Posts by bsoltan

  • Chat Filter - Filter out gold spammers.

    Thanks to the last two posts, this is now working nicely for me;

  • Double posts in private messages

    I came to explain how it was working in Messages, but it is exactly as Red Fireball explains. Looks like it hasn't worked but it has sent the message just the screen hasn't refreshed although when you do refresh your message still appears in the box as if you're about to post.

    edit: Yep and just like above it happened when replying to this thread for me too. xD

  • Gaile Gray - No longer employed by ANet

    I was looking up something and got to Gaile's wiki page.

    https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Gaile_Gray

    Quote

    What's your history with ArenaNet?

    I started with ArenaNet in September 2000. Today, I am Employee #2, after Mike O'Brien, our president. I was thrilled when the ArenaNet Co-Founders -- Mike, Pat, and Jeff -- reached out to me to invite me to join the team. The fact that ArenaNet looked at community relations as a critical part of their company, and not as something that could be added just before the release of a game, was refreshingly different. A continued interest in and novel level of community input and engagement remains a cornerstone of ArenaNet to this day. Of course, joining so early means I was answering fan letters and working on communications long before Guild Wars was even announced. All and all, I've been interacting with players, liaising with the dev team, and communicating about the company and the game for 18 years, and I'm still as excited about my job as I was in the early days.

    I didn't know she was the second employee. A shame to go out with this 'cloud' over the company.

  • CLOSED OS q8 Oni Daggers, OS q9 +5en, q7 AL15 Tall Shield, Clean Earth Staff

    Going for an epic Eigth Bump. Saturday 23rd Feb 00:15

    I'll try and contact people on Sunday.

    (I also deleted the old bumps to clean up the thread)

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    Seventh Bump Thursday 21st Feb 12:37

    Sixth Bump Tuesday 19th Feb 20:50

    Fifth Bump Saturday 16th Feb 18:51.
    Fourth bump Friday 15th Feb 16:24.
    Third bump Thursday 14th Feb 13:01.
    Second bump Wednesday 13th Feb 12:41.

    First bump Sunday 10th Feb 12:41.

  • ArenaNet Layoffs - Feb 2019

    Made this into a new thread as it is a big enough topic to not be caught up in the other one.

    It is a huge shame that a developer has to reduce it's staff, hopefully the people effected by the restructuring manage to find new jobs quickly. I wonder if the new things they were working on were new IPs or more tangents of the GW World.

    https://uk.ign.com/articles/2019/…not-be-affected

    At least some better news as GW fans in this recent article on IGN where ArenaNet are quoted saying that this restructuring won't affect GW and GW2.

    Quote

    ArenaNet send IGN the following statement:
    "We can confirm that due to the cancellation of unannounced projects, ArenaNet will make staff reductions. This is part of a larger organizational restructuring within NCSOFT in the west, but the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 game services will not be affected, nor is any upcoming game content canceled."

    Sadly as companies reach the end of financial years they review the last year's performance and make the business decisions to move the future in the direction they want to go.

  • GW Launcher vs GW Multilaunch

    I switched to KAOS's GW Launcher a few weeks ago after being sceptical and having used GW MultiLaunch since it came out.

    It works flawlessly for using multiple accounts, and has the added benefit that you can setup multiple accounts to run from the same .dat file. I think it has the option to use the same .dat for ALL accounts but that brings with it in-game limitations.

    The only issue with it is that it has to launch in Administrator mode for every game which is just extra hassle but I can understand why.

    The biggest one though is unlike GW MultiLaunch there isn't a way to setup a client to launch without adding your login information. This is only a concern as you're putting your login information into a 3rd party application. I'm sure the application isn't recording/sending the data but that's what put me off using it initially. I just use it for storage accounts and not my main one.

    Updated edit 12th June - Today I was told that you don't actually h ave to put any login details in. If you just link it to an executable then it will launch the client with out any login information. This is good news!

  • The remaining GW1 community is very bad.

    It is a shame that a lot of the information and discussion from ArenaNet has been lost over the years what with guildwars.com being streamlined and links removed, and GWGuru going down. They used to post there and discuss things. I'm sure some things can be picked out of the wiki but it is a bit of a pain to trawl through to find things.

    I've considered doing a regular look-back at certain updates in GW's history and pull together the info such as updates, balance changes etc. so that players these days have a form of reference for the history of the game and how things have changed. It is just rather time consuming to start!

    I saw your reddit post, I replied there too but it was a rather long reply. :D


    OSRS was splintered off from RuneScape 2/3 due to the falling population in the game, a game still financed by monthly fees and adverts from what I understand. Since Guild Wars was planned in to be in maintenance mode whether 100'000 people or 100 people play I don't see how that would make any difference, that's not to say it wouldn't be nice but the business decision was probably made 10years ago.

    There is also the risk that as GW doesn't bring in income from ads/subs that ArenaNet could just cut their losses and close it (as RuneScape Classic), or even NCSoft's other titles like City of Heroes which HAD a monthly fee and they still shut it down.

  • The remaining GW1 community is very bad.

    Quote from Saxazax

    Because GW2 was a big graphical, gameplay, and content update from GW1, but Arenanet barely supports their old game. RuneScape 3 was also a big graphical, gameplay, and content update, but they went back and supported OSRS and just had a $50k tournament--the game is played in a browser with very simple graphics. People have told me that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode right now, and I can understand that.

    My understanding is that Oldschool RuneScape is just a previous version of RuneScape 3, (a game they change the name of when the do major updates). Their old game is RuneScape Classic, which imo would make it a better comparison.

    Which people have said that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode? I would have thought maintenance mode was planned in during the development (and future) of GW2? Implemented nearly six years ago, but must have been planned way before that.

    I dug out some articles about the maintenance mode news, these are from May 2013.

    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/21/gui…lted-automated/

    https://www.engadget.com/2013/05/17/are…automates-game/

    http://mmofallout.com/guild-wars-is-in-maintenance-mode/

    Here's the post from guildwars.com I found on the internet archive

  • The remaining GW1 community is very bad.

    Quote from Saxazax

    It is a fact that Arenanet has all but walked out on GW1. Jagex, on the other hand, just had a $20k prize for first place in a PvP tournament in Oldschool, yes, you read right, Oldschool RuneScape. They still release content for that game, fix bugs, and police it. Now, it is true that there are just as many botters and cheater in OSRS as there are in GW. It is true that every game has them, whether the company is supporting the game or not. I mean, I can live without big ol' content updates and still play GW1, because it's a challenging game, intricate, and I've invested so much time and know so much about it. But as far as making an art of theorycrafting builds like I used to do on PvX, somehow learning something I could take with me in a career as a game designer; or as far as taking pride in in-game achievements--these things I am caring about less and less.

    This is not really related, but I think we would better spend thousands of hours learning, playing, and mastering games that we know will be around forever, and hold some real-world prestige beyond the stories we tell about the game to friends and family.

    Is there a reason why you compare Guild Wars to Oldschool RuneScape rather than RuneScape Classic?

    I don't know any online based games that are guaranteed to be around forever. Many have disappered over the last few years.

  • New campaign for Guild Wars 1, we can make it happen if there is a will.

    Quote from Izzy

    But we never get an official answer if they have even thought about it or if it`s posible. There`s still people working in Anet that worked on GW1. And i guess they have some sort of guides for things they develop, because you never know when a guy is gonna leave the company.

    It feels like a dream. Just post this kind of stuff in reddit and quote Bill and company.

    Sure we do, the official answer is: there is no development for Guild Wars.

    Why would they make guides for a game they no longer support?? Most of the people have left the company and the few that remain that did some work on GW don't know enough.

    Yes it is a dream. You're right about that.

  • Guide: Using the gwbb tag to display builds and skills

    Legacy Forum has a built in gwbb code displayer!

    It will display builds & skills like this:

    Build

    [build=OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W]

    Skill

    [Fire Storm]


    The skills in individual and builds have a tooltip (hover-over) so you can see the name and details of the skill. You can also copy the build code from within a build post as well as see the primary and secondary professions.

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    Guide

    The post toolbar has an icon just for this as well:

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    Build Code [OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W]

    1. Copy the full build code to your clipboard. (OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W)

    2. Press the 9bdAljT.png button or type out the gwbb [open] and [/close] tags as below

    2a. Use the following syntax:

    Code
    [gwbb][build=<buildcode>][/gwbb]

    3. Replace <buildcode> with what is on your clipboard so it looks like this:

    Code
    [gwbb][build=OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W][/gwbb]

    4. Done! Finish and Submit your post.

    5. IMPORTANT! To display you need to refresh the page, this is a limitation of the script for the gwbb code, so after submitting make sure to refresh the page.

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    Individual Skills [Fire Storm]

    1. Find the full name of the skill using the skill text or GWWiki. (Fire Storm)

    2. Press the 9bdAljT.png button or type out the gwbb [open] and [/close] tags as below

    2a. Use the following syntax:

    Code
    [gwbb][<skillname>][/gwbb]

    3. Replace <skillname> with the name of the skill so it looks like :

    Code
    [gwbb][Fire Storm][/gwbb]

    4. Done! Finish and Submit your post.

    5. IMPORTANT! To display you need to refresh the page, this is a limitation of the script for the gwbb code, so after submitting make sure to refresh the page.


    It's as simple as that! (Don't forget to refresh page after each submission/edit).

    I hope that helps with skill and build posts. Any questions or suggestions just ask.

  • CLOSED OS q8 Oni Daggers, OS q9 +5en, q7 AL15 Tall Shield, Clean Earth Staff

    CLOSED

    Selling some items.

    Remember to abide by the Xunlai Market Rules.

    1. Clean q9 Earth Staff (core skin) s/b 1e c/o 5e - Hrwakka SOLD

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    2. OS q9 Zodiac Axe +5 energy s/b 5e c/o 65e Flint Lightning SOLD

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    3. OS q9 Jade Sword +5 energy s/b 10e c/o 10e Moon SOLD

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    4. OS q8 Oni Daggers Damage +20% while Hexed s/b 20e c/o 150e Crazedhealer Contacted

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    5. Inscribable q7 AL15 Tall Shield, Blue s/b 20e c/o 50e buddyleex SOLD

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  • Is the quest 'Seeking the Seer' missable?

    No, you can still get to the outpost and do the mission without taking the quest.

    I don't see any mention that it stops you getting the quest if you've already reached the outpost or done the mission but it is something that could easily be confirmed.

    I think it means you may have accepted it but as it doesn't show up in your quest log in-game it wouldn't have been easy to identify to tick-off when you did complete it.

  • What would you like from Legacy?

    Quote from Rushin Roulette

    One very small thing Id like to see would be an addition to the "Armbraces to ecto" rate display on the forum overview page to include the Ecto/Zkeys exchange rate.

    Over the years Zkeys seem to have transitioned from Chest title opening items to a completely parallel payment method for mid to high end trades.

    This is interesting, and with my comment above as well about Ecto to Plat added.

    So we could have
    Ecto : Platinum
    Ecto : Zaishen Key

    Ecto : Ambrace

    Question is, how can this be defined in order to stay accurate enough to rely on it. Do we need to canvass people who are involved in the game/trades on a regular basis? Ecto:Platinum isn't too bad because you could just take the mean between Trader Buy & Sell, but the others are harder to define.

    Sadly no API for GW so it all has to be done manually too.

  • What would you like from Legacy?

    Quote from Mr Crow

    I thought I was transparent with the alliance project since I've talked about it last year on both Facebook and this website, there just isn't a lot of interest.

    Yes the discord over all is still linked to FB & this site.

    I'm open to suggestions on how to be more transparent in regards to the alliance project.

    Maybe I missed the info could you link to it?

    Quote from cosyfiep

    I will comment on the Xunlai idea of tags and having multiple threads...it didnt work on guru if you remember bsolt (as you were a mod at the time they were around if I remember correctly)...ultimately we got rid of them and got rid of high end as there just wasnt enough threads.

    We will, however, look into a better way to 'tag' threads in Xunlai.....

    Well, it helped to identify threads iirc but like you say people would still mix up the contents or there wasn't enough to justify it. I doesn't mean it couldn't be implemented in a better way or work better now. The times I look at Xunlai forum I see more and more threads for high-end items worth lots of Ecto and not so much the low-end. We don't need a split forum which there may have been at one point too but as an improvement for people that don't want to click on every thread to know if they can afford what may be mentioned. It's just a thought though, may not be feasible as you say. :)

  • What would you like from Legacy?

    Some of the things below I'm thinking of as I write so sorry its a bit long and rambling!

    Chat

    Chat boxes just get filled with spam, and a bit like the Off-Topic forum couldn't that be used? Or if you want more of a live discussion then theres a Legacy Discord and GW Global Discord. Sure you need another account but it can be accessed in web browser, it is linked to from here and is already populated and moderated and most importantly active.

    On the topic of Discord; what is happening with the Guild Wars Legacy Discord? Is it linked to this site any more? Is it linked to GW Legacy Guild/Alliance? Is it linked to the GW New Hope group? Mr Crow seems to have set things up but it hasn't been very transparent.

    Forum Layout

    Forum wise I think there should be less sub-forums, not more. The current ones could even be consolidated.

    For the Builds and Content; Individual, Team, Farming, Speed Clearing could all be put in one that then becomes more active.

    Can we bring back the labels/tags for threads? That way you could have one Subforum with tags to identify the threads. Individual/Team/SC/Farm/Chest Run etc.

    That way you don't have multiple low activity Sub-Forums but have an easy visual for the topic of individual threads.

    Streaming and Video and Creative Works could be combined into one as well.

    I don't think it is necessary to have as many/the same sub-forums as GWGuru used to have. There just isn't enough disucssion and content these days to have it separated out.

    Guru Archive

    Is it possible for you to see how many hits the Guru Archive gets and which parts of it as to its usefulness? Would it be useful to remake guides and information on Legacy and remove access to them on Archive if it is a lot of space/cost to upkeep. Maybe having a Guru Archive while historic isn't the best because it means people don't have to create new content.

    Guides

    Alot of PvE players are making interesting guides and build theories to try and now optimise and improve as much as possible, but people have taken to using PvX and GWSC wikis(?) (wikii?) for creating build guides rather than posting them here. Could cross-posting even be considered as it might make them easier to find and be commented on/discussed with different areas of the community. Maybe discuss that with the people making them. I see Krschkr used to post some Team Builds on Legacy but now posts to PvX and Reddit.

    Xunlai/Trading

    The trading forum seems like the most active part of the forum, could there be any improvements made there? I see that auctions are mentioned in this thread, but trading via forum always seemed to be preferrable.

    You have in the sidebar the trading rate of Ambraces to Ecto; how often is that updated/how accurate is it? Is it possible to do the same thing for Platinum to Ecto?

    These days a lot of people seem to trade in Ecto, even for items that are lower-end. I think it would give some clarity to that for people that might want to do trading but don't have stacks of Ecto and aren't au fait with daily trading rates.

    As with the thread tags I mentioned above, could they be introduced for Selling threads to identify when peope are selling really high-end stuff. Allow people to have two threads one in each tag so they can list things and people have an idea of prices.

    One of the things with GW trading is it can take a long time to understand the market, not just the price of something but what is worth something and what isn't.

    This would be something an auction based site could do if it tracks prices and can average them, but being able to accurately price-check items based on what they're sold for could be really handy.

    Forum Content

    Mods forum should be renamed to In-Game Modifications/Applications for clarity. Put in some effort to find, host, and explain the more useful texmods. Make a proper guide for setting up and installing umod for GW with an FAQ. Have proper info and examples of the good texmods as Wiki isn't the easiest place to find info and is pretty outdated. You could also have a request a texmod option if there are people out there that would make such things. Now that we're into the stage of the game where QoL things are much more handy people may have good ideas vs turning your bow into a banana.

    Legacy General

    What is the Articles link in the heading in comparison to the Legacy News forum, couldn't just one be used?

    Social Media link on the heading only links to Facebook groups, could that be renamed?

    There are 8 people in the 'Legacy Team'/Moderators but I don't think it is that clear what their roles are and how they are involved. Guru used to show the forum moderators on the forum list but this forum doesn't do that. Maybe a page/post with the brakedown of their involvement.

    There was a lot of commentary and discussion about the recent Wintersday competition teaser on Reddit/Discord. Some thought into how to publicise future Legacy events with a decent level of transparency.