Guild Wars 2

So here is my problem and I have a feeling many people share it. I hop into the game, queue up for WvWvW after checking them all, and wait to get in.

30-90 minutes later I get that message on my screen (Woooo!) and hop in only to find that things are going crazy well on the battleground I chose. We have 60-70% of the map in our control and I’m not needed here at all. Unfortunately, it is the opposite on one of the other maps which has, in the past 90 minutes, fallen mostly under the control of the enemy.

I promptly switch battlegrounds (assuming there is no queue time for that map too) and start fighting back but I could have been doing this for the past hour had I only known that people were leaving this map and/or that the queue was shorter.

It’s a very simple problem with a couple very simple fixes:

1. If we are in the queue for a specific battleground and another one opens up, pop us up a message asking if we’d like to go there instead. I don’t want to wait an hour for SBI to open up when I could hop on HoD’s map right now. Maybe they were all full when I entered the queue but if there’s a spot open now in any of the maps and nobody is taking it, count me in!
2. Give us a population count (“25% Full” or “50/200 players currently on Eternal Battlegrounds”), a queue count (“You are #234 of 400 in the queue”), or a wait time color (ie. red means a lot of people queued up and green means only a few) if you don’t want to discourage people. Something….ANYTHING to let us know which battleground needs more people and which ones are overpopulated.
3. Let us see the maps or some kind of win/loss ratio for each one. I have zero idea where to go until I actually get into one of the battlegrounds and can take a look around. This makes it so I have to wait until I’m finally in the wrong place in order to look around and see where to go…….and then often wait to go there ;-)

The first and second points are the more important ones. I will 100% queue up for the battleground with the shortest wait and then switch if it looks like we need people elsewhere but there were numerous times in our recent battle with HoD where I just had no clue where to queue up for nor what I was in for.

All these issues especially come into play if you are trying to get your guild coordinated on one map. Where do you need help the most? Who knows? One thing is for certain and that is once you get 20-30 people through the queue on the same map, switching can be a real pain in the kitten.

Thanks and I hope you think the suggestions are sound :-)

-Judas

ps – Has anyone else started typing the word “kitten” instead of the word that would be replaced by kitten? I just caught myself doing that…

Edit: I should say that this isn’t addressing any server population issues or anything like that. This is a post dealing with an issue I am experiencing on a populated WvWvW server. The “uneven” I refer to is that the 4 maps may be populated 100%/100%/100%/25% and we would never know it until the 25% starts to fall to the enemy.

uh…. the second I queue, if its not instant I just pick a different one. I bought a game that has “War” in the title, while 99% of the game content is in zones with no opposing faction, and obviously no pvp. So I cycle through queues and ask in guild chat whats going on.

color coding the choices would work also, red for >90% full, down to blue for kitten near empty.

Noted, italia, and I do the same. But often they are all full so I queue up for one and then go do other stuff while waiting. Which one should I pick? Should I check back and try them all again often? How often? This can all be solved programatically and pretty easily.

And yes, there are work-arounds but wouldn’t you like to see how populated or queued each battleground is? Wouldn’t you like to get a pop-up if a different battleground becomes available rather than wait for the one you chose to wait for at random?

I realize this doesn’t have to be at the top of ANet’s list but we are still trying to make this game better in little ways too, right?