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Update - Friday June 22
Alliance Battles
To encourage active players in Alliance Battles, we have adjusted the faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:
* During the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point and 10 Balthazar faction per kill.
* After the battle, players will now earn 1 faction point for each point scored by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 1,000 faction points.
Competitive Missions
To encourage active players in Competitive Missions, we have adjusted faction rewards, increasing the rewards for winning teams and decreasing the rewards for losing teams. The new rewards are as follows:
Jade Quarry
* After the mission, players will now earn 20 faction points for each jade slab collected by their team. Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 750 faction points.
Fort Aspenwood
After the mission, players will now receive the following rewards:
* Kurzick players will receive a faction point reward of two times the final completion percentage of the Vengeance of the Gods.
* Luxon players will receive 40 faction points for each unique gate destroyed during the mission.
* Players on the winning team will be awarded a further bonus of 600 faction points.
Auto Targeting
* Added the ability to toggle Auto Targeting. To enable and disable this feature, players can use the "Auto-target foes when there's no chosen target" checkbox in the General Options panel (F11).
* Auto Targeting will no longer select an item that is reserved for another player.
Miscellaneous
* Made preparations for the Monthly Automated Tournament Playoff Event.
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| 06/22/07 18:52 |
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Shuuga Da Bleeah
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kewl, that auto targeting was getting annoying
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| 06/22/07 19:38 |
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Tyvm for the info!
Edit: Auto targeting killed my entire party twice...
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| 06/22/07 19:39 |
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GodMode
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jade quarry has a 750 faction reward? was it always like this?
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| 06/22/07 21:07 |
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Brynden
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| QUOTE | | jade quarry has a 750 faction reward? was it always like this? |
No.....They just increased it to that in this update.
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| 06/22/07 21:15 |
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ByTe
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2 bad AB'S are like the most annoying thing in the world
let's all mob and run in circles ..woot
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| 06/22/07 21:56 |
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I can see how the update can deter the more intteligent and less belligerant ppl that afk in AB, but it won't stop the really lazy ppl that think 'w8, no i'll still get sum points for going nothing, hey i'll still do it' and the ppl that use bots will be the same...
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Also, this won't just hurt the ppl that are afking, it will hurt the other ppl on the 12 person team, they will get less because sum1 decided to ruin it for them.
Just my 2 pennies :D
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| 06/22/07 23:43 |
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aznese guy
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wow AB is now pointless...I really liked it where you actually had to WORK for a title in AB now its just an everday thing u see a defender or somethin
quit gw for good. end of story.
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| 06/22/07 23:45 |
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Toa Hahli
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Wow...just because of leechers we all have to suffer....nice Anet...very nice...
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| 06/23/07 01:22 |
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The Warrior Of Timi
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the charr bosses are also dropping charr salvage kits in pre-searing, good for all those LDoA's with runes
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| 06/23/07 02:05 |
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Aztec2250
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Good update in my opinion. I was getting tired of playing Fort Aspenwood with two other active players. Had a screenshot submitted of me and 2 others with 5 leavers. sucked. Hopefully this will help
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| 06/23/07 02:13 |
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Charlotte The Harlot
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| QUOTE | | wow AB is now pointless...I really liked it where you actually had to WORK for a title in AB now its just an everday thing u see a defender or somethin |
Dude friend of the luxon/kurz takes no skill for the faster methods its just very time consuming may as well make it shorter for someone who is doing a somewhat more challenging form of faction farm and wins.
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| 06/23/07 03:14 |
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Truemajeed
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how do you actually get faction quickly?
Total level 190/200
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| 06/23/07 05:36 |
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Shuuga Da Bleeah
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| QUOTE | | the charr bosses are also dropping charr salvage kits in pre-searing, good for all those LDoA's with runes |
best news ever
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| 06/23/07 07:00 |
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Lady Alica
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Well, after playing several matches in AB, I can say the new faction system is rubbish. Granted, you get 250 extra faction for winning...however, if you lose, you no longer get double faction. If you win, all's good. If you lose, you get practically squat. Anet may think that getting less faction may discourage leechers. What they fail to see is that leechers are still getting some faction for nothing. Until Anet start banning leechers, they will still exist.
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| 06/23/07 08:50 |
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Tha Golden Warrior
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| QUOTE | | Well, after playing several matches in AB, I can say the new faction system is rubbish. Granted, you get 250 extra faction for winning...however, if you lose, you no longer get double faction. If you win, all's good. If you lose, you get practically squat. Anet may think that getting less faction may discourage leechers. What they fail to see is that leechers are still getting some faction for nothing. Until Anet start banning leechers, they will still exist. |
yes.
anet FAILS when it comes to bots/leechers
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| 06/23/07 08:54 |
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Truemajeed
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hmm... not the whole time... but you're correct in general...
There's not that much which they can do...
NB that's where I saw Lady Alica, while faction farming for the luxon quest!
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| 06/23/07 09:42 |
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| QUOTE | | the charr bosses are also dropping charr salvage kits in pre-searing, good for all those LDoA's with runes |
Charr Salavge kits???? Im pretty sure thats a Charr bag.
Edit: Why did i not hear about these kits??? I just looked on wiki, WHEN did they implement this...HWY DID I LEAVE PRE TOO SOON!!
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| 06/23/07 11:03 |
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The change in faction for ab/fa/jade quarry is ridiclious. I was bonding in FA and my team was pretty pathetic, quite a few leechers and most of the rest were trying to cap luxon control points, anyways we ended up losing when the vengeance of the gods was just under 50%. I got 98 faction, I mean how pathetically low is that, I may as well just got the blessing and killed 10 enemies in HM. Plz change it back
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| 06/23/07 13:09 |
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Won't discourage Leechers IMO, they still get something for doing nothing...
Best way would be that people who remain in the luxon/kurzick base or stand still for a period of time that they just dont get points.
Sure, leechers would then move a bit around or so, and then get caught and killed over and over :P
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| 06/23/07 13:20 |
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Ok , 1 side of me sais: Good update and one side sais : Damn , Leechers getting also points now.
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| 06/23/07 13:26 |
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When the update 1st came out I thought the change to AB was not a good idea. Having seen it in action it is even worse than I 1st thought. Whether you win or lose rarely has anything to do with how well you perform. Since the groups are picked ramdomly, you have no control over events that can guarantee a loss no matter how well you play. Examples: People who have thier charactors in AB while they are away from thier computer. (To them it doesn't matter how little Faction they get, they got something w/o having to be there). Charactors that leave at the beginning of the battle for what ever reason. (Recently saw an AB battle where it was 12 on 2 after 15 seconds. Guess who won?) etc ...
It was OK before the update because even when you lost & you did not get as much Faction as winning, you still got a decent amount.
Now, it can be very depressing to play well with your group of 4, then realize you have no allies because 1 group is just standing in the base AFK Faction farming, the other group left because they saw the 1st group not doing anything, the other side is laughing at you while you are being killed again & again, & at the end of it all you get almost zip because of the update. Thanks but NO thanks. No more AB for me until it either changes back to the way it was or it is corrected some other way.
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| 07/02/07 02:30 |
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