Guild Wars 2

like most Worlds mine goes through the ups and downs of either crushing or being crushed. and seeing that outmanned buff can not only be demoralizing but worthless.

so i thought of a solution that makes the outmanned a bit more competitive without imbalancing the game.

first, if you are outmanned and kill an enemy Dolyak you can automatically loot 10 more supply no matter how many you are currently carrying. so up to 25 if you got looted 15 at a supply camp with the guild buff to increase it from 10. but if you kill the Dolyak first, you would be maxed out at 10.

second, only if you have the outmanned buff you can drop any supply you have anywhere you want regardless if it came from a supply camp or a Dolyak; and the enemy cannot pick it up. similiar to not being able to use the enemies siege, but any of your allies can use it as they can jump on your unmanned siege. you could drop it where you want to build siege in the open or you could use it to resupply a tower/keep and the workers there could use it for upgrades.

and of course the minute the outmanned buff goes away, so does the ability.

this would keep more people in a zone that has completely flipped to one side, instead of looking for greener pastures and it would slow down any night crew from completely flipping a map against weak competition.

just make the “barrel” icon at the top clickable to drop supply. if it was a mistake, they could just pick it up again (but at the limit of 10 of course).

i think this is a great idea and i am not crazy. My mom had me tested.

I like part of your idea with the supply having special rules during outmanned.
Not all the specifics maybe but that is a sly approach to the problem because siege can take out more possible targets than a single player or inflict more damage over a larger radius. A change like that might balance the playing field some.

Both sides want the challenge anyway. I’ve been on the winning side and it’s boooring. No one comes out to play then you have the desperate ppl camping their spawn looking for action. Until you talk everyone out of camping them at their exits, you can’t get them to do any objectives. That means less trading of property and karma/exp/money for everyone involved. The only thing camping does is improve chances of medals dropping not W3 event completion.

Last night we even discussed allowing our lowest point competitor some presence on a map we owned just to get the fight with all 3 sides instead of the two dominators.
Yeah, we were going to give up points just to get more going on, I think that’s telling that people do want to fight but also get points coupled with experiencing trouble cajoling an enemy out.

the outmanned buff is
+20% Magic find
+33% Experience
+33% Karma

it does nothing to slow a night shift from completely flipping a map. and it does nothing to make fighting restart faster after a map has been flipped.

i was looking for something that wouldn’t stop anyone from winning, just make the score a little less lopsided due to population fluctuations. something that didn’t level the playing field where outmanned you could hold your own, just maybe so you could hold something.