Guild Wars 2

Looks like guest servers are going to be around for the long term, but right now these servers have no control over their own destiny in terms of who they end up being matched up with, or when they can become host servers themselves. IMO to become sustainable in the long term, guest servers need acknowledgement in their own right and goals to build towards.

There should be a scoring system focused on individual servers that governs when they make the switch to being host servers, and ideally factors into what tier they are matched up with. Not exactly sure what metrics would work, don’t think glicko would be usable unless the contribution each server in a pairing makes to the overall total can be determined. Possibly a combination of KDR/captures credited to an individual server?

I think shorter term server identity measures could help (such as pairings having a combined server name). Individual server scoring is definitely more work but worth the value in terms of giving guest servers reason to stick together and develop over the long run. IMO either these servers need to be given more identity + concrete ways to control their future or they should be merged. The current limbo guest servers are in isn’t sustainable and doesn’t seem fair to players on those servers.