Mega Server question
With the megaserver system, players won’t be separated into different copies of the same map based on the world they selected on character creation. Instead, you will simply arrive in a map and be assigned to the version of that map that makes the most sense for you as selected by the megaserver system we’ve developed. This new system takes your party, guild, language, home world, and other factors into account to match you to a version of the map you’re entering. This will increase the odds that you’ll see the same people more often and play with people of similar interests.
With megaserver technology, there are as many copies of a map as are needed to comfortably hold the population of players in that map at a given time. Rather than having a separate map copy for each home world and artificially limiting the amount of fellow adventurers you see, the megaserver system brings players together and dynamically opens up new map copies as necessary.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-megaserver-system/
When players enter a zone, they are placed into the same instance as everyone else, until the game determines that the map is getting full, at which point it creates a new instance. When there are multiple versions of the map, the game attempts to put you in the same map alongside your friends, guildies, and members of the same world; in the EU, priority is also given to those using the same supported language, i.e. English, French, German, or Spanish.
If you find yourself on a different version of the map from the members of your party, you can right-click their name or portrait in the party UI and choose Join In [zone name]. If the map is full, you can keep trying until you succeed, as there are always people entering and leaving each instance.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Server
With the Megaserver system the your home server only affects which guilds you can join and the WvW standing/bonuses. If you are primarily a WvW player on a ghost server it might be worth transferring, but otherwise it won’t make much of a difference.
(edited by Highchu.3806)
With the Megaserver system the your home server only affects which guilds you can join and the WvW standing/bonuses. If you are primarily a WvW player on a ghost server it might be worth transferring, but otherwise it won’t make much of a difference.
Actually, you can technically join any guild you want, with the exception of only being able to join 5. Before I transferred to TC, I was on Eredon Terrace in a TC guild (for RP purposes). You can, if you really wanted, join 5 different guilds on 5 different servers.
Now, being sorted into megaservers is effected in part by which guilds you are in. For my example on Eredon Terrace, I had a slightly higher chance of being grouped with people from Tarnished Coast since I was in a guild that originated on Tarnished Coast. That often did not happen because I wasn’t a Tarnished Coast native until recently though. :p
In regards to being in a guild from a different server, however, you won’t be able to access the guild bank from the guild’s home server. Any rep you earn for the guild is put into your own “chapter.” I hear word about them possibly merging all of that though, so even on different servers we may eventually be able to share a guild’s bank! No ETA on that. It’s been a consideration though.
Everything else said is true though. WvW is really the only thing affected. The world is much more comfortably populated when doing normal PvE. If you want to play with friends on a different server, just party up, get on the same map, and right click their portrait and port to their shard.
Have fun!