So its 9:15pm server time and on Fort Aspenwood the only que is for EB. Now there are a few reasons for this, some out of ANETs control, others are not.
The performance issues people are having in WvW is killing it for a lot of people. A week ago I had no problem. Today I died multiple times within an hour from invisible armies. Sometimes I can be in a 3 way fight with an uncountable number of players and it will run fine, even on my laptop, 5 minutes later I will be running at 5 FPS and have invisible people running around during a 10v10 skirmish. I have no idea what you guys did about a week ago but you better figure it out quick because all chat is filled with atm on FA is people complaining about invisible players and lag.
Night capping, you have made your stance clear on this but players do not care. No one likes to lose simply because 1 team has more players at a certain time. Im an aussie, one of the few who play on FA and our offpeak presence sucks at best. We are hanging on to 2nd place in our current battle but it wont last another night. The leaders, Dragonbrand did a good job on the first day and got a lead, they extended it to about 7k points overnight but for the last 2 days they have been almost consistently in last place for potential points for 16 hours a day yet they have continued to extend their lead during offpeak. So far the FA vs BG vs DB has been the closest WvWvW I have seen. Right now the score is 74k vs 62.3k vs 61.8k. You would expect with a close score ques would be longer, people would want to WvW, yet after just a couple of days players on FA are sick of it and have basically given up. 24 hours ago we had a 5k point lead over 3rd, its gone now because no one is interested in putting in the effort in a broken WvW when all the work done in 16 hours is undone in just a couple of hours offpeak by a small group of players.
Appeasing a small group of players at the cost of many is not a good idea, and im saying that as an aussie. Everyone knows the current ranking system is just a list of servers with the most active oceanic and SEA player base and it is killing WvW.
Orbs, its a minor issue compared to the last 2 but I dont think many people like logging on to find not only do they have to retake all their towers and keeps but they have to do so against an enemy who has a major stat bonus. I feel sorry for those players who go through that everyday before I log in.
The outmanned buff is pointless. Whats the point of having magic find if you cant kill anything because you are outmanned. All it does is encourage players to go farm mobs and make those actually wanting to WvW fight even more lopsided.
So basically those are the 2 main issues and 2 minor one that I think has drastically reduced WvW participation on FA. 2 weeks ago you were lucky to get in a borderlands within 30-45 minutes, EB took 2 hours sometimes. I understand that school is going back tomorrow for a lot of americans and that might explain it a little for tonight, but yesterday was similar, it took less then a minute to get in to WvW and we were outmanned at least 2-3 hours before we normally are.