Merged Servers
hm.. kind of difficult to understand your problem, but I think you are trying to say servers which had much smaller smaller server linked to them (for example Gunnar’s Hold with FoW) have now so many more players that servers which did not get any smaller servers linked to them are now outnumbered in every map.
I can not agree with that claim at all. GH+FoW is only linked server in current matchup against Baruch Bay and Jade Sea and BB outnumbers us by at least 2, while JS has about4 times more players. Sure, players are leaving because of matches are completely unbalanced (I suspect this ain’t much fun for JS either since all their many-many WvW guilds have nobody to fight), but in this case linked server is the one in huge disadvantage.
So, what is situation in EU generally atm?
Tier 1: Piken vs SFR vs Deso+Vabbi. Deso is winning but I higly doubt it is winning because of those couple players Vabbi has.
Tier2: Kodash vs Riverside vs AR+FR. Only well-balanced match. All very close.
Tier 3: ER vs Gandara + RoS vs AG + BT. Gandara is winning, AG doing badly so 1 linked server is ahead while other has fallen behind.
Tier 4: BB vs JS vs GH+FoW. As I already said, complete fail. GH+FoW should not be even near those 2 non-linked servers.
Tier 5: FSP+UW vs VS+AS vs AM. Another fail, FSP should be fighting much bigger servers instead.
Tier 6: DL+MS vs DZ vs RoF+WSR. Looks like DL+MS has no equal enemies there.
Now, overall, some linked servers are doing very well in their matches, while some are doing terribly. Same way, some non-linked servers are clearly winning, and some losing. Obviously the linking itself is not magical solution to win the matches, just the rankings are big mess atm and lots of matches failed to be interesting.