Guild Cape Problem, Plz help! - Guild Wars Forums

Dionys · Mar 21, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41

Okay, well, my guild (Rejects on Parade) paid 1000 gold among us to get a guild cape, yet the cape has yet to show up, but the gold is gone, what do I do? I want either the cape or the gold back! Plz Help!

Dionys · Mar 22, 2005, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Plz... come on people... I seriously need help.

lllCo2lll · Mar 23, 2005, 01:53 AM // 01:53

Hmmm did any of your guild mates steal the gold? Sorry I have no insights to this issue. However I do understand the frustration when no one replies to your topic and/or posts. Hang in there bud

Aria · Mar 23, 2005, 02:00 AM // 02:00

Did you bug it? I'm sorry, but I don't think there's much that you can do.

Are you sure that you didn't press cancel halfway? The last time I created a guild was in the Jan BWE, so I don't remember the process (which probably has changed, anyways).

The thing is, it IS only beta, and there will be a wipe before release anyways.. I do understand that it's frustrating.. but the readers of this forum would need much more detail in exactly what happened to even hope to help you.

Again, the best thing I can think of is to report it in the bugs thread. However, please please add more detail than "My gold is gone and I don't have a cape!" If it's possible, have the person who went through the process post, and have him/her describe exactly what he/she did.. and during what part of the process it went wrong.

Otherwise, it's a bit vague, and I don't know what to tell you, I'm sorry.

lllCo2lll · Mar 23, 2005, 02:10 AM // 02:10

EH?! Really there's going to be a complete wipe at release?!?! I thought that there wouldn't be a wipe, but you could keep all your characters and the name of your character

Aria · Mar 23, 2005, 02:29 AM // 02:29

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Originally Posted by lllCo2lll

EH?! Really there's going to be a complete wipe at release?!?! I thought that there wouldn't be a wipe, but you could keep all your characters and the name of your character

Hehe, sorry to disappoint.

The ONLY thing you'll keep after the wipe is the names of your characters. I'm not sure if you were there in Jan BWE when they had the wipe.. but it'll be like that. There will be placeholders for your names. That's it.

It makes sense, if you think about it. Besides, pre-order people get to start early. Isn't that enough of a treat?

Dave III · Mar 23, 2005, 02:45 AM // 02:45

The way I understood it, the characters would be wiped, but the names associated with pre-order accounts would be left alone, basically starting over at square one. Folks like me, who got on with a friend pass, will be purged completely, I'm not even sure if my account (name and address) will survive the purge. (Not that that's a big deal, it's not like it'll be a pain in the patuckus to start over.)

Dave III

Loviatar · Mar 23, 2005, 02:52 AM // 02:52

TO END CONFUSION

your character will be slagged down to ground zero

you WILL keep the character

NAME

APPEARANCE

PROFESSIONS (at level 1 last i heard as you cant have skills without the professions to go with them)

Will my characters be wiped when Guild Wars is released?

No, your characters will not be wiped. That is, they will not be removed from the servers because if you have played in any of the Beta Weekend Events, your character names are reserved through the character itself. However, the characters will by necessity be reset to starting levels and they will possess starting skills and items.

BlackArrow · Mar 23, 2005, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Lovitar is right, it's more of a reset than a wipe. I've also heard that guilds won't be wiped at release, possibly to help in the stealing of famous guild names.

Loviatar · Mar 23, 2005, 02:57 AM // 02:57

confirmed in an interview on the guilds as above post says

Aria · Mar 23, 2005, 03:02 AM // 03:02

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Originally Posted by Loviatar

confirmed in an interview on the guilds as above post says

Care to provide a link to the interview?

I don't know if you mean that the secondary professions will be kept.. it seems unlikely as we'll have to redo pre-searing again.

Loviatar · Mar 23, 2005, 03:13 AM // 03:13

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Originally Posted by Aria

Care to provide a link to the interview?

I don't know if you mean that the secondary professions will be kept.. it seems unlikely as we'll have to redo pre-searing again.

i saw it about 3 weeks ago an simply made a mental note

Gaile was reassuring the interviewer that the problem of saving guilds was being taken care of but they as the individual characters would be reset ot starting levels for fairness

as for the secondary professions (and primary as well so far) you can do them over for the experience in a few seconds

example of that in red askalon in the old askalon explorable area just past the breech there is a ranger who offered me a quest to get the stalker companion by my side

i accepted it went a short distance away from him and checked the quest log

result was an update to go back and collect my reward which was a few hundred exp

i anticipate no problems as Gaile did say skills kept

just a matter of using what we have to run up a few levels (i will go up 6-7) before the academy

Loviatar · Mar 23, 2005, 05:36 AM // 05:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aria

Care to provide a link to the interview?

I don't know if you mean that the secondary professions will be kept.. it seems unlikely as we'll have to redo pre-searing again.

hi, here is what she said

Guys,

I believe last time I checked, Guild Names will be preserved from the Beta Weekend Events into the release version of Guild Wars. No need for a petition, we got ya covered.
__________________
Gaile Gray
Community Relations Manager
ArenaNet

Aria · Mar 23, 2005, 05:46 AM // 05:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

hi, here is what she said

Guys,

I believe last time I checked, Guild Names will be preserved from the Beta Weekend Events into the release version of Guild Wars. No need for a petition, we got ya covered.
__________________
Gaile Gray
Community Relations Manager
ArenaNet

Thanks

That's definitely going to be a relief to a lot of people.

Elonis · Mar 23, 2005, 10:46 AM // 10:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

hi, here is what she said

Guys,

I believe last time I checked, Guild Names will be preserved from the Beta Weekend Events into the release version of Guild Wars. No need for a petition, we got ya covered.
__________________
Gaile Gray
Community Relations Manager
ArenaNet

so we have to rebuy the capes agian?

socke · Mar 23, 2005, 11:49 AM // 11:49

@Dionys:
My team did the same - register guild ( 100g ) - gather gold ( 1000g ) - give it to me. Then i saw my gold counter in the inventory show i have "05" gold. It couldn't handle the 4 digits. But nevertheless i could buy my team a cape.

The cape was shown in combat and outposts/towns.
Only once at Yak's bend we were all capeless - but on continueing the quest it showed up again.
So i think you encountered a bug - or in other words you have an invisible cape...showing up next BWE, when the bug is gone.

Aria · Mar 23, 2005, 12:38 PM // 12:38

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Originally Posted by socke

@Dionys:
My team did the same - register guild ( 100g ) - gather gold ( 1000g ) - give it to me. Then i saw my gold counter in the inventory show i have "05" gold. It couldn't handle the 4 digits. But nevertheless i could buy my team a cape.

The cape was shown in combat and outposts/towns.
Only once at Yak's bend we were all capeless - but on continueing the quest it showed up again.
So i think you encountered a bug - or in other words you have an invisible cape...showing up next BWE, when the bug is gone.

Well.. I can explain the numbers here.

Remember that silver square to the left of your gold count? Well, think of it as your "platinum" count.. with "platinum" being 1000 gold. So, if you have 2345 gold, it'll show up as 2 right next to the silver box-shaped thing, and then 234 next to the gold icon.

Btw, I'm assuming that it's platinum.. couldn't think of anything else silver that overrides gold. It's too early in the morning for me.

As for the bug.. this is pure hypothesis.. but at one point during the BWE, there was some sort of a glitch with the guild system. Everyone's guild disappeared (at least, everyone in my district in LA) -- couldn't talk on guild channel, no guild registered, no capes, etc. I'm not sure if this was gamewide, but Gaile was standing in LA telling everyone not to worry.

And of course, after a few minutes, they fixed the problem..

Joysze · Mar 23, 2005, 06:37 PM // 18:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elonis

so we have to rebuy the capes agian?

Good question. Since they're resetting all characters to level 1 with just started equipement, maybe the guild capes will be reset to nothing too?

Does anyone know?

Loviatar · Mar 23, 2005, 06:54 PM // 18:54

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Originally Posted by Joysze

Good question. Since they're resetting all characters to level 1 with just started equipement, maybe the guild capes will be reset to nothing too?

Does anyone know?

since the capes are part of the created guild they may be saved along with the guild name

on the other hand they may be treated as any purchased item and removed

many people have had 2nd thoughts about changing capes anyway and that 1000 gold at the start is a big ticket item

i think the capes will probably go along with the items

but on the other hand.....................

Joysze · Mar 23, 2005, 08:24 PM // 20:24

[keeping fingers crossed that the capes will go with the items so we can have a new cape]

Please, please, please... hehehehe.

[keeps fingers crossed that none of her guild mate that likes the current cape sees this post!]

Mar 21, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41	#1
Dionys Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Mar 2005	Guild Cape Problem, Plz help! Okay, well, my guild (Rejects on Parade) paid 1000 gold among us to get a guild cape, yet the cape has yet to show up, but the gold is gone, what do I do? I want either the cape or the gold back! Plz Help! Last edited by Dionys; Mar 22, 2005 at 08:35 PM // 20:35..

Mar 23, 2005, 02:52 AM // 02:52	#8
Loviatar Underworld Spelunker Join Date: Feb 2005	TO END CONFUSION your character will be slagged down to ground zero you WILL keep the character NAME APPEARANCE PROFESSIONS (at level 1 last i heard as you cant have skills without the professions to go with them) Will my characters be wiped when Guild Wars is released? No, your characters will not be wiped. That is, they will not be removed from the servers because if you have played in any of the Beta Weekend Events, your character names are reserved through the character itself. However, the characters will by necessity be reset to starting levels and they will possess starting skills and items. Last edited by Loviatar; Mar 23, 2005 at 02:56 AM // 02:56..

Mar 22, 2005, 08:35 PM // 20:35	#2
Dionys Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Mar 2005	Plz... come on people... I seriously need help.

Mar 23, 2005, 01:53 AM // 01:53	#3
lllCo2lll Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Mar 2005	Hmmm did any of your guild mates steal the gold? Sorry I have no insights to this issue. However I do understand the frustration when no one replies to your topic and/or posts. Hang in there bud

Mar 23, 2005, 02:00 AM // 02:00	#4
Aria Sig Fairy Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Once upon a time..	Did you bug it? I'm sorry, but I don't think there's much that you can do. Are you sure that you didn't press cancel halfway? The last time I created a guild was in the Jan BWE, so I don't remember the process (which probably has changed, anyways). The thing is, it IS only beta, and there will be a wipe before release anyways.. I do understand that it's frustrating.. but the readers of this forum would need much more detail in exactly what happened to even hope to help you. Again, the best thing I can think of is to report it in the bugs thread. However, please please add more detail than "My gold is gone and I don't have a cape!" If it's possible, have the person who went through the process post, and have him/her describe exactly what he/she did.. and during what part of the process it went wrong. Otherwise, it's a bit vague, and I don't know what to tell you, I'm sorry.

Mar 23, 2005, 02:10 AM // 02:10	#5
lllCo2lll Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Mar 2005	EH?! Really there's going to be a complete wipe at release?!?! I thought that there wouldn't be a wipe, but you could keep all your characters and the name of your character

Mar 23, 2005, 02:45 AM // 02:45	#7
Dave III Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm always where I'm at, or else I'm nowhere, man.	The way I understood it, the characters would be wiped, but the names associated with pre-order accounts would be left alone, basically starting over at square one. Folks like me, who got on with a friend pass, will be purged completely, I'm not even sure if my account (name and address) will survive the purge. (Not that that's a big deal, it's not like it'll be a pain in the patuckus to start over.) Dave III

Mar 23, 2005, 02:55 AM // 02:55	#9
BlackArrow Banned Join Date: Feb 2005	Lovitar is right, it's more of a reset than a wipe. I've also heard that guilds won't be wiped at release, possibly to help in the stealing of famous guild names.

Mar 23, 2005, 02:57 AM // 02:57	#10
Loviatar Underworld Spelunker Join Date: Feb 2005	confirmed in an interview on the guilds as above post says

Mar 23, 2005, 11:49 AM // 11:49	#16
socke Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2005	@Dionys: My team did the same - register guild ( 100g ) - gather gold ( 1000g ) - give it to me. Then i saw my gold counter in the inventory show i have "05" gold. It couldn't handle the 4 digits. But nevertheless i could buy my team a cape. The cape was shown in combat and outposts/towns. Only once at Yak's bend we were all capeless - but on continueing the quest it showed up again. So i think you encountered a bug - or in other words you have an invisible cape...showing up next BWE, when the bug is gone.

Mar 23, 2005, 08:24 PM // 20:24	#20
Joysze Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Mar 2005	[keeping fingers crossed that the capes will go with the items so we can have a new cape] Please, please, please... hehehehe. [keeps fingers crossed that none of her guild mate that likes the current cape sees this post!]