Talk:Game updates/20060313

Directly from: http://www.guildwars.com/aboutgw/networknews/ Due to a server error, Guild Wars experienced an unintentional reset of the traders. For nearly an hour, traders were selling items at unrealistically low prices. Due to the harmful impact that such an event would cause to the game economy, we are rolling back the entire state of the game to shortly before the problem began, that is, to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, 21:00 GMT.


 * Oh, boogers! :( --Karlos 07:21, 14 March 2006 (CST)
 * FYI, this is also on the login screen now. --Karlos 07:22, 14 March 2006 (CST)

ANet seriously need some QA for their update descriptions. They are full of typos. It looks like ANet themselves don't know exactly how the quests/locations/items in the game are called. It's Heroes' Ascent, not Hero's Ascent. -- 03:55, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * True. We can't keep the official wording in the wiki as the links wouldn't work. What a pitty. 04:19, 14 March 2006 (CST)

OMG OMG OMG
Shards 250 gold, Rubies and Sapphires 500 gold, runes 250 gold!! lol ANet has broken the bank!!! :) --Karlos 05:50, 14 March 2006 (CST)

Update: ANet has sent the troops to restore order in Lion's Arch!! All travel is now disabled, all traders show nothing!! A curfew is in place, marshall law has been activated!! Stay tuned! --Karlos 06:06, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * "That was our reporter on the street, keeping us informed with no regards to his own safty. We will be returning to our regularly scheduled programming shortly, but may break in again as more information becomes available."  --Rainith 06:12, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * "All travel is now disabled, all traders show nothing!" I can confirm this. I was just in LA and I couldn't leave the district or leave the city.  The rune trader had nothing for sale, but that's the only trader I talked to.  I logged out to switch characters and I couldn't go on any of them.  I got an error(code=13) instead. Noob4sure 06:22, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Rumors are flying all over the place. There is now talk of a Rollback of the game data to where it was last night. This means my friend who found rago's staff an hour go gets shafted, but the economy gets saved. This also means the 100 shards, 100 gems and busloads of runes I bought for peanuts will also fly out the window! *sniff*
 * Currently, if you step out of any out post, you can actually walk into the adjacent ecplorable areas with no monsters around! Or, you get a silly message that you're waiting to enter mission, even if the outpost has no mission. --Karlos 06:28, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * I'd like to point out that the last time this happened, A-net simply went on pretending nothing had happened, and prices dropped by about 1/4, haven't recovered fully since. Zerris 07:03, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Well, I can't log in (Error code 13) so I miss all the fun.. again. - Evil_Greven 06:29, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Update: Guildwars.com is down! Guru is down! It's anarchy!! There are now reports of people seeing Gaile Gray running around with shards falling out of her pockets!!
 * This just in: After 1000 tried and Code=13 errors, I have succeeded in moving to Beetletun from ToA! YES!! --Karlos 06:35, 14 March 2006 (CST)
 * Guru Forums are up for me. I just tried logging in and got an error though(code=072). Noob4sure 06:38, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Yes it is our sad duty today at GuildWiki to report that the end of the world is upon us. The instability that started with ArenaNet's latest patch to their popular Guild Wars game has now spread to Guild Wars fansites including our own.  Experts predict that it is only a matter of time before this instability crosses into the real world.  Repent, the end is nigh!
 * :P --Rainith 06:40, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Well, Rainith, dear viewers, I am afraid I have been forcebly removed from the game and now sit at the login screen staring at a Code=72 error screen! What will become of Gwen?! Will we ever know?! --Karlos 06:45, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * 5 ectos* say that Gwen was behind this to begin with.
 * at current market value.
 * --Rainith 06:51, 14 March 2006 (CST)

Situation is the same in Ascalon and presumably all other Cities with Traders. Will this disastor spell the end for the Tyrian Economy? More updates as events occur. Zerris 06:15, 14 March 2006 (CST)

What they need to do is make fixed costs of: minor 100, major 500, and sup 1000. That way everyone is happy, even farmers because they get decent amounts of money from major and sup runes. | Chuiu 06:27, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * You wanna compare 1000 gold to 87,000 gold in terms of profit? :) It's obvious to me that ANet is run by three 14 year old boys who like to farm Ettins for runes and two Korean monks who like to farm for Ecto. It's very blatant. :) --Karlos 07:42, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Well this gives me time to catch up on my reading. Wait a minute, I don't read!! I need my Guild Wars! Its the curse of Gwen. Why didn't ANet just finish her storyline? Why, O'Why? Next time I try to log in and I see something like "You have 7 days", I'm gonna freak. --Gares Redstorm 07:34, 14 March 2006 (CST)

G'damnit. I cap like 3 elites last night in some retarded bout of luck - easy as pie. Never been as easy to cap three in a row in so little time. Now things are getting rolled back to 1Pm PST/4Pm EST? Gah. Gah. There go those gold armor salvages, too. Gah. The one night my luck turns for the better. Gah. Evan The Cursed (Talk) 11:42, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Your name is Evan The Cursed :D. Just kidding. Elites can be gotten back, but sorry for the items loss. I only lost a mission/bonus complete. --Gares Redstorm 11:59, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Aye. Though I haven't gotten so many elites in one night for so long... figures the one time I get on.  And too bad about the runes too, more than a few vigors I got legitly.  Well, at the very least, it was nothing I unlocked (besides the elites which, like you said I can get back sooner or later).  You know, it just takes the spirit outta ya... Evan The Cursed (Talk) 15:40, 14 March 2006 (CST)
 * Actually, it appears I have 2 of the 3 elites. Odd.... very odd.  Makes me feel better at least =D  Evan The Cursed (Talk) 15:55, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * I lost a few thousand faction. I was blissfully owning with a Spanish group in TA. I wondered where all the decent guild groups had got to. We fought the same poor ranger spike team twice in a row. Ah well. Didn't affect me hard, apart from the loss of GW play time! Shandy 18:03, 14 March 2006 (CST)

For someone who has been away from a PC for a few days can someone summerise what happened? Price reset on all runes, materials etc then ANet rolled back the servers? 18:27, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Price reset on MOST runes and rare materials (A few things which didn't reset: Sup healing prayers, ectos, sup marks). People bought them in a frenzy and sold a lot of ectos to get more money to buy stuff (Ecto price dropped from 9 to 6k I believe). A lot of scammers (dozens of them) tried to sell the runes for 'only 5k' or something. Soon all traders shut down, then map travel and the servers. Then everyhing was reset about 1hour back, so no problems with economy now. 18:33, 14 March 2006 (CST)

Humans are scammers
This update should have been recorded as living proof that humans are scammers. I found out about the update through a guildie (I was blissfully killing drakes in the desert), who saw a guy selling a Superior Aborption rune for like 30k. So, he went to the city to see what it was down to before buying it and saw the crisis. So, he told me, we both bought shards and gems and runes for us and the guild and the entire planet. Then I go to ToA and there are DOZENS of people trying to sell Shards for 2k, runes for 20k and so forth. It was disheartening. Humans are scammers.. :( I think I will hang out with Tengu and Charr more often. --Karlos 08:02, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Now you know why I have essentially given up on PvE. 08:19, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Its not PvE thats the problem. Its greedy people within the game always trying to make a buck. PvE is very relaxing, its when I go into a town, thats when I start getting a headache. I'm sure it's like that in PvP in the staging areas before you go in too. --Gares Redstorm 08:29, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Nah. PvP towns are all about rank and talking big. Very zzzz. --Karlos 08:34, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Hypocrites, mostly. The people of this nation always talk about fighting corruption, exploitation, elitism, etc while they simultaneously show they are corrupt, exploiting others, and discriminating. | Chuiu 09:29, 14 March 2006 (CST)
 * Which nation? Kryta or Ascalon? o_O" -PanSola 13:03, 14 March 2006 (CST)
 * Meh. People everywhere have good and bad sides, and crisis brings out craziness in everyone.
 * In particular, in this case, the primary people being hurt were, well, the NPC economy, in people's minds (by their own actions, anyway -- people who bought runes for 100P were obviously hurt, but not by player actions).
 * --JoDiamonds 09:55, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Yeah, I heard Murgur in Droknar's Forge is suing for damages. :) --Karlos 10:06, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Been part of all the craze in Heroes' Ascent. Started out with people selling sup vigor for 5k (Karlos is right about the scams), and a run on the rune trader shortly after. Interestingly, some few runes stayed at high prices. In the end I am very glad that they rolled it back (despite loosing a set of sup vigor runes hehe). Letting this go unchanged would have basically devived GW into the lucky rich people who where online and the unlucky offline people, who could never hope to catch up. --Xeeron 18:44, 14 March 2006 (CST)

Shouts & Stances
While testing out the +1 Strength shield, I've noticed multiple times that Bull's Charge (stance) goes byebye if I use IWAY (shout). Is this new? - Evil_Greven 14:55, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Hasn't that always been the case? The skill desc reads "Bull's Charge ends if you use a skill", and IWAY is a skill. 14:56, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Oh, hahaha. You're right of course. There I go again not seeing what's right in front of me. - Evil_Greven 14:57, 14 March 2006 (CST)


 * Not only that, but you are falsely accusing the poor harmless game update!! Shame on you! --Karlos 17:49, 14 March 2006 (CST)