Guild Wars 2

Now that transfers are locked at $20, is there anything that can be done to balance the servers with low population?

I think it is going to be very hard to do unless they give some kind of incentive to transfer to low pop servers. Really, they can not force anyone to move to other servers they do not want to move to. If they so they will be opening themselves to a huge backlash of folks who already think Anet is too heavy-handed.

Maybe they can entice guilds by allowing them to transfer their Guilds to another server and keep their upgrades/etc/ intact.

Cantur Soulfyre.5409:

I think it is going to be very hard to do unless they give some kind of incentive to transfer to low pop servers. Really, they can not force anyone to move to other servers they do not want to move to. If they so they will be opening themselves to a huge backlash of folks who already think Anet is too heavy-handed.

Maybe they can entice guilds by allowing them to transfer their Guilds to another server and keep their upgrades/etc/ intact.

Bolded is the biggest thing, people always throw the “well if you want to WvW go transfer into a higher tier”. It would be extremely hard to transfer our entire guild if we wanted to, beyond that it would kill everything we worked for, and with Guild Missions now, that is even more incentive to stay in once place as it takes 9-12 weeks to unlock based off of merit limitations (longer if starved for influence).

That being said, at this point we wouldn’t transfer anyway, we started out on Sorrow’s Furnace at launch and we intend to stay here. Sure would be nice if Anet provided incentive like that though so we could maybe snag some Oceanic WvW guilds for a night crew.

pulsecodesgnl.3470:

Cantur Soulfyre.5409:

I think it is going to be very hard to do unless they give some kind of incentive to transfer to low pop servers. Really, they can not force anyone to move to other servers they do not want to move to. If they so they will be opening themselves to a huge backlash of folks who already think Anet is too heavy-handed.

Maybe they can entice guilds by allowing them to transfer their Guilds to another server and keep their upgrades/etc/ intact.

Bolded is the biggest thing, people always throw the “well if you want to WvW go transfer into a higher tier”. It would be extremely hard to transfer our entire guild if we wanted to, beyond that it would kill everything we worked for, and with Guild Missions now, that is even more incentive to stay in once place as it takes 9-12 weeks to unlock based off of merit limitations (longer if starved for influence).

That being said, at this point we wouldn’t transfer anyway, we started out on Sorrow’s Furnace at launch and we intend to stay here. Sure would be nice if Anet provided incentive like that though so we could maybe snag some Oceanic WvW guilds for a night crew.

Agreed. For now I can think of one possible solution to guild transfers but don’t want to post it here, too many other eyes might like the idea. ;D

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Coverage-disparity-idea-to-mitigate-impact/first#post1596593

It’s really complicated it seems, rocket science style