Guild Wars 2

My realm has been winning over the last 2 or 3 weeks, and I always wondered.. why dont the two losing servers join forces and attack my server? It would certainly change the tables and make wvwvw more fun.

So, has this happened on your realm?

You tend to see collaberation between the french and german servers.

However as its points based logic says that:

1. You attack the weakest of the three to get easy points on the board
2. First and third place should target second place – one to increase their lead and the other to avoid relegation.

Not fully. There have been servers that have tried to form an alliance or only focus on one server who was dominating them both, but people from the servers would always end up attacking each other at some point. The reason that would happen is because we are human.

I could see FA (assuming FA stays ahead of Yaks) and CD forming a very, very informal alliance against you good sir as they were both the subject to the TC-YB “phantom” alliance.

I say phantom because I think any perceived TC-YB alliance was actually the result of logic point #2 from Tagnut, but it still steams yo. I don’t see FA and CD actually formalizing anything, but both potentially gunning for TC.

Kaineng and Fergusen’s Crossing have worked together many times to take on Devona’s Rest … and still lost.

Well I don’t think that there is anyone in game to activly form an aliance to take out the lead server. Which anet eluded to back in development that too loseing servers could join forces to try and take out the lead server.

But this illusions(for whateva reason) never made it into the game. Even if two servers are looseing greatly, and want to team up. It is incredibly hard to cordinate, and even harder to get your armies to “not attack red on sight”. It’s very difficult for 2 servers to join up against the other becuase of friendly fire and etc.

Even if 2 servers joined to attack a keep together it would lead to nothing but problems. One on each side reduces the problem of friendly fire. But once you actually break the gates on both sides…Then what? Who gets the Keep? You’ll just end up in a massive battle in the middle of the keep…which will cost even more resources in the long run then just seiging a garrison for a few hours.

But physically there are no mechaniocs in game that actually encourage servers who are severaly loseing to make up for it by joining servers. So it’s increadibly hard to do so, and even if you do. It will just cuase massive problems and this will just end up jeperdizing the whole “alliance” and weaken both sides significaly.

If there was some mechanic, like at a certain point in the week that an NPC would show up asking for Signitirues from the Commanders. If a certain amount is reached(20) for example, and alliance forms for like 1 day, and we work for the same and take "aliance points’ This gives both sides points, but at the end of the Aliance all points are completly turned nuetral lol.

Happened a lot in DAoC, but in DAoC you knew the players by name as soon as you targeted them making it easier to figure out who is leading zergs ect so now you have a name to contact instead of random <insert server invader here>.

Mind you, there was no real ranking system so you always fought the same people. By ranking system I mean the ladder system not realm ranks.

We had been double-teamed by two French servers. They would both start charging up their side of the map at the same time every evening. One of them was clearly first and we were fighting for second with the other server so this tactic ensured we stay third in match-up.

It would make sense to do it, which is why most people don’t. I’m on FA. I facepalm every time I see Yaks attack FA and vice versa.

It’s very easy to coordinate without communication. You simply keep to your side of the map when on the opposing BL. It’s more difficult for the opposing server to defend both sides of the map at one time. And don’t invade each other’s borderlands until the score is even and it’s near the end of the week. I would consider Eternal Battlegrounds to be a Free for all.

uhohhotdog.3598:

It would make sense to do it, which is why most people don’t.

Haha this is true.

It’s so funny to see this topic…

I see one topic reading why do they both attack me (BT vs VS(fr) vs AS(fr) ) and i see this one, why don’t they…

This should be a voting topic with the following question :
“Should rank 2 and 3 on a tier, tag team to attack nº1” ???

Nuzt.7894:

Happened a lot in DAoC, but in DAoC you knew the players by name as soon as you targeted them making it easier to figure out who is leading zergs ect so now you have a name to contact instead of random <insert server invader here>.

Mind you, there was no real ranking system so you always fought the same people. By ranking system I mean the ladder system not realm ranks.

Excuse me, what? This is how I remember DAoC RvR: http://www.qwiglee.com/images/daoc/zerg.jpg

There were no names and certainly no way to contact the opposing factions ingame.

There were still alliances, of course, but that was done mostly out of game.

Are you talking about New Frontiers or something later?

LHound.8964:

It’s so funny to see this topic…

I see one topic reading why do they both attack me (BT vs VS(fr) vs AS(fr) ) and i see this one, why don’t they…

This should be a voting topic with the following question :
“Should rank 2 and 3 on a tier, tag team to attack nº1” ???

That thread was thankfully locked. The person who created it is honestly clueless.