Guild Wars 2

Hello Anet (If you chose to read this) and fellow gamers,

This is not a rant, just a innocent discussion.

How does overflows work in EOTM? I feel like this leads to less than ideal results
For example: You try to join in EOTM. It checks if OF1 is full, then if OF2 is full, and etkittenil you reach an overflow that isn’t. Yet as people leave these full overflows, only those that attempt to re-enter EOTM are going to get the chance to enter to OF1 that has more participants than lets say the overflow you were able to get in an hour prior. As we are no longer able to queue to a “main” map as we are in PvE. Are we stuck second guessing the health of our overflow?

Another issue with having overflows, is how do you accurately tell how many are on the map? With borderlands you get an indication of participants by it having a queue and server wide communication on s borderland. With EOTM overflows, you may get a commander and realize you’ve got teammates, but how do you tell if you’ve got a large group of enemies instead of scattered players. One moment their could be a sudden leave of red team but not enough for out-manned to pop or a large population of all three teams drop but commanders are still present. Thus, leaving you to find for yourself after 10-30 mins roaming around as we know these maps are not small but thankfully not enormous.

Do these overflows apply to only one side? If green has an abundance of players and has to create another overflow, does that mean red and blue will join the same overflow if their player base is lower? or will some green players just run around hitting NPCs until red and blue gain a larger population or the green population decreases to free up other OF?

I have noticed that the four hour reset does help with the overflow issue. You no longer will get multiple low density overflows and it helps clump up the community into big overflows.

Now, these are all speculation on my side. There could be a fixed number of overflows and people are randomly disturbed through them all or their concept works well and only causes inconvenience every so often. Yes, a simple solution is to keep re-entering to get a more populated overflow. I agree. But I was just… curious.

Thanks for reading!