Libertine Lush

Abstract Programming Interface

or Application Program Interface

https://en.wikipedia...mming_interface

Basically, you've written software that does something, and you want people to be able to call your code and use it, so you provide a way for them to interface with it.  Largely, on the Internet, it's used for accessing someone else's data (like Twitter has an API that lets you access and manipulate tweets), but in other cases, it can be used if someone's written something that can do some complex calculations.

In that context, it keeps people from spending extra time re-writing things someone else has already done, saving on levels of effort.

With this API, I could, in theory, create a web page for my server that knows about all the events happening, where, and when.  I keep asking ArenaNet for the information and update the web-page automagically so anytime someone visits it, they know instantly what events are happening at that moment.

Dark, on 11 May 2013 - 06:26 PM, said:

^

I would rather have some serious spvp updates. more maps and game modes!

Lydeck, on 07 May 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

It all comes from the same money bin.

Lordkrall, on 23 April 2013 - 02:17 PM, said:

You can sugar coat it all you want in your head. It doesn't mean it's going to make people like having to pay for custom arenas.

I, as a customer, don't care how they finance the servers. I was under the impression I would pay $60 for a game with good PvP. I honestly don't give a shit about their business model. If they think making people pay to play is going to win back PvP players then that's their choice. I'm not going to be one of them.

davadude, on 23 April 2013 - 02:14 PM, said:

I dunno? I played GW1 PvP for free and had custom matches - it was called a guild hall.

And there goes the philosophy that only cosmetic items will be sold in the shop...

What is wrong with all of you people going off the deep end just because the OP wants to know why LA takes much longer to load than the other zones? If you don't have an educated guess or something helpful to say, maybe you shouldn't be posting.

For the record, i've been experiencing the exact same phenomenon. LA has been taking longer to load for the last week or two. Longer than it used to and much longer to load than any other zone i've mapped into.

It is capped according to http://wiki.guildwar...iki/Monthly_PvP.

Lordkrall, on 23 March 2013 - 07:33 PM, said:

Those threads are awful short and the discussion doesn't seem that serious or thorough. The blog has no discussion at all. The support doesn't seem that overwhelming. Those threads were asking specifically for ranks, not necessarily progression, and they wanted buffs to non-combat interactions like MF, gold % increase, etc to go along with them.

Edit: Grammar.

I'm not so sure, Krallykins, most of the complaints I hear from players are about WvW's design, the night capping, server bloat, culling (which is thankfully being addressed), and general interactivity issues (i.e. "what's the point?"). I've never heard about issues with "progression." In fact there already is progression in that players need to level to 80 in order to get their exotics, and players complain about that all the time.

This kind of progression looks vertical. You even have an exp bar and wLvLs. What bothers me is that they insist this kind of grind will keep players engaged.

Kymeric, on 21 March 2013 - 09:15 PM, said:

I just levelled up a character though map kills/exploration only (constant lemon buff). It took me around 70 hours and 40% of the world map to get there.
That's not what I'd consider quick.

Hey all

I was just wondering what your opinions would be of an increased XP percentage (for a limited amount of time) for those people who have been logged out for more than a day. I believe it's a system the Lord of the Rings Online incorporated into their game, and I personally think it worked pretty well.

To explain it: you play the game normally, and then log out. If you go over 24 hours of not playing the game; the next time you log on, you have a boost in the xp you receive from everything. This only lasts for about an hour.

I personally think it might be a good idea to incorporate this system into Guild Wars 2 to make levelling much more accessible for those people who simply don't have the time to play every single day. They wouldn't have an advantage over other players - it would just be a small xp boost (like the xp boosts you receive from the gem store and black lion chests) to help them on their story.

After all, the game is very much based on your own personal story, yet you're constantly locked out of it because you're not the appropriate level. This system would be targeted more towards the people with busy lives, families, etc and would just allow them to play when they can and access their personal stories much more easily, rather than logging on and finding that they have to do another 10 events in order to access the next story mission.

This is all just my opinion, though. What do you guys think about it? Would it be a good system or bad? Why?