Guild Wars 2

i just wanna know full servers rarely can become “very high” like before patch

is this possible?

Short answer, no. Its different now, they are locked until the population of active players as calculated by their algorithm reduces to a certain level.

errrm, so basically a full server has to go dead for awhile to open up to recruit more ppl?

I very much doubt it just down to anets pre-defined level.

They also didn’t boot people from their existing servers so some full are more full than other full servers. What we don’t know is other than transferring off, what else affects the algorithm. If account goes inactive after x time, I would assume they no longer count….

If I would implement the count I would count:

Total of player-hours spend in WvW and WvW-Queue during the week of the last match.

If I would have enough time to implement it, I would add a transfer adjustment, i.e. if a player qith 40h last week moves, his source is reduced by 40 and his target incresed by 40.

But no idea what ANet really implemented and the most important open question:

Does the count include EotM (which is in ANets view part of WvW) or not.

X T D.6458:

errrm, so basically a full server has to go dead for awhile to open up to recruit more ppl?

Depends on how you define dead. If being marked by Anet as very high means dead, then the answer is Yes.

They just made it so that now we can never join tier 1 and have their full-all-the-time WvW experience.
Also they made it so that none of the empty servers look empty and none will seems attractive enough to induce migrations towards them, killing any hope of having them saved by migration flux.

GG WP

Eotm doesn’t count towards wvw pop, i’m not digging the quote out for you but dev said it wouldn’t. And as far as going dead to change server status, i assume player amount just has to reduce a fair bit, not enough to go dead but it will probably be a noticeable difference.

P.S. You can also have alot of fun in silver league, the servers ARE populated and theres alot fo fun to be had here, just because you can’t blob allday on sfr don’t mean you can’t have fun in wvw. if you like blobbing so much go join pve champ train.

VaaCrow.3076:

P.S. You can also have alot of fun in silver league, the servers ARE populated and theres alot fo fun to be had here, just because you can’t blob allday on sfr don’t mean you can’t have fun in wvw. if you like blobbing so much go join pve champ train.

I am on a silver league server

PS: “Ceterum censeo SFR esse delendam!” does not mean I play on SFR nor that I like SFR. (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est)

Dayra.7405:

If I would implement the count I would count:

Total of player-hours spend in WvW and WvW-Queue during the week of the last match.

If I would have enough time to implement it, I would add a transfer adjustment, i.e. if a player qith 40h last week moves, his source is reduced by 40 and his target incresed by 40.

But no idea what ANet really implemented and the most important open question:

Does the count include EotM (which is in ANets view part of WvW) or not.

I believe if you go through the original red posts and read what the dev responses were, they said EOTM doesn’t count. It’s not really WvW anyway. If you check your inventory in EOTM, it defaults to gold and karma, not gold and badges.

X T D.6458:

errrm, so basically a full server has to go dead for awhile to open up to recruit more ppl?

We were never told the formula Anet is using, but as it was explained it is a “long term” calculation. It was also said a 24 hour blackout wouldn’t effect the status. We are all guessing what long term means though. Maybe a week, maybe a month?

And yeah he said that the intent was to promote movement from higher pop to lower pop. So I really doubt there would be any way to get full servers dropped to very high for some time.

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

NiloyBardhan.9170:

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Yes this is a question that needs answering even if just a general idea.

NiloyBardhan.9170:

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Believe the dev said something about weekly assessments, but can’t remember where….

Jayne.9251:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Believe the dev said something about weekly assessments, but can’t remember where….

So server status gets updated weekly? (during reset?)

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Jayne.9251:

NiloyBardhan.9170:

I have asked this in the other thread but still unanswered. If a FULL server implodes i.e. guilds/players transfers off in masses within a short period of time, how long will it take to reflect the lesser coverage?

Believe the dev said something about weekly assessments, but can’t remember where….

So server status gets updated weekly? (during reset?)

It might be updated weekly or even daily. But I think it probably take longer time into consideration though. Your population can be determined from the past month.

ugh.. trying to get onto TC to wvw but it seems impossible. i hope they have a que system atleast trying to get in..

jason.9548:

ugh.. trying to get onto TC to wvw but it seems impossible. i hope they have a que system atleast trying to get in..

NO, full servers are now locked for an extended time now. The only way to get in is for everyone there to leave, that way they can make room for the casuals who come in to do dailies, since many of the top servers have enough casuals doing dailies to fill a server as it is even if the wvw players themselves left.