Guild Wars 2

There should be a reward for winning. Let’s brainstorm ideas for it.

It should fulfil the following criteria:

• The reward should be cool/desirable,
• The reward should not be something that makes players more powerful,
• The reward should be temporary i.e. for the duration of the following week (so players don’t end up with stacks and stacks of reward),
• You can suggest alternate rewards for other criteria, such as most camps flipped or whatever, so servers who know they will be creamed (we all know this is due to dev neglect, let’s not discuss that here) can focus on one of these instead of winning,
• I would suggest to any dev considering this that the reward should require a certain amount of hours spent in WvW per week.

To clarify: we’re looking at a firework, a finisher or something equally fun/pointless.

Tonics. Everyone love tonics…

No wait…

They should make sure the winning server remains open so the players don’t get burnt out from 1 spamming so hard. I mean look at poor BG, they are clearly struggling.

Second place characters automatically bowing to the winners and the third place kneeling when players encounter in Lions Arch.

A giant trophy that reads “Bandwagon of the Week!”

Or in the case of Blackgate, “Bandwagon of the Century!”

Actually, the winning server wins the hearts and minds of potential transfers.

So the winning server gets more players when it is open.

The winning servers probably get more playtime from players too. Players usually stay longer if the game is in their favor.

And the losing side usually gets the outnumbered buff.

Svarty.8019:

There should be a reward for winning. Let’s brainstorm ideas for it.

It should fulfil the following criteria:

• The reward should be cool/desirable,
• The reward should not be something that makes players more powerful,
• The reward should be temporary i.e. for the duration of the following week (so players don’t end up with stacks and stacks of reward),
• You can suggest alternate rewards for other criteria, such as most camps flipped or whatever, so servers who know they will be creamed (we all know this is due to dev neglect, let’s not discuss that here) can focus on one of these instead of winning,
• I would suggest to any dev considering this that the reward should require a certain amount of hours spent in WvW per week.

To clarify: we’re looking at a firework, a finisher or something equally fun/pointless.

I completely and totally disagree with you. The biggest rewards should not go to any server that stacks the most, but to the one that sticks it out against unfavorable odds the most. That is the hardest, most challenging and effort requiring thing to do in WVW. Hitting the transfer button and 1 spamming ez mode should in fact have its rewards greatly reduced, not rewarded.

This is a weird on the spot idea but what about winning gives a token and its only use is to xfer?

Say 5 tokens to go to a low pop server, 10 to a medium and 15 to a high and make it cap at 15 as well. Sure this is unfair for every non-winning server but hey at least they might get xfers.

Only downfall I can see is guilds might just go bandwagon to a new server but hey it will die in another couple of months anyway right?