Guild Wars 2

I think it’s pretty awful that servers without off-hour coverage can get so taken advantage of in WvW. I’d like to see a solution to the “coverage gap” that so many servers suffer from. After all, the winning servers can exploit this to get unfair point advantages.

Why not make it so that on off hours, say between 10pm-7am server time, points are only awarded on maps that contain a reasonable number of players? So during those times, points only count if there are 40 or more players on a map from each server?

I think this would be fair and help balance out a lot of the exploitable coverage issues in WvW.

so the best way to defend your own borderlands is to make sure no one defends it … that way not enough people to be worth any points.

PS: would that be 10pm-7am EST? PST? GMT? AEST? your ‘off hours’ do not equal my ‘off hours’

Well, only during off hours. During normal hours points apply as normal. The idea is to only make points count in off-hours when there is decent enough coverage from all the servers to ensure fair point distribution. Do you think it’s fair to have one server control all points on all maps just because the majority of the other two servers are sleeping? All a server needs is one good guild from another time zone to ninja first place while the majority of other players are sleeping. If those in other time zones want their efforts to be worth something, then they should play on their own servers and not the north american ones.

It would be 10pm-7am Server Time, which is PST for North America servers. This translates to 1am-10am EST. I think this is a good compromise for off-peak hours. Anything between 7:01am and 9:59pm counts towards PPT, no matter what the map populations are.

so because I play during off hours, under your system I may as well ask for a refund because nothing I do will ever matter.

PS: being an aussie i don’t have ‘my own servers’ nor does anyone from australasia. Time to stop thinking the wrold revolves around america. WvW is a 24/7 game.

Well, then guilds will have to transfer to get the server populations equal to make it count. Right now, you can have 1 or 2 aussie guilds on a server that play against other servers that lack coverage and essentially steal first place. Wouldn’t you rather have a challenging match-up than an unbalanced one?

sure I’d love to have balance, but turning it into a US prime time only game doesn’t work.