Guild Wars 2

With fewer players comes less siege refreshing. If a server is outnumbered 1:4 the greater population server has 4 times the amount of people to refresh siege. This is an unfair advantage.

Example, As a commander I set up 4 ACs in our keep. I then went out and fought for a little over and hour. I had no time to get back and refresh siege and no one was around to do it for me. After about 80 minutes the keep went under attack. I showed up there to defend and all 4 ACs were gone. We could have put up a fight but instead it was no contest.

Please consider adding this outnumbered game mechanic:

Anytime a server obtains the outnumbered buff, all siege resets to 60 minutes and does not decay until the outnumbered buff is removed.

Anet, WvW is always going to have imbalanced populations. Right now with your weak Outnumbered buff people are getting discouraged and moving to other servers furthering the discontent on the server they leave. You can easily fix this. Make people feel like being Outnumbered is fun and beneficial. Right now most people see it and get demoralized. If this keeps up you will see only a few servers with WvW populations. This will hurt your player base and the profits you are making off your game.

Buff the Outnumbered buff.

Brilliant idea!

Only caveat I can think of are late night border-hopping teams granting outmanned to the one or two scouts left behind hence refreshing all siege by leaving the map.

I’d love to see some changes to Siege decay. I understand the necessity of it but the current solution really isn’t all that great. If it helps make “outmanned” more useful, I’m all for it.