Guild Wars 2

Since population caps were adjusted to balance the top 5 servers, it’s like the tiers are starting at the same level. Since the populations have now evened out, I have an idea about simplifying the server rating system to make matchmaking easier. Remove Glicko calculations completely, and just do a +1/0/-1 system. For example at the end of a week:

1) Mag: +1
2) BG: 0
3) TC: -1
4) JQ: +1
5) YB: 0
6) FA: -1

New week matchups:

1) Mag
2) BG
3) JQ
4) TC
5) YB
6) SBI

No more need for complicated maths. The losing server moves down a tier, and the winning server moves up. In the case of Mag, because they’re already #1, all players who played at least 10 hours of WvW and and scored at least 200 player kills during the week get 1,000 Gems each. That’s how you fix WvW.

That would crash the gold market and make the value of gems decrease though. The transfer rate between gems and gold is based off supply and demand. Doing this would ruin our economy sadly. It’s a cool idea but it just won’t work

As long WvW is imbalanced, you cannot reward the winner. So scrap your gem rewarding idea.

Now I don’t think testing 1up1down is bad, altho I belive we would just see the same matches every other week. I wouldn’t mind the test tho, just as I didn’t mind 2-1-1.

With a simple +1 system, it no longer confuses the community as to who is the best. BUT, if the matches become repeated (which they most likely will every 2 weeks), then you can add the RNG mixup to keep things spicy. So then there’s be a simple 25% chance for the 2nd place server in kitten drop -2, and then the 2nd place in T2 gets +2. In the event of a tie score, then you RNG roll which of the tied servers gets the higher placing.

In the opening example, the new matchups would be:

1) Mag
2) TC
3) JQ
4) BG
5) YB
6) SBI