Guild Wars 2

if there is population merge, i would suggest leave the server numbers at 9-NA and 9-EU. easy for ANET to arrange tournament later.

Sogradde.8016:

ANet ruined our server with their stupid system. We don’t have many WvW guilds left but we cannot acquire new guilds since we’re a high population server according to the gem price. This is thanks to all the PvE casuals who don’t want to and don’t have to leave the server due to megaserver shenanigans.

I am curious to hear your explanation. How did Anet ruin your server? Surely if you can make such accusatory statements, you have a good and detail explanation.

Sogradde.8016:

ANet ruined our server with their stupid system. We don’t have many WvW guilds left but we cannot acquire new guilds since we’re a high population server according to the gem price. This is thanks to all the PvE casuals who don’t want to and don’t have to leave the server due to megaserver shenanigans.

Funny, do you really think your server is overpopulated?

I go into those megaservers and ask what server you from I always get an answer ‘Jade Quarry’.

If anything your server is overpopulated with inactive players, unlike a T1 PvP, PvE, WvW, PvX server like Jade Quarry with high population of active players, its not too late to join a REAL server.

Don’t bother transferring and transferring go to a real server…. Jade Quarry.

You don’t hear things like this instance is being taken over by BlackGate or Tarnished Coast for Tequatl daily, Jade Quarry runs those, just like how we run T1 WvW, and recent statistics SHOW top tier PvP’ers are going to Jade Quarry as well. If you cant beat the best, JOIN THEM.

Also, the guild chatter too, several guilds 490+ active members on Jade Quarry. Does your server have several guilds like that??? NOPE. Puny servers.

Good thing there is such thing as a savior to WvW called Edge of the Mists, to save all your puny servers by allowing them to teamup with Jade Quarry and reap the benefits of winning alongside with Jade Quarry.

If you teamed with Jade Quarry in EotM, don’t tag up unless you Jade Quarry, only follow Jade Quarry commanders. You just be wasting your time if you following some puny server commander. Let a server that knows how to run raids do the commanding.

Its more of a problem with A-net lack of overall updates to Wvw. That is why wvw is becoming stale to a lot of players. A-net keeps shoving wvw seasons down our throats without make significant improvements to overall gameplay. Merging server seems like a good idea but wvw population is different from pve population and some server are already high in population. That still will not fix the core issue of wvw which is stale gameplay.

Lack of updates? You guys pretty much got a whole new zone with unique gamestyles, called EotM.

They haven’t done anything drastic to PvP scene, I say get those WvW developers to work for PvP side and get some new maps and unique playstyles created.

WvW community is spoiled, they get something but it wasn’t big enough, wasn’t good enough, nothing but spoiled brats.

servers merge is unlikely to happen as there are significant number of players refusing to let go of the current servers…

to merge servers is to accept the fact that all existing communities be destroyed and erased, servers are merged thus new servers are born, new communities will then be built

uberkingkong.8041:

Funny, do you really think your server is overpopulated?

I go into those megaservers and ask what server you from I always get an answer ‘Jade Quarry’.

If anything your server is overpopulated with inactive players, unlike a T1 PvP, PvE, WvW, PvX server like Jade Quarry with high population of active players, its not too late to join a REAL server.

Don’t bother transferring and transferring go to a real server…. Jade Quarry.

You don’t hear things like this instance is being taken over by BlackGate or Tarnished Coast for Tequatl daily, Jade Quarry runs those, just like how we run T1 WvW, and recent statistics SHOW top tier PvP’ers are going to Jade Quarry as well. If you cant beat the best, JOIN THEM.

Also, the guild chatter too, several guilds 490+ active members on Jade Quarry. Does your server have several guilds like that??? NOPE. Puny servers.

Good thing there is such thing as a savior to WvW called Edge of the Mists, to save all your puny servers by allowing them to teamup with Jade Quarry and reap the benefits of winning alongside with Jade Quarry.

If you teamed with Jade Quarry in EotM, don’t tag up unless you Jade Quarry, only follow Jade Quarry commanders. You just be wasting your time if you following some puny server commander. Let a server that knows how to run raids do the commanding.

Wrong session. This isn’t a recruitment thread. Here let me help you by pointing the right sub-forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment

it would not destroy communities

u would still be with all the same people just things would be more lively in wvw

The game population doesn’t really justify the amount of servers that we have right now.

If it were up to me, I would probably remove the bottom 6 servers and give them free transfers to T4-T6 servers and a reduced fee to higher tiered servers. T4-T6 servers IMO aren’t much different in the sense that it would have characteristics of a T7-T8 server, still quite empty during certain parts of the day.

Not everybody is in a T7-T8 servers because they want to be. Some cannot afford to transfer. Some don’t really care to transfer because they don’t care too much about WvW, perhaps due to bad experiences. Giving them transfers could give them the opportunity to experience WvW differently. I can’t imagine why people would enjoy completely empty borderlands and flipping empty doors/towers. I don’t think this is what ANet intended WvW to be like on many servers. If it was PvE they were looking for they could just easily go to EoTM.

And if they don’t like blobs 24/7 and like the roaming scene, well there are plenty of servers that don’t blob all too much.

WvWers spoiled uberkingkong? We did get Eotm early this year but it is a place you go to avoid fights and overall it is just a karma train. No point in defending in Eotm because few will help you. What else did we get? A few new traits and a trap that had issues which every talk about before it was implemented. Those issues were not fix until months after they finally got around to see it work in game. Eotm did not improve overall gameplay, it enabled wvwer a place to go when maps are queued but few maps are getting queued now. Siege disabler improved overall gameplay but we implemented so poorly that it shutdown any offensive actions made against a defended offective.

Anyways I can see A-net maybe making new wvw specific servers but not merge the current one. Like pick your wvw server for the month and every week you queue for that servers match-up. Servers being medium-high population on all timezones. Something like that would be hard to do because of coverage and trying to limit the number of player each server has signed up for at the various timezones.

Server merge solves nothing.

You’re just going to end up with the exact same problems as before, only difference is there are less servers.

If you don’t like the play style on your server, then transfer. Don’t spoil things for those who like their server the way it is.

And those who are already on higher tier servers… I’m disgusted that they still think of lower tier servers as a resource to be plundered to beef up their own numbers. I’ve said it before: this kind of thinking is as stupid as movie studios believing that their sales will go up if illegal downloading did not exist.

less server → less maintenance for ANET → win for everyone

If server mergers happen I’d say the bottom 9 NA servers and the bottom 12 EU servers should be merged. For EU there is still a lot of life left in the servers down till #15 (Aurora Glade).

azizul.8469:

less server -> less maintenance for ANET -> win for everyone

less servers -> bad publicity -> loss for Anet

empty wvw bad publicity

Shutdown WvW and server
Add EB and BL maps as choice to EotM game modus

make 1-3 times a week competitive matches Guild vs Guild vs Guild, where a match is 4 hours on one (random) map (out of EB, BL, EotM), scoring as today, glicko for guilds.

100 people for 4h should be managable for guilds (capacity 500) if your guild is smaller, form a competition-guild with other guilds or guildless people.

Then we have 24/7 fun/training-ground, and really competititive matches 1-3 times a week.

roxybudgy.8205:

Server merge solves nothing.

You’re just going to end up with the exact same problems as before, only difference is there are less servers.

If you don’t like the play style on your server, then transfer. Don’t spoil things for those who like their server the way it is.

And those who are already on higher tier servers… I’m disgusted that they still think of lower tier servers as a resource to be plundered to beef up their own numbers. I’ve said it before: this kind of thinking is as stupid as movie studios believing that their sales will go up if illegal downloading did not exist.

+1000

Silver league and below servers don’t have real off hours non prime coverage.

So server merge solves nothing. It just crowds all of the prime time players into fewer servers.

nekretaal.6485:

Silver league and below servers don’t have real off hours non prime coverage.

Please define: Real off-hours coverage

Jeknar.6184:

nekretaal.6485:

Silver league and below servers don’t have real off hours non prime coverage.

Please define: Real off-hours coverage

Two days ago I took 3/4 of EB with seven people… All but the red keep and SM, which we couldn’t take because there were 2 dudes with siege disablers.

This was at 5 pm EST, which might even count as prime time.

While this was going on, nobody was in our borderlands, we had nothing in the green borderlands and nothing flipped. We also had 5 people in the red borderlands (3 in teamspeak!) who took all of the south towers and camps and hills. They were thwarted by a group of 4 with siege disablers.

In three hours of taking whatever we wanted, I got two kills.

nekretaal.6485:

Jeknar.6184:

nekretaal.6485:

Silver league and below servers don’t have real off hours non prime coverage.

Please define: Real off-hours coverage

Two days ago I took 3/4 of EB with seven people… All but the red keep and SM, which we couldn’t take because there were 2 dudes with siege disablers.

This was at 5 pm EST, which might even count as prime time.

While this was going on, nobody was in our borderlands, we had nothing in the green borderlands and nothing flipped. We also had 5 people in the red borderlands (3 in teamspeak!) who took all of the south towers and camps and hills. They were thwarted by a group of 4 with siege disablers.

In three hours of taking whatever we wanted, I got two kills.

Is this in T8? That kind of situation only snowballs until you get enough dedicated WvWers to counter the attrition caused by empty maps. Like it or not, people like having other people to play with, especially in a team oriented game mode such as WvW. Full maps are much more fun than empty maps and ANet needs to realise this and boost WvW population by either forcing (ahem encouraging) more WvW requirements for meta events, skins, rewards and such (there’s still enough PvE players on all servers to queue all maps), or by merging servers

I like having low population on my wvw… less zergs, less lagg.

How about a month’s worth of no transfer fees and no limitations (aside from the transfer limit of 1 per reset)

see how that goes…I mean wouldn’t it be interesting? see what people actually want in WvW by seeing them switch to certain tiers. Then go back and figure out how to compress wvw so that people get what we see in the free transfer stage.

Honestly, something needs to be done. The lower tiers are just god awful boring. Almost entirely PVDoor. Whoever can scrounge up 5 players will end up dominating a map.

Deli.1302:

If server mergers happen I’d say the bottom 9 NA servers and the bottom 12 EU servers should be merged. For EU there is still a lot of life left in the servers down till #15 (Aurora Glade).

azizul.8469:

less server -> less maintenance for ANET -> win for everyone

less servers -> bad publicity -> loss for Anet

this thread itself is bad publicity for anet

potential customer read it >thinks anet is not doing enough for the game > dont buy the game :’D

SkyShroud.2865:

potential customer read it >thinks anet is not doing enough for the game > dont buy the game :’D

I really doubt anyone would bother reading forum threads prior buying a game…

Jeknar.6184:

SkyShroud.2865:

potential customer read it >thinks anet is not doing enough for the game > dont buy the game :’D

I really doubt anyone would bother reading forum threads prior buying a game…

I usually do

New customer read this and stuck on dead server; put everything you want to save in the bank and delete your characters.. then pick one of the top 6 servers.