Guild Wars 2

Night capping is a popular issue on these boards. It’s especially problematic when French-Canadians (playing on EU servers) and Australians (playing on US servers) enter the fray.

In order to address this issue I propose a simple “fix” that won’t really affect the game-play significantly but will ensure the scores are fairer.

The suggestion is simple, introduce a “score tax” during off hours.

For example:
Between 5PM and 1AM – WvW scores are counted at the standard rate.
Between 1AM and 9AM – WvW scores are counted at 1/3rd the standard rate.
Between 9AM and 5PM – WvW scores are counted at 2/3rd the standard rate.

That way everyone gets to enjoy the game the way it was intended without having to deal with artificial limits. It just makes sure night performance is less influential towards the final score.

It strikes me as an elegant solution to an otherwise complex issue.

Every server can have people from other countries in it.

This “fix” you propose will only make some players feel less usefull, imagine that you can’t play at night, and only during afternoon where it would count 1/3. You would feel like all your effort are much worthless than night players.

It’s just not happening.

I really think this is the best way to solve the problem, I think maybe the 9am to 5pm should be changed for weekends, but other than that I think it would solve the problem that we are having at the moment.

You gotta understand that it is not a problem. If your server is losing during low pop times and you are really looking forward on being on the top list, you should start searching for guilds that play on low pop times.

Score should at least be proportion to the total number of players on all the maps. That way its “fair”. If there are 2000 people during prime time, vs. 200 people from one side night capping everything, those times the ticks are worth only 10% of the prime time score because well no one is playing congrats on being really good at gate bashing.

Neeeeeever gonna happen.

Sorry guys but it’s the truth.

Once again: No.

The GW2 servers are huge, each and every of them should have enough people like me that sometimes work till 2:00 in the morning or just work evening and night shifts. Organize them and you have a proper defense. You might not be able to take new keeps during nightime, but you can defend those you already have.

Or, you can recruit people in the time zones you are weak in.

dkabib.5143:

You gotta understand that it is not a problem. If your server is losing during low pop times and you are really looking forward on being on the top list, you should start searching for guilds that play on low pop times.

You obviously don’t have a clue what you’re talking about and are not playing against servers with a large number of Foreign players.

When the entire GW2 population of Quebec is spread out across the 3 french servers, then these French servers are going to be dominating the entire map all night. I’ve already fought 2 of these servers and there’s no way you can muster up a reasonable counter at 2AM…which is when the large influx of Canadians begins.

That’s why my suggestion makes sense. It wouldn’t impact the play of French Canadians. They could still all do their thing. It should just count for less in the overall score, that’s all. It’s only fair since Canadians aren’t really fighting enemy players most of the time.

So basically all the Canadians that log in to play their game and work for their server to go up the ranks will have all their effort returning half points.

You are seeing this from you point-of-view only.

Would you be happy yo contribute 1/2 or 1/3 to your server only? Be honest!

No, not all Canadians, only those that decided to play on European servers (people from Quebec, mainly).

If I, for some reason, chose to play on a US server I would have absolutely NO PROBLEM if my contribution counted for less in the overall score. After all there’s zero challenge in taking keeps when 95% of your opponents population is asleep.

Honestly, I bet most players wouldn’t even notice any change if it wasn’t announced.

WvW=24/7 battle. Don’t like it, don’t play. Simple. Not complex.

topic is a non issue, the game is 1 month old at this point yo still need to give the game time to sort out so servers with high oceanic pops are matched with eachother. which is happening now.