A few weeks ago I read something, that Anet believed the Overflow server would vanish as the time goes on and I was thinking to myself, that won’t happen with Lion’s Arch.
The city is to important! It is the center of traveling and with the newest update a lobby zone for a dungeon.
I understand that many dungeon groups organized themself in Lion’s Arch before the Fractals dungeon, but at least there was split because there were dungeon groups which organized themself in the respective dungeon zones.
I understand that for lore reasons the only place were ths dungeon can be located is in Lion’s Arch because is the only place with a portal to the Mists.
So the only thing that would allow Lion’s Arch to get rid of the overflow server thing ist to remove the travel center aspect of the city. For example if I want to travel from Rata Sum to the Grove I use the asura gates to Lion’s Arch. I ther would be a option to travel directly to the Grove I wouldn’t have to sit through 2 loading screens (by the way I find the loding times of this game obnoxious) and I wouldn’t need to Travel to Lion’s Arch. That is basiclly a win-win situation.
Please consider this. I like Lion’s Arch, but I always dread entering the city because I will have at least a 3 minute loading screen (sometimes the game crashes on the loading screen which happens only in Lion’s Arch) and I will always be on an overflow server.
Desolation – Mistress of significance level