Guild Wars 2

With the new patch, many zones are experiencing overflow – especially those that contain world boss events.

Unfortunately, these overflow servers are not synchronized with all possible origin servers [potentially even starting up when you WP into it if you’re first].

When called to a potential boss event, most players are willing to expend silver to WP to a large event because of the potential loot they expect. However, if they WP to the server and get dropped into an overflow server, this WP cost is no longer justifiable. By the time the players are permitted into their server’s individual zone, the boss event will be complete (which is actually the cause of the wait being over).

There is no indication at this time that the target zone is in overflow until after the zone-in.

I suggest that waypoint fees be refunded when the target zone is an overflow server. This incentivizes Anet to resolve the overcrowding issue as it removes the gold sink, and it provides a level of fairness to the player.

It can not be readily abused by players since they have absolutely no way of ensuring they will be waypointing to an overflow. The only potential abuse would be to wait for an event in a largely populated zone to waypoint in to the overflow server for free…a minimal advantage to the player at best.

EDIT: Reworded to sound nicer.

I agree, this can be frustrating. I think the overflows actually started when guesting happened. People started guesting to catch an event multiple times. If that is the case, a better solution would be to give main instance priority to the folks that have a home on that server (kick the spam guesters to the overflow so they can miss the event.
), or just make the event happen more often to spread people out.

I disagree . If you port to a zone and end up in an overflow thats a risk you take when you know an event is happening there . its not like 3 or so silver is that hard to make

Ok, so the problem is, you may have spent 3 silver, at most, to waypoint into a zone, but you aren’t getting to participate in the event that you spent that pittance on. Therefore… what? Go kill some stuff, find a different event, make the money back in five minutes and move on.

If waypointing is breaking your bank, you’re doing something wrong.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever ran into an Overflow server outside of Lion’s Arch.

And that would also be an issue. Lack of WP fees into Overflows would pretty much be equivalent to making waypointing into Lion’s Arch free.

And really, you can easily make back any waypointing fees.

It kinda makes me worried when I see these people who pretty much calculate that all actions they take in the game are only ever a plus to their bank balance.

You do know that WPing to LA is already free if you make a stop in the Mists?

Not to mention in fact on my server (Gandara, EU server) i actually see very few overflows in LA, but see them quite often in areas with dragon events