Guild Wars 2

Kaineng isnt going any where soon. Theres about 10 ppl running around in wvw while any server that enters t8 just wrecks it. Can we please get a merge or something. Its been a year of this and its sad. The bandwagon that guilds i will not name crashed this server to this kitten hole it is now. Its not going to get anywhere unless a guild transfers to help or something. Because kainengs pop is all pve now and even then our pve is terrible.

If you care anet stop the torture. At least make transfers free to it. I don’t see how it has a very high pop. We cant even overflow main LS event areas.

ive been where you are. there IS a light at the end of the tunnel. but theres also a wormhole to the left there that costs 1800 gems if you wanna give up.

Anvil Rock and Devona’s Rest were both in your position and they got out of it. See what they did and try to do that with Kaineng as well.

Deli.1302:

Anvil Rock and Devona’s Rest were both in your position and they got out of it. See what they did and try to do that with Kaineng as well.

Yaaaaa….. You need people for that.

free transfer and i might think about it – from a eu server.

I wvw with the same 10 ppl across all 4 maps lol. Then some days the pve heros show up and after they die they leave. Its not easy covering the whole 4 maps with 10 ppl against zergs of 40+ people.

T8 is a sinkhole and T7 probably isn’t far behind. The WvW pops seem to be shrinking and the upcoming leagues are probably going to make it worse. Time to move up if you want a good fight.

Straegen.2938:

T8 is a sinkhole and T7 probably isn’t far behind. The WvW pops seem to be shrinking and the upcoming leagues are probably going to make it worse. Time to move up if you want a good fight.

Last time every server got massive pop boosts despite the transfers. IDK how it’d make it worse.

Mosharn.8357:

I wvw with the same 10 ppl across all 4 maps lol. Then some days the pve heros show up and after they die they leave. Its not easy covering the whole 4 maps with 10 ppl against zergs of 40+ people.

stop trying for 4 maps when you have enough for only 1 :/

You just have to wait until people in the higher tiers get disillusioned by multi-hour queues, unplayable lag, and general boredom of red sea vs green sea.

Might not be long.

I remember during leagues I couldn’t even play wvw at all unless I took a nap waiting. I had to shelve my guardian for a while because I had fired off a birthday booster and I wasn’t going to waste it on queues. Now that my server is “imploding” I can play wvw again and see a bunch of familiar faces. Win or lose, it’s just a game.

They should really discount transfers, in any case.

ArchonWing.9480:

You just have to wait until people in the higher tiers get disillusioned by multi-hour queues, unplayable lag, and general boredom of red sea vs green sea.

Those super long queues don’t seem to be a big issue any longer. T2 and below rarely run a full set of queued maps. I think the population has dropped enough and EotM has resolved most of these issues.

Merging server wouldn’t work if you merged kaineng into per se ET now there is a gap so 1 matchup will only be 2 worlds fighting the only way to make it so there isn’t any weird matchups it to merge 4 servers which would make the one world uber stacked and massive population they’d shoot up to at least T4+ just because of they can quene every map for several hours a day

Believe me I feel for you from DR :P

Ehmry Bay will be joining you at the bottom in a couple weeks. We’ve had a mass exodus of players to tier 2 in the past month. Kaineng is probably the only server we might have a chance against. See you soon.

Rebuild with defense. Take what you have and don’t over extend what you can’t defend. Know when servers are weak and when to ride the coat tails of another dominate server. The most important thing is getting the puggies into the server TS. Ebay’s numbers atm, according to mos, look as if it would be a close match between ET and Kain.

IMO Anet should axe T8/9 in EU and T8 in NA. Give those players a free transfer up T5/6.

If you are in kaineng, you have no doubt seen me fighting in WvW, for I am Oscuro. I can assure you there are more than ten people. The problem is that recently a lot of our WvWers have gone to PvE for the new Lions Arch event. Yes, we have lost a lot of WvW guilds, but look at our BL. Whenever I on, we hold out. Our keeps rarely fall (especially hills ) We thrive when it comes to Roaming and small group play. If you need someone to roam with, shoot me a whisper in WvW. There’s plenty of activity in our wvw, you just need to know where to be. (Don’t go to EB, that’s kind of hopeless right now). ALSO, do not “axe” t8 servers. That’s a terrible idea. I came to Kaineng from Yaks, which before I was in BG a long time ago. The lack of ques and small group roaming is great. We are low tier because we don’t have numbers, it’s not a lack of skilled players our server is fun (for me) and getting rid of it would be upsetting for others too.

You just need WM and a bunch of bandwagon guilds to transfer down and help out!

Seriously though, transfers to the bottom rung server should be free. It’s quite funny that KN is an 1,800 gem high population server if what you say is true about 10 people playing WvW.

zen.6091:

You just need WM and a bunch of bandwagon guilds to transfer down and help out!

Seriously though, transfers to the bottom rung server should be free. It’s quite funny that KN is an 1,800 gem high population server if what you say is true about 10 people playing WvW.

Its kinda funny that 100% of the servers are 1800 when really only 3 should be 1800.

Nuzt.7894:

zen.6091:

You just need WM and a bunch of bandwagon guilds to transfer down and help out!

Seriously though, transfers to the bottom rung server should be free. It’s quite funny that KN is an 1,800 gem high population server if what you say is true about 10 people playing WvW.

Its kinda funny that 100% of the servers are 1800 when really only 3 should be 1800.

its also funny that those are the 3 servers most likely to subsidize your transfer so its “free”.

zen.6091:

You just need WM and a bunch of bandwagon guilds to transfer down and help out!

Never again

Mugo.5723:

Rebuild with defense. Take what you have and don’t over extend what you can’t defend. Know when servers are weak and when to ride the coat tails of another dominate server. The most important thing is getting the puggies into the server TS. Ebay’s numbers atm, according to mos, look as if it would be a close match between ET and Kain.

IMO Anet should axe T8/9 in EU and T8 in NA. Give those players a free transfer up T5/6.

We get pushed to our last keep every day/night. The enemy numbers only increase. They fail 4 attack attempts they come back with enough people to que the map to just take that one keep from us 10 or so folks.

oscuro.9720:

If you are in kaineng, you have no doubt seen me fighting in WvW, for I am Oscuro. I can assure you there are more than ten people. The problem is that recently a lot of our WvWers have gone to PvE for the new Lions Arch event. Yes, we have lost a lot of WvW guilds, but look at our BL. Whenever I on, we hold out. Our keeps rarely fall (especially hills ) We thrive when it comes to Roaming and small group play. If you need someone to roam with, shoot me a whisper in WvW. There’s plenty of activity in our wvw, you just need to know where to be. (Don’t go to EB, that’s kind of hopeless right now). ALSO, do not “axe” t8 servers. That’s a terrible idea. I came to Kaineng from Yaks, which before I was in BG a long time ago. The lack of ques and small group roaming is great. We are low tier because we don’t have numbers, it’s not a lack of skilled players our server is fun (for me) and getting rid of it would be upsetting for others too.

Its been 4 weeks. The last time i saw more then 15 people was couple days after the escape from LA event started. I wont lie to you my good sir. Removing it isnt the best option but look at it. The last time someone came here they made it worse because all of them ditched it and the guilds that were here since release left aswell. It became two times as worse as it was in december 2012.

Seen a few players from Kaineng on the Surmia server (EU). World vs world has not been over populated for us either lately due to the living story stuff and a bad match up this week.
Sooner or later players (not all) will lose interest in world vs world if not the whole game – like any other game the popularity wears down.

Playing against Kain as GoM wasn’t really fun. Being smashed by Darkhaven last week wasn’t fun. But such is life. Either a server smashes, or gets smashed. There is hardly ever an inbetween. I’m hesitant to say that some servers should be merged… but That shouldn’t be an option anyway. However we cannot force people to move down if they don’t want to. And WvW Season 2 is coming, so of course more people are gonna be shuffling around.

Mosharn.8357:

oscuro.9720:

If you are in kaineng, you have no doubt seen me fighting in WvW, for I am Oscuro. I can assure you there are more than ten people. The problem is that recently a lot of our WvWers have gone to PvE for the new Lions Arch event. Yes, we have lost a lot of WvW guilds, but look at our BL. Whenever I on, we hold out. Our keeps rarely fall (especially hills ) We thrive when it comes to Roaming and small group play. If you need someone to roam with, shoot me a whisper in WvW. There’s plenty of activity in our wvw, you just need to know where to be. (Don’t go to EB, that’s kind of hopeless right now). ALSO, do not “axe” t8 servers. That’s a terrible idea. I came to Kaineng from Yaks, which before I was in BG a long time ago. The lack of ques and small group roaming is great. We are low tier because we don’t have numbers, it’s not a lack of skilled players our server is fun (for me) and getting rid of it would be upsetting for others too.

Its been 4 weeks. The last time i saw more then 15 people was couple days after the escape from LA event started. I wont lie to you my good sir. Removing it isnt the best option but look at it. The last time someone came here they made it worse because all of them ditched it and the guilds that were here since release left aswell. It became two times as worse as it was in december 2012.

Where do you WvW? KBL, EB, or other BLs? Get into one of our wvw guilds. They run guild WvW, just don’t use map/team chat.

Incentive to transfer to lower population servers is really the best bet I think, whether that be from some sort of transfer fee discount or something else.

Those of us who remain in the lower tier servers do so mostly out of rabid loyalty to our “home” and/or the people we play with each and every day. To a lesser extent, as some have pointed out, people also stay because there is the advantage of zero queues. Heck, some of us just enjoy being underdogs. Maybe some of us are even a little masochistic

Incentives are needed, for sure.

Who are the people in ArenaNet who have been looking at WvW population numbers and goin “Yeah, what we need is a fix for queues. Let’s reward the winning servers some more, they totally earned it. Transfer status quo is totally OK and no on needs to be in a hurry to change it. Just carry on like we’ve done. Do you got enough people on Living Story? Good, ‘cause we don’t need anymore here. Nope, so far 18+ months of smooth sailing. WvW basically runs itself”.

Well, here’s the “incentive” I guess:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/

Discounts to transfer to lower tier servers based on ranking and not population in preparation for the WvW Tourny

(March 18th – 27th pricing)
Tier Gem Cost
1-12 2400 gems
13-15 0 gems
16-19 800 gems
20-24 0 gems