Guild Wars 2

Seeing as the NA and EU are going to remain separated when guesting is implemented, as a halfway measure would it be possible to create an “international” server which people from any region can transfer to for guesting purposes, without a WvW matchup?

The idea would be that it is for people on either datacentre to mutually guest to, for the purposes of PvE. As such, it wouldn’t necessarily have a resident population, much like an overflow server works now, but would be available at all times for people in different Data Centres to be able to PvE together outside of an instance.

I don’t see how it would be functionally any harder to implement than Overflow servers, seeing as players from NA and EU can play together on those. All it would do is offer a permanent flag for people to head to, specifically for PvE grouping. And seeing as it would only be for cross data-centre guesting, ping and other matters shouldn’t be quite so bad, if everyone else is guesting the “regular” way.

Something like this would be utterly invaluable to the RP community though, as well as international guilds.

Yeah, definitely supported. There can’t possibly be no way to circumvent the technical restrictions we assume are the reason for the lack of cross-region guesting.

Questions:

How would an international server solve anything if it’s an issue with the data centers?

If you place the International server on the NA data center, it’s still locked out to the EU, and visa versa.

But at the moment, players have been able to essentially “guest” with players from different data centres while on overflow servers, or in dungeons. So functionally, people playing together is clearly possible.

My suggestion would be for the “International server” to not be so much a real server as a permanent overflow area which people can meet up in without being limited to high traffic areas and times, or instances.

EU and NA are separate in overflows

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Overflow

+1 to this, we want to be able to play with all of our friends, not just our local ones.