All you know existing WvW servers system – server change cost gems, and more high rating/population it have – more it cost.
This makes sense if you want to prevent too much migration to top-end servers, but it’s a real pain when you want to collect all guild members on one server.
Players join and change guilds everyday and they are all bind to different servers. Some of them do not want spend gems on transfer. Others already sitting on different top-rank servers and do not want change it because it’s top, they have already spent gems to transfer and addicted to it, and nobody can join them because that servers is just full.
Yes, i’m talking here mostly about casual and PvE guilds, who are not oriented to WvW, but when they want to organize some WvW event they face the problem described above.
I want to see some tool, which allow guilds fast and easy collect all members on one server.
Part 1 – Guild binding.
In addition to the existing system of binding players to the WvW servers, I suggest also creating a binding of guilds to the servers.
So players can choose to play on a server binded to their account or on a server binded to their guild.
Which servers can be used for guild binding?
The target of suggestion is not to pull players to the top servers, but just to collect guild members at one, so if it will be the lowest rank/population server it is still ok.
Guild server can be chosen from some limited list, or can be hardly assigned by the system.
Well i leave this part to anet, because it must be integrated somehow into existing servers-merge system (or replace it). We have that low-population servers, i think it is good idea to use them for guild binding – it will increase their population as well.
About top-rank servers: I think they must be never included into guild binding so they will stay as “elite” servers and will be free from this mess
To prevent abusing the system we need to add some restrictions:
- only one guild can be selected for WvW binding
- you can change your WvW guild not often than once in… 3 months for example
***representing must not be counted, so you can choose one guild for WvW and represent any another.
I was thinking about guild hall upgrades for using WvW binding, but came to the conclusion it’s not needed – it is better if a young guilds can use this option in a moment they are created.
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Part 2 – Alliances
After I wrote all this, I began to think about how players will use this tool.
And obviously, players will create technical guilds for WvW use only.
For example: there are several friendly guilds who want to organize a common WvW event – so they create a technical guild for this, to be sure that they will all be on the same server.
This is absolutely normal situation, and it would be nice if these technical guilds received some official status.
What can we do here?
1. Add some specific color to the players names, who are in the same WvW guild but representing different guild from yours.
2. Add a WvW-guild tag in front of the player’s name.
So we receive [WvW-guild]Player name[Representing guild]
3. We can go even further and move these technical guilds for WvW into a separate category, let’s name it “alliances” for example.
- Alliances duplicate the existing guild system, but have only roster
- Only Alliances can be binded to WvW Servers (not sure about this one)
What else… server language
For Europe servers Language must be counted. For example: if most of guild members accounts are binded to [DE] servers – then the assigned server must be also [DE].
If it is “Alliances” variant – desired language can be selected manually.
Ps: I have this idea before incoming changes was announced, so there is no any connection to it.
Legendary backpack, of course will attract new players to WvW, but only until they craft it, so problem will stay.
That’s all and sorry for bad English.
(edited by Kantid.3571)