Curse

shifting shadows · Dec 23, 2006, 11:44 PM // 23:44

Why is it that traveling from one campaign to another is such a pain? Why do we have to teleport first to another city? I almost never want to be in Kaineng or Lions Arch, yet I always have to stop in one of them when traveling. It's stupid and serves no real purpose.

So here's a proposal. When you open the map, select which campaign you'd like to go to, and the screen will switch to the map of that campaign and then you choose which city/outpost you want to go to and voila! Saves a load of time for people who have slow loading times.

BryanM · Dec 24, 2006, 02:58 AM // 02:58

God, yes.

I don't understand how they shipped Factions and added the battle isle with this system implemented. Everyone complains or asks for a lot of other things, but this is the change everybody wants, even though they don't know it.

Let me make this dead clear: cross-map mapping is the biggest change that'll affect the most people in a positive way that Arena.net can possibly do. And is probably one of the easiest things to implement, I'd assume.

Math: suppose the average Guildwars player only loses 2 minutes a day of his life on average waiting for undesired zones to load. Let's assume there are only 50,000 active players in the whole wide world (which is also a low-low-low ball number when compared to reality)... That's around 1,666 man hours a day. There's 8,765.81 hours in a year... multiplied by a life-span of 82 years.. so about every year this goes unchanged it's about the same as killing a single person. Or two. Or three.

I've been trying to find some reason why it's like the way it is - I don't see any good from it except keeping people out of instances for as long as reasonably possible. Insights?

LordFFM · Dec 24, 2006, 11:31 AM // 11:31

That would go along fine with a global map...

/me wants a global map !!!!!

leguma · Dec 24, 2006, 12:08 PM // 12:08

This will NEVER happen because that boat is the chapter "bottleneck". Currently, the game only needs to check if ou have chapter 1 when you try to use a boat. If the bottleneck were removed it will add a LOT of surplus checks every time someone hits M to bring out the map, so this will never happen.

Smile Like Umean It · Dec 24, 2006, 02:11 PM // 14:11

So, why can't the boat be used to select which campaign to bring up?
There could be technical crap that I just don't get, it wouldn't be the first time.

Faer · Dec 24, 2006, 05:59 PM // 17:59

Search

Just do it.

(Nike is going to kill me)