I like to have a mega server ADDED to the game were you can find more players when your own server map is empty, However, forcing everyone on Megaserver and lose home servers completely is a bad idea.
So please give us the choice to join our own server like we had it till now or the megaserver.
If you join the megaserver, you are on the mega server the whole time, no popups or what ever.
If you join your home server you can still run into the megaserver as it could take over the role of overflow servers and also double as an underflow server were you can go when numbers on your server map are low. In these cases you will be notified when your home server has space again for you, just like we now have with overflow servers.
The reason why:
There are plenty of reasons why you want more control over the server where you want to be in than just player numbers. Most home servers have their own player base with players that know each others. Some like to role play, others like to relax and hang out together, set up community driven events, go on temple/worldboss runs together, try your luck to solo a world boss, organizing a community/large guild organized world boss event (teq/tri-wurm), find a place with less players due to a bad internet connection, you name it.
With mega-servers everyone just get piled into one map. Even though the system should help with letting guild members/friend end up on the same copy of a map, this is not always working. I agree that it can become better in time, but you always keep problems when many players flood into a map fast to complete certain event that starts there, resulting in part of your friends ending up on a different copy of that map.
A solution:
It would be nice if megaserver could be added as an extra pve server you could guest or even move too. It would be not be part of WvW so even if you move to mega server, you remain on your current server for WvW things. Only for pve thing you log into the mega server as default.
Also if you are on your own main server and come into a map with only a few players on it, you could get a popup telling you that you can join the megaserver instead to find more players there. Last but not least, Overflow servers would be replaced by mega server as well, you will still get an popup telling you when your home server has space again.
I could add a lot more details but that would make the wall of text even longer.
I hope this can be taken into consideration as organizing events like we do now on our server with multiple guilds together are going to be very hard with only the megaservers since the group is prone to be spread across multiple copies of the map with the event on it. (we already noticed that today when some guild members joined a baltazar run and others could not join due to ending up in a different copy of the map. Yes this could party be solved by ‘taxing’ everyone on the same map but this will not fix all problems and is also a pain to go through everytime you want to have to join an event together.
We have worked hard to organize Our server to be able to deal with larger events these last weeks, please do not let our effort go to waste by removing the ability to join on larger events together.
So add a mega server YES
Lose all the home server in PvE, NO
Vin Lady Venture, Leader of RiFa on FoW
Vin Lady Venture, of The Rising Falcons [RiFa]
member of the Fissure of Woe (FoW) community