Guild Wars 2

Two questions:

• What are the population caps (I hear there are new numbers)?
• Are they uneven? Do some servers get more players than others? Does it vary depending on map?

ANET never tells us hard numbers. It gets changed often, probably more often than we know but has been fairly stable for awhile now based on what comms report in threads like these. The guesses put EB in the 90 to 120 range for each team and borderlands somewhere around 80ish per side.

The populations caps were tweaked this weekend during the tech testing trying to track down the main source of this new lag plague. I assume they were changed back after the testing but maybe you’ll get some confirmation on that in the other thread.

Population caps in WvW have never been intentionally uneven, each side will always have the same map population cap as their foes. There have been bugs in the past that may have caused temporary problems related to this. There could have been an adjustment period over the weekend for a couple hours where maybe after the cap was lowered during testing one side had more than another until players logged off. It sounded like this testing was only done on the top tier servers but I do not know if all worlds saw lower population caps during that same time frame.