Guild Wars 2

Just an idea, been trying to get the tower achievements finished lately, been slacking a bit, however I find the servers to be empty a lot of the time, making the overflow as main would mean that any time of day and any server will have access to a server with people on it to join in rather than a few on each servers main.
I know at some times of the day there are a few servers that might have higher amounts of people on but it can be a pain to randomly guess which server and if you get it wrong twice you are stuck for another day

Hopefully something like this could be implemented for events such as this in future, it would deffinatly allow people who don’t do it right away a greater chance of finding people to do the harder stuff (group events to progress past the walls blocking upwards progression in the tower of nightmare is a good example)

That’s a pretty good idea, but it would be more of a bother the first week or so when the content comes out. Since guilds like to run together and what not.

Perhaps there could be a Taxi/Ferry NPC instead, that you can talk to that will send you into an overflow/reenter the que to get into the main again. Maybe not for every event that comes out, but for like the Tower, Mad King Maze, Crown Pavilion events it would be nice.

A more common way I see this idea expressed is the concept of “Underflow” servers.

Basically, if you enter a map with fewer than ____ people in it, you get sent to an underflow instance that, like an overflow, combines people from different worlds. It’s not as clean a solution as overflow servers are to their particular problem, but it’s an interesting idea for effectively consolidating low-population servers, for low-population maps.

Underflow and overflow could work in tandem. One server’s overflow could be the target server for an underflow, and vice verse. The ability to ‘taxi by party’ would remain for those groups and guilds that desire to be in the same copy of a zone.