Guild Wars 2

I was just asked by the server to switch because the map I was on had become empty. I did and lost all of my participation that I had at that point.

This can’t be intended behavior right?

’Fraid so.

There’s a grace period if you leave, crash out or get disconnected and manage to get back to the exact same instance of the map you just departed which will allow you to retain all participation, but under no circumstances will you retain participation if you swap between instances of the same map.

I suggested in another thread that we make a collective effort to consolidate the instances of the new maps proactively, rather than just relying on ANet’s sub-par system, but that post doesn’t seem to have generated much interest…

Also on DS if the meta event is past a certain point you are disabled from rejoining the map. So whatever you do, don’t crash in dragon’s stand.

The map swap thing is thoroughly broken. I keep getting asked to leave the map when I’m in the middle of an event with 25+ other people.