Guild Wars 2

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

Im sure it is the same the other way around when they go to sleep and we start capping the stuff that they spent gold and time upgrading.

This system is no fun for either side. Please stop matching people from such drastically different time zones against each other.

I dunno Freelancer. My server has a decent mix of timezones on it, which timezone should get matchmaking priority?

JoolaPrime.6390:

I dunno Freelancer. My server has a decent mix of timezones on it, which timezone should get matchmaking priority?

Mine.

Obviously.

;)

Sojourner.6938:

JoolaPrime.6390:

I dunno Freelancer. My server has a decent mix of timezones on it, which timezone should get matchmaking priority?

Mine.

Obviously.

;)

I’d fight you for it…but then we’d never be on at the same time

Then perhaps they should have region locked servers, because every time I get a chance to log into GW2 in the mornings on Yaks bend, 95% of the map belongs to a one server or another.

Every night me and my Australian buddies get organised and take as much territory as we can, usually fighting two servers at once to achieve this. When I get home from work those darned Americans have taken it all back. (This is posted with humour and sarcasm)

There is more than One time zone in the united states and more than one side to this story, get organised, try to recruit more off peak WvW players to your server.

its fine the way it is

I think its great “pvp” is done by 7pm, then its back to pve.

If you convince them to region lock to the majority, what happens if NA turns out to be less of a majority than you first considered? China, Japan, Korea, SEA and Australia. It’s a big market to “lock out” just because you are asleep.

Don’t you think that’s just a little too entitled?

Arenanet acknowledged this problem in several lengthy forum discussions during beta. As expected, nothing came of it. So, the Oceanic, Austrailian, and Asian players essentially dominate each night while we sleep. Unbalancing the game.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pause WvW at midnight and resume at 6 p.m? That would be sweet!

Reth.6092:

If you convince them to region lock to the majority, what happens if NA turns out to be less of a majority than you first considered? China, Japan, Korea, SEA and Australia. It’s a big market to “lock out” just because you are asleep.

Don’t you think that’s just a little too entitled?

I don’t.

It is logical. It is also what competing MMO games do. In fact, it is expected. Also, since arenanet acknowldged the issue, I expected it. Entitlement doesn’t factor in here. You didn’t think it was weird that they waited until just before launch to announce server regions?

Fugly.5287:

Arenanet acknowledged this problem in several lengthy forum discussions during beta. As expected, nothing came of it. So, the Oceanic, Austrailian, and Asian players essentially dominate each night while we sleep. Unbalancing the game.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pause WvW at midnight and resume at 6 p.m? That would be sweet!

Source?

I`m fairly certain that your alliance has a sizeable oceanic and south east Asian presence as well. In fact I believe you purposefully recruited such guilds into AA, am I wrong on this?

Suddle D.9412:

Fugly.5287:

Arenanet acknowledged this problem in several lengthy forum discussions during beta. As expected, nothing came of it. So, the Oceanic, Austrailian, and Asian players essentially dominate each night while we sleep. Unbalancing the game.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pause WvW at midnight and resume at 6 p.m? That would be sweet!

Source?

It was in beta forum, which is now closed. It’s not on google cache, so I can’t locate it. The discussions were regarding the potential repercussions of multiple timezone WvW matches. This was when arenanet’s team was active in forum discussions, and was after the NDA was lifted.

Fugly.5287:

Arenanet acknowledged this problem in several lengthy forum discussions during beta. As expected, nothing came of it. So, the Oceanic, Austrailian, and Asian players essentially dominate each night while we sleep. Unbalancing the game.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pause WvW at midnight and resume at 6 p.m? That would be sweet!

I’ve been reading these kind of whines since 2001 when Dark Age of Camelot came out, the first truly great 3 realm pvp game.
Frankly I think the solution is to just suck it up, but it’s taken almost 7yrs since I stopped playing DAoC to get the same 3 realm fix. Guild wars is just awsome!!

Looking forward to all the other typical whining that will blossum… pansies!

whine : i dont want to other players get some fun when i’m not online, but when i’m in idc care about others who are working/sleeping/get life.

Fugly.5287:

It was in beta forum, which is now closed. It’s not on google cache, so I can’t locate it. The discussions were regarding the potential repercussions of multiple timezone WvW matches. This was when arenanet’s team was active in forum discussions, and was after the NDA was lifted.

Sweet, so they discussed it and decided this was the best course of action then, good to know it working as intended.

Wars are fought at all times. Leave it the way it is.

If you really want a win and are on day Nine of a Fourteen day campaign I suggest you create a guild even where everyone gets up in the middle of the night and back caps everything. Too me that sounds like a helluva a good time.

Freelancer.4802:

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

if anything, pity them, they paid money to play alone, no figthing, no nothing…WvE borefest

arrive a bit late → see other people took everything on the map and there isnt a single enemy on the map → go do PvE for the rest of the day

honestly, I cant understand how arent they the ones complaining…

Konrad Curze.5130:

Freelancer.4802:

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

if anything, pity them, they paid money to play alone, no figthing, no nothing…WvE borefest

arrive a bit late -> see other people took everything on the map and there isnt a single enemy on the map -> go do PvE for the rest of the day

honestly, I cant understand how arent they the ones complaining…

Not sure where your source is on that one, coming from IoJ and a AUS alliance, we have big fights every night, yesterday we were up against Storm and GoM, lots of epic fighting during our prime time. We win some nights, we lose some nights, I have yet to see this “ghost town” WvW. (hopefully we won’t get to see it!)

I see ghost-town WvW all time. Not b/c there are no enemies, its just ANet are determined for us not to see who we’re fighitng

kylia.4813:

Konrad Curze.5130:

Freelancer.4802:

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

if anything, pity them, they paid money to play alone, no figthing, no nothing…WvE borefest

arrive a bit late -> see other people took everything on the map and there isnt a single enemy on the map -> go do PvE for the rest of the day

honestly, I cant understand how arent they the ones complaining…

Not sure where your source is on that one, coming from IoJ and a AUS alliance, we have big fights every night, yesterday we were up against Storm and GoM, lots of epic fighting during our prime time. We win some nights, we lose some nights, I have yet to see this “ghost town” WvW. (hopefully we won’t get to see it!)

yep, as the matchmaking improves, servers with around-the-clock playerbases will tend to get matched together so it wont be an issue

you will always have the random one that got left out of a balanced matchup, tho. It sucks for all 3 sides

Freelancer.4802:

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

Im sure it is the same the other way around when they go to sleep and we start capping the stuff that they spent gold and time upgrading.

This system is no fun for either side. Please stop matching people from such drastically different time zones against each other.

So let me get this right…you organized Ascension Alliance which is a multi time zone alliance, and when you can’t beat Titan Alliance (another multi time zone alliance) you want this to stop? Am I right or am I right?

I got to thinking about this and the OP can’t be Freelancer of Team Legacy. Even he is not arrogant enough to think nobody would catch him complaining about this. Can’t be lol.

Sheesh Raptor, this isn’t the AA Freelancer. This guy said he was from Yaks Bend in his 2nd post.

JoolaPrime.6390:

Sheesh Raptor, this isn’t the AA Freelancer. This guy said he was from Yaks Bend in his 2nd post.

My bad read it wrong. I was thinking he was talking about Yaks Bend borderlands. Regardless I did come back instantly and state that I did not believe that it could be TL’s Freelancer.

Raptor.9863:

JoolaPrime.6390:

Sheesh Raptor, this isn’t the AA Freelancer. This guy said he was from Yaks Bend in his 2nd post.

My bad read it wrong. I was thinking he was talking about Yaks Bend borderlands. Regardless I did come back instantly and state that I did not believe that it could be TL’s Freelancer.

Heh, no harm, no foul.

Strange that people are always asking for something like that. You and your team spend a lot of effort to capture everything and sad that another set of team from a different time zone takes over. You want time zone lock. If that happens, then you start complaining there’s nothing to capture, because all areas belong to your server. You’ll want reset more often and if you’re still winning too easily, probably the stronger server in your time zone, you start complaining it’s no fun. Mixing all time zone allows a greater pool of server mix, and allow weaker servers to have the chance to capture tower/keep. It’s more balance. Furthermore, this is “guild” war. Formulate a guild with people from all time zones.

Those defending the current situation are basically saying that it’s ok to PVE to win at PVP… since usually in the matchup one server out of the three has a heavy off peak population and face no resistance. PVE to win PVP? Nah, that’s just bad design.

kylia.4813:

Konrad Curze.5130:

Freelancer.4802:

Every day, my server captures and upgrades the various forts and towers in our territory.. and every night all the Australians wake up, roll in, and take everything with hardly any effort.

if anything, pity them, they paid money to play alone, no figthing, no nothing…WvE borefest

arrive a bit late -> see other people took everything on the map and there isnt a single enemy on the map -> go do PvE for the rest of the day

honestly, I cant understand how arent they the ones complaining…

Not sure where your source is on that one, coming from IoJ and a AUS alliance, we have big fights every night, yesterday we were up against Storm and GoM, lots of epic fighting during our prime time. We win some nights, we lose some nights, I have yet to see this “ghost town” WvW. (hopefully we won’t get to see it!)

I see it every night on a night thats not a international weekend, the map is officially packmaned at about 6-8pm every night and theres no point hanging around. This is in the top bracket. where the servers were facing should be competitive.

We predicted that other realms with strong oceanic presences would be able to get the point lead and push themselves into the top bracket and us(HOD) would be facing servers like SOS and IOJ frequently, but it seems we were wrong and the oceanics obviously arnt that influential enough to carry a server to the top rankings without strong American presence too.

In that case, other than servers that’s language specific, Anet will not and should not put out Asia/Oceania servers. They should probably close server transfer in general, only allow transfer to balance out equal numbers of people from different time zones for each server. Servers flagged full will be based on time zone and not population within that server.

I am Australian and often play at all sorts of hours (on IOJ) I have not seen these empty “pve” world vs world maps some of you speak of.