Curse

reverse_oreo · Sep 28, 2007, 02:03 AM // 02:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acehigh

The Charr battle plan update sucks. I just did a mini-mission to defend a bunch of Ascalon soldiers, and all i got was 70 rep points for it.

EDIT: I do believe the Charr battle plan mini-missions count towards ''The Eye of the North'' title track as i am now at 315 points and i haven't edged everything properly and still have 1 dungeon left to beat.

Can you tell me where you found the battle plans at? I killed a whole bunch of mobs and didnt get anything.

KANE OG · Sep 28, 2007, 02:06 AM // 02:06

Just noticed the Imperial Herald in the Temple. In-Game advertizing FTL.

KANE

Rohan · Sep 28, 2007, 02:09 AM // 02:09

So I get this dishonorable crap because I error out of an RA match during the start of it?

Thanks Anet!

Thunder79 · Sep 28, 2007, 02:10 AM // 02:10

oh....report command is recognized now (doesn't report an unknown command) but it's not active yet. I tried reporting a spammer (a true SPAMMER...in every sense of the word) in Kamadan but I got no response or dialog boxes at all when using the command. This was before I re-read the updates and noticed it's only going to be active for the weekend (ie not yet).

yeah it'll be abused by some...but I expect those who do will find they will get their accounts suspended/banned if they continue to do it. Just hope they don't abuse it too much this weekend and convince the devs not to reimplement it.

It'll be much more useful for reporting the degenerates of the Guild Wars world than the support site ever was.

Jeremy Untouchable · Sep 28, 2007, 02:19 AM // 02:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rohizzle

So I get this dishonorable crap because I error out of an RA match during the start of it?

Thanks Anet!

sniff...sniff i smell a leaver XD

Rohan · Sep 28, 2007, 02:35 AM // 02:35

Well actually...My team had already lost a match (3 of us was down...1 was about half health) so I naturally left so I could go back in quicker. I error the next game and when I log back on, I get slapped with that wonderful hex

EternalTempest · Sep 28, 2007, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rohizzle

So I get this dishonorable crap because I error out of an RA match during the start of it?

Thanks Anet!

The Dishonorable status remains in effect for 1 minute for each accumulated dishonor point. This status cannot be removed by logging out or changing characters.

When the duration of the Dishonorable status has expired, characters on that account may once again join PvP missions.

To clear dishonor points from an account, a player must go 60 minutes without accumulating any new dishonor points.

rangersaurus · Sep 28, 2007, 02:53 AM // 02:53

lol. I love how everyone was like, " OMG the leavers and leechers are so bad... Anet needs to do something". So they do and people are like, "Well what if I get d/c or if I am to impatient to wait for my teammates to die and I leave". Is there nothing that will make you people happy?

I would much rather suck it up and deal with a temporary ban because I got d/c, then to deal with leavers all of the time. And even if you want to argue otherwise, then at the very least you should offer a better, feasible solution. If you can't do that then you have no right to complain about Anet's attempt at fixing the problem.

samifly · Sep 28, 2007, 02:57 AM // 02:57

Nice update all around

Veripare · Sep 28, 2007, 03:02 AM // 03:02

/report X Ninja Killa X HE SHOT JOHN LENNON!!!1

...I really do think the report system won't last past the 30th IMO.

Rohan · Sep 28, 2007, 03:05 AM // 03:05

I'm usually in the international districts so I don't care about leavers. At all

Fril Estelin · Sep 28, 2007, 03:41 AM // 03:41

It is perfectly normal that people are quite sceptical about the /report feature, because it's a bold change trying to address a fundamental and difficult problem. It is in essence subjective to categorise characters (remember the thread on the guy who got banned because he was actually playing "like a bot", repeating stuff over and over again?) so there's no way you're going to easily kick the "bad guys" out of the game.

One can wonder what the system can achieve, as this is very dependent on the community, if a majority of people use it cautiously but also in sync (that's the "quota" rule) this can have tremendous positive impact on the GW world. It reminds me of many reputation systems put in place in various forums, which generally improve the situation, though this takes some time. And Anet's design of the feature seems subtil enough to prevent all sorts of common attacks.

If the community is disciplined, this can transform the game into something absolutely brilliant!

And gg for the other updates, that's a lot of work from the devs that will translate to a smoother experience for us!

natuxatu · Sep 28, 2007, 03:42 AM // 03:42

Sounds like a great update to me. Don't think it will be abused too much as you're going to want your team to play. only people crying are leechers or those who like to cry... for the rest of us it's too early to say one or the other but it looks good.

wolfwing · Sep 28, 2007, 04:13 AM // 04:13

Idling out in a battle won't get you banned from PVP, you get 5 points for idling and takes 10 points to be banned for a time. If your being idled/booted that many times it's a problem then you probably shouldn't be playing PVP in the first place.

MoldyRiceFrenzy · Sep 28, 2007, 04:39 AM // 04:39

its kinda funny how anet thought that by socializing glad pts would help ppl the more "common" ppl achieve, and glad ranks and dwell more into pvp... lets c what really happened:

rank 1 = r3... that is a big difference,
r3 --> r4 ... so basically im only 1 rank behind r1 now?

because u cant leave when its pretty sure ur group is going to lose, instead of a battle taking 30 sec to 2 minutes, it now takes 5-12 minutes.

kinda funny when u get a group with 4 monks on accident, o well, cant leave? dihonors system, dang... to bad for both teams. and itll still take the same amt of time to finish the game rather than have a runner. and btw, i doubt the monk team will leave because they will have the feeling of beating the other team, which is what normally happens... it just goes until timer ends...

so, so far today, almost all my games have tooken 2-5x longer than they should have been... thanks for giving me 1 glad pt every 20-30 minutes b4 update, and now 1 glad pt every 20-30 minute after update too, except with higher restrictions..?

the dishonor system is really a big piece of bull to me. in my opinion, its just another thing that was a good idea, but ended up /failing horribly. ty anet for making ra an even bigger waste of time than it was b4 when u lose at round 10.

Winterclaw · Sep 28, 2007, 04:41 AM // 04:41

I like the changes.

Legendary Battousai · Sep 28, 2007, 04:43 AM // 04:43

Ok, this Dishonorable shit is horrible.

Reasons why:
1, Bad people on your team - you can not leave.
2, Your team will obviously lose - you can not leave.
3, 10 Seconds of waiting at the end of every match - which you can not leave from.

So; if you also agree this system is terrible, do this:

Make a PvP Only Monk
Equip 5 Superior Runes
Run this bar: [Dishonor;OwUTEsGD3QkLBEAAAAAAAAA]

If enough people do this; clearly they need to have the report feature accept reports on people being terrible at this game.

Winterclaw · Sep 28, 2007, 04:47 AM // 04:47

Oh noes!!! You have to wait 10 seconds!

Die less.

arsie · Sep 28, 2007, 04:54 AM // 04:54

You need to be reported in multiple matches before you are banned.

If you are reported by 2 people in RA, you'll get 4points, so that's being reported in 2-3 random games before you get banned for 10-12mins.

I reckon it is quite fair because it is random, and unless you're at RA all day, you won't be seeing the same faces repeatedly.

As for AB, the spectre of 4 people reporting everyone else can be quite alarming. Especially since they as a group, are quite likely to repeatedly meet the same other people over a certain period of time.

However, if they are busy standing there reporting 8 other people, they'll probably look suspiciously like leechers. Get ready for a lot of tit-for-tat reporting.

I think after the first wave of report griefing, it should normalize. There's only THAT much fun that can be gotten out of reporting innocent people (or so I hope.)

PvE characters can always go do some farming for 60mins or something, but PvP only characters might be a bit shafted here.

On balance, I think it's a better situation than before. It's not great, but I doubt anyone can come up with a great solution.

Shadowfox1125 · Sep 28, 2007, 04:57 AM // 04:57

Well, I guess it's time to abuse the /report function..

Didn't say I didn't warn ya. :P