Guild Wars 2 Catch All

In the guild menu, click on the "Represent" button. You should be able to chat to the guild then.

emyln wrote:

Outlandish, or anyone in the lvl 30+, is there any reason to be stingy with spending Karma points?

I'm 23 and sitting on about 3k+ points, and seeing upgrades for about 500+ points. Tempting but should I save them for later on? I know some crafting items/ recipes can only be bought using Karma but that aside?

The only thing I'd save for is new weapons at 40 if you can't bloody find any. I was using a level 15 and 20 dagger right up to level 44 since I can't seem to find my guild's weaponsmith despite being on constantly! There is a karma vendor in one of the zones near some Modniir? centaurs that'll have I believe every weapon type so if anything lags behind you can replace it. I bought the green versions of every weapon I use there. If they ever get the trading post working or you are/know a weaponsmith, then I'd just spend 'em as I got 'em.

In the guild menu, click on the "Represent" button. You should be able to chat to the guild then.

If that works across severs my mind will be officially blown.

Stric9 wrote:
In the guild menu, click on the "Represent" button. You should be able to chat to the guild then.

If that works across severs my mind will be officially blown.

consider your mind blown

ranalin wrote:
Stric9 wrote:
In the guild menu, click on the "Represent" button. You should be able to chat to the guild then.

If that works across severs my mind will be officially blown.

consider your mind blown

And once they get the overflows and "guesting" system all worked out, you'll be able to group across servers. At that point the only thing your server really matters for is WvW.

Arenanet have been doing daily status updates on reddit (see this user), and regarding exploits:

Exploits - If you discover an exploit in the game, do not exploit it or publicize it, but instead notify us immediately at this new email address: exploits (at) arena (dot) net.

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Kind of speaks for itself.

Was just coming here to post about today's update
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c...

Scratched wrote:

Arenanet have been doing daily status updates on reddit (see this user), and regarding exploits:

Exploits - If you discover an exploit in the game, do not exploit it or publicize it, but instead notify us immediately at this new email address: exploits (at) arena (dot) net.

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Kind of speaks for itself.

A few of the perma-banned people are chiming in on the thread I posted above.
Too bad for them. They knew it was a bug and thought they could get away with it.

WRONG

Too harsh? What do you think? Maybe a little, but still , just don't do it.

groan wrote:

Too harsh? What do you think? Maybe a little, but still , just don't do it.

I'm not sure how I feel, or if I think it's too harsh, actually. I have no idea on the full scale (they mentioned hundreds of thousands, which is a bit extreme). I am, however, glad to see them being very active and communicative about this process.

The podcast has me interested in this, but I'm afraid of MMO life domination.

Scratched wrote:

Arenanet have been doing daily status updates on reddit (see this user), and regarding exploits:

Exploits - If you discover an exploit in the game, do not exploit it or publicize it, but instead notify us immediately at this new email address: exploits (at) arena (dot) net.

This morning there was a widely-publicized, newly-introduced exploit in which specific cultural weapons were selling for one-thousandth of their normal price. We fixed it with an emergency build this morning. We want to thank the vast majority of players who became aware of the issue, responsibly reported it, and did not exploit it. However, a smaller group of players did significantly exploit it, each purchasing hundreds or thousands of these weapons. We permanently banned 3,000 accounts of players who substantially exploited it, and applied 72-hours bans to another 1,000 accounts of players who mildly exploited it.

Kind of speaks for itself.

I think it was merph who was telling me about cultural weapons (I had no idea) so I went to find them. I see a HUGE crowd on the tier 2 vendor, thinking wow, that's a lot of people at level 60, then i check the 21karma price, someone says in /public that it was an exploit. Five minutes later, BAM! hotfix and it's gone.

But again, this game isn't super gear-centric. It's stupid to do this obvious exploit too.

That wasn't me... but yeah, people... just like in real life, if something sounds too good to be true, report it as a bug.

Except the button that automatically delivers collectables to your bank. That's legitimate.

This is awesome. I can't log back in because of the email verification thing. I never received the email so I couldn't click on said link. Super...

That reddit link is funny. People that are complaining are posting their account name and the rep comes back - 123, 237, 358, 2137!

I mean if you bought a couple for your character whatever but when you do it >100 times? You are trying to capitalize on the exploit.

Yowzers! They just posted they are putting a hold on their 1st party sales of the game until the starting areas thin out!

karmajay wrote:

That reddit link is funny. People that are complaining are posting their account name and the rep comes back - 123, 237, 358, 2137!

I mean if you bought a couple for your character whatever but when you do it >100 times? You are trying to capitalize on the exploit.

Apparently an Anet employee revealed the actual rule they were using on another forum: if you bought less than 40 they left you alone (maybe with a warning), 40-100 you got a 3-day ban, over 100 got banned permanently. The idea seems to have been that if you just thought "that looks cool" and bought a few for your own characters you weren't in trouble, but if you bought them by the hundred it was pretty obvious that you knew perfectly well it was cheating.

It looks like ArenaNet is offering a contingent second chance.

Thus, just this once, we will offer to convert permanent bans to 72-hour suspensions. Should those involved want to accept this offer of reinstatement, contact us on our support website--support.guildwars.com—and submit a ticket through the "Ask a Question" tab. Please use the subject heading of "Karma Weapons Exploit Appeal", then confirm in the body of your ticket that you will delete any items/currency that you gained from the exploit. You should submit only one ticket. Once you have done so, we will lower your ban to 72 hours, and following your re-activation we will check your account to make sure that you have honored your commitment. If that commitment is not hindered, we will re-terminate the account.

This is a first and final warning. Moving forward, please make sure you that when you see an exploitable part of the game, you report it and do not attempt to benefit from it.

karmajay wrote:

Yowzers! They just posted they are putting a hold on their 1st party sales of the game until the starting areas thin out!

My Sylvari Guardian just left his starting area. So I'm helping there.

But I just started a Asuran Necromancer, have a level 5 human ranger, and hope to try a few more races/classes out soon. So, yeah, not so much helping there.

Aeazel wrote:

It looks like ArenaNet is offering a contingent second chance.

Thus, just this once, we will offer to convert permanent bans to 72-hour suspensions. Should those involved want to accept this offer of reinstatement, contact us on our support website--support.guildwars.com—and submit a ticket through the "Ask a Question" tab. Please use the subject heading of "Karma Weapons Exploit Appeal", then confirm in the body of your ticket that you will delete any items/currency that you gained from the exploit. You should submit only one ticket. Once you have done so, we will lower your ban to 72 hours, and following your re-activation we will check your account to make sure that you have honored your commitment. If that commitment is not hindered, we will re-terminate the account.

This is a first and final warning. Moving forward, please make sure you that when you see an exploitable part of the game, you report it and do not attempt to benefit from it.

Too kind.

scrub wrote:
Aeazel wrote:

It looks like ArenaNet is offering a contingent second chance.

Thus, just this once, we will offer to convert permanent bans to 72-hour suspensions. Should those involved want to accept this offer of reinstatement, contact us on our support website--support.guildwars.com—and submit a ticket through the "Ask a Question" tab. Please use the subject heading of "Karma Weapons Exploit Appeal", then confirm in the body of your ticket that you will delete any items/currency that you gained from the exploit. You should submit only one ticket. Once you have done so, we will lower your ban to 72 hours, and following your re-activation we will check your account to make sure that you have honored your commitment. If that commitment is not hindered, we will re-terminate the account.

This is a first and final warning. Moving forward, please make sure you that when you see an exploitable part of the game, you report it and do not attempt to benefit from it.

Too kind.

No doubt. The number of items to avoid a ban was very lax in and of itself. At least the problem was mostly taken care of. Do the people who weren't banned have to give back the items at all?

A little spoiler-ific if you like exploring. A very fun recreation in LA. Don't watch past the three minutes or so- will show you how to get there but not how to beat it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyJDW...

EDIT: Made it.

Spoiler:

Stick to the right, then fall forward to hit water at the end
Follow ghost
Some jumping puzzles....
Use AoE to illuminate the dark (or turn gamma to 10)
done!
http://imgur.com/kH9Gl

Quick question: will they be offering free transfers to other servers after the population evens out? I want to join my friends on a specific server but every American server minus four are at Full.

And does anyone know if the statuses will change depending on the time of day? I'll try logging in early tomorrow if I have to.

Overall I think it's a good thing that there's a few thousand heads on spikes outside GW2's walls now to make some people think twice. Something I'm a bit concerned about, and I guess this isn't related to GW2, is the amount of people who thought they would get away with it, or thought because "it's arenanet's fault, not mine" that it's okay. I think doing the bans was probably a way for Arenanet to avoid doing a rollback, selectively (which would have been a ton of work, in addition to punishment) or across the entirety of GW2 (because it will contaminate the wider economy) which would have kicked up a big sh*tstorm and negative publicity for their young game.

I'm seeing a load of people 'thankful' that they could get their account back through appeal, but I know they'll be back for the next exploit with a different system. I guess you can tie this into the whole 'gamer entitlement' debate which is a great big murky area.

"The Black Lion Trading Post worked for a few days during the head start and was taken down on August 28th, 2012, and then was tested on August 29th, 2012, on a randomly selected 15% of the player population. On the 30th, the trading post was tested on a different group of 25%."

So THAT's what's been going on.

And once they get the overflows and "guesting" system all worked out, you'll be able to group across servers. At that point the only thing your server really matters for is WvW.

I grouped with a friend on a different server yesterday. Worked fine.

JohnnyMoJo wrote:
And once they get the overflows and "guesting" system all worked out, you'll be able to group across servers. At that point the only thing your server really matters for is WvW.

I grouped with a friend on a different server yesterday. Worked fine.

You must have both been in the same overflow. I guess? Is there another way this could work?

Luggae wrote:

Also: I installed off of 2 DVDs and still have to download 2-3GB of patches? WTF?!

Did you expect the DVDs to receive new files from inside the case?

Luggage wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

The podcast has me interested in this, but I'm afraid of MMO life domination.

Same here. Much to my surprise, my girlfriend presented me with the game when I got home yesterday. I figure a little bit can't hurt...

Also: I installed off of 2 DVDs and still have to download 2-3GB of patches? WTF?!

Not subscription fees. Stop and pickup whenever you want.

Luggage, whatever was on that DVD was probably a month old. This is an MMO where patches are daily atm, that's why there's so much to download.

Anybody manage to take down that fire elemental in northwest Metrica? I spent an hour or so on my thief (Davvit) trying to figure it out last night. The best I could do was about 45s before getting running out of dodge power (whatever its called) and getting toasted. Can it even be attacked with melee weapons? I was getting crushed whenever I got close so I switched to dual pistols.

caterin6 wrote:

Anybody manage to take down that fire elemental in northwest Metrica? I spent an hour or so on my thief (Davvit) trying to figure it out last night. The best I could do was about 45s before getting running out of dodge power (whatever its called) and getting toasted. Can it even be attacked with melee weapons? I was getting crushed whenever I got close so I switched to dual pistols.

I'm not high enough on my asura to have been part of that fight yet, but I hear the wails of anguish on my server's map chat too.

Luggage wrote:

Also: I installed off of 2 DVDs and still have to download 2-3GB of patches? WTF?!

Yeah, I am waiting patiently for my new monthly cap to update. Could be worse, I bought the complete WoW collection when Cataclysm launched, mostly because I figured the Cata client would be fairly current. That was a 9 gig update. I still haven't even used any of the WoW keys.