Guild Wars 2

I started a thread in the LW area complaining about what seemed to be random distribution of players to platforms as opposed to them being distributed evenly. A dev replied saying that players are supposed to be dealt out to each platform “poker dealer style” as I put it.

That is not happening. There are MANY reports of players ending up in boss fight instances with 1 or 2 players on one platform and 5 on another.

I’m posting this here to formally request that this be investigated. It is severely diminishing the enjoyability of the event.

Thanks.

i’ve seen this happen every time i’ve done marionette. I’ve always been in the overflow if that matters

I believe the developer’s description of poker-style allocation is called round-robin distribution. It looks like two overflow maps today (1/25/2014, 12:00 Server Time and 14:00 Server Time) experienced a problem in which round-robin distribution on platforms did not occur. We had three platforms with four or five, and one with zero.

I personally saw what appeared to be the an empty platform with a single boss fighting an NPC in my overflow at noon server time. Others reported a similar issue at the 2pm overflow.

I do not believe that what I saw was a problem with my culling settings, furthermore. My character model limit is set to Highest, and there was a platform farther on that had players visible.

Kate Soulguard.7132:

I believe the developer’s description of poker-style allocation is called round-robin distribution. It looks like two overflow maps today (1/25/2014, 12:00 Server Time and 14:00 Server Time) experienced a problem in which round-robin distribution on platforms did not occur. We had three platforms with four or five, and one with zero.

I personally saw what appeared to be the an empty platform with a single boss fighting an NPC in my overflow at noon server time. Others reported a similar issue at the 2pm overflow.

I do not believe that what I saw was a problem with my culling settings, furthermore. My character model limit is set to Highest, and there was a platform farther on that had players visible.

Even if it was culling the nameplates would still be visible.