Guild Wars 2

Kind of a weird idea I have here after reading more coverage woes threads. A new scoring system that might solve the entire coverage issue across the board. I’m not sure what the coverage is like on all time slots on all servers, but I’ll throw this out there and see how it looks on paper.

This will be based on a Season 3 (if there is a Season 3). Probably not much point in doing this between seasons, but possibly, lets see.

There would be 3 different matches running per league, per week, and these will be based on time slots. These time slots are based on server time, not your time zone necessarily.

12am – 8am (Lets call this night time)
8am – 4pm (Lets call this day time)
4pm – 12am (This can be prime time)

Each time slot has it’s own PPT score, so essentially 3 matches going on per week. Winning a time slot that week gives you 1 point. Maximum of 3 points per week (obviously). It’s no secret, some servers just have overwhelming coverage at certain times which can completely skyrocket the score in their favor. Well that’s fine, that just means they’ll win that particular time slot (but not necessarily the other 2). The time slot’s scores are not connected in anyway, they are all separate. Everyone’s play is equal, you do YOUR share to make sure YOU win YOUR time slot.

Under this system, a server that only has great coverage in say prime time, but abysmal coverage everywhere else, has a decent shot at least to pick up one point for that time slot.

In the end, the scores should be much closer and it should be easier for some servers to stomach when they log on to their time. This could also encourage more people to join WvW. Servers themselves may start to even out because it might be hard for guilds to justify moving to a “winning” server, when that server may lose 2 out of the 3 time slots due to coverage issues.

It’s also hard to justify moving to a stacked time slot because of Anet’s little rule of 100 person limit and ques. Would you really want to move to a time slot and wait 4-6hrs every time you log on? Probably not, I sure wouldn’t.

Basically, most points at the end of the season wins (simple). If there is a tie, give equal rewards.

TL:DR

Further separate the match into 3 matches based on time slots (12am – 8am) (8am – 4pm) (4pm – midnight). Winning a time slot that week gives you a point. Most points at the end wins.