Guild Wars 2

Any chance we could try a few weeks with the scoring system turned off in wvw? You can keep statistics internally for matching purposes but i think WvW might benefit from not having any visible means of scoring. Hopefully if scoring is removed or hidden people will spread out a bit more to avoid queue’s.

Well people just don’t grasp the concept really

First off WvWvW has some major issues we all know this

Second the server transfers as they are now are incredibly dumb and further cause the spiral of quality in WvW

Third the matchup system is far too young in accumulating data to generate proper matchups

Fourth servers aligning with servers also ruins WvWvW. I mean the whole concept is destroyed and yet servers do it and openly, which ofc leads to the other known fact that people ruin games not companies

The score is imo the smallest factor to it.
Really whats the difference between waking up to see 100k vs 75k vs 70k and waking up to see the map 75%/13%/12%?
The answer is there isnt. Either way there isn’t a reason to put time in to see it disappear while you sleep. It deters the enjoyment either way

mangarrage.1062:

Really whats the difference between waking up to see 100k vs 75k vs 70k and waking up to see the map 75%/13%/12%?
The answer is there isnt. Either way there isn’t a reason to put time in to see it disappear while you sleep. It deters the enjoyment either way

while you’re right.. there is no difference in the sense you are speaking of it. but there is a difference in finding your score 100k or even 10k on the first day or two lower than another server.

that one difference is, for whatever reason i have trouble understanding. when the score gets behind and a server isn’t number 1 any more. people stop playing WvW. i’ve noticed population drops in WvW on my server when we get behind and i’ve noticed it in the data Anet gave us showing queue times.

The server in the lead on points has more people motivated to play than the ones behind. This exacerbates the problem causing fewer to login. at times to the point where a server that should be competitive is being spawn camped.

The thing of it is, the entire problem is that people are paying too much attention to the numbers and it is causing them to lose sight of the reason they should be pvping. the only solution i see would be one that addressed this issue of perception.

removal of the scores altogether from the UI so that all we can see is our realm bonuses.

moving the scores to 12 hour brackets maybe so the daytime people have a score tally, the night time people have a score tally.. and they both reset every 12 hours. this way the time zones aren’t competing and if a server gets behind they don’t stay behind. could still keep the overall score in the background somewhere.

or any number of suggestions the community has offered are great. i don’t pretend to hold the best solution, i just know a major problem is perception plain and simple.