Guild Wars 2

Everything I see in this game format to me points to the map cap being too high. I see alot of problems caused by the map cap being as high as it is or in some cases at least contributes to some of them. I see it really diminishes the PvP component of this game and promotes mentalities in this game, which I am fine with to a certain point, but I think it promotes them too much. Thing is I have seen a few people in here who seem to agree. But to me it seems brutally clear this is the case. But yet the community isn’t overly outspoken about it and from the little I have seen from Anet they don’t seem to think the same or they are looking at a longer term in development that we can’t see. I’d love for someone to explain why it’s fine as it is. Tell me why I am wrong.

Your post says nothing, care to re-write it?

PearlGore.7419:

Your post says nothing, care to re-write it?

Go ahead, but do the opposite. Explain why the map cap is not too high.

“Because I say so, isn’t it obvious it’s not?”
That’s basically what you said.

Your post doesn’t even explain anything. It just says map cap is too high and promotes mentalities?

Lol why don’t you provide a reason why first.

I’m not sure what you are proposing as the post merely states 2 things

1) it diminishes the pvp component but doesn’t state why or how it does
2 it promotes mentalities but does not elaborate on what they are

If you are proposing a low map cap, how much different would it be from sPVP. WvW was intended by ANET to be for epic battles.

A little bit of elaboration would help us understand where you are coming from.

Caps should be higher and maps should be larger/more spaced out. Worlds have lots of ppl, w/o lots of ppl its not very world v worldy. Just my opinion though.

One big map imo

sostronk.8167:

PearlGore.7419:

Your post says nothing, care to re-write it?

Go ahead, but do the opposite. Explain why the map cap is not too high.

The map cap is not too high because often times there are queues to get into the maps. If people want to play, they should be able to.

Let’s rephrase, the map caps are too high for the current game population and the way the servers perform at this time. The map caps have been lower at times when the active WvW population was higher which caused of a lot of negative experiences for players (myself included) regarding queues and ANET having to deal with said unhappy players so this is understandably a touchy subject for everyone.

I agree however that at the current levels of WvW activity and the ways the maps were designed, the map population caps should be closer to 50 per side in the borderlands and maybe a little more than that in EB. If this results in significant queues in the top tiers some incentives to population re-balance to the lower tiers should be added.

Maps caps are currently too high for the map sizes and server performance abilities. I would love to see less skill lag and the disappearance of the more recently added crazy rubber-banding effects and crashes to desktop.