Guild Wars 2

I would like to see structures that have been in enemy hands a certain amount of time give an initial point bonus.

My Recommendation is that if a structure has been held for at least 6 hours then it will grant 250 (supply) / 500 (tower) /1000 (keep) /2000 (stonemist) bonus points to the next server that takes it.

Example:
Primetime ends ~Midnight EST.

For the night crews to get these bonus points they will likely need to wait at least a few hours (if not all 6) to take advantage of the bonus points.

These few hours allow the sleeping servers ~12-20 more ticks of points OR the midnight crews can take the structures regardless and forego the bonuses, but then this allows the primetime crews to take advantage of the bonus points since it’ll be ~12+ hours until things start swapping again.

If the ENTIRE map is controlled by 1 server for 6 hours, there will be 32k bonus points up for grabs.

If the ENTIRE map is controlled by 1 server for 6 hours, that server would gain 2,780 points per hour or 16,680 points in 6 hours.

So if HoD takes an entire map (like they just did in the AM hours), ET and SBI could each gain back ~11k points by each reclaiming only 1/3rd of the structures in WvW, or could each gain ~16k points by each reclaiming 1/2 the structures in WvW (This requires wiping HoD completely off the map though, which is unlikely).

So While HoD would gain ~33k points in the ~12 hours of population dominance, at least ET/SBI could get a ~10-15k infusion that would help keep things close.

If a server controls the whole map (or even most of it) they get over 2000 points an hour, nobody would wait just for the bonus points, and six hours later the server holding the whole map would have gone up at LEAST 12k points, and typically most servers can’t even take back a third until prime time, which means the big map gets many more hours before that as well. While this seems like a good idea and all, it still isn’t enough to actually help with the night capping or anything like that.

Unfortunately despite the 10-15k points they could potentially get, I still don’t think it would actually keep them close, it would just keep it from looking like they were dominated.

The idea isn’t to make the off-hours crews insignificant, you still want to give those servers credit for what happens during non-primetime hours, this would simply allow for things to not get so out-of-hand. It also rewards servers for taking more fortified structures. It is quite a challenge to take a reinforced keep during Primetime hours, getting a bonus for it makes it all the more worthwhile.