Guild Wars 2

So, one specific person on Server A has figured out that that he can easily sweep Server B in the early morning hours, as in 2am-7am EST, and that person happens to be a commander on Server A. This one specific person also happens to stay awake for three days straight at the end of every week, ensuring that everything we work for early in the week is for nothing. This person often build golems and sits on them until our dead time to make it as easy as possible.

I’m not saying competition is bad, but to flip the score on the last day because no one is on…that’s pretty kittenty and demoralizing for everyone that tried. Our server is full, and even if it wasn’t, it’s not like an EU or Asian guild is just going to decide to come to Server B for coverage during this time frame.

inb4 tears
inb4 anything non-constructive

So what can you do?

Quit your job, forgoe a girlfriend and make GW2 your life.

Other than that, um… yeah, sorry, that’s all I have.

And if that one specific person was on your server, would you still complain? Would you care if the enemy server complained?

Only Anet can fix this by equalizing PPT between high and low activity… and they are clearly not interested in fixing it, only pleasing the plebs by tossing golems at them.

TheHeretic.3529:

This one specific person also happens to stay awake for three days straight at the end of every week, ensuring that everything we work for early in the week is for nothing.

If they’re willing to stay awake for 72 hours straight just to get some PPT, let them have it. Know that your life is probably much happier and more fulfilling than theirs. And enjoy your beauty sleep.

Teevell.1684:

TheHeretic.3529:

This one specific person also happens to stay awake for three days straight at the end of every week, ensuring that everything we work for early in the week is for nothing.

If they’re willing to stay awake for 72 hours straight just to get some PPT, let them have it. Know that your life is probably much happier and more fulfilling than theirs. And enjoy your beauty sleep.

tbh I keep hearing people saying that guy has to be on cocaine and all I can think is ‘if that guy has enough money for cocaine binges for that long, why is he spending all his time playing video games?’

That’s why you shouldn’t care too much about PPT during other times.
Simply enjoy the capture and defend during the timezone you play.

TheHeretic.3529:

So, one specific person on Server A has figured out that that he can easily sweep Server B in the early morning hours, as in 2am-7am EST, and that person happens to be a commander on Server A. This one specific person also happens to stay awake for three days straight at the end of every week, ensuring that everything we work for early in the week is for nothing. This person often build golems and sits on them until our dead time to make it as easy as possible.

I’m not saying competition is bad, but to flip the score on the last day because no one is on…that’s pretty kittenty and demoralizing for everyone that tried. Our server is full, and even if it wasn’t, it’s not like an EU or Asian guild is just going to decide to come to Server B for coverage during this time frame.

inb4 tears
inb4 anything non-constructive

So what can you do?

Nothing to cope with really. Express a brief moment of pity for the guy who’s butt is probably slowly becoming a part of his chair. Play something else. Read a book. Do something with somebody. Go see a terrible movie. Anything.

Well, I mean….

It should be an honor that people need to put in these ridiculously long hours just to counter whatever your own efforts were. So you can do your part, enjoy life, sleep, while they’re slaving away trying to prove their worth to a door.

It’s just a game.

Come to the forums and complain, clearly that solves every problem ever.

I’d recommend getting your entire server to only focus server A for as long as you’re matched up together until they stop doing that so that even if your stuff gets flipped during your quiet hours, if you can keep their stuff flipped during prime hours, it’s still a win.

HiTandMayhem.1378:

tbh I keep hearing people saying that guy has to be on cocaine and all I can think is ‘if that guy has enough money for cocaine binges for that long, why is he spending all his time playing video games?’

Coffee the first two days then just little bumps here and there to stay even. We’ve seen how good he is at managing supply lines.

Exciton.8942:

That’s why you shouldn’t care too much about PPT during other times.
Simply enjoy the capture and defend during the timezone you play.

Because the carebears log in, see their keeps flipped, waypoints gone and ragequit.

Gotta have a full map queue super glued to the pin to beat (Edit: server A) so keeping those numbers up is of the utmost importance.

Make wvw free for transfers ,,,,,,,the best plan ever : )

I play a different game

TheHeretic.3529:

inb4 tears
inb4 anything non-constructive

TexZero.7910:

Come to the forums and complain, clearly that solves every problem ever.

Thank you for your invaluable contribution to this thread.

swellercross.3974:

Make wvw free for transfers ,,,,,,,the best plan ever : )

I honestly wish they’d just reset all server rankings.

Please link the thread that you created to complain when server B acquired a massive Chinese guild that queued maps and golem rushed keeps in server A’s weakest timezone…

If everyone would just leave these almost-empty servers then perhaps Anet would fix the issue. Right now it seems that it would take only 4 tier to sustain the whole WvW population.

lol try playing against yb who switched their prime time just to pvd/ppt.

Xillllix.3485:

If everyone would just leave these almost-empty servers then perhaps Anet would fix the issue. Right now it seems that it would take only 4 tier to sustain the whole WvW population.

Almost empty for WvW, there are still the PvE/PvP people to consider as well. I’m not saying that they couldn’t consolidate the lowest 3 servers, but let’s not forget we’re not the only people in the game. Just because the WvW is dead on a server, doesn’t mean there aren’t people on it.

Teevell.1684:

Xillllix.3485:

If everyone would just leave these almost-empty servers then perhaps Anet would fix the issue. Right now it seems that it would take only 4 tier to sustain the whole WvW population.

Almost empty for WvW, there are still the PvE/PvP people to consider as well. I’m not saying that they couldn’t consolidate the lowest 3 servers, but let’s not forget we’re not the only people in the game. Just because the WvW is dead on a server, doesn’t mean there aren’t people on it.

It also means they don’t care for wvw. Or else the server wouldn’t be dead.

Buffy.9246:

lol try playing against yb who switched their prime time just to pvd/ppt.

Of course op is someone from fa complaining about DK….. Hence the follow up comment where was ops complaint when the Chinese guilds did the same pvdoor thing 5-7 days a week.

If you think an entire server changed when they play you are nuts. DK always has played odd hours for us NA prime people. What he does have is a huge friends list to whisper and he uses it. Last but not least, it is summer. Students may stay up late for those 2 months of the year before returning to school. That may be ops answer – wait until September.

pizza.7853:

Please link the thread that you created to complain when server B acquired a massive Chinese guild that queued maps and golem rushed keeps in server A’s weakest timezone…

TBH you’re upset that said Chinese guild picked Server B and not Server A. That guild showing up was to everyone’s surprise and they clogged Server B’s NA queue too, which crowded out a lot of Server B’s NA regulars, something Server A didn’t have to deal with.

Then again, none of what you wrote is constructive and attempts to answer OP’s question. If you have experience of how to cope with playing in a server’s weak timezone, which it sounds like you do, then perhaps you have something to add here?

I think the previous posters summed it up well: either log on and play or go do something else with your life. If OP chooses to log on and play, the biggest thing you can do is organize that timezone. Start tagging up and start a guild, for example. Most often a timezone is weak not necessarily because of less players but also because of a lack of players willing to step up and lead, which then leads to the situation Server A has of relying on a single commander playing at extremely long and odd hours.

Teevell.1684:

Xillllix.3485:

If everyone would just leave these almost-empty servers then perhaps Anet would fix the issue. Right now it seems that it would take only 4 tier to sustain the whole WvW population.

Almost empty for WvW, there are still the PvE/PvP people to consider as well. I’m not saying that they couldn’t consolidate the lowest 3 servers, but let’s not forget we’re not the only people in the game. Just because the WvW is dead on a server, doesn’t mean there aren’t people on it.

Why does PvE and PvP care about servers? they use megaserver. Only thing that cares about servers is WvW

FA has grown so reliant on numbers anytime they dont have a full map queue they get wrecked.

The fact that FA isn’t dominating T2 with those numbers is testament to how much they suck

root.9415:

FA has grown so reliant on numbers anytime they dont have a full map queue they get wrecked.

The fact that FA isn’t dominating T2 with those numbers is testament to how much they suck

Lol this coming from a yaks bend player. We gotta blob cause you do
But way to turn the thread into a match up.

Buffy.9246:

root.9415:

FA has grown so reliant on numbers anytime they dont have a full map queue they get wrecked.

The fact that FA isn’t dominating T2 with those numbers is testament to how much they suck

Lol this coming from a yaks bend player. We gotta blob cause you do
But way to turn the thread into a match up.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but the OP made it a matchup thread when he created it.

So what if server A has a commander that plays during PST/OCX and wrecks server B borderland during that time? Server B had an entire guild, that queued maps on their own, that PvDed for weeks on end during OCX/SEA. Isn’t that the same thing? Server B bought tons of guilds when server B got sent down to T3, and came back to T2 completely unbalanced. Isn’t that kind of gamebreaking? Server A should just lie back and take it from server B? Server A, which is NOT full, does what server A needs to do to make the matches close, and server B, which IS full, complains? Gimme a break.

Kaiser.9873:

Server B had an entire guild, that queued maps on their own, that PvDed for weeks on end during OCX/SEA.

Server B still has guilds that full rally during those timezones, they just get wrecked by a single pugmmander with 20 on tag.

Kaiser.9873:

Buffy.9246:

root.9415:

FA has grown so reliant on numbers anytime they dont have a full map queue they get wrecked.

The fact that FA isn’t dominating T2 with those numbers is testament to how much they suck

Lol this coming from a yaks bend player. We gotta blob cause you do
But way to turn the thread into a match up.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but the OP made it a matchup thread when he created it.

So what if server A has a commander that plays during PST/OCX and wrecks server B borderland during that time? Server B had an entire guild, that queued maps on their own, that PvDed for weeks on end during OCX/SEA. Isn’t that the same thing? Server B bought tons of guilds when server B got sent down to T3, and came back to T2 completely unbalanced. Isn’t that kind of gamebreaking? Server A should just lie back and take it from server B? Server A, which is NOT full, does what server A needs to do to make the matches close, and server B, which IS full, complains? Gimme a break.

Who did server B buy. Please tell me apprently yb believe this.

Chaba.5410:

pizza.7853:

Please link the thread that you created to complain when server B acquired a massive Chinese guild that queued maps and golem rushed keeps in server A’s weakest timezone…

TBH you’re upset that said Chinese guild picked Server B and not Server A. That guild showing up was to everyone’s surprise and they clogged Server B’s NA queue too, which crowded out a lot of Server B’s NA regulars, something Server A didn’t have to deal with.

Then again, none of what you wrote is constructive and attempts to answer OP’s question. If you have experience of how to cope with playing in a server’s weak timezone, which it sounds like you do, then perhaps you have something to add here?

I think the previous posters summed it up well: either log on and play or go do something else with your life. If OP chooses to log on and play, the biggest thing you can do is organize that timezone. Start tagging up and start a guild, for example. Most often a timezone is weak not necessarily because of less players but also because of a lack of players willing to step up and lead, which then leads to the situation Server A has of relying on a single commander playing at extremely long and odd hours.

nah, not upset, had lots of fun in that era. Just not constructive cause the op comes across more as a thinly veiled complaint than an actual question.

All T2 guilds and players suck, even the server I’m on.

T2 could most likely out zerg T1