Guild Wars 2

It’s widely-acknowledged that the FotM has had two undesired effects.

1) Lion’s Arch is now continually packed to the rafters.
2) Many maps are now even more empty than before, as people who were playing general PvE are now grinding for rings in FotM.

I believe the first problem could be solved and the second mitigated somewhat by randomizing the location of the entrance portal to the FotM. It’s even somewhat lore-friendly: the Fractals were originally reached by accident when the portal mis-fired. With the massive number of travelers traversing the barrier between Tyria and the Mists, the entrance has now grown so unstable that it has become untethered and drifts around the land, opening and closing at random.

Moving the Fractals entrance to random maps will take the load off of LA, and can be used to redirect a large number of players to other maps at least on a temporary basis. And, of course, we can have a Nick-the-Traveler-style “Find the portal!” thread every day.

Thoughts?

Great idea, to be honest.
+1

Anything that encourages exploration is a good idea.