Guild Wars 2

Hi, I have been trying to transfer to tarnished coast for the last 5 days now but no luck yet. Was just wondering if anyone knows what time of the day the server opens up (if it does). ? And do you actually need to fully log off your account to refresh the server list?

Thanks!

I’ve not seen it open in months. I think you can just switch to Population view, or one of the other categories to refresh it.

Good luck.

Most everyone that I’ve heard of successfully making the move to TC in the last months has done it sometime between 3 am and 6 am eastern.

I have read in previous discussions that you do need to do a full close and open to make the new try. Something about a 2 minute cd that starts over if you just refresh. But I do not personally know if that is true.

Donari.5237:

Most everyone that I’ve heard of successfully making the move to TC in the last months has done it sometime between 3 am and 6 am eastern.

Eastern time as in just standard us eastern time? sorry im from aus.

He/she probably meant EDT, as that is the current time zone time. Most of the US is in Daylight Saving Time now. So, starting about 5 hours from now.

Good luck.

thank you for that info!

Yeah, as I’m never sure if I’m in Standard time or not, I just refer to “eastern.” Lazy of me. I should have added “so midnight to 3 am pacific time” since more people are used to converting to ANet’s time frame.

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The time really doesn’t matter. The population isn’t based on the number of accounts that are logged on but on how many people call that server home. The only way it will drop from full is if someone transfers of to another server or a net raise the server cap.

Also the server only matters if your trying to play WvW with friends. For pve all that matters is that your on the same region is NA or EU.

im so confused xD what should i type into google to find the time you are talking about lmao

and yes i want to go there so i can wvw with friends

There is no sure fire way to make the move. It will show ‘full’ probably at all times. Your best bet is to keep trying whenever you have a few minutes. Odd hours work best usually, but persistence is more important.

I don’t recommend trying every few minutes; that leads to burn out. Instead, if you can stay near a computer with the game installed, try 1-2x whenever you can spare the time.

Another method works for people in a huge guild (100s of members): pick a time that a huge fraction of them are online and have them all logout at exactly the same moment and try then. AFAIK, that has always worked in the past (although TC might be too full for that to be reliable these days).

Good luck.

ANet hasn’t clearly explained the mechanics governing what makes servers ‘full’ and when people can get in. So the following is speculative, based on my best understanding of things I’ve seen the devs mention.

Population depends on the following:

• How many people playing right now.
• How many people have played ‘recently’ (which might mean last 24 hrs or last week or longer)
• The peak login in the last recent reporting period (probably a month or 3).
• How many accounts registered to the server.

In other words, there are dynamic and relatively static components. Since there are always some people transferring from TC at some point, there will always be moments when you can ‘replace’ them. Similarly, since there are always people logging out, there will be some moments when the game’s algorithm decides there’s room for one more.

finally got in!

TwistedFate.8705:

finally got in!

Awesome! Congratulations and welcome to the Coast.