Guild Wars 2

Before the eventual stopping of free transfers would this not make sense to help balance world verses world.

Currently it’s a 24/7 battle. Good, I like that. Many complain about night capping and such though. So how about this for a solution, EU and US servers merge.

Rank 1 US with bottom rank EU
Rank 2 US with second bottom EU

And so on.

This way every servers gets their ‘night team’.
Every server will have a good population for PvE too.

The only issue i’d see is WvW number cap needing to rise, making culling even worse.

In an odd way it’d make matches fairer also.

Current top EU would have an amazing day time force, and the merger whilst improving their ‘night force’ would be relatively weak verses a top US plus bottom EU merger. And mid table servers would be moderate across the board.

Could make WvW matches closer. But of course, transfers need to stop at about the same time this happens. If it happens.

Latency might be an issue, a ping over 200 would become disadvantageous to many, might even slow rendering issues further, particularly when split seconds count. Game client should use generic models in heavy encounter as default, until client can load appropriate enemy skins/models, to help with inevitable latency issues.

Forgive my ignorance but could you not have 2 servers, one in eu and us, combining to make a single ‘world’?

It’s not something I know much about is servers.

Merging servers would guarantee a degree of eu and us prime time players. Yes there’s still the other parts of the world but it’d at least eliminate that part of the issue.

Katsumoto.9452:

Forgive my ignorance but could you not have 2 servers, one in eu and us, combining to make a single ‘world’?

It’s not something I know much about is servers.

Your average ping would be about 400, being the other side of the world, unless you have laser beams bouncing of satellites. 400 ping is the upper region of acceptable latency. Below 200 is ideal. Though aussies do rather well on us servers … maybe they’re using lasers…

obviously there would be ping issues but in reality i quite like this idea

There are 7 german, 5 french and 1 spanish servers for the europeans. People play there for a reason. If you force them to play with US servers there is no sense in having those “special” servers anymore.

It’s not that i would mind having to write and talk english all the time but i know for sure that there are many people on those servers who wouldnt like that at all

Oh and besides that.. yeah.. ping issues ^^

Correct me if i am wrong but during the private beta, weren’t Europeans not allowed to join WvW due to latency issue it would cause on the US based server ?

Xanti. Miller’s Sound is on a rampage anyway you’ll be fine even without the US :P Seriously though, that’s probably the best point against my idea. As US servers are all English speaking it would make those language servers not as they are.

I personnaly don’t want merge.

I play in the 2nd last tier, and we don’t have a lot of people, but that’s how we have fun.

We have good fights, we don’t have queue and we have a good communauty.

Don’t destroy my server by merging it.

There would be just too much latency. The problem with the night capping is anet already stated that is what was meant to be. Personally, I like it. Start from scratch and have a sense of accomplishment.

Oh I like the night capping thing also. Makes it so everyone, anywhere can play. A constant battlefield is a good idea. Just trying to think of something to balance the constant battlefield to get rid of cry babies.