Guild Wars 2

I’m gonna say there’s one thing Anet didn’t take into account when making the transfer system.
If there’s a server (say AG) that’s at 12th position who are stacked on guilds at march 14th. And said server then loses 6 of those guilds with between 210 and 280 active WvW players, therefore are left without much of a WvW population and therefore could use some transfers to have a nice and balanced fight in the season, yet it still costs 2400 to transfer there, doesn’t seem like quite something this particular system was intended to reach. But ah well, let’s learn from this and tweak the system a bit for season 3?

Wondering if there’s any other server facing similar problems?

Here’s to a good season! Have fun everyone!

At least 1/3 of the servers are hosed for season 2. T4 is a mess, servers that are falling will be trapped in the wrong league, little hope for T2 to be competitive with T1, etc.

Even with the clearly unfair advantage servers have, ANet continues to lock servers together that have no business fighting each other and tie rewards to those outcomes. The entire system is absurd.

The ratings system doesn’t account for server implosions fast enough!

the pre-tournament transfer pricing is designed only to discourage players from transferring to higher-tier servers.

almost nobody wants to transfer to a lower tier server, unless maybe you’re in tier 1. but lots of people want to transfer to a higher tier server because they want to play on a server with more people. the new pricing system encourages players to give the #13 or #14 server a try (because it’s free). under the old pricing system every server was “very high” so the prices were all the same. if going to #13 is the same price as going to #2, you might as well go up to #2, right?

this isn’t a great system because servers #16 through #24 are going to be hard-pressed to get players (why go there when you could go to #14 or #15 for the same price?) but it’s better than the pricing we had before.

-ken

You pretty much hit the nail on the head. People don’t transfer because of the placement in the league. They transfer because they want to play on a server WITH MORE PEOPLE. Case in point: look at the recruitment posts where some OCX person says they want to be on a server with good OCX coverage.

The old pricing structure didn’t reflect that well since population was based on total server population, not WvW population.

To be honest I don’t really get how they worked out the pricing structure that they did. I would have thought the cost would be split up in accordance with the league structures.

That means that if you want to transfer to a gold league server it would cost you the more expensive amount. Silver league is the middle amount and if the server is Bronze league then it would be the cheapest.

I understand that during the tournament they do not want people transferring to the servers in the first 3 places so I realise the cost there but outside of that I don’t understand why 1-12 is the most expensive when there is going to be a separation making some silver league servers be at a disadvantage. I mean who is going to spend 2400 gems on moving to a silver tier server who is on the way down when they can spend that same amount and go to the number 1 gold tier server, I just dont get it.

Scarran.9845:

To be honest I don’t really get how they worked out the pricing structure that they did. I would have thought the cost would be split up in accordance with the league structures.

That means that if you want to transfer to a gold league server it would cost you the more expensive amount. Silver league is the middle amount and if the server is Bronze league then it would be the cheapest.

I understand that during the tournament they do not want people transferring to the servers in the first 3 places so I realise the cost there but outside of that I don’t understand why 1-12 is the most expensive when there is going to be a separation making some silver league servers be at a disadvantage. I mean who is going to spend 2400 gems on moving to a silver tier server who is on the way down when they can spend that same amount and go to the number 1 gold tier server, I just dont get it.

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Very HARDUOUS indeed!

Don’t you know that the “free world transfers” is just a way of doing server merger’s without calling it server mergers

Zutha.5091:

Don’t you know that the “free world transfers” is just a way of doing server merger’s without calling it server mergers

almost, both shift the player population onto same servers yet mergers result in less total servers, transfers do not.

13-15 NA/15-18 EU will be the bottom of silver, these servers will have to face the severs that already have t1.5/t2 populations (free transfers are to try to bolster the pop to face the higher ranked servers and balance it), and is the same reason 20-24NA/23-27EU are also free to transfer to. To understand it, you only need to look at where they are placed in the structure of gold, silver, and bronze. The reason to make it cost so much to transfer to 1-12 is to prevent server stacking of the higher tiers/projected winners like we saw in S1. The cost for top of bronze is the same reason, however the cost is so low that it won’t really make much of a difference imo.