Guild Wars 2

I can see the potential queuing problems and so forth, but fixed-time, relatively short matches would be awesome. This would eliminate coverage disparities and allow for evenly balanced matches.

Anyway, discuss.

Sure lets have 3 hour matches. Never upgrade towers again. Haul kitten to SM every 3 hours for WXP. Spend over and hour a day in “down time” due to servers matching up. Sounds awesome to me. You should work for Anet.

Obviously there would have to be adjustments re: upgrading towers and so forth. But nonstop, rolling matches with shorter, fixed times—you’d have closer matches, incentives to stay in throughout the week, the ability to come play for a few hours and not be annoyed that your work will be undone by poor coverage in another time zone, better equality in coverage, better incentives to split up zergs and capture/hold more points, etc.

I’m just hypothesizing here, but I like the idea of being able to log in for a fixed time and have an intense/competitive WvW experience.

“closer” matches does not imply “more fair” in this instance. diminishing the absolute score separation by shrinking the overall score does nothing.

I’m a bit confused by your logic. How exactly would 3 hour matches do anything to combat coverage discrepancies? In a hypothetical match between SoS Maguma and any other non T1-2 server what exactly would happen? A match occuring during NA primetime maguma would probably win as SOS is comparitively understaffed in that time block. Conversely SOS would absolutly crush maguma during the oceanic primetime. Puting the matches on a 3 hour cycle wont do a thing to combat population imbalances. The only possible way I could see it making any impact at all is if each server had a seperate ranking for each time block for matchmakeing otherwise you’d still end up with lopsided victories. Even with that I dont see the benifits outwaying the anoyances of the constant rematching.

Bunda.2691:

I can see the potential queuing problems and so forth, but fixed-time, relatively short matches would be awesome. This would eliminate coverage disparities and allow for evenly balanced matches.

Anyway, discuss.

Dude I literally had fights over keeps that took longer than your 3-hour matchup.

Merendel.7128:

How exactly would 3 hour matches do anything to combat coverage discrepancies?

Point is, a NA player would join a server whose 3hr period is during NA primetime, matched up against other NA servers. An oceanic player would join a server whose 3hr period is during oceanic primetime matched against oceanic servers.

The OPs suggestion would require many more servers than there are currently, likely a separation of PvE – WvW server link, and a complete overhaul of many WvW core systems. It will never happen. And 3 hrs is too short.