Changing Characters - a novel idea?

Let's face it, we all hate having to type our password whenever we change characters, right? You know the scenario, you're in DWC and the team need a tank but you're there as a monk!!! Fat chance I know but you get the drift.

Well, why can't Arenanet just add a 'change character' button to the menu bar? With each of your characters readilly available. Your chosen character can then be zoomed into the area your last character just vacated saving you aggro of map travelling and district changing. Sounds too simple to be possible but I'm sure there's a clever bod at Arenanet who could come up with the code to do it. Or is there?

Like the idea? Then sign it, please!!

Its been suggested a million times, use the search button before starting a thread.

not only that but its been shot down by the Dev's for security reasons.

How could it be a security threat? If you are logged onto your account all you are attempting is a simple character change. The login is the same whichever character you choose, they are all on the same account! After all, we're not getting into a multiple account thing here. One account, four characters and no login parser between each one.

"typeinyourpathwhereyouinstalledguildwarshere\Gw.e xe" -password=typeinyourpasswordhere -perfs

Players can hack your computer wile your not paying attention and rob you of all of your items, if they can switch characters without re-entering the password it means they can rob all your characters. This is very simular to trojans and such for D2, where people would try to get players to open a file which makes them drop all their items.

On top of that, there is a way to bypass it anyways, so what your asking for is time spent researching utilities already available, but if you do use this, you are removing your own defense.

As mentioned, do some research before you make an obvious suggestion.