Wygram

Just about the worst possible timing for me. Funny the link worked fine for me and I refuse to belong to any "social" networking site. How about http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2

Darn looking at you screen shot they are definitely going to have to either increase the size or number of servers. I will go with the guild even if I get stuck with a fee, I enjoy the heck out of running around with you, Kiy and especially the Lt. (sorry Max, but you make even dieing funny). Just found this via the link to Guildwars2 on facebook http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2 . "Pre-Purchase with 3-Day Headstart: Everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will enjoy three full days of Headstart Access. The three-day Headstart Access will officially begin at 0:00 AM Pacific time (GMT -7:00) on August 25th. However, please note that in order to ensure that we’re fully prepared for that fateful hour we may bring servers online up to 3 hours prior. If you’re a player committed to getting in first to grab that character name of your dreams you’ll want to be keeping an eye on things during that time period." Guess who will be attempting to log in late Friday (CDT) starting at about 23:00 Friday.

I will attempt to attend. I need another fix. :cha (18):

Actually Kiy, I believe those ranking are just ranked according to number of guilds not the population of said guilds - but I have been wrong before. Looking at what the guilds are listing their size is Darkhaven has one guild with 1000 members and several between 100 and 300, where Gate of Madness has four or so guilds with between 150 - 250 members. But I really don't know how valid those numbers are. Kind of toss up on grabbing a server using the data.

I would really like them to make some semi-offical comment about that again, they sometimes change their minds on some of the items being implemented and forget to tell us while they work on them behind the scenes. Hopefully I will not have to change servers after I log in at 0200 CDT on the 25th to get my character names. Where does the guild tentatively want us to be based as our server? Have our soon to be members given you any idea?

I know they've been reworking the traits for several professions. But since the headstart is in less than two weeks, I think it's safe to say that we'll barely see anymore major changes. Two things I noticed with today's update : -The ArenaNet logo in the launcher -A message that says that my graphics driver should be having issues with the game. I personally think I ran into far lesser issues than some of us did. My graphics driver is up-to-date anyways, so I guess we'll see how it will work out at headstart. Max About the graphic driver notification I found this at Reddit for GW2. Looks like Nvidia will be coming out with new drivers.

Love the notes.

(OK, is it just me, or is this getting ridiculous?) I really don't think one hour is going to help them a whole lot.

I can't wait to see how it would look like! I also recorded some footage from this stress test, I'll check if there's something useful into it. I noticed that Kiy, Lujate, Wygram & Ryan seemed to have much more issues than I did. I had a few rubberbanding here and there (maybe 10 or 15 total) and I got kicked one. But your experience seems to have been way worse than mine. Max I had the rubber-banding problem so bad I just quit. Nothing like it during any of BWEs or stress tests.

I think that worked for you because you are a Moderator. I am just a user so I believe I have to get invited. Unless something changed in my absence, an invite should not be required. It should be open to anyone with the password. I got there

I think that worked for you because you are a Moderator. I am just a user so I believe I have to get invited.

Maybe I missed something or there's been a lot of action with C3 lately, but here's my C3 screen right now : I just read that there's another Stress Test today : 4PM to 8PM Pacific Time, we'll go on c3 to see what's going on. Max I wish mind did. Did you invite anyone?

Actually since the AH / trading post (whatever) is not based on the server but is game wide the population of the world is not really an issue for selection of a server. This removes items 2, 3 and 4 from the selection process. But the other points are all valid.

I will as usual attempt to be there, might not be much help but I try.

It will be nice to have some new players and ideas in our group of misfits - oops I was talking about myself not my fellow players.

It may also be that GW2 will either add more servers or increase the number of people on the existing servers (increased capacity). But who knows at this point.

When you and Kiy were talking about the graphic problem I seemed to be just fine.

Kiyeri, I tossed a question in the stress test to you but you must have missed it. Did you look at C3 today? I logged in but our GW2 sub channel was missing. Anyone have any idea what happen? Looks like we will have to re-do the sub channel. I would like to make a suggestion that we make the sub channel "FDM GW2" so it is easier to search for. Just an idea something like ******** everyone has one.

I hope they can solve their problems before the 25th.

Rats, I will miss you and all the laughing we had.

Another short notice stress test. http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/08/guild-wars-2-pops-another-stress-test-tomorrow/ See some of you tomorrow. God I miss playing this game.

Another patch today, looks like this will be happening just about everyday.

While searching for more information on influence I came across this on a forum in GW2Guru. Everyone seemed to think this was the way influence worked as implemented in GW2. Influence is always assigned directly to your current guild. The interface may be a bit confusing on this matter, since it will also show you what you have earned for the guild, but the Influence isn't yours at any point. So long as you represent a guild, almost anything you do will earn your guild Influence at varying rates, be that completing events, hearts, winning PvP matches, taking over keeps etc. I think even crafting XP gains you some. This pool of Influence that you helped earn can then be spent by anyone in the guild with the right permissions. If you don't have those perms, your Influence is still not wasted though, as they will be spending from the pool yours (and everyone elses) has gone into. The permissions exist since, considering the limits on how much you can build at once and the time it may take to complete, guild leadership may very well have some ideas about what to get in which order, and allowing anyone to spend it may put those plans on hold for a bit. Influence will only buy the options listed under the guild; There are not special personal Influence vendors, again since unlike Karma and Gold you don't actually have any of it personally. It does make some sense, any ideas?

At times Arenanet's lack of an official forum really upsets me, especially this close to launch. This is a question that they should provide information for, yet looking at the wiki and several of the GW2 forums I can find nothing about the lost of influence when in multiple guilds.

Darn, I check ay about 5:00 CDT and nothing. Thanks for the update.