Guild Wars 2

I’m really curious about how they are going to roll out more servers because we clearly need them -the game is busting at the seams.

I was in queue all evening to get into WvW (never happened) so I ran around and did events – everywhere I went there was mobs of people and constant overflow in Lion’s Arch.

Today over 60% of NA servers were FULL with the remaining Very High and with the upcoming Christmas rush where will they put all these people?

I’m thinking they might need to add 3 servers at a time because of WvW matching.

This post suggests the game isn’t dieing and doesn’t follow the standard doomsday that is rampant in the forums what do you think your doing? this goes against everything!

But I agree, took me forever to transfer servers with my guild had to wait till like mid week at 3am to finally see the server drop from full to very high…. then an hour later it was full again.

You know what I say, crack it’s a hell of a drug. I would seek some help.

If they add more servers for nonplaying nonpaying players, their crazy. Transfer to one of the always high population servers then come back.

Transfer to Kaineng.

We don’t need more servers. What we need is for players who don’t logon for a few months to be removed from the server so others can get in. Put them in limbo so if they ever do play again then they can just be forced to choose a server same as we did firt time we played the game.

Thord.2017:

We don’t need more servers. What we need is for players who don’t logon for a few months to be removed from the server so others can get in. Put them in limbo so if they ever do play again then they can just be forced to choose a server same as we did firt time we played the game.

it doesn’t work like that. they aren’t full due to the amount of accounts on the server at the time they are full due to the amount logged in at the time.

Otherwise servers would be full 24/7, not drop down to very high or high during the week at off peak hours…. which they currently do.

Namu.5712:

it doesn’t work like that. they aren’t full due to the amount of accounts on the server at the time they are full due to the amount logged in at the time.

Otherwise servers would be full 24/7, not drop down to very high or high during the week at off peak hours…. which they currently do.

It is based accounts, not how many people are logged on at the time – see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first.

I played on Desolation (EU) it is pretty much marked full 24 hours a day, yet if you play at 3 am, it very obvioulsy has a fraction of the people on it that are there at say 8.30pm, e.g – there are just a handful of hot join servers beign used, no queues for WvW, with a couple of borderlands deserted, Orr empty (last time I played there were no fractals, so Orr was still active then), a handful of people in LA, no overflows, etc.

As for servers that drop at off peak hours, easy – I’d guess they remove accounts from the population calculation that have been inactive for X number of hours, so if the last time johnny was active was 240 hours ago at 10pm, when it hits that 240 mark, you get a popuation drop.

Nor would it make any sense in respect to controlling the server population to base it on a live count, servers could easily become overpopulated by people simply joining servers at off-peak times or at updates like when they chuck everyone out of WvW or ot times where signifcant numbers of people don’t play – Christmas day for example.

6 am PST on a NA server….in overflow.