Guild Wars 2

So here is just a post stating a question and a suggestion related to the question that I feel could make WvW a little more fun for day time players and night time players.

Q: What is the current match making system for WvW? A completely random system that picks servers? A system that randomly generates matches based on how many points each server averages out per round of WvW? A system that chooses based on averages of what place 1-3 that server normally comes out on?

While the above are all great ways to formulate matches that will pit player vs player based on skill, it doesn’t address a large problem, that is, which servers tend to have more at night then in the day time.

My suggestion is create a match making system that not only tracks the above statements, but also tracks amounts of log ins and log outs per time frames a day. The system could track which servers have a larger log in and online population during different time frames.

Servers that have similar time frames of the same amount of population are more likely to be paired together in accordance with a system that calculates point and placement averages of past weeks.

Just an idea, not a great one, but an idea to think about.

I’m sure they have a very detailed match making system, maybe they can include some of your points if they haven’t. I don’t however feel it’s the nature of the problem.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/It-s-a-question-of-balance/first#post173603

The matchmaking system is fine. What they need is some balance of team population at any given time. If the maximum players allowed into WvW at one time is 500 players, you can have 1vs1vs500 players if the other two worlds don’t have sufficient population.. And although exaggerated, that’s all I’ve seen in WvW. During the evenings things become competitive. You go to bed, and when you wake up in the morning the team with the higher population owns 95% of the map. This is a cycle that continues every single day, not because they’re necessarily skilled but because they have enough people playing WvW at off-hours to overman the diminished enemy team.

@Neoxide Indeed, that is why I made the suggestion I did. It addresses the problem you are stating.

Thank you for stating the problem and showing it is a known problem.