Guild Wars 2

When I first started playing, I quickly chose Tarnished Coast as my homeworld since it’s the unofficial RP server. And I absolutely loved it, because not only did roleplaying actually occur, but it was good-quality RP, and the enthusiasm that stems from an RP view of the game meant that other aspects of the game were handled well, and most Coasters were mature, helpful, and competent.
Then, last week, a friend of mine bought the game, but TC was full and so I had to transfer in order to play with him. Thus, we joined Darkhaven. And I never expected there would be such a difference. The taverns in Divinity’s Reach that were always packed on TC are completely, 100% barren, nobody ever joins in a spontaneous RP, and truthfully, I’ve seen more immaturity among players in the last week than I saw in the months I played on TC.
Anecdotes aside, I’m sure there are other RPers out there in a similar position. Perhaps we could all benefit from establishing another, equally unofficial American RP world? Or if there’s a better one, just let me know? (I’d prefer not to join an EU server, though, so Piken Square doesn’t count.)

Tag,

If you guys want back in TC, you should try off hour weeknights…early AM to get in. Hard on peeps if you work or go to school…but its only for a few minutes to get in.

I’m interested in possible solutions to this as well. If TC is maxed out during AM hours in U.S. time zones (I tried most recently at about 9AM Eastern), then it’s pretty effectively at the limit of what ANet’s population caps can handle. I’d like to see either the few max-population servers get a hardware boost to handle demand, or a second unofficial RP server be “established.”

Unfortunately trying to log in during non-peak hours isn’t really a solution, especially when 1) it doesn’t work, and 2) some people have jobs and can’t be trying to server-swap during work hours.

This raises some serious questions about how servers’ current capacities are determined, because at the time of this writing (early PM US time, still very much in working hours) all of the American servers are listed as “High” or “Full” capacity. We’re very much out of peak hours, and my current server (Henge of Denravi) is pretty much a ghost town. There’s no way it’s at “high” capacity.