Guild Wars 2

This isn’t a complaint post. I’m not trying to suggest a fix to balance issues, pairings, queue times or anything of the sort. I’m not that smart.

What if ArenaNet kept the matches running for 1 to 2 weeks as planned, but reset the match within that tier once a certain score was reached, say, 75K points (arbitrary number).

The period right after a new match is always the most fun IMO. Once a server has dominated a map, owns all the keeps, upgrades the keeps and reinforces them, and the clock keeps ticking long enough for them to get a high enough score, the winner has already been determined. No sense dragging it on for another two weeks IMO.

You won, we got it. Kudos. Let’s go again.

I feel like this would be more fun for the winners and the losers. At the end of the 2 week period, whoever accumulated the most total points wins.

Thoughts?

Or just have the orbs give less and then next to nothing as the point margin increases more and more. Honestly, the balance needs to start with the orbs of power first.

Or maybe when 1st has 75k point lead over 2nd place. Or when 1 world holds the entire match. Anything but 1 week ofkittenwith no lube! it gets a bit boring after awhile

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Or just have the orbs give less and then next to nothing as the point margin increases more and more. Honestly, the balance needs to start with the orbs of power first.

Thanks for the suggestion, but as I mentioned, this wasn’t a thread about balancing anything. I’m just talking about breaking the two week pairing up into a series of mini games. If I’m losing by 420K points (so far) like we’re doing on Kaineng after only 6 days, what do you think a two week matchup that never resets is going to be like?

No one wants to watch a NASCAR race for two weeks. (Some of us don’t even want to watch it at all, but that makes for a really bad analogy).

But it does matter. If the winning team doesn’t have the continuing-to-win advantages of orbs of power, it’ll change the baseline map/winning player mechanics and the losing teams can come back without resetting the map every day.

Yes, I agree at this point though, a 420K point deficit is a lost cause. This really shouldn’t happen at all if world pairings are done correctly. This might be the real resulting fault of the matching system and lack of WvW player data/free servers transfers mid-match.

Could lead to large downtime between matchings.