Guild Wars 2

My home server is Blackgate, and I was disconnected halfway through the Tequatl fight where we beat him; unfortunately, that meant I’d have to wait in a queue and wouldn’t get any loot or the achievement.

Normally I’d shrug that off as a “kitten out of luck” moment and try again later, but I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to get back into the blackgate main server and and I still haven’t made it out of the queue. I imagine there are hundreds or thousands of players who call blackgate home that are in a similar situation.

It’s unlikely the overflow will ever become organized enough to down tequatl, so what are displaced Blackgate players to do (or any other server, for that matter?) Is it “working as intended” that players can squat indefinitely in the map? I’m legitimately curious.

What’s the alternative? I can’t think of anything better
-Limit the time spent for any player in any zone and then lock them out?
-Kick non-guesters from the server everytime a home player attemps to join the map?
-Remove overflows and encourage hundreds of players in zone resulting in massive lag

Blackgate is the first but it’s not the last server to do it (Desolation). As soon as other servers start to catch on the strategies, other servers will follow suit and there will be fewer guesters on BG (they will be spread out)

Well make sure you’re in a group with people from the main instance. Normally there should be more room after an event. Then just stay around there and wait for the next event. Use that time to organise a bit, ‘cus it’s needed.

I will guest to any server I think has the best shot at killing him. Why? to exacerbate the issue that this content is currently creating. I fully advocate others do so as well, so that “they” acknowledge the issues.

The overflow system was a good idea for the initial rush through the game, because there was nothing you could do on your server map that you couldn’t do in an overflow map. Guesting was also a good idea that allowed people freedom to play with friends on other servers. However, now that ANet is producing timed content that draws large numbers to one map, the combination of the two systems is showing its bad side.