Guild Wars 2

It goes in waves. Yesterday the first and third maps were human lasagnas. Second was a ghost town.

Would love to know the answer to this atm all i can assume is that HOT was so bad every one left the game . there not even doing the H event ! not really encouraging me to buy it. if it’s empty as well and is not SOLO friendly

SkylightMoon.1980:

Has anyone noticed the maps are really empty right now? It almost feels like pre-megaserver. I know a lot of people are still gonan be starting out and exploring verdant brink but auric basin and tangled depths and dragons stand had almost no one in the map. Ive heard a lot of other people have this expereince as well. Whats going on? There has to be at least enough people in some of the later maps for there to be full maps, it makes no sense for there not to be.

Did arenanet change something or potentially accidently screw up the megaserver?

What you’ve said is true. What’s more without enough players around you can’t do anything except map explore to try and find where all the people are.

I don’t think they changed the mega-server. The problem is the mega-server algorithm considers total players on the map. There are probably plenty of players on the Verdant Brink map you’re on, it’s just those players are doing very specific things. They are in team focused on one of the other dozens plus events on the map that you happen to not be at. Or they are camping out at hero challenges waiting for a group to come along.

Really the mega-server algorithm needed to be retooled for the HoT maps to take into account, but it’s a balancing act because too many on a server and performance turns to kitten for everyone.

Hero point challenges and events are tuned for too many players in general imo. You should be able to solo every Hero Point challenge. They should be difficult and scale maybe for more players around, but you should be able to solo them to unlock your elite spec.

But ya, getting the same dead maps without enough players to do events.