Battleground instance portals aren't working

[Dr. Doom]

As part of my effort to explore and do as many things as possible, I decided to join my first battleground (currently level 18, so I won't be a drag for team mates) by doing it in the original 1.5 fashion: Going all the way to the instance portal in the area where the faction has its base.

It took me a bit of time to head all the way to the Silverwing Grove since I hadn't been yet to Kalimdor, but after a while I get there, run into the red instance portal and.... nothing happens. So I dig up the patch history of battlegrounds, and see that 10-19 bracket for WSG was only available from patch 1.8, but after asking around, it seems the bracket is indeed working when people use a battlemaster to queue.

A few minutes later a night elf hunter comes along with the same plan, and she has the same issue even though she is level 27. Running into the portal is not starting the queue.

Here is a screenshot for evidence:
http://imgur.com/WMB7GF9

[Dr. Doom]

Is there a way for me to contact the devs directly or do they check the forums for this?

[Setup]

Use the bug tracker.
http://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?tracker=14

(it doesn't work in Chrome for me, but firefox does it.)

[gotmilk0112]

They never have worked. You have to go to the battlemasters in major cities.

[Dr. Doom]

They never have worked. You have to go to the battlemasters in major cities.

Ehmm... what?

You do know that when battlegrounds were released, there were no such things as battlemasters, and therefore the only way to queue was to go the instance portal.
In patch 1.6, battlemasters were added for convenience, but instance portals ALWAYS worked as well.

Even to this day in retail. Only difference is that after TBC, they added an NPC that is right in front of the portal that talks to you for that reason, in vanilla, the queueing was done by running into the portal.

As you can see in my screenshot, that is not happening.

[Dr. Doom]

Use the bug tracker.
http://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?tracker=14

(it doesn't work in Chrome for me, but firefox does it.)

Thanks, I'll take a look.

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Edit: This issue was already reported. And months ago even, here:
https://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?aid=1648

It's not even assigned as 'verified'. The person that submitted the reported this tested the AV portals, he said he hadn't tested WSG. I can vouch that Silverwing Grove is not working either.

[gotmilk0112]

You do know that when battlegrounds were released, there were no such things as battlemasters, and therefore the only way to queue was to go the instance portal.

You do know that this is a private server and not retail, right?

Even though it released with pre 1.4 patch, Battlemasters were there from the beginning. Battleground portals never worked ON NOSTALRIUS, you always had to use the battlemasters.

[Dr. Doom]

You do know that when battlegrounds were released, there were no such things as battlemasters, and therefore the only way to queue was to go the instance portal.

You do know that this is a private server and not retail, right?

Even though it released with pre 1.4 patch, Battlemasters were there from the beginning. Battleground portals never worked ON NOSTALRIUS, you always had to use the battlemasters.

Why not fix the instance portals? You're seriously having a sour attitude because I point out there is an existing bug. Mind the tone please.

Instance portals are supposed to work. On top of that, I can list a number of reasons (not like fixing a bug would require somehow justification), to give some context to it:


The AV quest "Proving Grounds" which grants the battleground trinket, is taken from the world area of Stormpike/Frostwolf, under current circumstances, everyone has to go to Alterac Mountains, pick the quest, return to a capital, queue for AV, get the banner, and then return once more to Alterac to turn it in.

Likewise, Refuge Point and Hammerfall offer a number of quests for Arathi Bassin, that would entail the same issue.

In the case of the Warsong Gulch areas, there is also one quest per side.

In every case, each faction has its quartermaster located there, and therefore any player wishing to purchase faction-specific items will need to systematically take the time to do all the run around process.



All of this will be substantially easier if the portals work as they are supposed to work.

[Codeine]

I asked a Game Master about this and he told me that they disabled queuing from the bg portal... dunno why i'd rather queue from there too.

[Dr. Doom]

I asked a Game Master about this and he told me that they disabled queuing from the bg portal... dunno why i'd rather queue from there too.

That's quite weird.
Could it be that simply adding a queue option to the 6 portals would cause crashes or performance issues?

Would like the input of a staff person to clear this up.