Ok this sounds really selfish. But I am sure some of you are also thinking about this. So let’s talk about it.
It is a fact that the queue has gotten much worst after the introduction of WvW achievements. I am not blaming anyone. But this is a fact.
So I propose the following 3 items. It is very important to note that these 3 things MUST happen at exactly the same time.
1) WvW rank is now account bound. It is no longer character bound. The sum of all WvW experience across all characters will be the player’s WvW rank.
2) World transfer gem costs will be based on the player’s WvW rank.
3) Queue priority will be based on a player’s WvW rank .
Now I will get into each in detail.
1) This is self explanatory. Now all your characters will have the same WvW rank. So you can allocate WvW skill points as you see fit.
2) The higher your WvW rank, the more expensive it is to transfer your character. I am not sure how to scale this. But you get the idea. Veteran players should stay with their existing server. At the same time WvW new players should be tempted to move.
My idea is actually to give free gem to new WvWers (low ranking) for transferring server. They get even more gems when they transfer to a very low ranking WvW server. This will eventually even out the server populations.
3)
Give players with higher WvW levels a priority in queues. A level 150 WvW player should have a chance to get into the map faster than someone only leveled 23. That means you better play if you don’t want to suffer from queues.
This should be done by some kind of random chance system.
Example. Let’s say there are 2 guy waiting in queue for a borderland. Player 1 was the first to join the queue. Player 2 join after.
Player 1: Level 67
Player 2: Level 100
The combined level of player 1 and player 2 is 167. Since 100/167=60%, there is a 60% chance that player 2 will overtake player 1 in the queue, when player 2 press the join button.
Now let’s say there is already 5 players in a queue, when player 6 joins in. Player 6 is level 120.
Player 1: Level 67
Player 2: Level 100
Player 3: Level 23
Player 4: Level 45
Player 5: Level 12
Player 6 will first fight player 5 for the queue. Since 120/132=91%, there is a 91% chance that player 6 will overtake player 5 in the queue.
Assume that player 6 successfully take over player 5’s spot. He will be fighting against player 4 next. Since 120/165=73%, there is a 73% chance that player 6 will overtake player 4 in the queue.
Assume that player 6 got bad luck and he didn’t take over player 4, his spot will stop there. Here will be the new queue.
Player 1: Level 67
Player 2: Level 100
Player 3: Level 23
Player 4: Level 45
Player 6: Level 120
Player 5: Level 12
Player 6 have no idea how many players he beat in the queue. So re-queuing is meaningless. A high level player cannot abuse this by keep re-queuing. But having a higher WvW level does improve his chances of having a shorter queue.
To implement this system, the WvW ranking must be shared for all characters in a player’s account.
A newbie WvWer on a high population server will be stuck in hours long queues. This, combined with discounts for going into a low population server (or even free gems), will tempt many players to move to a low population server. This will eventually achieve server balance.
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