Guild Wars 2

Just had an entire guild xfer over from Fort Aspenwood… my favorite part is all the loving Seige rams right next to the supply area… and right now we have 25 of them doing nothing at the Blackgate Spawn point… so that means 25 worthless players..

ANet Please do not Allow the following if your fighting that cluster you can not xfer to any of the servers that week.. this is complete bull crap

Can we stop this free transfer thing raging. Its been said a million times already its temporary to balance out server population.

Ryner.6895:

Can we stop this free transfer thing raging. Its been said a million times already its temporary to balance out server population.

Is it balancing the server population? My impression is that people continue to transfer to the winning servers causing even worse imbalances. We need to cap the top servers if we are going to balance anything.

Enjoy the screenshot

http://undeadtentharmy.enjin.com/gallery/m/7222030/detail/92581#pid=827904

Hahah did we really just do that to you guys?

Well im no spokesman but im sorry, the free transfer being used for that is rather annoying i know, but it is needed for server balance like Ryner has stated.

Edit: plz note im not from the guild doing this to you.

Ryner.. this isnt crying over balancing… this is people abusing the system to waste resources cause they getting rolled left and right so they xfer and place 10-15 flame rams to waste resources in towers/keeps we own… That is getting really Effin old.

Preacher.8374:

Ryner.. this isnt crying over balancing… this is people abusing the system to waste resources cause they getting rolled left and right so they xfer and place 10-15 flame rams to waste resources in towers/keeps we own… That is getting really Effin old.

Like I said its temporary, till they put the stop on transfers just chill instead of making a new thread about it everyday.

Seeing how this is my first complaint about the game, I will do what I want and how I want if you dont want to read a complaint about people abusing xfers then do not read the posts imo.

thx

Nice logic there.

I think you are confusing the problem. Free world transfers are not the problem here and people still want/need them to be able to be on the same server as their friends.

I’m not you, so I can’t speak for you, but from what I can gather your problem is people being able to hop into WvW -right- after a free transfer. Or, more simply, people being able to use resources. So, you’d probably be more okay with a change such that:

“After a server transfer, you cannot collect or use resources in WvW until three days have passed”

Or something like that. It would still allow people who legitimately want/need to transfer to play with guildmates and friends to participate in WvW (albiet with a short, temporary restriction) without allowing the current abuse.

Ironically, I think, it’s the free transfers that are preventing servers from becoming balanced. Population is too much in flux to ever be “balanced”.

^ but the problem is there that there aren’t enough new players coming in every day to add population to the other servers.

the idea behind it is that eventually people will get bored of steamrolling/being rolled, and spread out to where the most fun is being had…. locking down server pops right now will just discourage transfers more than encourage balancing out what is there already

Well thats why you keep transfers free and open to the low pop servers, and lock the rest

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Pretty much that.
You need to lock transfers to high pop servers.
Add bonuses to low pop. servers (The current outmanned buff in WvW would do nicely)
Also, Improve the outmanned buff in WvW to actually help you fight greater odds.

As is you just have everyone joining the top server/s.

The whole idea of WvW balancing servers against each other when there is zero repercussion when transferring to the winning side is just moronic. It shows zero forethought or at least total disregard to the pvp meta-game.

Regardless of server population, that has nothing to do with the actual issue that the OP listed.

Players from a competing server are transferring to an enemy server, wasting resources purposefully such as at Garrison, Hills Keep or Bay Keep, in an attempt to place that server at a disadvantage and giving the other server better chance to take out these keeps.

Frankly, these players who activity logs show this happening should be perma-banned, end of discussion, as what they are doing quite literally violates the EULA and terms of service. This was not the intended design / use / function and anyone who tries to rationalize it is contributing to this exploit.

20+ players transfer from server A to their enemies on server B shortly after Garrison was taken from server A. These 20 players then consume server B resources at Garrison by placing flame rams inside the keep and using the Garrisons resources to build them and causing a major resources drain on this keep which could have been used in helping to repair or build defensive siege to counter an attack.

These 20 players then go do PvE or dance, etc, somewhere else and prevent 20 other players from entering WvW on that map, further hurting that servers ability to get a proper force together.

This is intentional with purpose to create an unfair advantage for the other server(s). These players deserve a permanent vacation from GW2 via account terminations.

^ As Paladin says perma-banned I cannot help but giggle, but he’s right, it’s gone on far to long and I think this would send a message, if not just a heavy long time ban. I keep telling people this is a massive problem, but they shrug it off, It effects queues, increases vile players because they can just transfer away with a new name, no repercussions for what they do. Oh and obviously as stated, people sabotaging other servers supplies.

They really do need to do something about this type of stuff. What is to stop a server from gathering 300 people, and transferring 100 onto each of the other servers just to flood a zone and keep them from playing? While this is extreme, there are instances of this happening in smaller numbers of at least 25 which really skews the match.