Guild Wars 2

There seems to be a pretty common issue in WvW where one server will utterly trash the two other ones. The assumption there is that the two other servers could both focus on the one dominating, and together, might be able to re-balance the map. Unfortunately, this is rarely what happens, as team to team communication is non existent, and there will always be kittens on either side who attack potential allies.

So, my suggestion is the ability to form a temporary alliance.

The way I imagine this working is when the two underdog teams reach a certain low percentage of holdings (maybe 80% of the map taken by the dominating team), every WvW player on the two servers gets a notice that an alliance is available. They then can participate in a map wide dynamic event that requires players from both sides of the underdog team to participate. Once this dynamic event has been triggered, the two teams that can form an alliance are no longer red names, they’re yellow (can still turn hostile, but not a default).

If the alliance is successfully completed, you now will be able to speak in /map to the allied server. You can coordinate with their commanders and form cross-server squads and parties. All of your allies names are in green, and they are essentially on your side except /team chat still is only for your server. A count down timer across all WvW maps would display the time remaining on the alliance. Perhaps for two, maybe four hours, generally the idea is that it would be temporary and would need to be renewed if they don’t succeed in taking back parts of the map in time. Once the alliance expires, there’s a neutral period where your allies are yellow again and the holdings retaken are divvied up, which also has a timer on it. If balance is restored, then the option of an alliance is removed, if not, then another may be formed.

I think Anet is aware that once you’re down, it’s hard to get up again. Along with break-outs, the alliance system would be another way to restore balance to the map and hopefully make the fight fair again.

As someone on Reddit said, it could also be based on active population instead of objectives held, but either works I think, as long as the two are outmatched by the one.