Guild Wars 2

Order Battle

The three server systems is no longer working as WvW population is decreasing and people are now stacking on certain servers making the matter even worse. Servers in general also don’t have a place in the game apart from WvW. In PvE mega servers have taken over and in PvP server doesn’t matter either. Removing servers I believe is the only way to solve this problem and replacing it with a different system. So I present Order Battles. Choose to represent either the Vigil, The Durmond Priory or the Order of Whispers. Reason I chose these is its better than just RedvBluevGreen and seeing as there are three orders and WvW is a three server format it makes sense. Also it gives the orders a purpose in the game instead of just a one story step before merging into the Pact. You can also work in some order specific rewards and possible new maps but that is for another time.

How will this work? Well Just like Guild Wars: Factions that had Alliance Battles give players the opportunity to represent an order to fight for OB (Order chosen through the story won’t have any influence on OB selection). The reason I say players instead of guilds is it can get complicated due to how many guilds you can represent. Players who want to switch orders will have to go through the same process as server transfer. One week lockout period and gold fee, thus removing server transfer and incorporating it into Order transfer.

Having only three sides to pick from should condense the player base and maybe slightly improving population. This will of course heavily depend on who the big guilds or communities will represent, they could all choose to stack on Vigil. This for me shouldn’t be a problem. Players/guilds that still care about winning can stack on one Order if they want to as this will give the players/ guilds that only want to fight an endless amount of enemies if they choose to spread out on the other two orders.

As a final note I am not saying remove servers from the game as that could take a long time and WvW needs immediate help. Also what do you think of this system? Bad or good and what would you change. For me fixing population is more important than the PPT system at the moment. As mentioned above the players who care for PPT can stack on one order and the ones who don’t can farm them on the other two.

The idea sounds appealing to me, since the server system indeed only has WvW left to dwell.

Anyway, I see a major flaw : having only 3 orders left (if I understood correctly) will provide them with a huge population leading to 2 issues :

• Maps will be too small
• The time split between NA servers and EU servers won’t help (even if it could solve the night capping issue on another hand).

Now, get ready for the “WvW is no PvE” rants ;-)

So what are you suggesting here? Rename red/green/blue to personal story factions? Condense all the player population to three servers? That’s EotM already.

Ye I am in no way trying to turn WvW to PvE. I chose these 3 orders because it is the only thing in this game that I could find to replace the 3 server system and having it as simple as BluevGreenvRed is boring. Hopefully the 3 orders would replace the server identity that will be replaced by this format. Plus it gives some lore background to ‘WvW’ which I saw a thread on here for. The pact having been destroyed by Mordremoth have gone back to their orders and practicing for the next fight and getting stronger through Order Battles. Anyway enough about PvE lol.

Maps would probably see queues up in the hundreds though would it be difficult to add a 5th map? 3 Apline, 1 Desert and EB?

As for the time split, I am not sure what you mean by that. Anet are working on a new scoring systems that they think will reduce night capping and we will have to see how that works out. I also don’t mean having EU merged with NA. Leave the two regions as they are.

Zenith.6403:

So what are you suggesting here? Rename red/green/blue to personal story factions? Condense all the player population to three servers? That’s EotM already.

EotM is an overflow system and that I don’t want but yes just have 3 sides instead of 10+ servers and linking servers with servers that others don’t want to be linked with.

I’d rather play the game than sit in queue of hundreds that would undoubtedly result from your suggestion of merging the servers.

Zenith.6403:

I’d rather play the game than sit in queue of hundreds that would undoubtedly result from your suggestion of merging the servers.

Read my solution for that above.