Make /age viewable to all

IMO /age is better than /rank

/age shows how many hours you have played on 1 account and ALL your accounts.



Post yours in this thread.

Hopefully can implement it so it shows EVERYONE your stats

Please leave these forums scammer.

? Posting a pic of the hours i play is a scam?

lol are you for real

Some other stats with age would be cool too like exp and rank

Again make it viewable to show people

Are you?

Why do all of your posts have to do with childish ways of showing how much time you've put in playing this game?

In one, you want a halo for having more time in. In another pointless post, you want more skills/levels for your time. In another, you want more powerful weapons. And in this one, you want to show off how much time you have in at this game.

Wow. Bully for you. Now please, go play in traffic.

Your inane posts do tend to grate on people.

Just because i play alot i want something to show for it. its not affecting my stats so why cant i have it? does doing /age and showing it to everyone any different than doing /rank?

No. But it is unnecessary, and unneeded. We have something for the small of ego to flaunt over the newer players. Therefore this is irrelevant.

And if it were my game, you wouldn't have it, simply on the basis of your whining for it, and things like it, incessantly.


Lucky for you, it's not.

And for the millionth time, why do you feel you need something for being a player who spends more time than anyone else at something? More time, in this game, doesn't mean you're any better than another guy who plays less. There are games that give you more for spending more time. This, thankfully, isn't one of them.

Truthfully, you should go find a game that allows for time spent, and play that. Leave the game the rest of us normal people play alone.

omg who cares? seriously I don't care if anyone knows how old I am. (most people like to be young not old)

People like you are not dedicated to games and only play them for short whiles. you want to be just as strong as someone who plays this games FOR A LONG TIME. Now that we want a simple way of proving something without uber stats you dont want it? why not have one player model and one weapon?

Is that too 1337 for you?

*yawn* Age doesn't mean you are good player. You might've been stuck in pre-ascalon 100 of those hours. Or left your character logged on while you slept.

No, I won't tell how much Ive played, because it's embarassing to admit to having spent so much time with the game. And I couldn't care less for having an aura for having spent so much time in the game. Or letting anyone see my hours. No thank you.

Disagree

Age is nothing more then how long you play. The argument is age = experience, maturity, playing more then one job, etc. Which is not the case.

Example you have someone who only does pvp and decided to jump in to pve . The reverse can be true someone who has slowly grind from PvE and jumping in to PvP with may seem cool via age but in reality there new to pvp.

Personal Example, I've been playing the same character since the game came out (and started paying a new pve ranger) but now just starting to do PvP (Tomb Kings) and have a lot to learn (admit it) due to my inexperience with thinking players over stupid npc’s.

The lack of the ability to see groups skill sets, age, rank (less the rank emote), fame, armor, equipment prevents "elitism" in guild wars where people will exclude or only included players off stats.

OK junior, here's the scoop. You know nothing about me. Your best bet is to stop this particular tact, and find a new one.

In this game I AM just as strong as someone who plays this game for a long time, and rightfully so. Why should I have to spend my life playing a game, just to keep up with tiny egos like yourself? Fact is, I don't have to, and wouldn't try to if that was the case.

We? Whos we? Do you have a mouse in your pocket skippy? The only one that I see making inane posts about lording their time over other players, is you. We have a working game that is very good. Leave the updates to the professionals.

Nope. Not even close to 1337. In fact, your post is so N00bish, it's near painful.

You want everything handed to you.

You dont want to earn auras or anything.

Fact is if someone earns a aura or ANYTHING that you dont have you feel jealous and then bring up the lame argument of " omg i cant spend my whole life to get that" well like you said YOU DONT CARE so why DO YOU CARE if i have aura cause i work my butt off and you dont?

We still have same skills and stats right? does it make me better? no
does it make you weaker no?

so why do you care.

This is coming from the same person who wants the entire game unlocked after you beat it once. When did I say I wanted anything handed to me?

You're absolutely right. I think it's childish to want to "earn" auras. If I wanted an aura, I would've bought the collectors edition. The only thing an "earned" aura does, is allow the tiny egoed person to show off in front of people.

Fact is, if it was implemented in the game, I wouldn't care, at all. But since we're talking about things that may (but probably won't) be implemented into a game that I play, I voice my opinion. Just as you have voiced yours. Over numerous threads.

It certainly doesn't make me weaker, and if I were the type of person to dance over someone like you, when you, and your "earned aura" were on the ground in HoH, I might consider it a challenge. Or if I could take your precious aura when I beat you down. That might be something cool. Because you could just spend your life earning another one, right?

As stated before, you're voicing your opinion, and I'm voicing mine. You seem to think that this issue would make the game better. I feel like developer's time could be better spent elsewhere.

The difference? I am looking at the "bigger picture"... You seem to be looking at what helps you show off the best, and not what would actually improve the game.

Guild Powder, It's how you been responding to people that make them react negatively to you. This also carries over to new posts you have. If you want people to listen to your idea's please don't jump on people but please provide the logical reasons why you want the change and counter balance other people's arguments.

This is why whenever I respond to one of your posts, I give you reason, just like my response to the stacking of the same rune type of different levels on the same armor. I distinctly remember you saying "why don't you people agree with me" in that thread.

Wow. First of all, the word "1337", if you can even call it a word, generally distinguishes a noob. Secondly, there is a difference between skill and hours played. I have skill, and I really don't care if anyone disagrees. Hours played has nothing to do with skill. Hours after picking the game up and playing through the world preview and several betas, I had the game down and was already an experienced and dedicated player. Time is nothing. The least amount of time is the true value here. It shouldn't take long to fully work a character, or even several, through the missions and quests.

Additionally, requesting skills and attribute points is unbalancing and to be blunt, retarded. There is no argument about it, so don't. Guild wars puts a level cap and other restrictions up for a reason, so the game remains balanced. I find this entire post an insult not only to the staff at arena.net, but to the gaming community as a whole. If you want an unbalanced, and time-over-skill game, then go to one of the many other treadmill mmorpg games. This game was made to be a fun and interactive game for new players, and experienced players alike. This is what you don't seem to realize.

What you don't seem to realize is that you paid 10 dollars more to have a "special aura" around you when you dance. How is that working harder? Did you work hard badgering your parents for the money?

Thank you. Why have a useless argument about it.

If you care so much about time, then why did you even bother posting and reposting. Wouldn't it have taken too much time away from guildwars? As for myself, I have wasted too much time posting here. Chances are your next post will be another insulting and useless rant. Next time you're about to post, reread it, select it all, then delete it.

I leave GW open when i post so when they finally implement /age so everyone can see it i will have the most hours and most exp. g0g0g0g0g

And this is why one never should argue with a wall. They never hear your side of things anyway.

Lesson learned.

Moving on.

End of story.

I think people need to quit arguing with one another and just say what they have to say and then move on, if you think it's spam you're only adding to it by arguing with doesn't make any sense at all. Indigo if you wanted to say it was spam saying so would've been fine, but to go and label him as "a sad child with low self esteem issues" doesn't make you a damn bit better than him, it might make you worse.

Anyway, to view this from a non-biased standpoint, (which is obviously a new thing to a few of you who automatically saw the guys name and went at him), I don't really see a problem with this thread. It was in the right board for the most part, it WAS a suggestion in part, and this IS the suggestion board. If you don't like his suggestion that gives you no right to call it spam and definately no right to insult him or anyone else here because they view the "/age" differently than you.

Anyway, to actually not be an asshole, I don't think it should be implemented...but I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea. I mean hell for that matter RANK is just how much time you spend in the tombs, you don't necessarily have to have done wonderful in them or anything to have a rank. It's easier if you're good at it, yeah, but not necessary. Sort of like how it's not necessary for you to be great at the game to have a lot of hours. But it DOES show how much time you've spent on that character and then your TOTAL time which would give people an idea as to how much time you've spent in the game as a whole, and if that was in fact your only character or not.

Hell people get the 15k armor to "show off" when in fact it doesn't take any skill or intelligence to make money in this game, all it takes is a farming build you pick up off the net and you're set for as many sets of 15k armor that you want.

Anyway, I just don't think it should be implemented because it would just be text, and people would spam it just like any other chat me thinks.

However, if...since it's a "/" command, it could only show up in the emotes chat channel? I don't think that would be such a bad idea, and it wouldn't be bad for when some new guy comes and tells me to "stfu" because he's been playing for 2 weeks and I haven't. A /age would take care of that.

I also like the idea of being able to show how much XP you have.

Or perhaps some sort of emote for having cleared out/completed all the quests in the FoW or UW? That would be cool. PvP players get their "/rank" emote, why don't PvE people get something for clearing out the two toughest areas in the story mode? There's a completed task to be proud of in my opinion.

Honestly though you people, Indigo and others, just need to lay off a bit. IF you don't think it's a good idea you don't think it's a good idea but when you result to senseless namecalling and other bullshit I'm going to have to say you didn't make your "points" any more than he did. Honestly you people argue like a married couple. (Heheh...not to say that ALL married couples argue, of course. )

Not that bad of an idea when you think about it.

I mean shit if we can see when people "jump" or if we can see that "Lolona Breech is excited!" why the HELL wouldn't people be able to see our age? Did you ever consider that we already see enough pointless shit when it comes to emotes? And if /age and other info was in the emote channel, no harm no foul, just an option for people to share information with one another.

Well said. How is, as some one so crassly put it, "an immature and distraught youngster", ever going to learn about maturity if those with whom he argues sink to his level?

And, as PieXags says, this was not an inappropriate post. It was placed in the right forum. It wasn't, at least in the first post, inflammatory in an way, shape or form. If you don't like it, fine. But be reasonable. If the OP isn't, then just put him on your ignore list. That's what they're for after all.

Let's not feed the troll.

He offers nothing of substance, over, and over, and over again. Every single post of his is nothing but a blatant display of ignorance that's designed to get people up in arms and falling over each other to correct his point of view. He's probably just farming postcounts for a custom title. To show others how '1337' he is.

I've tallied up 16.5 hours a day for two months.

I'm sorry, SuperVixen but how does -this- post...his original post constitute immaturity or any attempt at a flame to anyone? It didn't lack any more substance than a LOT of the posts on the IDEAS FORUM.

This is a flame. This is garbage and it only disintegrated from there.

I'm not a big fan of GuildPowder. I have found many of his posts offensive. For once though he didn't ask for what he got.

In response to supervixen's post:

That's the kind of shit I'm talking about, it's you sort of people who're 'causing all this stuff to be so "bad". I didn't see anything wrong with his post, it was better than half the other suggestions we get around here.

His post doesn't show any signs of "ignorance" just personal preference, and if you don't like it why post something like THAT. That wasn't even on topic, it was just an insult and that sort of shit should be kept in yer mouth, not on the forums.

Another thing I realized about his suggestion...

Yeah the more I think about it the more I think it'd be cool to have /age displayed through emote chat. It isn't hurting ANYONE, if you don't want to see it chances are you don't want to see any other emote text either so just turn it off, and for those who do want others to see it they can share their info. I often times am curious as to just how long someone's been playing, and I think it might be neat to see others stats and what not.

To be honest I care more about how long someones been working on a character than I do that someone's "rank 9".

Yes, the thread is in the right place. I never said it wasn't. However.

Much as I applaud both your vociferous defense of the thread opening, I stand by my opinion that it's merely a vehicle for him to stir things with words like, "People like you are not dedicated to games and only play them for short whiles." and "I leave GW open when i post so when they finally implement /age so everyone can see it i will have the most hours and most exp."

To avoid more hijacking, I'll add my two dinars.

I find implementing such a thing goes against the credo of skills > time spent in the game. No it doesn't hurt to have it in the emotes side of the chat panel but I'm more of the thought that the less text the better.

/rank is linked to PvP which is, if not what the game revolves around, still a major portion of what Guild Wars is about. Hours spent afking in the game however...

Yes, it takes little skill to farm. It still takes more skill to farm gold compared to leaving the game open while you go about doing other things.

I win...

I'd suggest anyone who may be flaming and/or cussing stop immediately, it's what your account would want.


Can I have your autograph?

You really want everyone to know you have no life that bad?

Oh, heheh.

Nearly forgot my addition to the age list.



Now wouldn't it be neat to let those who enjoy reading emote text know that I've been playing on that one character for so many hours? I'm proud of that, honestly. Every moment of it spent working on new builds, new secondary professions, getting new elites, I feel so proud. More proud than if I had rank 4 in fact...

in response to Aniewiel: Good job Anie, you guys are f'ing mean!

My age got reset In the last big patch (not the recent one, one before that)... so the result was I had a level 20 ascended fire ele who was 15 hours old

Hopefully it got sorted, cuz in actuality I was like 120 hours old at that point. And myself, I think it would be cool to show your age with a different command. Maybe like /ageall or something.

If that were the case then I, among others who posted prior to me, would be better than you. (using your logic from this and previous posts)



It is for this reason, that I don't think that an /ageall command is necessary, because much like the /rank command, it doesn't show anything to the skill of the player. Only how much time they've used up playing this game. As fun as it is, not something I necessarily want to share with everyone when I'm curious for myself.

Yes, you do. Right after PieXags

Here's why I responded like I did. If you look at the majority of Guild Powder's threads, they not only read like a 12 year old wrote them, but they all have to do with his incessant need to show off his "time served" mentality. I snapped, to a point, and started spitting troll food. I know that I shouldn't have, but I couldn't help myself after reading 3 other threads that he started on similar "show off to my buddies" topics. I know deep in my heart, that my responses will not stop him from making the next inane "idea thread" for this game. But I did it anyway.

perhaps "better" doesn't mean "more skilled" but means "more interesting"... I don't really PvP often so rank doesn't mean anything to me, but I just love the /age and /deaths commands. And if anyone has noticed, when only one person in a party tells the group their age or their deaths the age AND deaths of every other member will quickly follow. It's fun to share this information. It's not about "hey I'm 300 hours old and you're only 80, so your a stoopid noob!" It's just about sharing more of our fun with others.

you definately dont play alot.

When I first saw the tittle of this thread I thought it was about showing your real life ages. I then thought...hmmmm, this has some possiblilities. It would be helpful sometimes to know what the real age of people that I am dealing with so I can better understand where they are coming from.


As for know how much playing time I have built up..."I" do not want to know. If that info got out to my wife then there would be Hell to pay. She would rip me a new one for sure.

the /age command has been out for a while.. all they did on july 13th was just updated it to where it shows yr total hours played.

I've been playing for 464+ hours, don't you think I'd know that by now?

And why the hell are you telling me this anyway? I...know, I've known...since it happened.

You just like to sound smarter than you are by picking through peoples posts and warping their words to find some creative behind the scenes message that you coax up in your mind so you can "correct" this would-be flaw in order to make yourself seem higher than someone else, is that it?

Haha...god I'm an ass.

But seriously...I know. I don't know where you got from my posts that...I didn't know.

"You have played this character 259224 hours since being created a looong time ago."



A free hunter's ale to anyone who can figure out how old I really am and 500 gold if you can tell me what day my birthday is on

...Are you 29? (Let me know if I'm wrong I did this with half a mind and numbers I...thought were kinda correct. Hopefully I hit the right keys as well.

It would be difficult to tell your birthday though, if you're 29 and depending on the amount of lengthened years we've had in that amount of time, if each one meant an hour it could be on one of two days without us knowing 'eh?

Well I'm already WAY off by this point anyway I'll bet...so...hmm...birthday...

Hell I don't know? Is it in the summer time? July something? How about...July? August perhaps? There's no way to pinpoint the date unless you go through a shitload of decimals and all kinds of stuff and I don't like math...

I'll say he is 39. He sounds like a 30-Something.

I just stay logged in all day - so my 'time spend' is very high, but I may not play much.

So /age really does mean something...