Guild Wars 2

Alright so thanks to WvW Intel, we can see the kills and deaths of all the NA servers now (no idea what is going on with EU atm)! From this we can get a sort of rough idea as to what the current populations look like on all the servers and how accurate what ArenaNet is currently doing. I set it up into 6 different population brackets: Full, Very High, High, Medium, Low and Very Low. I separated them into equal intervals based on the biggest number out of all the servers (whether kills or deaths) and laid it out on a table. This does not reflect the population of servers that in general are avoiding fights due to a strong rival or not coming out due to a bad matchup, but it still displays how their system is not working very well. Compare what their population states in-game (the 5th column on the right) and the colour relating to their KD indicated pop and see for yourself!

I made this at 8:00 AM EST on Oct. 12, I also added an “Anet version” with just Full, Very High, High, and Medium.

I don’t get it. I expected to see some sort of formula applied that shows how you are correlating K/D to estimated population. These charts don’t make sense in how you did the ranking.

Would it be possible to organize the data to correspond with the timezone coverage found at http://coveragewars2.com/timezone/

Chaba.5410:

I don’t get it. I expected to see some sort of formula applied that shows how you are correlating K/D to estimated population. These charts don’t make sense in how you did the ranking.

It also doesn’t take into consideration the general playstyle of the server, be it map blob, turtle, havoc, fights with and without open field siege. Also there’s nothing to show the relative difference in populations at any time.

It was interesting to see that there are more kills and deaths in T2 then in T1.

Swamurabi.7890:

It was interesting to see that there are more kills and deaths in T2 then in T1.

Shows a big difference in play style for sure. T1 is all about the PPT where map blobs avoid fights just to back cap.

Shows how low ET is, far lower than even the next lowest server.

http://gw2.brutebyte.com/world/all
another stat site I have been studying, particularly the worlds section where its giving a count of active wvw guilds. I thought to calculate how full a server is by number of guilds.

neither method will be exact ofc but it can give rough estimate of population size

These stats only useful if it drills down to more detailed levels. i.e. Platinum Generals death 100, kills 3… etc. etc.

Very interesting chart. Would be nice if you could have an end of the week update and plot a trend chart to see changes.

Strange:

T1 kills: 15130+9274+10440 = 34844

T1 deaths: 10235+13931+11830 = 35996

T2 kills: 15567+16105+12769 = 44441

T2 deaths: 18088+13285+14668 = 46041

Excess deaths are nonplayer character killed and falling deaths??

killed by npc’s or siege perhaps

We have an ongoing thread, chat with API dev, and end-user debug of the K/D values.

TL;DR is that the K and D aggregate totals don’t match the K and D per map totals.

https://i.imgur.com/VZewphe.png

This error accumulates over time, and we don’t know which set of K/D is the least inaccurate.

A separate issue is a ~4-hour-interval spike in the K/D data reports, which can possibly be blamed on server compute time scheduling (resource queuing).

This is interesting.

I just did the simplest way possible, I’m not some sort of stats genius so don’t put your expectations too high lol. Of course it’s imperfect but looking at the current WvW rankings and their WvW activity levels, it’s somewhat on the money. There’s no question some worlds are in weird spots (Sanctum of Rall for example), but Kills/Deaths stats leave out so much other information that the devs have access to and we don’t I am not surprised.

@Virtute I read your thread on gw2wvw and it does look like that there is something wrong, particularly with T1 data. Wouldn’t T2 data for Kills and Death be far too high then? It seems the Kills for BG and Deaths for JQ should be more in line with YB, making T2’s numbers much higher compared to the other worlds.

Michelangelo.1742:

There’s no question some worlds are in weird spots (Sanctum of Rall for example)

And it yield us weird match-ups too…

i got 1 thing from this:

loooooooooool jq gittin farmed

insanemaniac.2456:

i got 1 thing from this:

loooooooooool jq gittin farmed

Bravo this took much longer then I expected.

insanemaniac.2456:

i got 1 thing from this:

loooooooooool jq gittin farmed

Check out the links Virtute provided, it seems that JQ and BG data is exaggerated (I don’t understand that stuff but I am sure a lot of peeps do). Until the dev working on this can fix it, I think we should uphold our opinions of worlds getting farmed (eventhough it is fun to say though :P)

Wow, a stark counting of how small the smallest servers are.

1200 deaths to 18000.

WXP was such an awful idea as is increasing loot per kill. You really get punished for being in a low tier (as if being punished for being in WvW wasn’t bad enough).