Guild Wars 2

I know in our tier, and I’m sure in a few others, in NA and EU WvW there are discrepancies in time zone coverage that makes holding overnight, what you have taken during prime time, pretty disheartening when you wake up to find it all gone with any upgrades wasted due to stealth taking while you and your server has slept.

Yes, there are servers where EU or NA have decided to transfer to in order to help a server gain better coverage, but I’m wondering if it would be feasible to maybe just do away with EU/NA server segregation and just merge the two?

Of course it would take making more servers in all, but having a server with coverage from NA and EU round the clock would solve some issues with WvW I would think.
Anet would have to do the matchmaking of course. Instead of merging and opening up free transfers they could match the servers by way of how the current tiers of each region was doing.

Of course I’m no wizard with server stability and what this would take to accomplish, but in the long run, would it help enough to outweigh the difficulties?

How many servers out there have horrid coverage in their off hours (EU & NA) that could really use something like this to balance things out?
I would love to be assured that after putting hard work into taking/retaking our BL, securing and fortifying areas in EB, that there was a next shift that would be on duty to be vigil in doing the same, in ALL tiers and servers.

Just my thoughts.
I’m sure there are ramifications as well as bonuses to the suggestions.

Afterthought: Keep the EU and NA PvE territories on their current servers but maybe make the WvW servers combined?
If we can guest on other servers (I know we can only guest within our region) in PvE, it seems that maybe it’s possible to make it so that the WvW servers could be accessible, somehow, communitively (is that even a word?) cross region.
Remake the WvW servers to include a NA and a EU server, keep the PvE servers as is.
No need to adjust the pop caps for each BL and EB as (theoretically) the numbers should stay close to the same, just during different hours.

Servers that have players who are already from a different Region could have the option to get a transfer (if they so wished) back to a server that coincided with the server match up.

As far as server match ups that cause an over population in a specific time frame….I honestly cannot think of how to fix that right now. Any thoughts?
I realize that with some servers that could be a problem and cause longer WvW queues than they currently have.

Anyhow… 3, 2 , 1 …. ATTACK THE POST!!!!

We’ve had a few US guilds over and almost every single one have experienced terrible lag issues. It’s not as bad the other way around though.

Don’t think you’ll get attacked much, many people have suggested this, and versions of this, before and support the idea, but ANet has said it’s not going to happen if I remember right.

If you really want to be attacked I guess I can for not searching the forums omg? ;p

Mizu.9387:

We’ve had a few US guilds over and almost every single one have experienced terrible lag issues. It’s not as bad the other way around though.

One of the issues that crossed my mind. I’m curious is they could do something to the WvW servers themselves if they made them cross region, that could stabalize things for both. As opposed to just having an EU player or guild playing on a US server.
Again I am not an expert by any means on things technical :-)
Is it possible to make things on even ground for two regions?

Genev.2450:

Don’t think you’ll get attacked much, many people have suggested this, and versions of this, before and support the idea, but ANet has said it’s not going to happen if I remember right.

If you really want to be attacked I guess I can for not searching the forums omg? ;p

Well BOO on Anet :-)
Of course, they have caved to so many QQ’s over seemingly trivial issues (ok probably not trivial to everyone but everyone has their own mind as to what is priority) maybe we can QQ our way into this :-)

Yeah, I know….most likely not lolz