Guild Wars 2

I believe it should be a little more simple than the ranking system in place. 1st place should move up a tier, 2nd place would stay in the same tier, and 3rd place would move down a tier.

Matches would always change, servers would have something to fight for ranking wise every week. Plus if the connection/lag/ latency whatever is not an issue, EU and US should be on the same list.

Just my two cents. Discuss.

My first post on the forums was actually suggesting this, lol. My topic got ignored.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Alternative-to-server-ratings/

I don’t think it’s a good idea anymore. The rating system has been good about creating even matches. One problem is that playing the same servers over and over again can get stale and boring. Another problem is that changes in rating are only based on performance against two other servers. A server may get trapped in a tier when it can be competitive in another one.

I posted this in the topic about how our match has gone one for three weeks, but I’ll post it here as well.

“Thinking about it a bit more, I think I came up with a solution. If a server wins its tier X number of times and the server above it loses their tier the same number of times, the two servers swap. Their ratings will be the same, but they get put in different matches when reset happens. This makes it so things won’t get too stale, but the math contained in the rating system doesn’t have to change.”

If it was based on just win/losses and as you say 1st moving up 2nd staying put and 3rd moving down, then you would have (most likely) a server moving up to the above tier and getting smashed, then the server that got moved below and down a tier smashing those other 2 servers. The glicko system is meant to provide the most even as possible matches by also basing it on performance and what is expected in relation to each servers rating.

I agree it can ‘feel’ boring seeing the same names for several weeks on end, but I think this is as intended by Anet to provide as best and fun match ups as possible because then again, they are just names.

The way the servers are now are balanced. Changing the faces you see every week means very little if the games are chaos because a team gets pushed up into a bracket it cannot compete in or out of a bracket it barely lost in only to dominate the lower bracket.

Take a look at last weeks scores there was only 1 bracket that had a major blow out. Sure some servers lost by a decent margin and you are pretty much stuck in place week after week but isn’t it more fun playing against servers you have a chance at fighting rather than having almost every bracket being a blowout?

Josh P.1296:

I agree it can ‘feel’ boring seeing the same names for several weeks on end, but I think this is as intended by Anet to provide as best and fun match ups as possible because then again, they are just names.

Hi Josh,

Just wondering if you still find it ‘fun’ seeing the same names again and again.

SoPP.7034:

Josh P.1296:

I agree it can ‘feel’ boring seeing the same names for several weeks on end, but I think this is as intended by Anet to provide as best and fun match ups as possible because then again, they are just names.

Hi Josh,

Just wondering if you still find it ‘fun’ seeing the same names again and again.

Failed attempt of trolling.

Just because I posted this when SoS was winning has no relevance on the fact that the glicko system is intended to produce the most even match ups as possible.