Guild Wars 2

I’m curious as to what the WvW population thinks would happen if NA servers were reduced to 6, and there was no longer a cap on server size.

Would there still be massive imbalances? Would every server be full to burst and the queues be outrageous? Would it be a utopia of balanced servers with roughly 5 minute queues for maps?

For interests sake, what would your predictions be if Anet were to make a change like this?

There are currently 24 servers right now. Most of them are medium, of them are full, and the others are high/very high. Reducing it down to 6 would be insane and crowded in WvW. Cut it in half would still be insane. Completely crowded, and highly likely larger Zergs…

With the current map size, large groups would probably be a great thing honestly. I’m in Ebay (medium) and it has been quiet lately after the WvW update. On the old map, I enjoyed the fact that my server were medium because I didn’t like zergs. My small group and I (5 people) take over enemy garrison (guarded to the core) using tactics, not numbers.

Overall, I wouldn’t say 6, but maybe 12-16. It would be livelier to have more people in this new huge wvw map

Simon.3106:

There are currently 24 servers right now. Most of them are medium,

Er Medium is the lowest they can be hence at least some of the medium servers have extremely low populations.

morrolan.9608:

Simon.3106:

There are currently 24 servers right now. Most of them are medium,

Er Medium is the lowest they can be hence at least some of the medium servers have extremely low populations.

Then MErge it! Merge it all to hell and let me watch the ZERG GROW!! By the time it happens, don’t forget me, the DOOMSPEAKER! I warned you, and the end will be upon us all! And it’s all your FAULT, Mr. “ER”!

Oh.. and if they do merge it, I hope they keep the name Ehmry Bay. I like eBay…

So what are you thinking just collide all the niche servers into one huge one? Its like grouping small countries into one country. Its not even a union, they just become one identity. There is so much community exisiting in every server and also keeping in mind transfers of people from lage servers to small ones to experience a compact society, and new players who cannot join servers due to high population, no there is just no reason to reduce or enlarge the number of servers.

Simon.3106:

There are currently 24 servers right now. Most of them are medium, of them are full, and the others are high/very high. Reducing it down to 6 would be insane and crowded in WvW. Cut it in half would still be insane. Completely crowded, and highly likely larger Zergs…

With the current map size, large groups would probably be a great thing honestly. I’m in Ebay (medium) and it has been quiet lately after the WvW update. On the old map, I enjoyed the fact that my server were medium because I didn’t like zergs. My small group and I (5 people) take over enemy garrison (guarded to the core) using tactics, not numbers.

Overall, I wouldn’t say 6, but maybe 12-16. It would be livelier to have more people in this new huge wvw map

The new maps feel empty because people are still in PvE mode. It doesn’t help that most people don’t like the new maps either.

Merging the NA 24 servers into 6 servers would basically fully queue every single map in the "NA" time zone, and wouldn’t fill up the other time zones (unless you mixed up some bad merges and put everyone with ocx coverage onto the same new server).

If you just merged some of the lower tier servers, it wouldn’t be so problematic, most of the bronze servers have trouble queue a single map. The problem lies the higher you get and the more servers you’re talking about.

At the current stage, even if you did combine a T2 + T3 server for example, they might or might not be able to queue all maps in NA time. But the moment you start adding more servers into this mix, you’ll end up with lots of people in queues, and that isn’t healthy either.

You would need to change other things to adapt for this to work, I’d say that you would at least need to be able to add/remove maps as needed to match the amount of active players (A bit like how they do with EotM maps, except keeping some static maps as well). Otherwise most of the players are going to end up either in constant queue’s in NA, OR you end up with say 10+ empty maps in the other time zones.

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There are also other concerns, like how many players are going to get angry because they can’t get into their "home bl" map, because it if full. Or how about EBG etc.

Also, not everyone enjoys smock full maps, so forcing everyone to play on 6 over-stacked servers is not the solution for everyone either. (I wish they added more small scale maps with lower limits for this)

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Frankly, if all you want is to merge bunch of servers so you get a constant people to play with or against, EotM gives you that. And I’d expect 50% of the same things that has happened to EotM to happen to normal WvW if something similar was implemented.

Also, we would get another new stacking war again.

Way too few. At least 12, but that’s pushing it too.

I could understand if you meant to say reduce the servers down to 6 tiers (18 servers) but 6 servers? No way!

I do think T7 and T8 should merge into other servers and then have gold league servers be T1 & T2, silver league T3 & T4, bronze league T5 & T6 when the WvW tourney starts again.

Could you imagine the server communities colliding.