Guild Wars 2

The biggest issue I’m seeing is server collusion, where 2 servers work together to maintain a stranglehold on a tier, and prevent other servers from winning.

Case in point: Vizunah and Arborstone. They consistently win-trade and 2v1 any server that moves into tier1. They can deny it all they want: it’s happening.

It took a group of players creating a juggernaut to even compete.

Last week, Arbor took 3rd place. To prevent Arbor being moved to tier2 (thus ending the ability to 2v1) several large guilds transferred to Arbor in order to push them to 1st and keep both FR servers in tier1.

Unfortunately for them, not enough transferred, and the end result was that both servers were left weakened and deso is crushing them.

I give credit to the french for using this bad transfer policy to their advantage. I fully support using every advantage available, and don’t hold it against anybody.

This is simply a loophole that needs to be closed. It can be done several ways:

1.) Raise the lockout to 14 days: this would definately ease the win-trading, but wouldn’t prevent the spies and supply-burners.

2.) Keep the 7-day transfer lockout, but lockout a player from RETURNING to the old server for 90 days: this would eliminate almost all of the spies and supply-burners, and also make it impossible to win trade.

I’m surprised nobody has suggested restricting WvW access for a few days/1 week on transfering, yet

At least not the threads i read.

90 days is a little severe. 2-3 weeks would do it.

Yes and should be a restricted access to WvW if U transferred to the different region …

Maybe what they should do is keep the 7 day transfer but cannot participate in WvW for 7 days if you go to a lower end server or something like 14 days no participation in WvW of you go to a server of equal or higher rank then the one you were on so you don’t hurt PVE players who look to find a server were an event like the temple of Baltazher isn’t bugged out

@ no shelter, i’m from arborstone and i will surprise you i’m ok for the transfer restriction but not for the same reason as there is no particular alliance between arborstone and vizunah there was only 1 during our first match up who last only two days.

against elona reach we don’t have an alliance at all so stop claiming we are the bad guys.

i’m ok with you there is a problem with server transfer because when arborstone won against elona and vizunah lot of people from vizunah left for arborstone and when vizunah was first last week the same person left arborstone for vizunah.

btw look at the score vizunag took back the second place today so i don’t think it’s you but it would be nice that people stop inventing fake to discredit both arborstone and vizunah.

back in everquest server transfers had a 6 month lockout and cost 50 $ why is it so easy now in the first place they could be making $$$$

“Unfortunately for them, not enough transferred, and the end result was that both servers were left weakened and deso is crushing them.”

I wager that isn’t the reason it failed.

This seems like a problem that solved itself, which means it isn’t really a problem at all?

whether VZ and Arbor are actively win trading is impossible to prove and not enough empirical or statistical evidence to show trending.

However it is currently possible within the rules and dynamic of WvW for 2 servers (or a portion thereof) to collude in this fashion and some rule set changes should be made to make it far more difficult.

Just get rid of free transfers like they originally told us.

Then maybe server populations can settle down.