Guild Wars 2

what would that be like lol?

curious as to what sorta mechanics would change, how servers would behave differently, and if this would create a more competitive environment. right now if youre locked into a tier with an obvious blowout, its a normal thing to sort of give up and not try your hardest. with much shorter match ups it could be that nothing would change, or it could be the opposite! maybe it would create a race like mindset and get people going lol. every minute, every camp, and every battle would matter more. how would this effect night capping? band wagoning? population imbalance? the game mode in general? perfect balance is so hard to create, and a week only compounds problems.

chose 3 hours cuz it felt like the sweet spot.
assume that everything is sped up to compensate for the change.

It would be like Edge of the Mists, only an hour shorter.

It would be literal chaos because your opponents shift so fast you will barely see them.

A major charm of WvW is the extended battle against specific servers… or rather, the war. The community thrive in this environment, not in EoTM style matches. Just something as simple as reset night is a foundation that keep WvW going at a steady pace, week in and week out. We look forward to it and we work toward it, then the cycle repeats.

With EoTM matchups, WvW degrade into a hot join hybrid where no one will care about the server as a whole, they are just there to win “their” 3h match and then they are off.

it should be a full month :} not a weak

We asked for a bit shorter matches (like a fri-sun one and a mon-thurs one), but I doubt they have any interest in changing it. I’m pretty sure people would welcome shorter matchups as it would lessen the time you spend in it if you get a entirely loopsided one, but if we just make short matchups, like lasting a few hours like op suggested, we’ll essentially just turn WvW in EOTM and the majority of WvW players don’t really want that.

Dawdler.8521:

It would be literal chaos because your opponents shift so fast you will barely see them.

A major charm of WvW is the extended battle against specific servers… or rather, the war. The community thrive in this environment, not in EoTM style matches. Just something as simple as reset night is a foundation that keep WvW going at a steady pace, week in and week out. We look forward to it and we work toward it, then the cycle repeats.

With EoTM matchups, WvW degrade into a hot join hybrid where no one will care about the server as a whole, they are just there to win “their” 3h match and then they are off.

This. Often you’re not just playing for a time slot, you’re trying to help out the next one. This could be by papering some objective so the next group has an easier time attacking it, or running yaks and defending objectives so it’s easier for the next group.

This sort of forward thinking is part of the charm of wvw. What you do will change how the game is played hours, or even days, after you’ve done a thing.

Dawdler.8521:

A major charm of WvW is the extended battle against specific servers… or rather, the war.
Just something as simple as reset night is a foundation that keep WvW going at a steady pace, week in and week out.

even when an extended battle against a ridiculously stacked server is normal? wvw is deserted in a lot of servers most of the time.
seeing reset night go would be sad, but do you think the sacrifice would be worth it if wvw improved by a noticeable margin?

This. Often you’re not just playing for a time slot, you’re trying to help out the next one.

you would still be able to do that. it might feel less impactful cuz of the short matchup but that wouldn’t prevent anyone staying in wvw an extra hour to help out the next guys.

Stand The Wall.6987:

even when an extended battle against a ridiculously stacked server is normal? wvw is deserted in a lot of servers most of the time.
seeing reset night go would be sad, but do you think the sacrifice would be worth it if wvw improved by a noticeable margin?

Well, did EoTM improve WvW by a noticable margin?

Reset night is reset, so yes I look forward to it after a week of fighting some stacked servers. I am on FSP and is currently fighting Piken – we are so far behind in offtime coverage I dont think we have won any skirmish at all this week. Yesterday they would have held a T3 garrison, T3 hills and T3 bay on our home border in prime if a couple of people hadnt bothered to run around with golems.

No, I dont think sacrificing the soul of WvW is worth it.

Dawdler.8521:

Well, did EoTM improve WvW by a noticable margin?

I would close eotm and only open it if you are in q for a map. eotm was supposed to be an overflow but instead its an alternative.
think of it this way: reset would happen every 3 hours! yaaay lol. welp imo it would be a lot more fun.

if only matchup only lasted 3 hours….
…and the matchup is scheduled per region 3-4 times a day
…and the maps of the WvW is the entire map of Tyria
…and the matchup is across every other server not tiers

it would be awesome
War of Emperium style

Edit: to those who dont know what WOE means its like the movie “The Purge”

Stand The Wall.6987:

Dawdler.8521:

Well, did EoTM improve WvW by a noticable margin?

I would close eotm and only open it if you are in q for a map. eotm was supposed to be an overflow but instead its an alternative.
think of it this way: reset would happen every 3 hours! yaaay lol. welp imo it would be a lot more fun.

Yes I have thought of it that way and my question to you is how fun Superbowl would be if it happened every 3 hours? Great fun, right? Surely it wouldnt loose its meaning after a couple of days…

This would be a zero sense of progress, time spend in the game and action of player playing would even matter less.
That is already what we have from week to week, not imagine that every 3h all the effort or time spent playing would be reseted.

Since ppt is useless, who cares about ranking when gamemode is only based on how much ktrain groups u can mantain and for longuer and since GW" WVW has no objectives, it already holds zero value for the players that do it, this would make the game even worse than it is already and form dull to very very dull game.