Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand how the schedule has been created.
A server “A” meets another server “B” only 1 time while another server “C” meets “B” 2-3 times.
I tried to do the schedule by myself, and i found that 4 weeks (4 matches) are enough to matchup each server only once.
So if you want to let them meet twice you can do it with 8 matches.
Instead we have 7 matches with odd matchups and this has no rhyme nor reason….
WvW is unbalanced by definition, so why introduce another unbalance element?

attached a possible matchup schedule that i made…

Noticed this week 1, they can’t balance anything. Did you not know by now?

So long as players are ‘in charge’ of balancing themselves across all servers, there will never really be any actual balance both in WvW and even PVE areas. WvW players all flocked to a select few servers which unbalanced both WvW and PVE so while some server populations are now high for both, other servers are nearly deserted, or at least relatively deserted.

I’d like for the developers to at least explore or experiment with my idea of using just a 3 team system such that WvW players within a region are balanced across the green, blue and red teams based upon their guild’s WvW rating. The rating would be calculated from several factors, such as the size of the guild, the number of active WvW players, the individual WvW achievements of the guild members, and god forbid they actually add a GvG system, they could throw in GvG tournament rankings into the equation. Based on each guild’s WvW ranking, they would then be equally distributed across the 3 WvW teams such that the highest rated guilds aren’t all placed on the same WvW team.

I think it would lead to some really interesting and epic WvW matchups and for a potential of really close finishes. This would also mean that server transfers become a moot point for WvW meaning that players could then move between servers, play with new people, and potentially balance PvE. With each season, guild rankings would be re-evaluated and WvW rebalanced accordingly.

And since it would be only a 3 team matchup, there would be more than just 4 map instances that players can enter thus reducing or eliminating queue times for players that just want to play WvW. In other words there would be multiple EB instances such as EB 1 through 10, as well as multiple instances of each borderland. All the points from each map adds to the overall team scores.

Others have said this would be hard for guilds to organize, but then that would be part of the challenge to aiding your team in victory. Because guilds would be placed on the same team (players have to designate each season which guild is their WvW guild), this means you still can play with your guildmates. Certainly friends you have in other guilds might not always end up on the same team with you, but wouldn’t that also add to the fun? One season you may be playing on the same team with your cross-guild friends and the next you fight against them. That would be cool, in my opinion.

I suppose there is a potential for players to move between guilds prior to a season in an effort to unbalance the teams, but that’s why players’ WvW achievements would be key to calculating a guild’s ranking. Players could risk designating one of their smaller guilds as their WvW guild prior to a season, but this doesn’t guarantee they will be placed on any particular team they wish to be on when the season starts. At the very least, players could be shooting themselves in the foot for attempting this and it would certainly add a bit of variety in the matchups.

I’d be curious if the developers would even consider this idea and whether or not it’s even been considered by them before. At any rate, I doubt WvW will ever truly be balanced without actual programming measures being implemented such that players aren’t solely in control of what teams or worlds they represent in the match.

Grumpdogg.6910:

If you haven’t already noticed, Devon Carter is a moron.

you might want to delete that before you get suspended.

I have the same doubt to 10 days. The post of uomocattivo is very interesting, but I hope that Anet did not do something so stupid! There is a reason all the sports tournaments in the world you are scheduled to to ensure that every player meet each other the same number of times. The reason is simple : give everyone the same chance. In this way, instead of the strongest wins without problems, maybe even the second comes second, the others must be just luck
Anet: strong with the weak and weak with the strong

Person who made this match ups didn’t think about that to long. Probably put some server names and that was end of his job on that.