Guild Wars 2

So, for the past 7 weeks, the Yak’s Bend server has been the red team in WvW. I’m starting to question if this is on purpose, as the chances for it to be red continuously over 7 weeks is a very low percentage.

5 of my characters are stuck when it comes to map completion, and have been for almost 2 months now.

Is this a problem that will ever be resolved? Because I’m starting to get seriously frustrated.

in before someone tells us to take over maps when we’re either against SBI and their server spies or FA which shouldn’t even be in the silver league. they’re too good.

The way it works now:

1. matchmaking algorithm orders servers based on ranking + a bit or randomness.
2. Every group of 3 servers are matched up with each other.
3. Within each matchup, colors are assigned using the rankings from step 1, where top server in each matchup is green, middle is blue, and bottom is red.

Easy fix:

At step 3, randomly assign the colors.

However: We see threads like the OP’s every single week. It’s obvious by now that the problem will never be resolved because Anet doesn’t care.

What part of random don’t you understand? Random means being red 7 times is entirely possible. Random also means that it won’t stay that way forever.

I think its mostly because YB is stuck at the bottom of tier 3, im not really sure if they really randomize team colors

it is somewhat random, but not completely. instead of the chances of YB getting green / blue / red being 33.3% / 33.3% / 33.3%, it was more like 23.6% / 21.0% / 55.4%. also, the probabilities change every week (they’ve probably remained pretty close to these numbers, but I didn’t check).

it’s odd to see that YB actually has a better chance of getting green than blue (or at least, they did this week) but sometimes that’s just how the numbers work out.

-ken

Mag is stuck as being blue……..and its getting really really old.

Deli.1302:

What part of random don’t you understand? Random means being red 7 times is entirely possible. Random also means that it won’t stay that way forever.

It’s not random. The colors are calculated the way I described in my post. That allows red 7 times in a row because the rankings are based on server points with a bit of variation.

By the way, if they were really random (1/3 chance for each color), then being red 7 times in a row has .04% chance of happening.

Zeqasa Saitou.4256:

So, for the past 7 weeks, the Yak’s Bend server has been the red team in WvW. I’m starting to question if this is on purpose, as the chances for it to be red continuously over 7 weeks is a very low percentage.

It could be so so so so so much worse
I couldn’t help but think of Vabbi http://mos.millenium.org/servers/history/10

yes, Vabbi is in a bad situation. they have a 94.2% chance to get red, a 5.8% chance to get blue, and it’s basically mathematically impossible for them to ever get green unless the ratings change dramatically.

-ken

It’s just sad really, i was working on my first map completion and was about 90%. Checked online to see what would be required other then what was left of tyria for me and then i saw i needed WvW. I go into wvw and notice that green is kittenting on us (an everyday thing now).

EDIT: and looking at yaks history now, doesn’t look like i will ever get my map completion just like you op
Can’t finish my map completion on my first try because of this. It’s kittening bull kitten really.

And people in my guilds have been telling me “just transfer bro.” No, kitten no. I payed to play this game in it’s full state, i shouldn’t have to pay AGAIN just so that i can finish my map completion on one character. This is beyond a joke at this point

Cheer up, the chances of being red next time are 2:1 against.