Guild Wars 2

Can we get one PvE map that has banks, crafting stations, black lion ( I dont care if its locked behind another 1000 gems) that is not on the mega server? This, at the very least will help servers keep their identity outside of wvw.

I vote for Rata Sum.

Can we get…

… a thread title that actually indicates thread contents? Golly, that sure would be swell!

…a thread that doesn’t whine about megaserver?

Though, after reading a legion of complaints from guilds and RPers, I’m actually kinda sad that towns got lumped into the megaservers. Those places could’ve been anchors for the communities, and I hope they revert cities (and LA, assuming it doesn’t get ganked again) back to their specific servers.

Not a fan of the method by which this post came about, but I support the message of returning or offering a central hub for server communities.

I was not a fan of a city hub before Megaserver.

My vote would go for all racial cities to be off Mega map.

I loved how different people went to different places- before Mega map-= Shaemore wp used to be a hang out on my server for some reason and it was great. (post LA)

Someone comes out of the tutorial and sees people playing and chatting and goofing off- good times

A suggestion that I’ve always felt would be a good change:

Make racial cities free to travel to if you are that race, and take them off megaserver. That would reduce the number of people going to one spot like Vigil’s Keep because it is free to travel elsewhere, a lot of people argue that WPing is too expensive so this would appease them. Keep Vigil’s Keep (or wherever the hub ends up) on Megaserver. That would allow for a nice meeting area for many servers, plus the ones that are anti-megaserver can travel to a non-megaserver area for free, so they would be satisfied.

But Vigil’s Keep has portals to the other cities! If you are going there just to go to another place, then you’re just passing through so why would you even care if it was megaserver.

Hayashi.3416:

I vote for Rata Sum.

Draknar.5748:

A suggestion that I’ve always felt would be a good change:

Make racial cities free to travel to if you are that race, and take them off megaserver. That would reduce the number of people going to one spot like Vigil’s Keep because it is free to travel elsewhere, a lot of people argue that WPing is too expensive so this would appease them. Keep Vigil’s Keep (or wherever the hub ends up) on Megaserver. That would allow for a nice meeting area for many servers, plus the ones that are anti-megaserver can travel to a non-megaserver area for free, so they would be satisfied.

But Vigil’s Keep has portals to the other cities! If you are going there just to go to another place, then you’re just passing through so why would you even care if it was megaserver.

That would be too hard to do and cause too much lag. This is why we went to the Mega-server to lower the lag – segmenting the system again makes no sense.

The system is fine the way it is. You can map into the HotM if you want to use the Mystic Forge.

Telemin.7380:

Can we get one PvE map that has banks, crafting stations, black lion ( I dont care if its locked behind another 1000 gems) that is not on the mega server? This, at the very least will help servers keep their identity outside of wvw.

You do – Caledon Forest – Queensdale – any of the lvl 1-15 areas have them (you have 5 of them) – if you use crafting you can get to your bank.

I guess that means you really haven’t looked around and explored.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Telemin.7380:

Can we get one PvE map that has banks, crafting stations, black lion ( I dont care if its locked behind another 1000 gems) that is not on the mega server? This, at the very least will help servers keep their identity outside of wvw.

You do – Caledon Forest – Queensdale – any of the lvl 1-15 areas have them (you have 5 of them) – if you use crafting you can get to your bank.

I guess that means you really haven’t looked around and explored.

Go and double check those maps. They are in the mega server. (Anets list on the forums is incomplete)

Dusty Moon.4382:

Telemin.7380:

Can we get one PvE map that has banks, crafting stations, black lion ( I dont care if its locked behind another 1000 gems) that is not on the mega server? This, at the very least will help servers keep their identity outside of wvw.

You do – Caledon Forest – Queensdale – any of the lvl 1-15 areas have them (you have 5 of them) – if you use crafting you can get to your bank.

I guess that means you really haven’t looked around and explored.

I guess this means you haven’t bothered to see whether or not those zones are on the megaserver.

Hint: they are.

SO – they have those services in those areas – what has the mega server to do with that?

As I stated on another thread – having mixed types of servers causes all types of lag issues. it ain’t gonna happen. I guess y’all will have to deal with it.

Server identity is only for WvW and PvP.

There was a specific reason I purchased a Divinity’s Reach Royal Terrace Pass. I’d like to be able to access craftsman, my bank and the mystic forge conveniently without running into a literally zerg of people that blows up the chat.

After this whole mega-server thing. I’m waiting around a minute or so to load into DR now. It makes the whole ‘Convenient’ aspect negligible because I waste time. I waste time loading into any of the map that got mega-server’d.

I’d be alright if it was just PvE maps, excluding starter cities and LA, I am probably spending time there doing events, farming mobs, dungeons, etc and having people there is nice, outside of the matter of scaling up events to absurd proportions. But a minute just to dump my stuff in my bank/guild bank/access the TP/Vendoring my bags seems ridiculous.

What is the point of having separate servers if we’re all just lumped together in the end? Might as well just make WvW Teams Red/Blue/Green and randomize it every week. Who cares about server identity? Because there isn’t one at this rate, can’t fight for the glory of the Mega-Server. No more server run temple runs to keep the server together, the communal aspect of individual server is missing.

I should write an essay about this and post it. On the topic of the lost of individual identity in GW2.

I dont mind the megaserver being in the game but i feel the cities should be server specific I come from ET and on ET everyone gets along we all know eachother and its a nice place to be but since the megaserver I dont talk to anyone because im just lost in how many conversations go on at once and how many people there are, I have social anxiety very severe anxiety but on games it helps cause i dont have to be me but now that im just a no one again and talking to someone is a chore because so many people bombard map chat with every silly little thing the charm of the game has gone for me. I’ve also had a major increase in gold seller whispers I cant put that down to the megaserver but i feel that makes it easier for them to single me out and whisper me and others.

Dusty Moon.4382:

SO – they have those services in those areas – what has the mega server to do with that?

As I stated on another thread – having mixed types of servers causes all types of lag issues. it ain’t gonna happen. I guess y’all will have to deal with it.

Server identity is only for WvW and PvP.

Cause more people per zone creates less lag, right? Gotcha.

Yeah, let’s make racial cities server-only again. That’ll solve the issue with them being empty all the time. Oh wait, it won’t.

People complain about cities being empty > Anet does something about that. Now people complain about people from other servers being in their cities.

Just visit your home instance to get that good old empty city feeling…

QQQQQQ…. All the QQs..

Telemin is asking for a place that will generate server identity; where even the smallest of servers had a more face-to-face community amongst their original inhabitants. Sure it means ‘empty’ maps again.. but only for that particular place so we can all talk to our neighbors again..
Megaservers created a populous and annoying map chat; its like I am choking on city smog and cannot listen to my latest iPod tunes without turning the volume up; yes i can turn map chat off but what it does not fix is the “who is that person, is that from my server?”
Personally I have the lowest character model limit setting and most people that pops up around me are not even from my server.. I do not want to follow every person that is from my server just to know if they are online and want to talk (cause to me all that matters is on my friends list) but.. wait what was I talking about again?

tl;dr +1 to Telemin’s idea. Maybe give Megaservers a few more years to kink out and maybe I will not have to deal with it since I will not be here and have moved on to the next best thing namely newly polished doorknobs and sweet, sweet flan.

i think leaving racial cities server based is a very good idea.
it will give people a place to gather and talk tactics before wvw :P

Hi! I’m still new to the game and everything is great!
But I do see what the problem is/ I find most maps get into arguments/disagreements of things I don’t really know about.
Maybe it was quieter then before the Megaserver// I am pretty sure Anet will do something about it! Please give it some time!

One thing that I’m personally having issues with the mega server at this point in time is for guild recruiting. I know they are changing it so that guilds are cross region, but being a recruiter in a mid sized guild who is trying to grow their numbers, I’m afraid to recruit because at this point, i cant tell what server anybody’s on.

Community?

We have no community any more. This was so important to so many. Where are our friends? I chose to stay on a low populated server for several reasons. Community. Less lag. We behave better when we know each other. Server pride. No queues. Challenge. Many worked for long periods to build these communities and its been taken away with no real consideration for them or languages other than English, role players, Guilds, WvW people and others.
I am afraid this may be the final straw for me. No issue I have had since launch has been addressed properly which leads me to believe there is no real listening going on.
I only come here now to help out my friends but if I cant find them, what is the point?

I’d like to echo what Kubzie said above. I am also from ET and enjoyed the company and knowing many server ‘mates’ in the cities. The gold spamming whispers are very bad now as is trying to find anyone within my guild or server within Vigil Keep or other areas. I realize that Anet has created a technology advancement in their minds with mega-servers and invested $s to make it so. I know this cannot be reversed in full – BUT please find a way to honor those of us who believe in server identity outside of WvW and create areas where that collaboration and interaction can occur. Many of the issues raised in this thread are accurate and I hope Anet can address them soon.