Sept 1st Update

Did you read the update on what's the live team up to?

I don't see why this comes as a surprise. And maybe it's just the first attempt to fix this. Further updates may contain further fixes.

Too bad they thought about that! The XTH change will occur in 3 steps and I bet the next step will only happen when all connected people have updated their build.

Ah ah!

very kool, now i can finally have the courtesy of landing in a team full of Americans. a thing I could luckily avoid by going to other districts.

at least there wont be many perfect synch teams anyore tho....i wonder if it outweighs the evil named above...

if that likelihood gets reduced down to around 10%, even with perfect timing, then i'd say anet has done a good enough job. there won't be anyone attempting a sync with that kind of success rate.

gg for killing sync teams... took u long enough

wut !

I haz a smile nao

It wasn't really, it was an exploit. Took AN years to fix it. Good job.
Also I'd like to take a sec and laugh at people who need a buddy (or even buddies) to win in a random competition. How bad can you get at the game?

Hope that doesn't somehow coincide with Vizunah Square syncing. That'd be depressing. :P

so we cross our fingers, toes, eyes etc and hope it all works (and that nic's rosetta stone lessons have been going well for him...maybe yakkington is teaching him)....

Am i the only one that wonders what has been changed in his "language skills"?

Greek is implemented in the system it seems, much like in [PC]

On the subject, it's nice to not have sync teams any more and i can't wait till RA is oldschool again without going to TA after 10 voctories

WRONG !.....Update from Linsey Murdock

''At this point you may be saying, "Cool, thanks for the extra points, Linsey, but when will the XTH come back online so I can make my predictions?"
Well, that’s still up in the air. We believe that the bug which caused errors in the distribution of points has been identified and fixed, so we’re now preparing to move into the testing phase. We’ll be simulating the Live environment internally and putting the system through rigorous stress testing to see if the fix took. If it did, then yay happy fun time, the XTH will go back up, and hopefully we'll never have to touch it again.

However… (You knew there would be a "however," didn’t you?) Should it fail the stress tests, it would mean the fix didn’t take because the bug goes deeper than we hope, and that would be Very Bad. If that is the case, we will be faced with a high probability that this bug is not something we can fix. Nor can we redeploy the Xunlai Tournament House with this database bug outstanding. So, let’s all keep our fingers crossed, and I'll keep you updated on how the testing is going once it gets underway.''

I wasn't being serious. Removing Kun Shao is part of their plan to update the XTH code. I bolded the part of Linsey's blog I was referring to. So if someone was logged in before the first update and remained in game until after they roll out the fix, then such a person could presumably talk to him and screw everything up.

There is still a chance that the XTH may not return, or at least be postponed indefinitely if the bug fix does not correct the problem, and Linsey is the one who said that.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...t_House_Update

Inde posted a link in a thread here.

@Fril Estelin: Yes, I'm fairly certain they've thought of that, too. Or at least I hope they have.

I wonder how many RA players are playing gw pvp for 4 years. My guess is that most of RA people plays pvp shorter than 1 year. I thought RA was for pvp newbies. Who would be masochistic enough to play RA for 4 years???

Yep. About time. Should have been done long ago.

according to the wiki it's still possible.

me and a few mates used to sync in with a stance monk and 3 healing hands wammos :P epic fun times

If you are so 1337 in PvP that you can't even be paired with some newbies once in a while, WTF are you doing in RA anyway? Go play with your top 25 guild in GvG or guild scrimmage, but stop QQ'ing about newbies or bad builds in RA.

RA isn't about having a 100% optimal team, it's about doing the best with what you got and try and have some fun - you will meet good, bad and inexperienced players, DEAL WITH IT. I know I like the challenge to monk for the occasional Flare ele, sometimes the other members of the team are good enough that it doesn't really matter.

And to be honest MOST of the teams I get are good enough, there are lots of cookie-cutter builds and this huge number of wammos some people mention is nowhere to be seen. I RA (nearly) daily.

Other day I played with an ele and gave him advice about running away from melee, from AoE, in general, not stand in there taking damage just because he got a Monk, etc, esp. because my Energy has limits. He took the advice nicely, was thankful and sent me a few whispers later. Seriously this is far more rewarding than raging at someone or never explaining what they are doing wrong.

I don't know what's wrong with you all who RA and expect a perfect team, you are totally setting your expectations wrong.

Yeah and they only show up in RA, right? Because only RA is bad...

*goes to massively talk to kun shao*

I can confirm this. RA is nowhere near as bad as people will have it. (In case you didn't realise, my post earlier in this thread regarding the cesspool was full of sarcasm aimed at the ones of you who talk smack about RA to make yourselves sound like hotshots on guru)

RA is full of wikibuilds, unfortunately that includes a lot of r/a's atm. The wammos are incredibly rare.

If you, however, aim for glad pts in RA you need to keep trying till you find a "perfect team". I can't remember the last time I went 10 wins without encountering at least one such "perfect" team, so unless you can match that you'll likely not make 10.