Guild Wars 2

Hello Every one,

So here i am with Zone re-population idea. I’m a little tired to see those cool zones being so dead and we never come back to them. I want them to be active and constantly get us to return there. I bet every one does. so here is my quick Idea. I’ll break it down by few bullets.

• Scatter the crafting materials, let’s say skin from white bear can be only found from bears in snow regions.

• make more craftable items that will require mat farming and thus require traveling to different zone to farm them.
• make more group events scattered around the world zones, just like dragons but some smaller and some medium and some even bigger
• to the previous bullet, make those even rewarding enough that level 80s would want to go there and do them, reward should feel like reward and feel like earned. Not just another junkie to sell to vendor or TP.

• invent zoned sets, let’s say if person does huge evens in diessa plateau, he will get badges from small event, combined with medals from medium event and an eye of the giant from huge even and get them selves an exotic helm.

Please list your ideas, i do believe that unless we get a carrot in one zone, no one ever will go there. every one will sit conveniently in lion’s arch and wait for pvp or dungeon to pop up.

I like how these threads are always here yet in every zone I play in there are always tons of players, save for like Brisban Wildlands. Literally. I don’t understand where these threads come from. I’ve never seen a game with such active zones >.>

Even if there was incentive, odds are they won’t be able to make all incentives equal across all zones, and even if they did you would still have dead zones because the zones are all different. All else equal, people will pick the path of least resistance. If one zone happens to be easier to navigate or has less mob density, then that would be the most popular, while a different zone with mountainous terrain and twisting paths through said mountains and high mob density would be very unpopular, even if the rewards were the same.

Even with your zone set idea, which I honestly think is pretty good, some sets would look better than others. Knowing the GW2 armor set design team, odds are a good bit of the armor sets would look terrible and the zones that give those sets would be dead while everyone would hang out in the zones that rewarded the best looking armor sets.

If they tied AP to hanging out in zones then I could see people going there. If there was a Hero of Kessex Hills title or Hero of the Fields of Ruin title that required completing X number of events plus killing X number of mobs plus gather X number of nodes, and the time to complete was actually lengthy, and there were decent AP rewards tied to each tier of achievement, then I could see unpopular zones being populated with the AP hunters at the very least. Maybe there could be a title for getting the title from every zone, then the OCD AP hunters would feel obligated to spend a lot of time in each zone.

Agree with Draknar, however some thing should be done to make those zones more interesting and attract people to play. they could act as world bosses, or dungeons within a zone that is just as rewarding. One example would be a let say village or a castle that every day at 9 pm the citizen turn into were-wolfs or vampires or frog-lings, with their boss being the king or a governor. Trick to it not to be overwhelmed or exploited is, that you have to arrive there during the 30 minutes shape-shifting window, than area gets locked by high fence and only those inside can do it and get reward.

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I like how these threads are always here yet in every zone I play in there are always tons of players, save for like Brisban Wildlands. Literally. I don’t understand where these threads come from. I’ve never seen a game with such active zones >.>

The servers must vary then. On mine i’m lucky to see one person per day in low level zones (except the queensdale champ train). Not only does it make the game feel very dead, but it also makes a lot of content worthless. For example gathering activities take forever if you’re the only person doing them, champion mobs are near impossible, dungeons are just silly solo etc. The only realistic way to level while retaining your sanity is via the queensdale champ train, which is exactly what everyone appears to do for 80 levels.

Axz, absolutely agree. same feeling i get now when i started leveling my guardian alt.