Guild Wars 2

Many times as a UK player have I had the strange happening where the map closes and I end up in the French, German or other non-english speaking server for some reason. I assume it’s because the game is separated into US and EU servers when dealing with migrations and EU has fewer servers and more spoken languages.

Not entirely sure what can be done about it, or if this has been mentioned before, but is there a way to ensure that when a map closes I still remain on an English speaking server? it’s pretty hard to play when you can’t understand a word of what’s being said during world events, or even local chat.

If nothing can be done, can Arenanet maybe see about doing something to help create language-matched migration?

Hello,

Are you familiar with megaservers? If not, megaservers is a system that was brought in several months ago to ensure maps are filled with a higher population. If a map, say, Queensdale, the population falls below a certain point, everyone gets the move to a different shard option. This places you in a fuller map to ensure it’s easier for you to find people to do group content with (so you’re not stuck on your own against a boss fight for example).

The megaserver system has a priority checklist. I’m not 100% sure but I think it goes in this order:

Homeworld > Language > Guild > Friends.

So the megaserver will try and put you on your home world first (Piken Square, Gandara, Whiteside Ridge etc) then among people with the same language as you, then try and find you with people in your guild and on your friends list. It’s a little more complicated than that, and the order may be wrong. But that’s the basis of it.

But if you are finding yourself in servers full of people speaking in another language, it’s likely you’re in a map that’s probably only got one or two shards, perhaps ‘not popular’ maps such as maybe Iron Marches or Lorna’s Pass.

Basically, if you want to play with more people you hang around with, it’s easiest to do this by getting as many people as you can on your friends list, especially people of the same home world as you, and if you’ve not already done so, guild up as well.

I have (honestly not boasting here!) around 250 mutual friends, mostly from Piken Square, so I have almost no trouble being in a ‘Piken Square’ shard in most maps.

Hope this helps to clarify

Thanks! it does help, I’m a returning player so the whole megaserver thing was a new thing to me. I was playing way back when servers were dedicated. I guess it’s just a case of there being no available spots to migrate to

Tyrannical.9348:

Thanks! it does help, I’m a returning player so the whole megaserver thing was a new thing to me. I was playing way back when servers were dedicated. I guess it’s just a case of there being no available spots to migrate to

Welcome Back to Guild Wars 2 then!

I will also say that sometimes during off-peak hours, even maps that are normally full of your own home world (i.e. Divinity’s Reach) can end up getting mixed too. You can also go into chat options and toggle the display of other languages in the chat.

How this works is not actually as it sounds (i.e. a language detecter) but by only showing people chatting that have a different language to you set as their default language in options (So it’ll likely only filter out German, Spanish & French if yours is set to English – and can stop you seeing someone who has German set speaking English in chat so I have this unticked!)

Megaservers have no priority. You are just a trash to be thrown in some random bags.

+ Filtering other languages is not a fix, it is a dumb solution. You still can’t interact with the most of the players in a map.

penelopehannibal.8947:

The megaserver system has a priority checklist. I’m not 100% sure but I think it goes in this order:
Homeworld > Language > Guild > Friends.

Oh how I wish this were true.
Sadly I and my guildmates have tested this and found it to be quite false.
Everyone gets thrown into servers at random, there is no priority checklist.

There are very likely people who speak English around at all times. If you need to know something, just ask. Almost always someone will answer.

I don’t know if I am odd, I just feel it would be rude of me to start chatting in English in the middle of a conversation in another language. I know I have just as good a right to talk as the next person, but knowing it is not feeling it. Or maybe that is the Finn in me: Interrupting is considered impolite here.

Lorgus.6148:

Everyone gets thrown into servers at random, there is no priority checklist.

Your server choice matters. Guesting will confirm that.