Talk:Sync enter

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I have never heard this term before in my 19 months of playing GW. I have heard stacking RA but nothing like "Join Spike"--Eloc 18:07, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

here's proof i didn't make the term up from nothing... search for join spike:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10094371 - Wongba 18:15, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

the reason i included it now is b/c i observed it happen in dragon arena id1 all weekend. i'm neither for nor against it. it's just there. Wongba 18:17, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Great term, great post. I refuse to see this article be deleted. Infact, I'm going to append it.--Narcism 19:01, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Are you joking, Eloc? Of course "join spike" is a perfectly valid term. Removing the del tag. --Dirigible 20:07, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

No, I am not joking, that is not a widely used term. Just because it was used in an international district, which was liek 10 people this weekend, does not make it a term. Those 10 people all probably new each other and that is the name they picked. That's pretty BS, I put a term on that is more used than this and it gets deleted.--Eloc 21:23, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Go to RA/TA/Aspenwood and ask in local if they know what a "join spike" is, then come back and say that it's not a well-known term. It may take place mostly in International districts because there's usually only few players there (which just somehow by chance happens to be the ideal environment for a join spike!), but that doesn't mean that the term somehow loses its meaning once you switch from International to the American districts. --Dirigible 21:36, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

I have heard of this quite alot, especially when teams try to get into vizunah square with an allied team rather then hench / pug although, i dont think it needs its own page, it IS a commonly used GW Term

Eloc, with four people disagreeing with you here and a forum link with even more uses of the term you go and re-add the delete tag? Are you serious? --Dirigible 21:38, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

I don't PvP and I generally solo / hero/hench PvE and even I've heard this term used... --Rainith 22:07, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

How can you have heard it if you never PvP?--Eloc 22:13, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Join spiking can happen in PvE missions as well, specifically Vizunah Square and Unwaking Waters, where two guild teams may attempt to join from different sides at the same time to get on the same combined mission team (helps for masters accomplishment (particularly pre-heroes)). Although I don't see the term "Join Spike" used everyday, the behaviour it describes is fairly common in all the random match up areas of the game, and I have heard it being discussed and used before (last time was rollerbeetle racing).

Minor edit: I'd probably see it a lot more if I played more RA these days. --Indecision 22:23, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

This is called sync and NOT "join spike".--Brainless Thought 15:23, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=453074&highlight=sync+enter

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=442627&highlight=sync+enter

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=452185&highlight=sync+enter

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=450125&highlight=sync+enter

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=452400&highlight=sync+join

Maybe it was called "spike join" half a year ago, but the term is not used anymore. "sync" "sync enter" sync join" "syncer" are used currently.--Brainless Thought 13:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Just a quick admin note. If you want a page to be moved, use the move tag, not the deletion tag. -- (gem / talk) 20:10, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

i've seen sync used too actually. i'll move it and keep the redirect. --VVong|BA 06:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Annoying syncing

Today I play every second game in RA against a (at least partially) synced guild team - of course losing every time, regardless of how good my own random team is. They are every time from asia (char set!). This takes all the fun out of RA when you face a proper team build and lose every time. I consider this cheating and exploiting. It takes all the fun out of the game for the honest players if there are ppl abusing the mechanism to farm glad points very fast (I estimate you can make 6 to 9 glads per hour with this technique). Is there anything planned to do against syncing or does it mean I have to sync, too, to have the slightest chance for 5 consecutives win in RA? --Xer 08:16, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

They're not all that common, but if you do come up against synced players, try your hardest, it's all that counts. --MythMatt 00:56, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

No, I have a much better idea: I only play RA synced with my friends like anybody else. Then the non-synced players have to try their hardest, not me. Sure, they will lose every time, but hey - its about trying as hard as possible that counts, not winning. That's totally okay with me, because I don't lose anymore. --Xer 13:16, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

If only you knew the power of the darkside? My take on the whole thing is this: if you sync join to play with like one friend of yours that's fine. I've wanted to do this myself for awhile (haven't actually done it yet) and I think there are good reasons to. You want to play with your buddy but maybe he/she isn't skilled enough to handle TA yet. Maybe you don't have vent or teamspeak or anything, so your coordination isn't much better than a random RA team. Maybe you don't even coordinate your builds at all. What I'm trying to say is if you wana sync join to play with a friend of yours because you like playing with that friend, I don't see any harm. If you're sync joining with multiple friends/guildmates with synergised builds with the intent of killing everybody and making lots of points... well damn, shame on you. 169.237.215.179 23:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bannable

This could be construed as a cheat or exploit. Have people been banned for this? Have there been any official statements about whether or not this is a bannable offense? If it is bannable, I think we should include a warning. -- Gordon Ecker 05:34, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

i've never seen anet address this in any way whatsoever. anyways, i don't see how u could possibly regulate such behavior. --VVong|BA 05:36, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Method

I've seen people tell me to cancel the counter at two seconds and restart it to join when the timer effectively hits zero seconds. Though it seems to work, has anyone else had similar experience with this method? It's easier than counting in your head since it's a mindless mouse motion. Mouse speed between users vary, but if you have your mouse speed set to normal, and just move smoothly over to the enter mission button, the synchs happen more frequently. This could be a biased observation, but it works for me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.142.53.167 (talk • contribs) at 23:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC).