Guild Wars 2

I was having a discussion about server capacity and WVW zone capacity. I was under the assumption that these zones would CAP a specific amount of players for each server fighting (for example, 300 players PER side). Once 1 server reaches 300, they have a queue. The other two servers then continue until they have 300 as well.

However, I was informed that it works differently by a few players. They are under the assumption that if the server has a cap of 1000 (the WVW zone itself) and one server brings in 600 players FIRST. That leaves only 400 spots left for the other 2 servers. I cannot believe that Arena Net, as awesome as they are, would allow something like this to happen. Is this true? Or is it a FAIR FIGHT?

I think it is supposed to work like in the first example, in reality it seems bugged and while I do not think it works like the second example either, it certainly doesnt seem ‘even’ either.

If Anet provided us with any zone tools like /who we might help them find out what it is going on, but for now its just a guess.

I really hope this isnt true. Dragonbrand cant even get the que most of the time and if we are facing more numbers no matter what thats lame. We have been on a soild losing streak since I joined and left from dying GOM. I was sick of having 1 or 2 supply camps and now it seems to be that way on dragon brand too. The best battles are fair ones not 98% 1 color.

I highly doubt that it’s “First come, first serve”. It would be the worst idea when it comes to balancing ever. Also this would create insane amount of queues even though some servers never have queues.

Each map has a cap of players allowed per server.
Hince why some servers might have a Queue, and others not in the same matches.

I figured as much mishi. The other way sounds very absurd and borderline stupid. However, we haven’t heard any responses from Arena Net on how these zones ACTUALLY work. I would like some sort of solid information on the zones so I can organize my server based on this knowledge.