Guild Wars 2

First off i apologize if i am late to the discussion here and this has been posted before

I have noticed a very clear trend in the first 3 weeks of season 1 and wanted to make a suggestion.

My server did very well in week 1 and i noticed there were constant queues to get into EBG and most of the borderlands. Week 2 we were beaten pretty badly in which case you could instantly get into WvW without que. Week 3 is on schedule to be the same as week 2 and there are also no queues. I know some of the queues in week 1 were achievement hunters but i would like to leave them out of the discussion for now

The problem that i am noticing is simple. When my server tries to muster enough forces to start taking back some towers or keeps etc with 20+ people we are consistently crushed by a group of 50+ from the server that is ahead by a huge chunk of points already. No doubt this is not only annoying but its incredibly demoralizing. Not only do people not even want to bother joining WvW when they see our server doing so terribly but it is also having a demoralizing effect to the people that do want to play. I have heard several commanders say they don’t even want to put up their commander tag because they don’t want to be responsible for our failure (which is ironically what they are doing by not putting up their tag)

The solution to this issue needs to be population caps based on the server with the lowest amount of players. I don’t know what the actual caps are here so im going to make these numbers up. It does not make sense to me to have the server on top with a full array of say 80 players in EBG when the other two servers combined have 60-80 players total. The power server has queues while the other two servers cant pay people to fill up WvW because they are getting beaten badly. Does it not make sense that if one server has say 30 people that the other two servers are forced to a soft cap of 30 players as well? to keep the playing field even if it was 30v30v30 then each server would let in an additional player or two keeping the population completely even until it hits the hard cap. I think this is the only way to prevent absolute blow outs that we have seen so far this season

I posted this earlier.. have a read:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Total-Flop-of-Ranked-Servers/3147466

i figured this would have been posted before

i really don’t see a better solution though. Population is by far the number 1 issue. it makes total sense to soft cap it to keep the playing field fair. I would much rather see a fair 40v40 battle than an 80v20 battle that a lot of us see far too often. It doesn’t matter which gimmicky solution gets implemented if the population issue still exists and we continue to see these 80v20 fights. Its different of course if its 80v20 and the other server has 60 people elsewhere but that’s not the case. those other 60 don’t exist 99% of the time

Rinbox.2570:

i figured this would have been posted before

i really don’t see a better solution though. Population is by far the number 1 issue. it makes total sense to soft cap it to keep the playing field fair. I would much rather see a fair 40v40 battle than an 80v20 battle that a lot of us see far too often. It doesn’t matter which gimmicky solution gets implemented if the population issue still exists and we continue to see these 80v20 fights. Its different of course if its 80v20 and the other server has 60 people elsewhere but that’s not the case. those other 60 don’t exist 99% of the time

I agree with you on this. There should be a soft cap where the other servers have to match the lowest server cap. The issue is though that the larger servers will have much longer ques because they cannot get more into a map because the other servers do not have as many people in. The larger servers may complain about it, but I think the good this is that it may even out servers some. People could transfer to lower population servers to spread out the people making it more competitive across all servers.

My two cents worth