some npc dialog. Very possible to avoid costing Arena Net too much development time. (Of course, they may beg to differ. I’d love to hear from a dev on this thread.)

Events after Lion’s Arch is rebuilt would be great too. We need another HOLIDAY, don’t you think? We can celebrate the new Lion’s Arch on the day it is finally rebuilt and again a year later.