Guild Wars 2

Here’s a thought I had that I think is interesting.

So, we have leagues coming up, every world will play every other world in that league. The problem is the results are rather predictable … and as there will be some form of reward this is a huge incentive to transfer to a top tier server (even though we don’t know exactly what the reward is yet).

A lot of people throw out suggestions to adjust the match scoring by weighting it or providing a handicap given certain conditions, such as population imbalance or even just to benefit the losing world. I am opposed to any such measures, I think they’ll just lead to more inaccurate ratings and further imbalance.

The way the rating system works, basically, is that each world has a rating number and based on each worlds rating they are expected to hold a certain proportion of the overall score. If they exceed that proportion their rating goes up, if they do not meet it their rating goes down.

If the league could set a matches first, second, and third place based on rating gain/loss rather than overall score this would lead to greater unpredictability in the results and give lower servers a chance against higher servers.

For example, in the current NA matches the results as the scores currently stand would be:

• Blackgate first, Jade Quarry second, Tarnished Coast third (same as score order)
• Sanctum of Rall first, Fort Aspenwood second, Dragonbrand third (same as score order)
• Borliss Pass first, Sea of Sorrows second, Crystal Desert third (BP gets a win instead of second)
• Kaineng first, Maguuma second, Ehmry Bay third (Kaineng gets a win instead of last!)
• Stormbluff Isle first, Northern Shiverpeaks second, Isle of Janthir third (SBI still wins but IoJ and NS swap places)
• Yak’s Bend first, Sorrow’s Furnace second, Henge of Denravi third (same as score order)

One downside is there’s no current in-game indication of rating change and you have to visit a site like mos for live results or the leaderboards for last weeks results.

The #2 server would always lose and #3 would win most of the time.

Solstice.1097:

The #2 server would always lose and #3 would win most of the time.

Hmm, why do you say that when the current results contradict you?

Even in last weeks matches the #3 server would have won only 2 matches and the #2 would have lost in 5.