Guild Wars 2

So the problem with WvW is numbers disparity because people are spread unevenly across servers.

What’s stupid about this is if it was faction based you could aggregate servers into instances and attempt to fill servers for each faction and maybe counter the disparity. Could solve the tier8 problems in one fell swoop as well and make it easier to balance factions

So I wonder if an easy fix would be to change it to factions, red, blue, green.?

Would not need to change existing maps, but what you would do is possibly have extra copies of them (overflows) depending on queues (needs to be thought out how this would work).

For initial faction assignment you could base it on your servers current color and maybe to make it even you could start at T1 and assign those colours, then T2 current green is assigned red, T2 current blue is assigned blue, T2 current red is assigned green (like a draft, you don’t want all greens to become green otherwise you have all the best servers in the tiers become a new super green!). The advantage of this initial assignment is server members get to stay togethor.

Ok so the biggest holes in the plan revolve around the overflow, how to handle that. Because once you open an extra server you don’t want to shut it down and lose any upgrades but on the flipside you don’t want queues and additionally you don’t want extra servers during off hours to entice pvdooring.

Maybe an option is there are primary servers and if the extra servers are not needed anymore you shift everyone on the overflows to primary, lock the extra servers , freeze their current ppt contribution in place. When they reopen you reopen them as they were and their ppt contribution continues (similar to how things resume after a restart).

Anyway this is back of a paper napkin type thinking, but maybe some spark of an idea on how to fix WvW?

Tier 8 don’t have problems anymore… There is no need to keep poking into this matter.

Also we don’t want to have the same lag that the High Tier clusterzergs have…

Tier 8 is not actually what this proposal is about solving, it’s more an example of a knock on effect.

I don’t see what exactly you want to solve… You want to force the people that transfered to low population servers, to avoid the zergwar, to play with the people that are on the high tiers because they want to zergwar everything?

See you’re talking about something else altogethor. What you’d rather is the population caps be lower to avoid zerging and you get this on lower tier servers as an artifact of lower overall populations.

What I am talking about is population imbalances where one server can consistently field greater numbers than another thereby negating any sense of competition. It’s not fun being outmanned, on the flipside its boring as hell pvdooring. I want the populations (and fun) of reset weekend to continue all week long and the only way that would be even remotely possible is to pool players from other servers.

The teirs are balancing out well atm