Voice communication

Another option that I've done in the past is to have the Commander only talk in voice chat and have a designated person to type in map chat for the Commander. This seemed to work well in DAoC when our group would lead RvR or other activities. That way the Commander can concentrate on what they should be concentrating on, and not communicating on all channels.

I would be happy to do that in any of the groups I'm in.

If someone is scouting:
They say it with a number of enemies, direction, location, ect... in it.
General information of "enemies incoming" is nearly useless, and doesn't help when directing people all over a map, or multiple groups. Though specific information does.


However I do agree that GSCH should appoint someone who can/will relay back and forth through the WvW TS3. Mainly due to many people from many guilds/in no guild at all using the TS3 for WvW, and better communication is good in the end.

Not everyone can type due to being in PvP at a moments notice, and it does increase the efficiency of communication across the server. (Not saying "GSCH officer has to do it") Just appoint someone who is on for that event as a liaison to do it.

Caedas used to run events, set specific party leaders, a person in TS (or multiple people.) and another to type out Caedas objectives and communicate with the masses/other guilds. It was very organized and helped a good bit when GW2 1st launched and everyone was all over trying to even learn to WvW if they hadn't taken part during one of the beta weekends.

It might also help kill a headache you might have, then again I don't know how WvW oriented GSCH is when they do WvW events. So it's all suggestions.

» Edited on: 2012-11-07 03:09:43

To keep it simple Silvannas the way a GSCH Event works is you show up and you join in. It doesn't matter if you are guilded, alligned, or not. However, outside of RC you are pretty much on your own unless a leader decides to type something in random chat. And when it comes to working with other Commanders if they aren't in RC and taking part in the event, then you have a 50/50 chance of gaining assistance depending on the Commander and how it pertains to the event. Hope this clears things up.

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I haven't run a GSCH event for a few weeks due to work, when I was running my midnight event I would appoint one of the players to type in team chat our basic plan from raidcall and another for squad chat. At the end of the day the majority of us are casual players, myself included and we have a 'play how you want, when you want' attitude. I have number of commanders that I work really well with, Miasmic, Bavragar and Alpaca mainly and I like it that way, they are great fun and they are always on after midnight. I rarely use Teamspeak or even Raidcall outside of events, I enjoy team chat even if it does have spies listening in. I'm not here to win, I'm here to fight.

A thing to keep in mind is that all leaders lead differently.

Some are willing to dual VOIP.
Some have a person write what they say in team.
While others both lead in their VOIP and write in Team.

It's really up to the leader of a group to do what they feel most comfortable with. I agree that in certain ways being in multiple voips can have some benefits, but to some leaders its just doesn't work well for them in that way, and when they do it their way they in turn have better results.

I won't ever say a certain way is the best. Because in my opinion none of them are in my book, Everybody leads in their own certain way, and if you try to force them to do otherwise it can have negative results.

It's really best in my opinion to let the leader lead their way. If they want to dual voip.. okay. But theres alot of leaders out there that usually don't dual voip. Alot of leaders lead in a single voip and type in team chat. After all its only a 2 second delay to be honest.

ex. I could say, okay guys we're going to attack Redbriar. it would only take me 2-5 seconds to type it into team chat. If the other team wants to stoop to spying on our team chat then let them. Even if we don't type in team chat, a spy can easily pick out any commander on the map and where their headed, so there really shouldn't be a fear of them reading our chat.

I don't mind being on both VOIP and will always be there when I host my events and am willing to be on both to communicate even when I'm around for the event of someone else.