Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this was discussed in the english results of the CDI, but in the german one it was mentioned by the Community Manager.

The intention of the 3-sided matches was that 2nd and 3rd fight the 1st together. However this nearly never happens.

This could be enforced: whenever 1st and 3rd are more than 5% of total match score apart, 2nd and 3rd cannot attack each other.
E.g. currently:
Desolation 145 858
Gandara 142 611
Far Shiverpeaks 104 142
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Total 392611
5% Total 19630
1st-3rd diff 41716

So Gandara and FSP would be in enforced alliance. till either the gap between 1st and 3rd reduces to less than 5% (no more enforced alliance) or Gandara becomes first (enforced alliance between Deso and FSP).

I would set this only for the first 5 or 6 days of the match AND let the matches end (and not start) with the weekend. E.g. Match reset on sunday evening 22:00 UTC for EU, and as usual some hours later in NA.

This would result in slower match development in the beginning that are longer undecided (due to the enforced alliance) giving it the final race when people have time to play namely at weekends.

No way man. I like this game because of fantastic 3-way fights.
And if 1st attack your keep, 2nd will come and take it back, you are unable to get some points because you cannot attack 2nd?
This way 3rd will never take enought points.

But changing reset from friday to sunday seems good for me.

If this holds for the first 5 days only: you can have any 3-ways fights you want on weekends and as long as matches are close (5% as above or 10% or …) you can have them as well.

If you say that allies automatically return possessions in the home-section of the ally to the ally after 1-2 ticker your second problem is solved as well.

But the boring 2nd and 3rd concentrate on each other and let 1st win unchallenged will be over. The even more boring consequence of this current strategy is that not the fight between 2nd and 3rd decide who will be 2nd, but the focus of the unchallenged 1st determines the 2nd.

Of course, it can also be tuned what alliance means.
- Be not able to fight (with return of possessions)
- not be able to attack what the other owns
- not be able to attack the home-sections of the other
- ….
Even a scaling of these levels of alliance depending on the current imbalance of the match would be possible.

It is just bad idea. Even for 5 days. What about those players that dont have tme over weekend? Or just stuck in queue?
If 1st has the most points and is far in front, no way 2nd and 3rd can beat 1st.
You are just mad about your matchup, but you really think that it will help for RoF and wsr, FR and UW, PS and AR, Dzag and Arb, FoW and Vabbi to beat 1st?

I think that focusing on the right target and night capping determine 1st.

You are playing FSP, and you can only attack Desolation so you are breaching one of their keeps. Just then, Gandara overtakes Deso and now Gandara is 1st. So you can now no longer attack Deso and Deso cannot attack you.
Untill Deso overtakes Gandara again then the roles are reversed yet again.

That sounds frustrating. And the winner in that particular matchup is descided by sheer timing luck. Who gets to double-team till they take first place just before reset.

What a terrible idea tbh.

Hm, yeah it would need some time-buffer as well, such that you aren’t interrupted in your current action.

Maybe your right, but this means the whole idea of 3-sided matches turned out to be nonsense. They only make the first unattackable by 2nd and 3rd.

Better be in 2-sided matches then.

Gandara and FSP already 2v1 Deso in primetime.

First idea: Absolutely … doesn´t help anybody
Second idea: why? starting Friday ist just the right time, it helps the servers with good weekend-crews, which maybe won´t join, if the matchup is done if it ends on sundays