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@Grim West.3194 said:

@TinkTinkPOOF.9201 said:

@XenesisII.1540 said:

@TinkTinkPOOF.9201 said:As for bandwagon, people forget that a number of times servers bought guilds, sometimes many to try and control T1 and kill BG, I remember seeing some ungodly stacked servers. Downside is that many if not most of the guilds that stacked them were all prime time, so they still never matched off hours of BG. Those servers did win matchups though vs BG, but paid for guilds never stuck around long and moved to the next best thing or next pay roll, and those servers lost good tags and the servers dropped. This happened many times with all sorts of talk by community leaders on other forums about how they were going to destroy BG, because as much as people hate on BG, everyone still wanted to be the next BG.

BG paid for a lot of guilds back in the day too. Speaking of control ONS and TW both had alts guilds on the other two t1 servers to prop them up. Let's not pretend BG is innocent.

As for being active 24/7, that is a good thing for the server, not a bad thing, and most people want the same thing for their own server. As for "only fighting under siege/tower buffs", I have not seen any of the tags do this, and SMC etc etc often has far less siege in it than other servers I have been on.

Please just stop, just last week fought bg on mag and they were using siege like they were ex yb players, guys up on smc outer wall building multiple balistas to hit the group fighting below by the ne sentry while bg had a decent zerg running and multiple treb fire and mortars, it was sad. As soon as you got anywhere near smc the trebs would be firing with pretty good precision, like these guys had a ton of practice on them. Then when we had smc and fighting in the sw area you'd have guys building multiple open field balistas to fire on players.

Just because you're roaming in no mans land and don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Yes, some guilds on BG did the same thing....Thats my point. People LOVE to hate on BG, but everyone still wanted to be the next BG and control T1. No one so far has been able to and everyone is salty about it that now most people just hate on them because they have managed to have a more evenly distributed coverage.

Was in the matchup and didn't see any of that, I was in EBG then because Mag almost only fights or defends EBG, they will let their BL fall to waste before leaving EBG (old long time Mag player here) so their BL was empty of most fights. I can also say the same thing when pushing your keep, I don't think I have seen so many ACs going at once. Again, people like to claim so and so server does soooooo much siege, while ignoring or not seeing how much their own server does use. Like I said, EVERY SERVER uses siege, and they should, it's there for a reason. And if siege use is your only complaint of BG, which can be applied to every server, well, not sure why the hate for BG. I see what happens, roaming means I am all over the map, I scout etc as well, and just because I said I 90% roam doesn't mean I am never with the zerg, or just happen to be in the same area, where I will go and pick off back liners from the other side, free bags are hard to say no to.

Worth repeating as I am sure the bandwagon calling is coming again, but I am on Kaineng, not BG and was there before the link, I also have 6,000 gems sitting in my account not being used on anything and didn't transfer when BG was open. And I have fought against BG many fold more times than I have been linked with them and when I was on BG it was before they were T1.

Maybe it's because I have server hopped so much and been on every NA server at some point, that I understand the servers are mostly the same, with the same amount of siege use etc. It's also specific people, and guilds that do it as well, most people on most servers (with very few exceptions today) don't even bother to use siege. And other than attacking, I almost never see tags drop siege anymore, back in the day as soon as a keep was capped the tag on most servers went around and dropped siege everywhere for people to build before moving on.

But, to sum things up, people cry that BG is to big, and has queues all day long, then that is proven wrong. Then it's coverage (it is) that is demonized, which shouldn't be, it should be a goal for all servers. And then it devolves into "OMG BG uses ACssssssssss!!!11!11!", let me just say if your server doesn't understand basic siege clearing, and just bashes it's head on the gate while being rained on, it has bigger problems.

Hah, BG wins matches because they have more players who play at all hours. That is all.

BG player's only skills are at gaming the system, buying guilds, and cheating. That is all.

Not something to be proud of for sure. Most people have zero respect for the players on BandwagonGate and for good reason.

You're wrong on all counts. That is all.

But you know what? If it makes you feel better to blame everything on the big bad BG, you go girl

[Blackgate is open! Everyone transfer there]

@"Sleepwalker.1398" said:Well its full now and Anet made a lot of money i believe from gems sales.Funny seeing a lot of "very high" servers just drop to "high" within 1 day space.So how are their queues now?

I'm sure the less than $10k will keep Arenanet afloat for years to come!

[WvW squad - View as Grid DON'T WORK after the patch.]

@"Death Slayer.1468" said:It looks like this for mehttps://imgur.com/ZJcAi2O

Grid AND party view at the same time !? Holy Sh-- I've been wanting that a long time.

[Blackgate is open! Everyone transfer there]

3. BG is low pop (hours played) compared to SF and FA, and winning a matchup has no bearing on a servers fullness.

The tinfoil hats in here are always hilarious when BG opens.

[na - if you experience skill lag regularly, come and choose your isp. lets try to figure this out.]

If you run with Arc you'll see the difference. It's not usually the ping that spikes, it's the 'R' value that will either spike up or down - that's the true skill lag. That's server side, and now with 2 full server groups fighting you'll get it. It used to only happen when all 3 sides fought. I think our Amazon virtual boxes had some ram and CPU downgrades.

[Thanks Cookie]

@Mil.3562 said:

@EremiteAngel.9765 said:I had the honor of playing alongside AHMA/TOFU a couple of years back. When it comes to skills, they’re the best SEA guild by a mile. Sad to hear that the leader of the best is leaving. Wishing him all the best though. WvW will be a lesser place without these iconic players and guilds.

Years back the best SEA guild is TPA. AHMA? Never heard of them then. Please take a few miles queue behind.

TPA lol

[Thanks Cookie]

@L A T I O N.8923 said:I mean, its not really hard to get kitten Done if you can rally a map-q at Any time a day

Apparantly he was able to get a map-q Any time a day, which enhanced the first point

@anonymous.7812 said:

@Jayden Reese.9542 said:

@Mil.3562 said:He carries me? I never join or run with his zerg. Did you actually read my post? Or you are just carrying him?

The other Commanders legit lead us to where we are now. Cookie is not even close. Not in this Server.

Bad mouthing are very subjective words. There's nothing to bad mouth if there isn't anything bad. Is there?

Cool it Jayden. FC and BP have a few large guilds 2v1 on BG. Once they get bored of their unholy alliance, the skirmishes will be back where they should be. Losing Cookie will be a minor bump long term. Also, thanks for turning it into a matchup thread, locking will be soon.

What Alliance? Maybe because you Guys cant take a loss? Or maybe you Just not used in the red team playing

What loss? Red and Blue are already stopping playing as is always the case. Weekend warriors..

[Thanks Cookie]

@Jayden Reese.9542 said:

@Mil.3562 said:He carries me? I never join or run with his zerg. Did you actually read my post? Or you are just carrying him?

The other Commanders legit lead us to where we are now. Cookie is not even close. Not in this Server.

Bad mouthing are very subjective words. There's nothing to bad mouth if there isn't anything bad. Is there?

You meant your server as in BG not as you as an individual and if you don't think calling someone rude and arrogant is bad mouthing then I can't help you. Your currently on a 12 skirmish losing streak so it's not a cookie problem is it? Are you on Kain or some kitten cause you don't seem to have a clue. You don't run with his zerg but your on the map hearing him say stuff so yeah not helping I guess. Maybe you should leave the map.

Cool it Jayden. FC and BP have a few large guilds 2v1 on BG. Once they get bored of their unholy alliance, the skirmishes will be back where they should be. Losing Cookie will be a minor bump long term. Also, thanks for turning it into a matchup thread, locking will be soon.

[WvW Core Swap Special Event]

50 seconds of stealth for full zerg without having to have a lot of mesmers or engies -- at least it's funny for a little bit.

[WvW insane matchup]

Matchup thread, but anyways -- we've been asking for adjustments to not limit when transfers are taking place, so we don't have stacking (or unstacking) for 8 weeks after relinks. This has been the norm on NA since links.

Unfortunately Anet won't take any time away from alliance work, even if it might not take much work. So we have this mess for several more months (or more)..

[No Core Swap?]

Calm down EU. There's still 6+ days to enjoy the event. Or not enjoy it, if it's terrible. At least we get SOMETHING. We're not exactly used to that, take your scraps and be grateful.

[Game keeps crashing]

Can confirm - not crashing constantly, but randomly. I've had 2 crashes today in ~5 hours.

[how do you beat good guild groups other than blobbing them down?]

@sephiroth.4217 said:which RISE?

Opposing all odds we RISE were dismembered by someone put into power that mass kicked everyone.

Not too mention Seraph who was RISEs driver left the game like 2 years ago as far as I know..

If they rebooted under a different name but same players like rip, gnar, henry and seraph it would be nice to know ☺

Primordus Virtus aka Jarvan's RISE .. pretty sure they're the only RISE that anyone would reference in the WvW forum.

[T2 "match fixing"]

@Jayden Reese.9542 said:

@style.6173 said:More specifically, ANET should stop giving BG a pairing. Not sure how it is good for WvW as a whole to hear people yell at others to stop playing so that we don't get more points.

Bg actually going to lose. Anet pocketed a nice 35k gems i bet w the 70 tranfers to get it done. Fun to watch tho

Yeah, bet NCSOFT sanctioned this. $437.50 will be massive on the books for the shareholders.

Anyways, non-tinfoil hat reply here - they could just tiebreak based on the background glicko that's still in the code. Not sure if it's worth it though. Kinda feel sorry for them though. They could try to use their influence on the scores to topple BG out of T1, but 'meh'

[Vision of Equipment: Astral Weapons]

It wouldn't be the first time they changed requirements to benefit people who waited either. I spent months of WvW reward tracks for the Stellars. I wished they had just required Astrals for Stellars, and just reduced the cost by half on each when they created these weapons.

[Vision of Equipment: Astral Weapons]

I too would. I'm not even attempting Vision unless it's changed. Stellar > Astral, why would I want the uglier skins?

[Vision of Equipment: Astral Weapons]

Yup, not many comments there either, this should have visibility and not get buried in general chat.

[Vision of Equipment: Astral Weapons]

Any way this can count Stellar Weapons as well? I'm probably not the only one that just created 1 Astral and the full Stellar collection - don't really believe we should have to go back and craft the inferior versions.

[Kralkatite Ore - Vendor]

@"Blocki.4931" said:"It is worthless as Volatile Magic" what?

It's just in line with the other map currencies. Before it was an outlier and they have added a vendor that gives you map currency in exchange for VM, so they want to prevent any abuse by converting it directly into gold and skipping the gold sink that is the trading post.

~Essentially~ worthless, as it's the only VM currency worth ~4 VM, it was much more valuable as vendor.

And it wasn't 'abuse' -- every currency except Berries are sellable from Season 3

[Kralkatite Ore - Vendor]

Could you explain why this material has had its vendor value removed? It is worthless as Volatile Magic, so why remove the vendor value?

[WvW Trolling/Cheating Accounts]

@Celsith.2753 said:

@duckgirl.8769 said:Yes, tactivators can be set to private to avoid this. But as I said, in this dead timezone it's a skeleton crew of pugs and most of our guilds are sleeping. So if those tactivators were private, might as well have no tactivators at all. It's not realistic and you know it.

Again, if your server feels it matters, they can offer up the claim on keeps etc to people who are staying on later. You don't have to be in an enormous guild to level a guild to claim, we maxed ours with 3-4 people tops contributing. By now its possible to have done so with even fewer people, if you care. It's completely realistic and we have the capacity to do so.

I'd rather see it all gone personally.

Most reasonable people would prefer that they were gone as well, they never really asked us if we wanted them. That aside, OP can follow my advice - ask them to stop in map/team chat, request others do the same. When that's ignored - create support tickets with details, encourage others to do the same. Follow up the tickets when the troll continues abuse.

Honestly we should at the very least be able to put rank requirements on the tactivators to make it harder for trolls to create new troll accounts.

[WvW Trolling/Cheating Accounts]

@LetoII.3782 said:

@anonymous.7812 said:

Afaik, they will never perma-ban repeat offenders, for whatever reason. Players need to

shun

behavior like this, instead of celebrating this toxic behavior

It's been a while since I checked, but when last I did the EULA didn't mention asking permission of Duckgirl or Anonymous before pulling a public use tactivator.

The OP consisted of much more than pulling tactics to troll - though, if repeat offenders are asked to not pull them when needed, and they continue to do so - a vacation from the game should be on the table. It's directly interfering with others' enjoyment of the game through mis-use of game features, and that is violating the Rules of Conduct (not a EULA) and under ArenaNet's discretion may result in account action. These are facts whether you believe them or not, and they've been used to suspend access to accounts I've personally observed.

[WvW Trolling/Cheating Accounts]

Create support tickets with as much information as you can glean. If you have recorded video of the trolling mention that in the report. Encourage other players on your server to do the same. ArenaNet will reply that the 'best' way to report them is with an in-game report. Ignore that. That's a copy-pasta that they're forced to send back to you. They will ONLY action trolling accounts through the support website, and I'm 100% sure of that, as I have multiple instances that support this.

Don't give up hope, it might take a few tries. You can expect up to 3 months for the first few cases, and 6 months next. Afaik, they will never perma-ban repeat offenders, for whatever reason. Players need to shun behavior like this, instead of celebrating this toxic behavior ( talking to you that call the troll 'cute' or 'it's so boring when Mr Troll is banned' )

[Black Lion Trading Post: Difficulty selling [Merged]]

Yeah, shouldn't take but 2 seconds to test this, it's every single person encountering it.

[Benevolence v.s. Life]

There are some instances where Benevolence will edge Life for ally healing -- if you're stacking healing/outgoing healing though -- Life is almost always better.