Guild Wars 2

We’re getting stomped by a tier 1 server in WvW this week. I started wondering how that other server’s population compares to ours. According to the guesting page, both servers are “Very High” In fact, almost all North American worlds are Very High right now. So, with a few exceptions, all servers display the same population. If all the worlds are the same, the population window tells me nothing.

My suggestion is to add more detail to world population display. I anticipate you will not want to make numbers public. How about ratios? Set the population value for a some server as 100, then express the other servers populations as multiples of that base. So, a pop 200 server has twice as many people, and pop 50 half.

Why bother? It would be easier to accept getting stomped if we could look and see just how outnumbered we are. This suggestion does nothing to change WvW inequality, but documenting the numbers of players on each side should make it easier to accept.

You could still offer free world transfers to servers below, say, population 75. I think it’s a small change, with little potential risk and hope you will consider it.

The thing is that even if you are ‘losing’ the match you can still be doing well enough to improve your overall standings.

Look at stormbluff and sanctum of rall this week. Even with its lead SoR is losing points for overall rank because they are not crushing them enough. Stormbluff is currently on yrack to move up in overall rank.

I can tell you that if you don’t have a queue against a t1 server during primetime you are out numbered. That doesn’t mean you can’t all come out ahead despite not winning the match

People keep telling me there are ways to tell when you’re outnumbered. Sure. I go to wvw join a zerg of 20, and a few minutes later we get rolled over by 80 opposing players. That’s not the point. How do you tell, globally and by how much your world is outnumbered?

I think that it would only make sense to display how many players were existent in WvW maps, not the actual server in general.

I say this because players tend to flock to servers with higher populations, even though it is not an accurate representation of WvW strength or the quality of a servers population. I think having access to a count of players in each of the maps though, would be good for letting a server know what maps it would be most appreciated on.