Guild Wars 2

Here’s a variant of what has been suggested before many times.

- Global ladder.

- Group up some US and EU (and later Asian) servers. So 2 / 3 servers (one from each time zone) forms a single WvW “faction” (ie. server).

- The WvW match is controlled by a different data centre at different times of the day. ie. EU data centre handles 12 hours of the day, US handles the other 12. (later on with Asia it can be 8/8/8.) Thus EU primetime falls within the period where EU datacentre is in control, and the same for US.

- Thus every WvW faction has players from US, EU and Asian servers, ensuring all day coverage.

- If you play during your regions primetime, then your ping will be as good as playing on your region’s server. If you play during night time, then your ping is the same as playing on the other region’s server during their prime time.
The only people who will experience worse pings are those who enjoy playing on their own region’s night shift.

It might work like this:
- For each WvW match, the EU and US servers involved will mirror the map all day.

- When US shift ends and EU shift begins, all US players are automatically guested to the EU server. When EU shift ends, all EU players are guested to the US server. I guess there might be a small interruption or downtime, but since its on a regular schedule people can be prepared.

A whole new overcomplicated infrastructure change that would probably leave Anet programmers scratching their heads and wondering who was smoking what when approving it.

Yeah… Its not going to work. Personally, I wouldnt want to wait in queue for 12-16 hours before starting to play either.

Some NA server have to learn French and German first (I guess there are enough Spanish speaking in NA).

But let’s see how EotM will work. If I got it right matches there will be 24h and with ladder wide teams with unlimited overflow map capacity https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Thank-you-from-the-Edge-of-the-Mists-Team/3478428

Will give some Babylonian language mixture in EU already

The other interesting question of course will be:
How many will still play WvW when EotM goes live.
How will this affect server ranking?
Will the night-shifts continue to play PVD in WvW or will they be the first to go for fights in EotM?

Most simple solution is to lower the wxp rewards for structures and up them for playerkills. PvE in a wvw zone shouldn’t be rewarded at all imo.