Guild Wars 2

I was directed to post this inquiry from Gaile Gray. I was wondering if the FULL status of servers was going to be updated to the previous status prior to the server link. I’m sure some guilds would like to transfer to these servers rather than move to the linked server and have to move again in three months.

If server is full, for whatever reason, you should not be able to transfer there. There is no real reason guild would want to join Full server anyway as they would simply spend hours sitting in the queue.

I have already argued that high population servers probably had many old players returning to WvW and many new players trying it now with many changes that have nothing to do with server linking. To get them down from Full status players need to start transfer off first (or stop logging into WvW for next month) to make room for new players to join them.

FogLeg.9354:

If server is full, for whatever reason, you should not be able to transfer there. There is no real reason guild would want to join Full server anyway as they would simply spend hours sitting in the queue.

I have already argued that high population servers probably had many old players returning to WvW and many new players trying it now with many changes that have nothing to do with server linking. To get them down from Full status players need to start transfer off first (or stop logging into WvW for next month) to make room for new players to join them.

They’re full because the servers are locked, not because of a huge influx of returning players.

Towelie.9504:

They’re full because the servers are locked, not because of a huge influx of returning players.

eh? that makes now sense.

Towelie.9504:

FogLeg.9354:

If server is full, for whatever reason, you should not be able to transfer there. There is no real reason guild would want to join Full server anyway as they would simply spend hours sitting in the queue.

I have already argued that high population servers probably had many old players returning to WvW and many new players trying it now with many changes that have nothing to do with server linking. To get them down from Full status players need to start transfer off first (or stop logging into WvW for next month) to make room for new players to join them.

They’re full because the servers are locked, not because of a huge influx of returning players.

Towelie, you seem to have it backwards.

Fogleg’s explanation makes perfect sense in my mind as to why all of the hosting servers have become “Full” since the linking.

Well I will give an example. Jade Quarry in NA is listed as “FULL” after the server link. Prior to this, many NA guilds moved off the server. Before links were implemented, the server fell to “High” from “Very High” almost a week after the guilds finished moving off. I do not think “FULL” is an accurate description of their server.

I do not think “medium” is an accurate desciption of empty servers either. Still, are you saying there are NOT more players from host server in WvW now?

Last tier servers had so few players left, even whole server is not worth one single tier 1 guild. That is why I have difficulty believe the linking is main cause of servers going into Full status.

As I recall, the server statuses changed overnight when the update was rolled out. The system has never responded that quickly to a change in population. Considering not all of the host servers are “full” (NS being the only exception), the most likely explanation is that the population cap was reduced.

In any case, though, because there’s no system in place to account for coverage across timezones, there can be plenty of reasons for a guild to want to transfer to a “full” server even if the status is caused by a large population.

i am not moving to the linked server. i was unlucky cause before the hot patch i moved form my home to play with my husbands guild. now he moved back just before the server link and i have been watching my world and its permanently full and no i am not going to that other server.

also gem transfers went from 800 gems to 1500 overnight. so yeah the link is bugging the population count out. please anet i wanna play with my husband!

FogLeg.9354:

I do not think “medium” is an accurate desciption of empty servers either. Still, are you saying there are NOT more players from host server in WvW now?

Last tier servers had so few players left, even whole server is not worth one single tier 1 guild. That is why I have difficulty believe the linking is main cause of servers going into Full status.

No one is saying there is not a large return of some players but its not enough to push a lot of previous Medium servers to completely Full. Especially prior to the linking, does anyone think some of those T3/T4 servers are really at a GREATER population of BG/JQ/YB etc prior to the linking when those T1 servers were only Very High then?

They are locked or the population caps have been artificially changed for the time being so that the criterias of Full->Very High-> High-> Medium->Low would result in many of the servers going Full.

The linking is what drove a lot of the servers to their current population statuses. If BG was unlinked right now with ET, for example, it would likely result back to its current population status of Very High. Same case for servers like Maguuma, SI, SOS etc. which are right now listed as Full. Unlink them with their lower tier server and they’d revert back to being open for transfer.

FogLeg.9354:

I do not think “medium” is an accurate desciption of empty servers either. Still, are you saying there are NOT more players from host server in WvW now?

Last tier servers had so few players left, even whole server is not worth one single tier 1 guild. That is why I have difficulty believe the linking is main cause of servers going into Full status.

I don’t think it is either, but I am using the event as a time reference. I just want to know if ANet plans on opening up the FULL servers so that players that wanted to transfer can make the move. Many people were caught by surprise by the move and did not have fair warning beforehand.