Guild Wars 2

Even in tier 1 whether on my server or the others I’m starting to see more and more of the ‘feeding frenzy’ buff (other people call it the outmanned buff and it is supposed to provide you a benefit- but since it is visible to your enemies it just sets them on a feeding frenzy to attack the outmanned realm and has the opposite of its intended effect).

It is pretty common now to see an entire borderland one color and if you go there almost no one is there.

So here is one thought for the devs to consider:
Spawn only the eternal battleground and the borderland for the team that started the week in first place for that battle group.

Only when all 3 servers have a queue, spawn the second place servers borderland. Ditto for the final borderland.

Instead of having a ghosttown borderland (or two), servers will now be more full of PvP instead of PvD. During hours when servers have a weak population, their populations will be concentrated on active servers instead of spread across four near empty ones- making their fight pointless. People playing during active times currently often wonder why they bother when they know at night everything they do is just going to get flipped by their enemy, fully upgraded, and fully cowed with supplies.

The losers in this would be the people that have disproportionate manpower during certain times, since some of their members may have to wait in queue. That might make some of them consider less populated (in their time zone) servers and promote balance.

Population/activity seems to be dropping pretty quickly and is already at the point where the population cant sustain 4 simultaneous bg’s.

I have to say it’s the player base that makes the BL’s into ghosttowns and not Anets responsibility to make players funnel into PvP in WvWvW. Sadly players want to “feel” like they are winning and since WvWvW is fairly designed with a casual player in mind “winning” means knocking down that door and collecting your Exp, Karma and silver. Do I agree with this? In some regards yes and some regards no. You can’t expect everyone on your server or even in the BL you’re playing in to be there with the same intentions you are there for. I use WvWvW to do my daily, monthly, get some free loot, get portaled up to the JP for badges and t bag an occasional enemy. I upgrade towers and camps with not the idea of oh this is a waste cause it’s just gonna get taken anyway but with the idea that it will make defending and attacking other points the 2-3 hours I am in that BL easier (in theory). I honestly don’t think 8 tiers with three different servers will have 24 hours of sustained coverage on 4 different BL’s each. It’s silly to even think that would be the case. Also I don’t want to have to wait in a queue to go where I want to go, I have limited game time playing and would despise waiting 30-40 minutes to even have a chance to get into a BL.

Or just remove several servers.