Guild Wars 2

Rather than having these events occur at different times on different serves, move the timers to one central server, which starts an event on every server at once.

This would virtually eliminate the guesting issue that’s been a problem lately, forcing server natives into overflows, as why guest on another server when your own has the same event going on?

Note that I’m not saying to set off all the bosses at once- jormag wouldn’t be happening at the same time as tequatl- but jormag would happen at the same time on every server

If you do that, you end up with timezone issues. The difference between the US and the European times is somewhere in the region of 6-12 hours. You end up with one party having good times, whereas the others are forced to log in in the middle of the night if they wish to participate.

And that just does not work.

The fact that you can only get the rare chests once per day per account already puts a significant limit to people.

Olba.5376:

If you do that, you end up with timezone issues. The difference between the US and the European times is somewhere in the region of 6-12 hours. You end up with one party having good times, whereas the others are forced to log in in the middle of the night if they wish to participate.

And that just does not work.

The fact that you can only get the rare chests once per day per account already puts a significant limit to people.

These events happen several times a day- I’m pretty sure shadow behemoth, for example, happens once every hour and a half. I’m not suggesting that the events only occur once a day- just that they all be on one timer as oppose do different timers on each server.

The timers should all be more randomized so that people simply don’t know when these things happen.

Because there are pre-events that dictate when they are done in most cases this wouldn’t work. If a pre doesn’t successfully complete, the timer starts over. Add this to the random component (thus window) and it makes it impossible. The whole system would have to be reworked in order to make this possible.

As for the guesting problem. I’m on TC and although you still have to get there a little early in many cases, the overflow issue has been cut down dramatically since the last update where they made the small rare chest account bound.