Sea of Sorrows
Champion Paragon
Champion Paragon
Server population How is it Determined?
By accounts registered to that server, and by current log-ins….as far as has been stated.
now with the megaserver system, PvE and PvP players, don’t have server loyalty. Servers now only matter to WvW players. Is that how the cap on servers is determined? Currently Darkhaven and Dragonbrand are full but they are 12-13 on the leader boards for WvW. Why is this? How is server capacity and size determined?
Server capacity and WvW rank are unrelated. ANet hasn’t said exactly what determines the cap; Inculpatus cedo has described the community’s best understanding based on comments from ANet, i.e. some combination of the number of registered accounts and peak concurrency (how many logged at the same time “recently”).
Some of us also think that it can be affected by how many are logged in right now. As evidence, we point to a number of guilds that have helped members transfer by scheduling a moment in time (e.g. 12:03 pm) when all of the guild logs out and their colleagues attempt a transfer. Every time someone has written about doing this, it’s worked.
On the other hand, others have correctly pointed out that this is anecdotal, i.e. there are only a few examples of this. They also (again correctly) point out that this could be explained by natural attrition of people not logging in for months and/or transferring out, i.e. it could just be a coincidence that the servers have had room.
tl;dr we don’t really know what governs capacity. The best advice for those determined to transfer to a “full” server is to try early and often, especially at off-peak hours. Eventually, you will succeed.
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Population (while a contributing factor on the lowest tiers) does not determine position on the leaderboards.
Bigger factors would be strength, knowledge and cunning of your commanders, how well they coordinate across the maps and SEA/OCX coverage.
Also another thing to note is the top 6 servers are currently glicko-locked into their matches – no amount of jostling in the lesser tiers would move them into those brackets.
Population (while a contributing factor on the lowest tiers) does not determine position on the leaderboards.
Bigger factors would be strength, knowledge and cunning of your commanders, how well they coordinate across the maps and SEA/OCX coverage.
Either I’m missing your sarcasm tag or….. Whaaaaa?
Population is the only reason for the position in the rankings. (This includes coverage as well of course which you do mention.)
Population (while a contributing factor on the lowest tiers) does not determine position on the leaderboards.
Bigger factors would be strength, knowledge and cunning of your commanders, how well they coordinate across the maps and SEA/OCX coverage.
Either I’m missing your sarcasm tag or….. Whaaaaa?
Population is the only reason for the position in the rankings. (This includes coverage as well of course which you do mention.)
Agreed. You server has nothing to do if you are always outnumbered. 5 ppl can’t fight a zerg of 50 and less deffend anything.
I stopped playing WvW because of the poor balancing between WvW servers. Surmia is most of the time outnumbered so there is a deep problem with the non-existent matching algoritm.