Duybex.7296 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 As a community leader, I do lots of public squads, and lead a daily 2 hour train. It is a rising issue, when people troll and enter groups, just so they can merge it with other groups. This function is so bad, and harmful to both of the groups involved, and to be honest, I do see any good use out of it. it disrupts both groups activity, and usually forces me to kick a lot of people who just want to be together, but forced by a troll to merge. It will be great if this function can be removed, or somehow restricted to ask approval from both commanders in order to merge. 10 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Yup, it should be a pop up (not in the middle of the screen, but at the side) with something along the "yes/no/don't ask me again" options. Or maybe straight up add a checkbox in commie's squad panel to "disable squad merging". 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Agreed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veprovina.4876 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) Yeah, i never really understood why everyone has such power over anyone elses squad. This should not be that easy. Approval from commanders should be implemented. That said, i never really encountered much trolls in this regard. Edited January 31, 2023 by Veprovina.4876 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Can they still do this if you dont allow people to invite to squad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duybex.7296 Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 44 minutes ago, Linken.6345 said: Can they still do this if you dont allow people to invite to squad? you cannot change those setting while you are in the lfg system. they cannot merge anyway if you are not in lfg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya.9075 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I agree. This change should be added and a pop up for the commander would be a good solution. Hopefully they will listen as this behavior is damaging and affects a lot of players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnackParty.3178 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I agree. My Squad/Groups, have been merged, tons of times. During daily dungeons, trying to run a non rush group and fishing..got meged with WvW squad, several times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urud.4925 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I second the request. It happens sometimes with fractals too, when two completely different groups are merged together, but I can understand that it's even worse when you are in a squad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandzibar.5134 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Ive done this by accident once. Wasnt sure how I even did it. Let alone why I was allow to do something I thought only a group leader would be able to do. Terrible mechanic implementation as it stands currently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Boz.2038 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Party/Squad functionality in this game really do be a bit of a sore spot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duybex.7296 Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 I really hope people in anet read this stuff, and consider it. I think it is such an easy thing to disable, and will fix a lot of troll related (and accidental) issues with lfg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 In case of squads, the only person that should be able to post/modify its LFGs (and initiate/accept potential squad merging) should be the commander (or, possibly lieutenants). Normal squad members should not have that ability, even in a free-invite/free-join squads. And the popup that shows for the merges should clearly state what is happening, and which squad is being merged into which. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotTooFoolish.7412 Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 The merged group would always land in sub 1, right? I normally run with locked subs. So technically, if you move your squad to the sub 2, yourself to sub 3 whoever merges lands in a separate group. As commander noone other than u can edit lfg message. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 On 2/3/2023 at 6:04 PM, NotTooFoolish.7412 said: The merged group would always land in sub 1, right? I normally run with locked subs. So technically, if you move your squad to the sub 2, yourself to sub 3 whoever merges lands in a separate group. As commander noone other than u can edit lfg message. Problem is, anyone in your squad can answer join invite, and thus merge your squad into another one. When that happens, you stop being the squad commander - you become a common member of another commander's squad. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duybex.7296 Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 Quote On 2/3/2023 at 6:04 PM, NotTooFoolish.7412 said: The merged group would always land in sub 1, right? I normally run with locked subs. So technically, if you move your squad to the sub 2, yourself to sub 3 whoever merges lands in a separate group. As commander noone other than u can edit lfg message. I mean yeh, there are workarounds and such, but first, the squad that got merged suffers, and second, you are either force to kick a bunch of people although they did nothing wrong, or reach cap squad size and lose players from joining. Again, its not the end of the world in general, but it is such a useless feature that just opens the door to trolls, and I think can be easily diabled if a dev decides. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ControlTheBit.9731 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 I 100% agree that this is a problem and I would like hear a word from ArenaNet if anything regrading this is in the works or if we are just doomed with this behavior forever. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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