Curse

God_Hand · Sep 01, 2009, 11:00 PM // 23:00

Check out this update:

Update - Tuesday, September 1
Miscellaneous

* Nicholas the Traveler has been brushing up on his language skills.
* Kun Shao has gone on vacation until the Xunlai Tournament House is able to distribute points for the month of May.
* Fixed a bug that allowed teams to sync join in random PvP.

They claim it was a bug. Kinda funny, cause it wasn't a bug, it was simply the way the system worked.

So... are the syncs really gone now? It's been like at most a few minutes since this update hit, but I can't test it out for a while. I'd like to assume that ANet has got the whole thing down pat, but there's always a chance that there's a way to bypass it, or a chance that something isn't working right.

Anyone willing to verify that ANet's new system works? Does it affect FA and JQ as well? Any research into this would be highly appreciated, and not only from me.

Bob Slydell · Sep 01, 2009, 11:56 PM // 23:56

http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showt...php?t=10399268

go cubs · Sep 02, 2009, 12:30 AM // 00:30

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Originally Posted by Chrisworld

http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showt...php?t=10399268

^^ this...it affects all random PvP

FoxBat · Sep 02, 2009, 12:40 AM // 00:40

I entered from an empty japanese district, so something's definitely changed.

icedwhitemocha · Sep 02, 2009, 01:06 AM // 01:06

I really don't mind them fixing syncing; I would just like a way to separate myself from PvErs with 400 health and shitty skillbars. As it is those players will inherit RA all to themselves - no one in their right mind will play RA anymore.

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Originally Posted by FoxBat

I entered from an empty japanese district, so something's definitely changed.

Same. I asked my teammates what districts they entered from - one was from id1 and one was from ad1.

I Jonas I · Sep 02, 2009, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Great let's ruin RA and remove TA all in one fell swoop. This is definitely the way to fix a dying game.

Felix Infelicium · Sep 02, 2009, 04:20 AM // 04:20

Pardon?
Ruin RA? RA is called RA for a reason. RA isn't called Sync Arena, it's Random arena. I'm tired of seeing guildies all together stomping and farming. It makes the gladiator title pointless to people who actually tried for it. Even if I'm the only guy left trying to do Gladiators properly I'm still going to enforce my belief.

-Pluto- · Sep 02, 2009, 04:27 AM // 04:27

Oh noz! Random Arena isn't random any more!? You killed Random Arena!

moriz · Sep 02, 2009, 04:29 AM // 04:29

i'd rather they improve the matchmaking system so we won't get ridiculously lopsided groups. it will make it less random, but the overall game would be better in my opinion.

urania · Sep 02, 2009, 07:07 AM // 07:07

very kool, now i can finally have the courtesy of landing in a team full of American nabs. a thing I could luckily avoid by going to either id or kor districts.

at least there wont be many perfect synch teams anyore tho....i wonder if it outweighs the evil named above...

Pursh · Sep 02, 2009, 10:37 AM // 10:37

wow, now I cant go and play with somewhat experienced people in Kr/Int dis. Getting glad points would be a lot harder once TA is removed, since high ranked glads will have to deal with american nubz in RA.

Osiris_sam · Sep 02, 2009, 01:47 PM // 13:47

yea sync removal = good, nabs from american district = bad... overall result... good joke

Revelations · Sep 02, 2009, 02:52 PM // 14:52

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Originally Posted by urania

very kool, now i can finally have the courtesy of landing in a team full of American nabs. a thing I could luckily avoid by going to either id or kor districts.

at least there wont be many perfect synch teams anyore tho....i wonder if it outweighs the evil named above...

Pretty much this. Could get some decent players in ID/Korean, but streaks were often ruined by some sync hexgay or similar. Not going to enjoy playing with the trash that comes out of AD. This will likely rid RA of the remaining decent players killing time.

Teh Jace · Sep 02, 2009, 03:06 PM // 15:06

Those korean dist syncers should have been playing TA in the first place. Maybe we wouldn't have to deal with the TA removal and cheering masses of pve tards craving sealed deck to replace it now.

Sierraa · Sep 02, 2009, 03:19 PM // 15:19

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Originally Posted by Teh Jace

Those korean dist syncers should have been playing TA in the first place. Maybe we wouldn't have to deal with the TA removal and cheering masses of pve tards craving sealed deck to replace it now.

This.

If you don't like bad american nabs go TA :P Maybe it wont get removed.

Karate Jesus · Sep 02, 2009, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by GWW

Miscellaneous
Nicholas the Traveler has been brushing up on his language skills.
Kun Shao has gone on vacation until the Xunlai Tournament House is able to distribute points for the month of May.
Fixed a bug that allowed teams to sync join in random PvP.

Guild Wars Wiki notes
It's still possible to sync in random PvP areas.

It's still possible to sync. In fact, it's really not that much harder than it used to be :/

Revelations · Sep 02, 2009, 03:28 PM // 15:28

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Originally Posted by Alexander Burn Victim

If you don't like bad american nabs go TA :P Maybe it wont get removed.

Most of the sync fools won't likely take this advice, as they were too bad to do well in TA in the first place. Anyway, apparently it's still very possible to sync at least 3 players in. Gotta love what that's going to do to glad title when TA gets removed and they can farm AD idiots as long as they choose.

Not that I place much faith in the Glad title anyway.

Windf0rce · Sep 02, 2009, 04:18 PM // 16:18

What I still fail to understand is why these super leet people, whose leetness can't be tainted by teaming up with "american dis trash" (yay for generalizations), are doing in Random Arenas in the first place.

You should be busy working on your Champ titles, Gold cape trims (training with good people in scrimmage) or holding halls all the time, no?

Enlighten me please on the reason why these people "hate RA", RA is too bad for them, but they do RA.

Ec]-[oMaN · Sep 02, 2009, 05:01 PM // 17:01

I fail to understand why Anet is bothering with this massive PvP update, arena/mechanic changes this late. Pretty sure "PvP love" was needed over 2 years ago.

Osiris_sam · Sep 02, 2009, 05:20 PM // 17:20

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Originally Posted by Ec]-[oMaN

Pretty sure "PvP love" was needed over 2 years ago.

That,

syncing now is much less reliable than it was, not impossible.
as previously said, i can see a lot of good players who were killing time in RA leaving for other formats (ha mabe) esp when TA has been removed (we'll have to wait and see if SD is anything resembleing fun)