Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I suggest that you base Server Status (to decide if an account can be added to a server) on something other than the number of accounts currently on that server.

You could say – but then the server would be overloaded if everyone logged in at once.

Well, how likely is that to happen. From all the things I’ve seen posted on the forums, servers are low current population, even when they are ‘Full’ of accounts. That’s because this is a B2P game, and there’s no reason to ever cancel your account if you stop playing.

So, let’s say one server has 10,000 accounts. Maybe only 100 of those are actually playing regularly.

Obviously, you should monitor activity, and restrict servers if active population does get out of control, but basing server status on current accounts for a B2P game is just illogical.

Cheers.

No one else agrees with this? You like having servers full so you can’t transfer to them?

Cheers.

I don’t want to transfer. I paid my $60 for a slot on the server of my choice. I should have to give up a fully paid for account on a server that I’d been on since the early Betas because RL is interfering with my ability to play much at this time?

Just a little analogy:

You have 10 electrical sockets in your room. Extension leads are out of the question due to your father’s strict concern on electrical appliance safety. You use 5 up on your computer, consoles and TV. Your brother uses the other 5. Your brother is usually away on weekdays and is hardly in his room.

Your sister wants to plug-in the filtering system for her fish tank but you use all your sockets. There are however your brother’s sockets that she could use, since he is not there most of the time and isn’t there to defend the ownership of those sockets, you suggest to your sister to use his.

Say that she does. This means she unplugs one the your brother’s plugs and plugs in the filter. She wanders on her merry way, knowing her fishies are nice and clean and alive. Your brother returns home on the weekend and needs his socket. Does he unplug his sister’s plug even though it does keep her fish alive? It was rightfully his.

Remarks:
There are capacities. It’s safer to be in those capacities.

If there is a 10000 limit on a server (example), and all those spaces were filled. How do you justify which accounts to be displaced? Wouldn’t it upset a guild leader that they were told that they could play to their time schedule to only find out that the guild that they built and invested in is no longer his because he was displaced?

Saying this, maybe it is fair to displace people from servers for being inactive for a long period of time.

I would like to see your idea in place but I don’t think their risk assessment allows them to. Not yet anyway.

The analogy would be more like:

Brother and sister each have 500 items they could plug into sockets, but only need to plug 5 in at a time, and so they get a socket that allows 20 and can handle them fine.

You say what if all 10,000 were filled. I’m saying that there really isn’t a 10,000 limit. The limit is based off a percentage of that, plus some headroom. Let’s say 30% plus another 10% headroom. So, that’s 4,000. It’s only when the number of accounts gets to 30,000 that it would be marked as full.

Cheers.