Guild Wars 2

Second ranked server should get half cost upgrades and the highest ranked server should get the full upgrade costs.

With these lopsided bad matchups the highest ranked server usually only has to pay once for the upgrades in the whole match while the bottom 2 servers are scrambling and paying large amounts of gold every day. Using the proposed method should help alleviate the burden that being a bad matchup brings to the lower ranked servers.

Most of the time the lowest ranked server gets jumped on by the other 2 whenever it tries to re-capture something after the first blow. It’s the matching system that needs fixing not upgrades costs.

Upgrades shoud just be free. It shouldn’t cost anything out of the pocket of the players because it is just a few that will do the upgrades. Everyone should be able to start the next one without having to have enough coin.

Having costs free for the lowest ranked server won’t alleviate anything. You will still get steamrolled if it is a slaughter anyway.

OP

I’m all for it; what you’re proposing is fair and justified. Myself I do feel bad for the lower ranked servers not getting the help from Arena net, especially in that area you mentioned.

(At least give them some air to breath)

I’m sure they have many great players but stuck in limbo by the majority and by the strict mechanic that handicaps them.

The rewards are the problem here. Taking a fort from the weakest server rewards just as well as taking it from the strongest server.
But this isn’t a bad idea either. Not 100% free, but lower cost? Sure.
Things shouldn’t be 100% free because some players would then waste valuable supply on unsound choices. Yes, it already happens right now, but not very often.

Also, investments should carry rewards as well.