Guild Wars 2

i found it a bad idea that anet did this temporary action now a server that was once on very high gone to medium and lost alot of wvw population :S…. , putting temporary transfer to medium server temporary doesn’t solve the wvw balance..

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

Centrix.4065:

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Just a marketing. Yeah, We knew it is a plan that doesn’t solve the balance. They’re trying to keep everyone from moving out of the lower tiers, or it is a switching between worlds.

The part where half my guild got stuck on 1 server and the other half is on the new server, that part is horrible.

Server went HIGH after 13 of us xferred over and now the rest of the 50 are stuck on T1 server still, forcing us to pay to transfer when we were under the impression it wold be free..

yeah, that part… very poorly implemented.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Centrix.4065:

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Well you don’t have to worry about NA tier 8 jumping up tiers any time soon, we will be tier locked for a while due to this action from ANet. Even if we are T7 or T6 level, there is no way for glicko to compare us to any servers outside of our tier, so we will be stuck here independent of server strength for quite some time.
Once one of the servers manages to either dominate enough to jump out, or if a T7 server does bad enough to bump down, then we will be able to finally see how T8 compares to T7 or above.
ANet, glicko doesn’t work well with tiers, sort your kitten out!

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Centrix.4065:

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Yeah what I meant was, that was their intention. It doesnt seem to be working well. There are more issues now. Even guilds are getting torn apart because half of them manage to transfer while the others aren’t able to (server status turns to HIGH).

But it has been done, we’ll just have to live with it I guess

D W.5179:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Centrix.4065:

But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Well you don’t have to worry about NA tier 8 jumping up tiers any time soon, we will be tier locked for a while due to this action from ANet. Even if we are T7 or T6 level, there is no way for glicko to compare us to any servers outside of our tier, so we will be stuck here independent of server strength for quite some time.
Once one of the servers manages to either dominate enough to jump out, or if a T7 server does bad enough to bump down, then we will be able to finally see how T8 compares to T7 or above.
ANet, glicko doesn’t work well with tiers, sort your kitten out!

Actually, it works pretty great….with the one exception of the trainwreck t8 has become. There are a few reasons why it completely failed in t8, which I won’t go into right now. However, a rather simple fix would be to simply manually adjust the t8 scores to all even and all about 200 points below the lowest server in t7.

LilMcGinley.3890:

The part where half my guild got stuck on 1 server and the other half is on the new server, that part is horrible.

Server went HIGH after 13 of us xferred over and now the rest of the 50 are stuck on T1 server still, forcing us to pay to transfer when we were under the impression it wold be free..

yeah, that part… very poorly implemented.

not really, the idea was to transfer to medium servers, once they hit high, the reason ceases to exist.

But you could just transfer early in the morning…when its medium..

But you could just transfer early in the morning…when its medium..

Not sure if it’s the same person with the same guild I read in another thread, but if it is, he said they already tried that (at 4am or something it was?), and the status was still HIGH.

It’s obvious that when the status hits HIGH the free transfers stop, but I wonder if ANet realised in advance that if guilds transfer, half of them might get stuck. And if they did, why they didn’t think of something to prevent the hate.