Guild Wars 2

Anet, would you consider changing how matchups are made? At least on a trial basis? I know you can do it because you’ve done it for seasons.

All this discussion about population imbalance is great – the thread where John posted is awesome and welcomed. But I doubt that anything is going to come of it soon. (John said that it is brainstorming).

But something you can do right now is to change how the matchups are made. Consider the NA dilemma:

• Mag had a mass exodus right before seasons. They will fall out of 6th.

• T3/4 are currently fairly decent matches, especially when the YB population falls off season.

• However, someone must go up to 6th place. And no one really wants to.

• The reason is that whoever does will get demolished by SoS and FA. However due to the way Glicko works, they will most likely actually gain rating.

• But if you manually made the matchups so that one of the T3/4 servers would be in T2 for only a week at a time then it would be ok. Anyone can stand being demolished for just a week.

• In fact, it would be great fun. For that week the T3/4 server wouldn’t need to worry about PPT and could just have fun fighting. Which is exactly what T2 people seem to want (see thread about it).

In conclusion, population imbalance is a major concern. Look at all the threads created recently and merged as one dev commented thread. The solutions are all simply in discussion stages. We need something now though. Changing how matchups are made to a manual method is something that can be done now.

“now” as in “right in the middle of a tournament”?

it doesn’t seem to me to be the best time.

-ken

Pretty sure he meant after next week….

Lol yes I was using “right now” loosely. Right after tourney ends would be perfect.

Given the lack of reponse to this thread I guess people wouldn’t really care one way or the other if Anet did this.

Hear that Anet, something you can do where no one will QQ at you! Just do it. Maybe no one will even notice.

don’t be fooled. if Anet starts a practice of manual intervention in matchups there will be complaints of favoritism, and that servers that anet devs play on are getting preferred matchups.

regardless of whether it’s true or not, the complaints will create a toxic environment. you know it’s true, the current playerbase can’t be trusted not to make such accusations.

(I’m fine with the idea of changing things after the tournament ends, by the way. I’m just not convinced that a change involving manual tweaking is a good idea.)

-ken

It comes down to
Why did it take sor so long to fall?
Why is it taking Maguuma so long to fall?
How long will it take the new server 6 to fall if they can’t compete? Assuming rng gods don’t put maguuma against fa-sos yet again post season….

(This applies elsewhere – but is obvious to people in T2-T3-T4 that something is wrong and won’t be fixed any time soon)

The 3 and out rule and similar has been brought up multiple times. If a server loses in a tier X number of times they automatically get pushed into the tier below. This could be accomplished by docking extra points for consecutive losses.

I would still like to see them offer a small amount of free transfers to under performing servers in a tier to help even out the population balance.