Guild Wars 2

We have an outmanned buff:

+33% Experience
+20% Magic find
+25% World Experience

One way to counter population imbalances would be to encourage players on the outnumbering team(s) to self-deport to another map, using an ‘overmanned debuff’:

-33% Experience
-20% Magic find
-25% World Experience

This debuff would apply to the outmanning side(s) whenever the outmanned buff is in effect on another side. People would be encouraged to spread out (and the greedy people who are just in it for their own gain would be the first to leave).

I personally disagree. It’s unfair to punish players for something that’s beyond their control, and it doesn’t necessarily punish karma-trainers. If server X go to server Y’s borderland and they both have blobs, server Z will probably have the outnumbered buff and servers X and Y would therefore be punished.

Also, whatever you think of the place, it’s unfair to the players on the outnumbering side(s) in EotM, because they can’t really change maps.

It will be kind of a joke, like the outmanned buff.

The debuff would be intended to incentivize players to spread out to multiple maps and stop the ridiculous blobbing and steamrolling that make WvW so boring.

What it would actually do is let players know that they have free reign over the map and that they can just pvd to their heart’s content.

That’s the reason why it was made impossible to see the outmanned buff on enemies, by the way.