Guild Wars 2

How is it determined?

Seeing that YB is now “High” and other servers obviously has lesser population than YB is now “Very High”

Oh? So you are saying that mag, hod, sos and sbi have higher population than YB? That’s why they are T3/4 on last link, that’s why they are T3/4/5 before link? Genius….

YB is unlinked which means the population cap is higher than the the linked ones. Despite being in T1, YB didn’t experience queues in multiple borderland for more than 10 minutes after reset (forget other timezones) since maybe 2-3 months back even when linked with AR.

Obviously is way higher than it was. Previously we have half the servers full, now we have 4 servers full. The way they determine the population cap has changed greatly and need to be clarified. Also, YB on high cap, that is so bandwagon worthy.

Rationally speaking, why would anyone pay 1.8k gems to go to a linked server when you can pay 1k to a unlink server that is higher populated than a link server? It is indeed bandwagon worthy.

Again, the argument still stands. Rationally speaking, why would anyone choose to go to a medium server which basically low pop when you CAN go to yb with just 1k gems and is a top 3 largest server?

SkyShroud.2865:

Again, the argument still stands. Rationally speaking, why would anyone choose to go to a medium server which basically low pop when you CAN go to yb with just 1k gems and is a top 3 largest server?

Cause YB has a toxic af community and very few guilds want to deal with their established leadership. Guilds have been bailing on YB for a long time.

Reverence.6915:

SkyShroud.2865:

Again, the argument still stands. Rationally speaking, why would anyone choose to go to a medium server which basically low pop when you CAN go to yb with just 1k gems and is a top 3 largest server?

Cause YB has a toxic af community and very few guilds want to deal with their established leadership. Guilds have been bailing on YB for a long time.

Definitely not, its quite the opposite. Coming from someone who has been on a T1 server since forever and is YB’s current rival your “opinion” is as worth as some random troll’s.

Reverence.6915:

SkyShroud.2865:

Again, the argument still stands. Rationally speaking, why would anyone choose to go to a medium server which basically low pop when you CAN go to yb with just 1k gems and is a top 3 largest server?

Cause YB has a toxic af community and very few guilds want to deal with their established leadership. Guilds have been bailing on YB for a long time.

I tend to agree.. I made a huge mistake transfering back to YB from BG. Lasted maybe 2 months before jumping off.

I’m in a lower tier now and loving it. Much better than T1 and tbh, the most fun ive had in years of WvW.

SkyShroud.2865:

How is it determined?

Seeing that YB is now “High” and other servers obviously has lesser population than YB is now “Very High”

By popularity

SkyShroud.2865:

How is it determined?

Seeing that YB is now “High” and other servers obviously has lesser population than YB is now “Very High”

MAG can Just blame Kalkz for spawn camping those Anet devs that daringly stuck their heads out of red keep last match and provoked him to take their entire side of the map and spawn camp them…

Maybe the devs that were spawn camped said " SPAWN CAMP MEH EH?!! TAKE THAT MAG! MWAHAHA! 560 gold a head to get the rest of ya guild on yer server now SUCKERS!!"

Yes, I am seeing no way for this " high/ med/ very high/ full list to be accurate.

lil devils x.6071:

SkyShroud.2865:

How is it determined?

Seeing that YB is now “High” and other servers obviously has lesser population than YB is now “Very High”

MAG can Just blame Kalkz for spawn camping those Anet devs that daringly stuck their heads out of red keep last match and provoked him to take their entire side of the map and spawn camp them…

Maybe the devs that were spawn camped said " SPAWN CAMP MEH EH?!! TAKE THAT MAG! MWAHAHA! 560 gold to get the rest of ya guild on yer server now SUCKERS!!"

Yes, I am seeing no way for this " high/ med/ very high/ full list to be accurate.

linked servers have a cap 1/2 of the non-linked is the answer I believe….

Liston.9708:

lil devils x.6071:

SkyShroud.2865:

How is it determined?

Seeing that YB is now “High” and other servers obviously has lesser population than YB is now “Very High”

MAG can Just blame Kalkz for spawn camping those Anet devs that daringly stuck their heads out of red keep last match and provoked him to take their entire side of the map and spawn camp them…

Maybe the devs that were spawn camped said " SPAWN CAMP MEH EH?!! TAKE THAT MAG! MWAHAHA! 560 gold to get the rest of ya guild on yer server now SUCKERS!!"

Yes, I am seeing no way for this " high/ med/ very high/ full list to be accurate.

linked servers have a cap 1/2 of the non-linked is the answer I believe….

So then they should reduce the costs to reflect the actual population rather than punish lower populated servers. Raising costs on servers that are not really high just means they will never be able to get enough players to compete fairly, the whole point of balance is to try and make it more competitive.

HOWEVER, there is no way JQ should be considered full even when linked with AR lol. Have you seen them? I am not sure what they are counting for JQ, but I don’t think it is players. Dewolfe is right, they may be using node farmers against them. I really think the nodes, dailies and gift of battle farming in WVW is a really bad idea… Some servers will be all farmers b4 it is said and done as the WvW players abandon those servers in search of a real team.

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

Liston.9708:

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

Halving the cap actually makes no sense. The population of JQ/AR is not half and half just for example. Why not simply take the calculated population of both servers and use the same cap as for unlinked servers?

shrek.1046:

Liston.9708:

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

Halving the cap actually makes no sense. The population of JQ/AR is not half and half just for example. Why not simply take the calculated population of both servers and use the same cap as for unlinked servers?

your argument is with anet not me. I am just stating what I have heard / saw somewhere. anet needs to answer this so people understand how it works.

I don’t think the cap is halved like last time, because there were a lot of servers full during previous link but now there isn’t as much this time round. Also, some host servers are on “High” instead of “Very High”, there seems to be some customised capping going on.

Liston.9708:

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

But this is exactly the problem… this way T1 servers will only pull further ahead in terms of population from all the other servers…

Vova.2640:

Liston.9708:

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

But this is exactly the problem… this way T1 servers will only pull further ahead in terms of population from all the other servers…

not arguing it is the way it should be, it is just the way it seems to be.

Liston.9708:

Vova.2640:

Liston.9708:

wwfam.2495:

Vova.2640:

I just find it hilarious Anet opened the T1 servers… its like they want to encourage people to stack those servers…
Last time I faced TC they already blobed everything to death, but hey.. I guess T2/3 servers actually have more ppl huh. Who knew…..

They actually might, because of server linking.

Which is the whole point of server linking.

it is. linked servers have a cap 1/2 of un-linked servers….

But this is exactly the problem… this way T1 servers will only pull further ahead in terms of population from all the other servers…

not arguing it is the way it should be, it is just the way it seems to be.

Yea.. they really need to fix that. It isn’t fair to any of the servers to make is so none of them are able to compete. At this age of the game, there are already enough obstacles to make it hard on servers to rebuild to be competitive.

By making that more difficult, all they are doing is ensuring there are no balanced matchups at all. Never having a chance to improve your situation and forcing unbalanced matchups reduce player satisfaction and make players leave the game much faster.

By jacked up transfer costs they are telling players that "if they want to win, don’t bother trying to improve your own server to make it able to compete, because they won’t allow that to happen. Instead find a way to get on an already stacked server by any means necessary. "It is THIS message due to server transfer costs being too high to try and bring enough groups to your server to be able to compete with the larger servers that make people transfer off their servers or just give up and leave the game all together.

( B4 someone says " transfer to a lower pop server" that defeats the purpose of wanting to try and move up, not down. If you want to actually be able to compete in their higher tiers, you need MANY more people to do that.)

* I don’t even think the low pop servers should be open anymore unless they want to remove them from WvW all together and make them goof off zones where they don’t keep score for those players who dont want people on their maps.