Guild Wars 2

Hello. I am a player from Desolation, a very very annoyed player as I type this.
This night yet again I tried to do Tequatl. I arrived 40 minutes BEFORE the window opening but despite that I still was on the overflow server.

I was waiting in line for the whole 40 mins plus the whole duration of the fight (+15mins).
Some of my team mated managed to taxi to the main server but not me despite being the first to arrive at Sparkfly Fen.

I tried for 40 mins to get into the server, waiting in the queue line and also trying to “join team mate on server” as often as I could. I managed to turn the “click on team mate, select join teammate on server, click and rinse and repeat” into an exact science, doing almost one attempt/second.

Despite all my efforts, people that logged AFTER me somehow managed to switch to the main server before I did.
And I never had the chance to go to the main server. Highly frustrating.
What’s even worse is that some people from other server (FOW, etc…) managed to switch before I did, even though I was from the Desolation Server and i was trying to get in my home server.

That’s completely kittened. How come this is allowed to happen? How come people from other servers get to join the main map even though it’s full? Is it supposed to be just random luck? If it is, it’s bad design. The players from that server should have priority to switching to the main map.
I am really annoyed since it’s not the first nor second time that a player from his own home server isn’t able to log in to the main but guest people are able.

This is really lame design by ANET. You design an encounter for everyone to participate in an open world experience but then your servers keep people from doing that same content.
If that were to be the case, why not making said content as an instanced content?
It’s really frustrating and by design.

Change this! Or at least don’t make the same mistake with the Shatterer or big-bosses.

I am sorry for my rant but it’s really frustrating. I am sure many other players felt this frustration too.

I am not sure how you know people joined your server’s main map, instead of their own map from an overflow. Each person that leaves an overflow goes to their own server. Unless they were guesting, I suppose. I can never tell who is guesting, and who is from which server on an overflow. Lol. I can only believe half of what I hear in map chat, as well. It has been stated that those from a home server are given priority in filling maps, but I can not ascertain who exactly said that. It’s just a little blurb in the wiki. =/

If there is a queue with say 10 people guesting in line… if a native player shows up, they get bumped to the front of the queue as a general rule.

A native player will NOT bump a guesting player who is already in the home map, however.