Guild Wars 2

put this thread here, as there’s really NO other place that i could conceivably place it.

my guild resides on US server jade quarry, which stays perpetually locked. this means, when we have new folk come in to the game, whom we’ve known forever, they have to play with the “change worlds” button for sometimes days in order to join us on jade quarry.

soon, transfers will cease being free, and we’ll move in to the model we’ve all anticipated — paid transfers and server guesting.

where this is problematic is a couple of places:

1) server population, as i understand it, is based on accounts registered to the servers, NOT on player population (yes, i get the logic behind this)

2) without the population being “tweaked,” i.e., upped occasionally, we’re just full, and we’re going to remain full.

3) people who WERE active, but have stopped playing for whatever reason, will still show as being populated on a server, though they are not, and may never again, be active on that server.

what i have issues with, from an account base are:

1) MOST servers show either full or high capacity, so moving the guild isn’t necessarily a desirable outcome, especially considering we’ve been on jq since the bwes, and it’s a good community. if we move, and the server sucks, we’re just sol.

2) there is no indicator other than “full” or “high” that states anything about the viability of a server we may wish to transfer to — how are they in wvw? what kind of thinking shapes their community?

3) moving our guild off of jq, in order (hopefully) locate a home our new guildies can come to without days of attempting to transfer, would result in our losing all our guild-influence related everything.

now, for the record: yes, i know, you can be guilded cross-server. that doesn’t help when you want to do jumping puzzles, map completion, or exploration as a guild. yes, i’m also aware that guesting is “coming soon.” THAT doesn’t help for folk who enjoy pvp together.

is there something we can do, short of blindly jumping to another server, so that our guildies have a home to come to when we are finally able to get them in tyria?