Guild Wars 2

Recently Blackgate gained many transfers of guilds and players for wvw, while this is good our server has become overpopulated. Combined with the Guesting problem, it is impossible for any blackgate player to do Dragon or World events without arriving to the area 30min early. We either need more server room/bandwidth, or guesting needs to be disabled on full servers.

Most people will not guest onto high pop servers (Blackgate, which happens to be my home server) for events for this exact reason.

What does that mean?

The issues the server has with full map instances and home world players getting kicked to overflow maps is not likely a result of guesting but rather from more people attending the events who also call that server home.

tldr: guesting is not the problem

then we need more server space, 19/24 servers are listed as “Very High” population, and the other 5 are “High” something has to be done because its making the game unplayable during certain times of the day.

I won’t deny that and I wouldn’t argue with adding another server or two to the mix with free initial transfers to the new server in order to spread the population around more. Just remember that simply increasing the server space likely won’t be their first option due to the costs associated with it. We are much more likely to see a revamp in daily chest allowances first if fixing the current lag/overflow issues are their main concern.

Forcing people to other servers would reset their guild influence, no ones going to go willingly unless they compensate that. If they disabled chests for guests it would force people to do world events on their on server.

Everyone just need to guest on lower pop servers. I guest on ET and I’ve never had an issue with too many people, lag or any of the crazy stuff that people say happens.

Lawl the most stacked server in the game complaining about overpopulation. Anet are not going to modify the game just because blackgate invited every guild under the sun to join them. Maybe you should think about that in advance next time….

Smoke.8510:

If they disabled chests for guests it would force people to do world events on their on server.

Yes, but that wouldn’t change a thing for a server like Blackgate! Due to the already high base population, there will still be overcrowding issues even if it was just Blackrock people at these events. Why? Because there are just that many people on each server and now they are all interested in doing the events. I honestly dont know why this is so hard for people to comprehend.

Definitely not guesting on Blackgate(only a fool would). We have overflows on MaW which noone guests too. Our server is just packed…..

Reaver.9256:

Definitely not guesting on Blackgate(only a fool would). We have overflows on MaW which noone guests too. Our server is just packed…..

Im not really interested in farming these events, although if I was going to guest farm them, I would go to overpopulated servers to save time. Jormag on my server the other day must have taken about 30 seconds for the entire event. Crystals were instantly downed, wall goes down, Jormag drops to 0% health and goes to phase 3 with 50% health reset and then gets dropped again before doing anything. As long as your high DPS and your only looking to farm the event I couldn’t think of a smarter way to speed it up.