Guild Wars 2

If your server is truely good at wvw, and only has US peak players, you can still do fine and this has been proven! Sea of Sorrows was a mega night capper, as well as fort aspenwood. Gate of Madness has almost no Oceanic time zone players whatsoever. Yet during US Prime we have a great deal of serious and good players that want to WvW.

We were matched up against both Sea of Sorrows and Fort Aspenwood many times during the 24 hour matches. Many times we would wake up to Sea of Sorrows beating the hell out of us in points, or Fort Aspenwood owning almost everything. Yet many times we managed to beat their score back down and win before reset. Granted Seas handed it to us a few times, about even I would say, but the scores always ended close.

If you can only cap half the day, and you are truely good that half the day, night capping does not matter, it actually just means the score will be closer.

Actually the real problem isn’t servers like SoS that can only night cap, its the ones that can hold their own during prime time and then night cap.

Then that sounds like an organized server that should be on top… No reason to nerf them because they got their kitten together, and this is comming from someone that had Jade Quarry rip them a new one.

Actually,GoM has a pretty healthy Aussie population,for PvE at least.Would be surprised if they couldn’t pull together a decent Night Capper shift.

But that’s the real trick for WvW isn’t it,balancing your servers population.

Egads,I think people are starting to get it =P

I agree that Nightcapping won’t be an issue long term. Those servers will be able to acquire a greater amount of points during the night and throughout the day and will bubble up in the rankings. That will leave the night-cappers to face each other over and over again.

Ok holding Prime Time really isnt the issue here. What is the issue, is what the Ascension Alliance is doing atm… They have way more than enough Oceanic guilds to take control over night, but now they are trying to clean up the competition completely by recruiting all the rest of oceanic guilds from lower pop servers..

This makes it almost impossible for lower pop server to ever have a chance of moving up in the ranks.. Good US day/or prime time still wont get your server to more competitive levels without oceanics to hold your server overnight.

This is the biggest WvW issue for most lower to medium pop server atm.

Tzash.5748:

Actually the real problem isn’t servers like SoS that can only night cap, its the ones that can hold their own during prime time and then night cap.

omg, someone with an IQ above single digits in this forum

faints

Tzash.5748:

Actually the real problem isn’t servers like SoS that can only night cap, its the ones that can hold their own during prime time and then night cap.

The servers that can only night cap are actually more of an issue. It kinda means that during the night, the game isn’t interesting cause of heavy imbalance. And during the prime time, the game isn’t interesting either because of the imbalance on the other direction. As a result, the game isn’t interesting at any point in time and you get the added frustration of 2/3 of the players losing all upgrades overnight.

Server ranking SHOULD take into account timezones because the ranking shouldn’t be a tool for servers to brag to each other but a tool to make the fights as competitive and balanced as possible at all times if possible, or at least for the majority of players.