Guild Wars 2

Short Version:

• Hotjoin/Practice is now only Custom Server specific.
• Practice button becomes Volunteer Button.
• Unranked is simply “Play”
• Ranked remains the same.
• Leaving non custom games will result in dishonor stacks.

Practice becomes Volunteer:

The practice button will be renamed to Volunteer and function as a substitute system for currently running games. Players who select Volunteer is be queued and brought into running games where an AFK kick, leaver, or non-loader exists (any non-even match) and be given a rank bonus for being a volunteer.

Leaving a match as a volunteer will still provide Dishonor stacks.

Custom Servers:

These will remain the same, acting as a quick hotjoin method of playing PvP and setting up player-made tournaments.

New methods should be available for players to setup their own custom servers, and more options should be available for server creators to customize points, team size, objectives, etc.

Unranked becomes “Play Now”:

Unranked currently sits as a standard method of PvP, but with the ease of access of Hotjoin and the more imposing nature being named even with “rank” in the name is off-putting for some players.

This would now simply be “Play Now” and function the same as it currently does, a non-ranked standard match using matchmaking. With the combination of Hotjoin and Unranked populations, queue times should stay relatively unchanged, or faster.

Zietlogik.6208:

Short Version:

• Hotjoin/Practice is now only Custom Server specific.
• Practice button becomes Volunteer Button.
• Unranked is simply “Play”
• Ranked remains the same.
• Leaving non custom games will result in dishonor stacks.

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Practice becomes Volunteer:

The practice button will be renamed to Volunteer and function as a substitute system for currently running games. Players who select Volunteer is be queued and brought into running games where an AFK kick, leaver, or non-loader exists (any non-even match) and be given a rank bonus for being a volunteer.

Leaving a match as a volunteer will still provide Dishonor stacks.

Custom Servers:

These will remain the same, acting as a quick hotjoin method of playing PvP and setting up player-made tournaments.

New methods should be available for players to setup their own custom servers, and more options should be available for server creators to customize points, team size, objectives, etc.

Unranked becomes “Play Now”:

Unranked currently sits as a standard method of PvP, but with the ease of access of Hotjoin and the more imposing nature being named even with “rank” in the name is off-putting for some players.

This would now simply be “Play Now” and function the same as it currently does, a non-ranked standard match using matchmaking. With the combination of Hotjoin and Unranked populations, queue times should stay relatively unchanged, or faster.

ANet, please do this, or something like it. It would solve all matchmaking problems because there would be a much larger pool of players to match from. Making a custom arena should be easier in this scenario, as outlined by the OP.

why would anyone want to join a loosing game where their team is already demoralised?

choovanski.5462:

why would anyone want to join a loosing game where their team is already demoralised?

I actually like turning games around, me and a few friends do it all the time, you don’t have to always win to have fun.

Plus you would get a rank boost, just as a nice “thank you” for trying to be a good sport and help a team come back. Maybe instead of a rank boost, you could just get a nice “vonunteer’s chest” with some special loot in it.

Zietlogik.6208:

choovanski.5462:

why would anyone want to join a loosing game where their team is already demoralised?

I actually like turning games around, me and a few friends do it all the time, you don’t have to always win to have fun.

Plus you would get a rank boost, just as a nice “thank you” for trying to be a good sport and help a team come back. Maybe instead of a rank boost, you could just get a nice “vonunteer’s chest” with some special loot in it.

you cant do that people would take advantage of the loot system, simply go into this que decap or cap a spot and wait for the match to end since your already getting bonus glory and now bonus loot with a match that will already be close to being finished.

Now of course that doesnt apply to you or your friends but there so many things that could go wrong such as a certain type of player as a replacment. A team with 2 thieves and 2 eles and the bunker player dc and then they get another thief. Also the skill cap. Certain players are frontrunners and when they get a lead they dont give it up which could leave the person coming in to getting talked down too because the player they replaced was better.

Sorry though this idea is very creative its a horrible way to take things.

kdaddy.5431:

Zietlogik.6208:

choovanski.5462:

why would anyone want to join a loosing game where their team is already demoralised?

I actually like turning games around, me and a few friends do it all the time, you don’t have to always win to have fun.

Plus you would get a rank boost, just as a nice “thank you” for trying to be a good sport and help a team come back. Maybe instead of a rank boost, you could just get a nice “vonunteer’s chest” with some special loot in it.

you cant do that people would take advantage of the loot system, simply go into this que decap or cap a spot and wait for the match to end since your already getting bonus glory and now bonus loot with a match that will already be close to being finished.

Now of course that doesnt apply to you or your friends but there so many things that could go wrong such as a certain type of player as a replacment. A team with 2 thieves and 2 eles and the bunker player dc and then they get another thief. Also the skill cap. Certain players are frontrunners and when they get a lead they dont give it up which could leave the person coming in to getting talked down too because the player they replaced was better.

Sorry though this idea is very creative its a horrible way to take things.

I suppose some of that could be alleviated with a proper kick/vote system, but that might be abused as well, there has to be incentive though.

Well this would be a band-aid. A good one, no joke. That would help get rid of team stacking in hot joins and I guess make the ques a little less dead.

It won’t necessarily fix how dead GW2 PVP is though cause of bad decisions.

Please fix sPvP, the new guild stuff and Stronghold will not suffice, the foundation needs love, not the paint.