Guild Wars 2

This is one of main problem transfer cost too much

They only cost too much if you try to transfer up, maybe players should look at transferring down and actually try to fix the core issue of the game mode which is population balance. Currently its 500 gems to go to a medium/low pop server which equals to approx 147 gold currently vs 1800/approx 600 g to transfer to a stacked server.

It’s funny how this topic always comes up shortly after a server relinking.

I think that’s what anet is hoping for. They hope people will star migrating to crowded servers thus buying gems. I see no other reason.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

They only cost too much if you try to transfer up, maybe players should look at transferring down and actually try to fix the core issue of the game mode which is population balance. Currently its 500 gems to go to a medium/low pop server which equals to approx 147 gold currently vs 1800/approx 600 g to transfer to a stacked server.

I commend your optimism but all you end up doing is burning 200 gold to lock yourself into a dead server and empty matchup. People just want to log in and play. Get on a super stacked server and you can actually do that. 24 hrs a day 7 days a week.

Maybe if they could like do a autojoin people wouldn’t need to stack. Its all about the benja-gems.

The only people who have any excuse for transfering to higher servers are people who don’t live in the NA or EU timezones where you can’t get fights unless you’re T1 or T2. Even in T3/T4 NA there are always fights throughout the day if you actually are looking for them and not just rolling in the blob.

displayname.8315:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

They only cost too much if you try to transfer up, maybe players should look at transferring down and actually try to fix the core issue of the game mode which is population balance. Currently its 500 gems to go to a medium/low pop server which equals to approx 147 gold currently vs 1800/approx 600 g to transfer to a stacked server.

I commend your optimism but all you end up doing is burning 200 gold to lock yourself into a dead server and empty matchup. People just want to log in and play. Get on a super stacked server and you can actually do that. 24 hrs a day 7 days a week.

Maybe if they could like do a autojoin people wouldn’t need to stack. Its all about the benja-gems.

I am in the camp of Blowing up all servers since server Identity is no longer a Thing redistributing the Main WvW guilds giving players a choice of which guild they want to be transferred with if they are in multiple, since there is more Guild Identity more so than anything else and then seed he lower population guilds and non Active WvW players throughout the new servers trying to achieve as close to balance as possible and then locking all Servers to prevent server stacking. All the while reducing the amount of Servers as needed.

If they wanna somehow fix populations then they need to make it free to move down to less populated server than your own and keep gem cost when moving up.
Nobody will pay to move to empty server.

Naub.1475:

It’s funny how this topic always comes up shortly after a server relinking.

As the bandwagon boat is going to depart onwards the next fotm server.

Offair.2563:

Naub.1475:

It’s funny how this topic always comes up shortly after a server relinking.

As the bandwagon boat is going to depart onwards the next fotm server.

It’s funny how I always read Fractals of the Mists instead of Flavor of the Month when I see fotm… I guess PvE is affecting my mind.

server transfers are pretty much free if you can sell a name for yourself. servers will buy guilds or pay a portion at the least. WvW guilds that are some what competent and effective will transfer players they think are a right fit. Just need to talk to the right people in the guild so they can get the memo to the higher ups.

War chests have been server wide and now guild wide.

The problem with “war chests” is it tends to be the biggest guilds that can afford to do this, and they are usually on the higher population servers, so you end up moving players up again and causing further imbalance between populations.
Apparently Anet will even allow this while the server is labelled as full if you ask nicely.

Pecar.1236:

This is one of main problem transfer cost too much

No, it is to cheap so everyone is joining linked servers to bandwagon there.

Transfer to medium worlds, or make a own “low” rating should be free. Even then I doubt a lot of people will move there, but it at least gives guilds an option to gather all their members.

For the top stacked ? No good ideas, lock them down, blow everything up, everything is equally bad and cause as many problems as what it fix.

The only step at this point to somehow fix the top stacked servers would be to extend the link system to even more EotM style, and link say TC+JQ to fight against BG or something, even that is likely not going to match well up, so they’d need 3-4 servers on each side, just to fit the 5 top servers into something. At that stage, they might as well just EotM it for all it’s worth.