Guild Wars 2

So as is well known, recently Desolation were joined by Ruin, a 1000+ member NA guild. Before this, European servers were almost universally occupied by European guilds and had great action in European times. Winners of the match ups were often decided by who stayed up longer at night and this made scores look a bit unbalanced but the action during these times was still really good and most were very happy and didn’t mind loosing because there was still great wvw action at all times of day(even if the scores didn’t reflect it). The only real problem is sometime people gave up when loosing which negatively affected wvw quality, particularly later in the week, but this may always be a problem.

Things have changed now that NA guilds have moved to one European server and now the action in that servers match up is very boring as there is a huge population difference throughout the night and day time. On the plus side we now have one Euro server with 24/7 coverage. The problem is that leaves 26 other servers who still don’t have 24/7 coverage as they have only European players.

The majority of people on this forum think transfers to other time zones is a good thing and that the solution to this problem is to recruit other time zone guilds, so this should be a simple thing to do and will result in all Euro servers having 24/7 coverage and maybe even better action than before.

So here is a list of servers that need some NA love and estimates as to how many players need to transfer for numbers to be fair again.

English speaking:
Aurora Glade – 1000
Blacktide – 1000
Desolation – 0
Far Shiverpeaks – 1000
Fissure of Woe – 1000
Gandara – 1000
Gunnar’s Hold – 1000
Piken Square – 1000
Ring of Fire – 1000
Ruins of Surmia – 1000
Seafarer’s Rest – 1000
Underworld – 1000
Vabbi – 1000
Whiteside Ridge – 1000

French:
Arborstone – 800 (need someone from Arborstone to confirm the amount of Canadian guilds but ill use an estimate of 200 Canadian players for now until i am better informed)
Augury Rock – 1000
Fort Ranik – 1000
Jade Sea – 1000
Vizunah Square – 1000

German:
Abaddon’s Mouth – 1000
Drakkar Lake – 1000
Dzagonur – 1000
Elona Reach – 1000
Kodash – 1000
Miller’s Sound – 1000
Riverside – 1000

Spanish
Baruch Bay – 1000 (there are rumours of Latin American guilds here but need someone from Baruch Bay to confirm if they are true. Will assume they are false for now)

So as you can see we only need another 25,800 players to transfer over to European servers to get back to the balance we had before and things should be even better as there will be higher numbers for the Europeans who don’t sleep. Also a great opportunity for Americans to learn German and French!

Please try to stay on topic and not flame any servers or guilds here, this is about how we as a community can work together to get things back to the quality of wvw we had before, not blaming anyone.

I think Seafarer’s has around 40-50 US players, Blacktide has some too. And so does Far Shiverpeaks. It’s just that they don’t have a big Guild.

Pretty sure there are a canadians in almost every french server, though in some more than others (VS, Arbor,…)
Baruch Bay definitely has some latin guilds, agains can’t say how many.

Ruins of Surmia has 4-5 US players, I can confirm that personally xD

Vizunah won by clever time management, not by having many overseas players.