Guild Wars 2

WARNING: I have not thought this through in great detail

I was thinking if we could enable a mercenary system where servers could “hire” mercenaries from other servers for the duration of a battle.

In my mind given the current matchup and expected number of active WvW-players servers have open “slots” that can be filled with mercenaries.

The currency you hire mercenaries for is a percentage of your WvW-points up to say 50% in total. The units to hire could be guilds. That would require a guild to select a home server (which also must have a cap, not everyone can select the same one). If you hire a guild for 5% of your points, those points would go to the guild home server. This could mean that a server that could win even though half their WvW-population is away fighting on other servers could earn way more points than what is max today and hence get big bonuses. Which might be OK. The thing in focus here is not to let WvW die and get fun fights back.

PRO: Everyone in a guild can play WvW together even if they are from different servers.
CON: The points only go the guild home server which might erode server pride but might increase guild pride.

We could reuse the TP and let guild leaders post their guild for sale (with information about number and type — roaming, conquering(?) etc. and there should be a rating from earlier mercenary tours, given by hiring servers) with a requested points percentage price.

Commanders from a server would be eligible to place a bid for mercenaries. The bid must be accepted by at least three commanders and also the mercenary leader (since the bid might be lower than requested).

For the duration of the next battle the guild would effectivily fight for the hiring server.

Of course people can abuse it and not fight at all and just claim points, but that is why we need the rating (also only available to commanders). Guilds that do not take their mercenary duties seriously will probably not be used again.

This way we might get fights going on lower populated servers, but his also works for T1 servers that need a fresh batch of cannon-fodder from us on the lower tiers to fill out their ranks.

Probably LOTS of problems with this…but maybe something like this can be used to keep server pride and still get fights going?

Do you work for Anet? This sounds like an idea that someone who works for Anet would come up with.

Haha, lol that bad eh…

Told you I did not relly think this thru. Maybe that is the same for ANet, wonder if they have an opening?

Fix the real issues instead, sad thing is, this is something that a-net would do, simply because they failed from the start..

None of these ideas fix anything.

You’ll take people off of another server and put them on another server just so your server is fuller… What happens to their originating server in this scenario?

Does nothing except creates the same problem…

Server pride is dead. Hundreds of thousands of players who hopped servers over the past few year do not care about server pride, they cared about good pvp and equal matches and winning.

Again, server pride is dead. It means nothing at all. Only a few care about this long dead concept.

Most players don’t have any alligence to their server, they care about themselves and their guilds.

No he works for Trion, they tried it, it failed, everybody hates it and people stop playing their pvp.

Idk why every idea right now needs to fix wvw.

It will not contribute to the current situation but can be an interesting concept in the future.

I don’t think a payment system makes sense but slotting volunteer players into unbalanced matches to even them out could go a long way toward making the current system more functional. At the very least these volunteer players would inject new blood into stale matches and servers that currently getting rolled over would get an influx of players to stem the tide a bit.