Guild Wars 2

SkyShroud.2865:

Dawdler.8521:

What the heck does TS matter to this?

It seems you are relative new to large scale team based game. Ts3 is used as a mean to interact and most importantly to coordinate with people. WvW require coordination more than any other game modes. This means that different squads or guilds could be using ts3 as a means to communicate and coordinate with one another to achieve greater competitiveness.

Now, it is important how the people of different server could solve their differences over ts3 usage to avoid awkward situation while maintaining a competitive environment for the people who desire it.

Of course, if you are not into competitiveness and server-wide teamwork, it doesn’t really matters to you.

It seems you are relativly new to the forum game as you didnt read a single word beyond that line or the next post.

Anyhow, the note about worlds maybe being relinked every 3 months is incredibly alarming… that tell me this is not a true gameplay mechanic change (ie dynamically matching servers at reset to get a smaller number of matchups at roughly the same size) but rather a completely static re-routing of WvW eqvivalent of a server merger.

Plus, it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

Dawdler.8521:

Anyhow, the note about worlds maybe being relinked every 3 months is incredibly alarming… that tell me this is not a true gameplay mechanic change (ie dynamically matching servers at reset to get a smaller number of matchups at roughly the same size) but rather a completely static re-routing of WvW eqvivalent of a server merger.

Plus, it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

Thank you, you’ve articulated my misgivings well. You’re last point is a good one as well. IMO this isn’t a solution.

They said they want it to be dynamic eventually, but the tech isn’t there yet. They hope it will be automatic in the future.

Dawdler.8521:

it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

https://youtu.be/rUGMWwWiKac

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

Dawdler.8521:

What the heck does TS matter to this?

It seems you are relative new to large scale team based game. Ts3 is used as a mean to interact and most importantly to coordinate with people. WvW require coordination more than any other game modes. This means that different squads or guilds could be using ts3 as a means to communicate and coordinate with one another to achieve greater competitiveness.

Now, it is important how the people of different server could solve their differences over ts3 usage to avoid awkward situation while maintaining a competitive environment for the people who desire it.

Of course, if you are not into competitiveness and server-wide teamwork, it doesn’t really matters to you.

It seems you are relativly new to the forum game as you didnt read a single word beyond that line or the next post.

Anyhow, the note about worlds maybe being relinked every 3 months is incredibly alarming… that tell me this is not a true gameplay mechanic change (ie dynamically matching servers at reset to get a smaller number of matchups at roughly the same size) but rather a completely static re-routing of WvW eqvivalent of a server merger.

Plus, it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

I did read and it is my mistake that I didn’t highlight that you thought it will be every matchup but I think otherwise. I will explain why I think otherwise when I posted it.

The note itself said they can dynamically change the link when they need to. Keywords are when they need to. Furthermore, dynamically changing it consistently will not allow glicko to establish, a technical reason. Base on these two, it give enough clue on how things will work and from there, I presume that linking will be for a period of time which result in the concerns I have highlighted.

Yes, 3 months is destructive, is pretty much a merger. If by then, anet forcefully remove the link, guilds that recruit across the link servers will suffer a lot of damage.

Dawdler.8521:

Plus, it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

Don’t panic. Not quite yet at least.

At core, you’re staying within your existing community, your existing server, no matter who you’re paired up with. That means the people you’ve been playing with for years stay with you.

Every three months (and I believe this is an arbitrary number and just meant to advise people it can change so there’s no forum freakouts and is actually quite clever in making sure the game isn’t, well, gamed), you get “guests”. So you still play with the community you know and love, but you get extra people visiting.

Now that could be great or it could be destructive, but if you come from a particularly strong community, you’ve been through it at least once with the bandwagonners.

What I took away from it was good, they’re leaving us intact.

And a reddit post said that they will never pair national servers with international ones in EU, nor will they merge the top EU gold servers with any other server for the near future. So for EU, it will not be much of a difference, except in the lower tiers.

I’m glad they took time slice activity into account.

But only a partial Glicko reset makes me sad. I was looking forward to facing the Tier 1/2 people.

Jayne.9251:

And a reddit post said that they will never pair national servers with international ones in EU, nor will they merge the top EU gold servers with any other server for the near future. So for EU, it will not be much of a difference, except in the lower tiers.

But that’s the problem you see. If they wont merge top tier servers with anyone, that means they are the baseline. If you pair say rank 10 with 11 and make a server capable of matching top tier servers, what happens if this new pair actually do climb the ranks? What happens if they reach #1 and then Anet goes “oh-oh that’s a too powerfull pair, surely they are capable of handling themselves now?” and split the servers again. Where in the glicko would they end up then? Because neither will stand a chance alone or if you bring in another two untrained paired servers from low tiers. What was the point of even playing?

/tinfoil hat mode on

Well, I can actually tell you what the point is – Anet is doing this so that they can happily overstack servers to our applauds of them doing something for WvW, then rake in the cash from people on the weaker of the servers that will be forced to transfer to the stronger in order for them to maintain the ranking they fought for, once Anet decides that the pair is too strong after 3 months.

One of the servers ultimately killed and its our own fault, Anets hands are clean.

Johje Holan.4607:

I’m glad they took time slice activity into account.

Well potentially yes but I want them, to be transparent about this and provide explanations for exactly how they arrived at the pairings.

morrolan.9608:

Johje Holan.4607:

I’m glad they took time slice activity into account.

Well potentially yes but I want them, to be transparent about this and provide explanations for exactly how they arrived at the pairings.

They asked Mal?

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