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Devil's Dictionary · Feb 23, 2005, 04:17 PM // 16:17

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Originally Posted by Tr0n

Nope, that is not correct. Everything is hosted on secure ArenaNet servers across the world.

Here's some links to cool articles about the technology behind Guild Wars. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.telefragged.com/interviews/guildwars/
http://pc.ign.com/articles/534/534454p1.html?fromint=1

Thank you for the links. It answered a lot of my questions.

Semjah · Feb 23, 2005, 10:14 PM // 22:14

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Originally Posted by Skult ShadowWalker

1st: I have a quality PC and a Cable connection. I played at different times of the day and night and I experienced some really bad lag and rubber banding.

Did anyone else?

I only found the game to be laggy on Sunday night, when everyone and their brother was probably playing and whenever I loaded into town for the first time my character would not appear.

Acronym · Feb 24, 2005, 04:16 PM // 16:16

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Originally Posted by Skult ShadowWalker

Hail All,

I joined the Beta Event last weekend and I must say I enjoyed the experience and will certainly be purchasing the game. However, I was concerned with a couple of things:

1st: I have a quality PC and a Cable connection. I played at different times of the day and night and I experienced some really bad lag and rubber banding.

Did anyone else?

The 1st 2 days on the last beta weekend I had no problems. After the patching on the 3rd day I was experience rubberbanding and loads of lag. Even after restarting and closing down every program no needed to run windows which I haven't had to do before. This occured in every area not just town.

Midgkor · Feb 24, 2005, 06:41 PM // 18:41

Have to say the event was a ton of fun and also incredibly frustrating also. The inventory system and ID ,salvage was a serious pain played almost the whole weekend and found zero items that I used for any of the 4 chars I made.Game ran really well and while in missions with friends was a ton of fun but outside of that I found just about every glitch and bug. Prince Rurik in the party he has to pause when someone died and no one in party had rez so we never finished that on after 8 tries. No one in my group got the free rez signet of course. Wasnt obvious that you would be stuck with one class after the academy. Finally finding someone that sold a bag for 100gp ? geezus that was way more then i made all weekend. of course out of the say several 100 items i left on ground might have been something good but too much trouble to deal with.At the end of it all I had 82gp on my 9th lvl warrior/ranger . Saw some lag but it was intermittent and usually in town with 200 ppl dancing(never seen so much pointless emoting BTW) But all in all was good clean fun for the most part dont want to go out on a sour note but it is a beta event and things should be expected to pop up.The 5 hours i spent looking for a trainer to get a second class in old ascalon was a ton of fun I ran all across the world and found many interesting places.Cant wait for next event !

mattrad · Feb 24, 2005, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Last week was my first time with GW, and where I did find a few times of "rubber banding" for the most part it was very smooth. I was not sure what may have been causing the R-B, but it was not a problem. I am looking forward to the release date as well as the next BWE.

CKaz · May 21, 2005, 02:17 PM // 14:17

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Originally Posted by Ensign

Don't bother with ID kits unless the item in question is rare (gold name). Normal items are just that - normal. Identifying them is just going to waste your money. Spend the 5 gold to identify something that has the potential to be worth a good deal, or salvage into something valuable - the aformentioned rare weapons and armor.
-CxE

yikes.. ok I skip lt blue items but I suggest that but don't skip purples
you can unlock a lot of items/stuff you can salvage out too

Jana · May 21, 2005, 02:24 PM // 14:24

I unlock stuff identifying blues all the time. Same with purples. In fact, just one precious or high salvage can make up the difference in a whopping 5 gold it costs to ID something.

No reason not to ID everything, unless you are specifically selling something, after you already unlock everything, to people for a chance to unlock it themselves.

Jana

Ramus · May 21, 2005, 03:13 PM // 15:13

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Originally Posted by CKaz

yikes.. ok I skip lt blue items but I suggest that but don't skip purples
you can unlock a lot of items/stuff you can salvage out too

You may want to read the date on that post, it is from a very long time ago.

The suggestion no longer works.

Feb 24, 2005, 07:10 PM // 19:10	#25
mattrad Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indiana	Lag of game Last week was my first time with GW, and where I did find a few times of "rubber banding" for the most part it was very smooth. I was not sure what may have been causing the R-B, but it was not a problem. I am looking forward to the release date as well as the next BWE.

Feb 24, 2005, 06:41 PM // 18:41	#24
Midgkor Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Feb 2005	Have to say the event was a ton of fun and also incredibly frustrating also. The inventory system and ID ,salvage was a serious pain played almost the whole weekend and found zero items that I used for any of the 4 chars I made.Game ran really well and while in missions with friends was a ton of fun but outside of that I found just about every glitch and bug. Prince Rurik in the party he has to pause when someone died and no one in party had rez so we never finished that on after 8 tries. No one in my group got the free rez signet of course. Wasnt obvious that you would be stuck with one class after the academy. Finally finding someone that sold a bag for 100gp ? geezus that was way more then i made all weekend. of course out of the say several 100 items i left on ground might have been something good but too much trouble to deal with.At the end of it all I had 82gp on my 9th lvl warrior/ranger . Saw some lag but it was intermittent and usually in town with 200 ppl dancing(never seen so much pointless emoting BTW) But all in all was good clean fun for the most part dont want to go out on a sour note but it is a beta event and things should be expected to pop up.The 5 hours i spent looking for a trainer to get a second class in old ascalon was a ton of fun I ran all across the world and found many interesting places.Cant wait for next event !

May 21, 2005, 02:24 PM // 14:24	#27
Jana Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: May 2005 Guild: Knights of the Silver Flame Profession: Mo/Me	I unlock stuff identifying blues all the time. Same with purples. In fact, just one precious or high salvage can make up the difference in a whopping 5 gold it costs to ID something. No reason not to ID everything, unless you are specifically selling something, after you already unlock everything, to people for a chance to unlock it themselves. Jana