Suggustion for new Roleplayer server
With megaservers, it does not matter much which server you are on unless you want to WvW, because you can just join in someone elses map. Also, there are no official roleplaying servers, they are chosen by the community.
I think opening a roleplay server is an excellent idea. I also had the same problem when I researched a roleplay server to go into. But when I purchased my game, the server was full.
I don’t think TC is an “official” RP server, and with megaservers I doubt they would add any more. They could always try and tweak the megaserver system somehow to accommodate RPers more easily but unfortunately RP isn’t high up the list.
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It is not possible to ‘set up’ one server. Servers must be in multiples of three to keep WvW balanced.
Not only that, but no server is officially designated as any particular kind of server…that is something the community did.
Yeah there is no official Roleplaying server. Tarnished Coast is the unofficial one as designated by the players.
With Megaservers though you just need to join a good RPing guild and then you can /join into an active RP map instance through one of your guild mates if you aren’t placed on the right instance of a map initially.
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You can always decide to move all the RPers in NA side to a low pop server that doesn’t ever do well on wvw if you don’t care about wvw at all. I was even considering transfering to one to make a new home for all of us.
Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.
It would be nice if you could run a private server for GW2 like you can other MMO’s and just RP there.
You can always decide to move all the RPers in NA side to a low pop server that doesn’t ever do well on wvw if you don’t care about wvw at all. I was even considering transfering to one to make a new home for all of us.
Thing is that there are many RPers that enjoy WvW. This is part of why TC is a high WvW server.
But yeah, short of getting the RP community to all up and go, it’s not gonna happen nor is it really necessary with the megaserver. If you want to land in maps with a bunch of roleplayers, join in RP guilds and add a bunch of people from TC (particularly roleplayers) to your friends list.
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Yes Konig, that is the main problem as most RPers, even myself once I get a suitable PC to handle it, like to WvW and there is not enough RPers that only want to RP and nothing else, not even WvW, or pve, or pvp, to satisfy a huge need to make a big move to a low pop, non-contender in WvW and make it justified enough to move us all to it as well.
Even though I used to know a few prior to our WvW greatness + mega server that only wanted RP and nothing else for their Tarnished Coast; I’m pretty sure they all went to other more “pro RP” games, yet that is a totally unrelated issue.
It could work though if enough skilled players that also RP all move to the new said server and upset the balance in all the servers in WvW as_so many want to get into TC for the RP and not for the WvW as they can really WvW on any server and enjoy it. Its just a matter of metrics and need then.
It may even reduce the trolling against us a bit as TC is more of a WvW server now than unofficial RP as it once was mainly because as you said server don’t matter outside of WvW and you can guest and join guilds and add friends for RP get -togethers.
I guess the OP is saying he or she doesn’t want to go through all that hassle with guilds, friends, and guesting, and kill many birds with one stone and just have a place for us we can ultimately call our own, and if we want to still WvW, we can in our new server and not really have anyone against RP (trolls issue) at the same time.
Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.
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I don’t think it’s good for the game to have an official world for anything, except maybe language (just for the ease in communication). Anything else ends up splitting the community. It’s good for RPers to be part of the larger community; it’s good for non-RPers to be exposed to RP.
More importantly, if they add an RP server, why not a speed-clear server? Why not a farming server? Why not an ironman (reroll character on first death)?
Anyhow, I’m not sure TC being full has anything to do with RP these days. It’s a top-tier WvW server and its chief competitors, BG and JQ, are also full.
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The real issue is that if they put in an official roleplay server they would be expected to moderate it, which I doubt they are willing to do, but at the same time if they don’t moderate then having one is pointless.