Guild Wars 2

Is there a disadvantage to being on a medium population server to world vs world and if so how severely will this impact end of game play

The medium population servers are guest servers now. They get linked every 2 months to a random larger host server.

If the guest server is lucky with the new host, it becomes the bandwagon server of this 2-monthly period. Players transfer to the server for easy victories and then transfer out when the next linking is announced. The linking has eroded any sense of community the guest servers may still have left.

Med pop server = guest server = no community = low morale.

You could think of yourself as a mercenary but with no reward nor a choice who to fight for. Sure you can help the host server, but after 2 months you get linked to another host server. What’s the point?

In NA there are 6 medium servers that are host servers too.

The medium population servers are guest servers now.

Except Vizunah and GH.
Since Vizu is only medium, they obviously need more people. I expect them to be linked to Jade Sea next time, so that we can look forward to balanced matchups against FSP+FoW+WsR+Vaabi+SFR and an unfortunate third server with less bandwagoners, while GH stays alone again.

My boss chose gates of madness. I was kind of mad I wanted to join a larger server I came from Kahrun on Aion and that place was so dead. I guess with a mega server it doesnt matter as much PVe and stuff. Still Id like a community. I hate just being the odd people out.

also what is meant by no reward?

Also does a very large server have more lag than a medium server in general? need to ask for boss his comp is well meh

ShoVok.1905:

also what is meant by no reward?

Also does a very large server have more lag than a medium server in general? need to ask for boss his comp is well meh

Servers are awarded by Glicko rating after each matchup. The rating is used to match up servers of close equal power. The leaderboards show how good your server is.

The guest servers have been taken out of this system. They get nothing but a random linking no matter how well they play.

On top of this ANet is giving away Glicko rating manually to servers left and right. They explain it is to create more balanced matchups. At the same time they manually do the linking of servers creating the very imbalance.

All servers suffer from lag. Even the teams in the lowest tier matchup can muster up 3 blobs to clash in Stonemist.