It is extremly frustrating some players wait 3hours to join that map while others wait 30 minutes at the same time.
I just don’t understand the reason for us not having a normale que with approximated waiting time, number of players before oneself in que and a system that actually allows the person that waited the longest to join first.
Is a decent que so complicated to implement?
Que times and higher transparency on highly populated servers are the most urgent issues for WvW overall.
A response from Anet would be needed but is rare to be seen, sadly.
Some nice info to have from Anet before free server transfers are up would be a chart that shows server queue times for the 4 battlegrounds across a 24 hour period.
There are people that want to win, and then people that want to play, give 1 more week of free server transfers anywhere with this information available. Then after that
Maintain free transfers to low queue time servers
800 Gems to higher queue time servers
You might as well transfer to a lower populated server.
If they allowed more people in, then lower populated servers would certainly be done for.
What they need to do is make new WVW maps which in time, they will so more can enter a map, HOWEVER I suggest those maps not count towards the actual score of the match and just be there for fun.
I am talking about new maps like a map where 4 servers compete and capture points from keeps and towers and camps on a huge pirate island using ships or swimming.
Heck make a map where all the servers battle each other with like idk 20 on each team…. But yeah.
Once Anet implements new things for removing bots it might help. I’d say at any given time 10-20 spots on a borderland are being occupied by bots. Perhaps the afk timer needs to be a little faster also.
Some nice info to have from Anet before free server transfers are up would be a chart that shows server queue times for the 4 battlegrounds across a 24 hour period.
There are people that want to win, and then people that want to play, give 1 more week of free server transfers anywhere with this information available. Then after that
Maintain free transfers to low queue time servers
800 Gems to higher queue time servers
This could easily be abused. One could easily see when their opponent has no queue time, then plan attacks accordingly abusing the population discrepancy.
For my server the problem is consistency. We had 2 hour wait times at some points over the weekend. But for several hours on multiple borderlands we now have the outmanned bonus.
I’m playing on Elona Reach so EU not US I’ve been playing there for sometime but since we advanced from #12 to currently #3 in the ranking a lot of people started transfering from other servers which made que times a lot worse.
You might laugh but since the presence of Anet mods is a lot higher here than in our forums (really low >> none ;-) ) I felt like posting here instead.
Transfering to another server is out of question if I want to stay with all the friends if have on my server. Also, fights are really fun in the first bracket…if you manage to join the map that is
In all seriousness besides wanting new maps as I said on the 4th post…. What needs to be fixed is how people que and get in before others… They may have fixed it like they said they would, I don’t know yet, but if I que before you, then I should before to get in before you.
I agree with Cygni, they should change the AFK timer and make it shorter tho it can be a exploit when someone puts a book on his keyboard to keep them there.
eliminating bots which is very hard would clear space.
Queues are only a problem on the unfortunate servers that are moving up and induated by the server jumpers looking for a good time. The OP has stated his EU server has been rising in standings, thus the problem.
I doubt that Anet considers this a problem, it’s more of a tool to force redistribution of the population.
[RE] Isendale – Tarnished Coast
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The main issue is not the que time itself, it’s that some people who start queing AFTER you will be on the map BEFORE you.
It would also help a lot if you knew how long you’d have to wait. During primetime a lot of servers have long que times, not only the most populated ones.
I’ve been playing there for sometime but since we advanced from #12 to currently #3 in the ranking a lot of people started transfering from other servers which made que times a lot worse.