Guild Wars 2

I’ve read all kinds of posts about people being angry about night capping and what not. Suggestion I’ve read include limited players based on other server activity, lowering point gains, and more. However, all of these suggestions are simply unfair to other time zones, people who play at off-peak hours due to their jobs, and in general to people who play at that time.

After devising several successful strategies for SBI’s Eternal Battlegrounds forces: I’ve yet to see any strategy that takes over 8~ hours to implement and execute. So my proposal is this: we do not need full 1 week matches. I know arena net has already said they want to push for 2 week matches; but this is entirely unnecessary as there is no strategy whatsoever that needs to take so long to execute.

The idea:
3 day weekend matches. Followed by 4 day weekday matches.

This would require server resets at Friday 5PM PST as usual. Then another Monday reset at 5PM PST.

It would allow servers who have little off-peak hour presence during weekdays to compete with those servers who do have off-peak presence with little interruption to off-peak hour gameplay. Strategies would still remain intact as well. It is simply unnecessary for a match to be a full week long, let alone the 2 week long matches that are supposed to happen later on down the road.

I definitely see how 24 hour format strategy and tactics GREATLY differs from this week long format. But I fail to see the difference in strategic value a week long match has over a three or four day match.

This is my suggestion based on my experiences as a dedicated WvW player and strategist.

3 or 4 day matches will still suffer in the situation where server A has 24×7 coverage and server B/C has only 12×7. The weekend matches might be a bit more even as more players might be encouraged to play longer but it still doesn’t compare to having real off peak players.

The only difference I can see with shortening the duration of matches is that there will be fewer “dead days” where a server has basically given up because they are losing.

QQ could recruit off peak guilds?

no .. no.. no other way… get your server population balanced…. if you’re in american guild, move to those unofficial Oceanic servers, and that server will have balanced population like HoD…. or move to low population server like Devona for example, and have alliance with asian/oceanic guild there…

the game is not at fault.. it is the community….

azizul.8469:

no .. no.. no other way… get your server population balanced…. if you’re in american guild, move to those unofficial Oceanic servers, and that server will have balanced population like HoD…. or move to low population server like Devona for example, and have alliance with asian/oceanic guild there…

the game is not at fault.. it is the community….

I agree with this post but honestly I think Anet is stuck. SO many people have QQ because they didn’t have the foresight to understand what 24/7 match ups mean that ultimately Anet has to respond to it in some form.

Its a shame that an over developed sense of entitlement, coming from a blameless society now seems common. Most it seems don’t get past the ‘What do I get out of it?’ rather than ‘What can I do about it?’ phase.

Anet listens to the community and sometimes unfortunately it means listening to aspects of the community with the loudest voice.

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

I updated the thread title. I realize this was not a fix for “night capping” issues.

But this is just a good suggestion overall. There is no reason any match needs to go on for a week.