Guild Wars 2

Lots of people want to help populate the lower tiers. Give incentive to transfer down and THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO FIX SKILL LAG.

Problem is some of those lower tier servers still have very high population, they are just not WvW-oriented.

A server that is low tier in WvW and in population should have free transfers though to even it out.

How about implementing a separation of WvW, sPvP and PvE population? Shouldn’t be too difficult, just check the playtime in the different areas.

>33% time spent in WvW/Lions Arch – You WvW
>33% time spent in dungeons or outside of cities – You PvE
>33% time spent in Heart of the Mists – You sPvP

So fairweather zerg guilds can transfer en masse to low tiers and roll through smaller populations on a whim, destabilizing 3 servers at once just to do it again once they artificially inflate the server rating? How about no. Many people are on lower teirs because they prefer to be thanks. Keep the more highly skilled players at the top fighting for #1 by stacking and pressing it as fast as they can.

Its a nice idea in theory, but it will only backfire. I spent some time in ET (tier 8) back when all transfers were free, and typically what would happen is that guilds would move down, play for a while, get bored (you can’t blame them -its just not the fights that they were looking for ) and transfer back up (which they can easily afford to pay for, free transfers or not), taking all of the people they recruited with them, further destabilizing that server.

Also, last time I checked, transfers to low pop servers are a lot cheaper than higher ones, yes?

This would cause bandwagoning. Free xfer to low tier? Tons of WvW wagoneers flock to some random low tier server and ride it to the top. Rinse repeat. It happened with BG, SOR, SOS, HOD, etc.

Please keep your zerging out of my brackets.

Why? It’s only a few quid.

Probably costs more to buy a pint of beer these days.

Need to lower pop caps per map to deal with lag anyway.

1. Lower map caps
2. Free transfers to servers that aren’t Very High or whatever it’s called for the t1/t2 cryfest that would ensue.