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Dragon Ruler X.8512

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  1. Disclaimer: I'm aware most of this is currently premised on a niche use case and will discuss third party tools, but I feel there are other use cases for casual players and even for things like streaming where this request could be useful. Hi, I'm currently interested in a feature that I feel should be fairly easy to achieve that could provide the GW2 client with greater overall display flexibility. To initially avoid the discussion of third party tools I want to pose this "more casual player" perspective. Suppose you're a casual player with a single monitor (just buy another - I know right?). You want to read a walkthrough for a jumping puzzle or watch a video of how to do an achievement, but you have this archaic setup of a single monitor. So, you Alt+Tab to read the content you need and Alt+Tab back to the game, but your goldfish brain forgets what you just read after taking 5 steps so you Alt+Tab back, re-read the content and Alt+Tab back to the game on repeat - getting distracted along the way because "oooh shiny" too of course. Wouldn't it be nice to have a way to put both the game and the content you want to read/watch on your single screen at the same time? Well, the Anet devs kind of thought of this and said "let there be Window mode". This works, but there's this ugly (and frankly really bad for monitor burn in) bright white title bar for the application when in this mode. It would be a wonderful quality of life addition to allow for "Window" mode to be done boarderless. "But if you don't have a title bar - how do you move the screen?". Fair point, but have we considered hotkeys similar to applications like Discord's ability to move the In-Game Overlay to use as modifiers to move/resize the window? Or just the Windows "snap" (Windows Key + Arrow Key) features (I haven't used other OS's, but I assume they have something similar - otherwise disregard this part)? Regardless, I feel there's at least some use case where this is reasonable to assume there could be added utility to a casual player. Now on to my more niche use case. I have multiple accounts and I use Gw2Launcher to run more than one at the same time somedays because "It's dangerous to go alone" or something, right? There's a wonderful feature in this third party application called Window Manager which lets you create layouts for - you guessed it - windows. This is cool because I can load multiple instances of GW2 and have each instance automatically snap into places you specified as each instance loads. So, with a click of a button you can be in a familiar and useful layout and get to gaming. They even have a feature that does this nifty "Snap to client" thing which kind of fakes getting rid of that ugly title bar by just adjusting the vertical offset of the client so the title bar is "off screen" which gives the illusion of no more "blinded by the light" application title bar which is so nice. There's just one problem. After discussing with the creator of the application - it seems like GW2 does some strange limiting of the window size. Specifically, if I ask the Window Manager to use half of the X of my screen, but all of the Y for the game client I can only fill roughly "<Total Y> - <Title Bar Size>" of my screen. I can't drag the client to resize and make it any taller or use any kind of funky vertical offset magic either to fake having more space to draw in because it appears like the GW2 client is what is actually limiting my overall draw height of the application. This means I always have an odd gap at the bottom of the screen using this method or a gaudy white title bar on screen burning my monitor and my soul to death. Interestingly though, this is only a problem if I try to span the whole Y of the screen. If I stack two clients on top of each other then there's no issue. A summary of all this with many more pictures and a few other minor details + the discussion with the third party tool developer is located here: https://github.com/Healix/Gw2Launcher/issues/393 My thought is it might be nice to include either a UI option similar to "Options > Graphics Options > Display > Resolution > Window (Boarderless)" or to allow for a CLI flag to launch the application without the application window title bar. Anyway. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
  2. I'd like some way for Arenanet to indicate when services are temporarily (or permanently) down. Initial thoughts: I'd like to see the status of all the different servers.I'd like to see if in game content is disabled / malfunctioning and being fixed (including the gem store)Basically, anything that lets your players know that you know things are all good or have gone to hell and that you're fixing it.This also helps the player identify if it's a "them" problem or an "anet" problem when they're trying to troubleshoot - which can be valuable information.
  3. I'm experiencing the same problem.I intended to buy gems for the Equipment Template sale, but I cannot complete a transaction.
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