Guild Wars 2

Let’s be honest… There are only so many weeks of playing the same servers before it gets boring. What you typically see on any servers is that week one of the match-up you see the most number of people in WvW and then participation begins to slip. There have been a number of ideas suggested to keep the match-ups more dynamic. All have had arguments in support and against. I’ve been thinking through this and think a different alternative is needed.

1. Keep the current rating system with some tweaks to allow faster movement between levels.
2. Introduce 2 server maps that will compliment the standard 3 server maps.

Match-ups would work like this. Assume all of the rankings stay the same for 2 weeks in a row for simplicity of explanation.

Week 1:
1v2 (JQ vs SoR)
3v4v5 (SoS vs BG vs Kain)
6v7 (TC vs FA)
8v9v10 (DB vs Yak vs Mag)
etc…

Week 2:
1v2v3 (JQ vs SoR vs SoS)
4v5 (BG vs Kain)
6v7v8 (TC vs FA vs DB)
9v10 (Yak vs Mag)
etc….

The idea of this model is to keep match-ups tied to existing rankings but give more variety in match-ups. Plus the whole 1v1 concept would require different strategies than 1v1v1.

Personally, I’d be super excited to see some new opponents, especially the current match-ups in my week 1 example above.

I like it.

New maps are key. We’ve been stuck with two maps (EB and BLs) for more than 6 months now, and we have every inch memorized.

We could also have 4+ server matches where higher ranked servers are placed in increasingly more difficult spawn locations to make things more balanced/interesting.

The possibilities and potential are huge, but unrealized to date.

Anyway, I like your idea. +1

style.6173:

Let’s be honest… There are only so many weeks of playing the same servers before it gets boring. What you typically see on any servers is that week one of the match-up you see the most number of people in WvW and then participation begins to slip. There have been a number of ideas suggested to keep the match-ups more dynamic. All have had arguments in support and against. I’ve been thinking through this and think a different alternative is needed.

1. Keep the current rating system with some tweaks to allow faster movement between levels.
2. Introduce 2 server maps that will compliment the standard 3 server maps.

Match-ups would work like this. Assume all of the rankings stay the same for 2 weeks in a row for simplicity of explanation.

Week 1:
1v2 (JQ vs SoR)
3v4v5 (SoS vs BG vs Kain)
6v7 (TC vs FA)
8v9v10 (DB vs Yak vs Mag)
etc…

Week 2:
1v2v3 (JQ vs SoR vs SoS)
4v5 (BG vs Kain)
6v7v8 (TC vs FA vs DB)
9v10 (Yak vs Mag)
etc….

The idea of this model is to keep match-ups tied to existing rankings but give more variety in match-ups. Plus the whole 1v1 concept would require different strategies than 1v1v1.

Personally, I’d be super excited to see some new opponents, especially the current match-ups in my week 1 example above.

Interesting idea, but if it takes more than 20 lines of code it won’t happen. Read the link at:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Mike-Fergusson-about-WvWs/first#post1507034

I personally would be interested to see what ANet’s proposed “new maths” for matchups would’ve been. I was one of the people dead set against the silly hard reset, but I’m hardly opposed to change. Perhaps making it a bit easier for a server to switch tiers? As in if a server takes 50% of the points, it automatically goes a tier up?