Hello, I have been stuck in a bit of an issue for several months now. I have been trying to move from Tarnished Coast to Yak’s Bend to be with my fellow guild mates who decided to transfer at a point in my life where I was highly unavailable. I’ve seen several posts complaining about the inability to transfer and still the existence of massive population balance issues.
After thinking about this issue for several weeks and trying to get the ball rolling faster in time for the new expansion which sounds like it will undoubtedly make mine and people in my position lives harder – I came up with what I think might not be a horrible idea to consider.
So, my first part of the suggestion – is I wish for the Developers to give WvWers the ability to disband from their server. As I said, I am from Tarnished Coast which is a full server and I already wish to leave to go to Yak’s Bend… which coincidentally it is possible someone from one of the other full servers wants to take my place and we’re all simply just blocking each other in hopes of waiting for our respective desired servers to open. Now I am not suggesting that this makes transferring free or anything – I think we can still keep the gem transfers to protect from mass bandwagon epidemics (even though i dislike money to transfer.) – but I feel this will give the population room to spread out without having to spend gems to go to another server just to free their own position up.
The second part would be to set up a Queue. This Queue would only be available to unaffiliated players – which ties into my first idea of players being able to give up their spot on their full servers to allow things to open up. They in turn get the benefit of grabbing the first pick when a queue pops – this should be something that is time limited as i can see players who stop playing the game all together could bog down this system – however people have lives, jobs, and just things to do – so I suggest a 24 hour period for this person to accept this queue(preferably with both an in game and email alert) and then it floats onto the next player. This would not totally alleviate the world population problem – but it would at least make the players who are lost to their guilds at the very least feel like they are going to eventually get this opportunity rather than logging in, seeing the server still full, getting disappointed, and then logging out because now not only are they not enjoying the game they want but they also are once again disappointed to see nothing has changed.
I look forward to discussion of this topic from any and all.
I also hope this gets some Devs attention to comment on.
Thanks all, hopefully this idea can evolve into something better and real.