Guild Wars 2

Just a flesh wound.3589:

In the WvW thread about letting WvW activity count as server population they said they are letting the full servers decrease by attrition. When they are low enough they are going to rebalance the populations. Eventually they should have less people in the high population servers and more in the low ones.

Samuel Loretan.8601:

A “Full” server is a server with a number of Active WvW Players (as defined by the algorithm) above a certain threshold. It has nothing to do with hardware limitations, or PvE players.

The “Full” threshold is slightly different than the other ones because it doesn’t have an upper limit. So some servers can be just slightly above the threshold and marked “Full”, and some other servers might be well over it, and also marked “Full”, even though their populations aren’t really balanced.

The intent is that since you can’t join or transfer to a “Full” server, their populations are going to diminish over time, until eventually they reach “Very High” again. At this point, all “Full” servers are going to be balanced. This won’t be right away, though, since we’re not kicking anyone out of their servers.

That just seems stupid, you’d think for competitive play they’d want people to be able to play in higher numbers … not lower…

I should have clarified, I mean primarily for wvw purposes since if we’re all a megaserver technically, whats the difference? As you can tell the bulk of my post is about wvw

Especially since they have overflow servers, why in the hell do we have so many servers when the majority of them feel incredibly dead? Wvw especially would greatly benefit from merging especially since even the high/full servers have nearly empty maps much of the time. Having coverage/people actually playing in the maps that exist would be nice, and yet anet is adding more to spread the people out even further. I want to play this game, but I find that the player activity is just.. very low. Too low. People are too spread out as a whole and it just doesn’t feel busy.

Trying to get my friends to come to the server I’m on since we just started playing again—or maybe me going to theirs, but we like to wvw together.. it’ll be a problem if the 2 week lockout is still in place. So I’m curious, now that the season is over, does it still lock you out of wvw if you transfer? Or did they take that away since the season is done with and it won’t really ‘affect’ the outcome?

Let me just clarify: once again we aren’t looking for a fotw server, I already know which ones those are and that is why I am asking for input on varying servers to get an idea of what things are like elsewhere. It is absolutely no fun at all to play on a dying server, nor do I expect people to come back (or that I can make them come back single-handedly).

We are a small group who just want to enjoy the content with a fair population for both the wvw and the pve aspects -without- looking toward instant wins for total domination (that’s no fun).

I’ve seen some good info here and there; I will definitely check out darkhaven to see what is happening there. I’ve also heard good things about Sea of Sorrows since it has a large oceanic population which would cater very well to our odd play hours.

In any case, I’m still looking for more information—but please don’t assume we intend to flock to an already overcrowded server based on wvw domination! That is definitely not what we’re looking for. We’re out for competition. Afterall, what is the point if you sweep the maps and have no one left to fight?

(Additionally: we are trying to find a good place to settle -before- Anet addresses these transfer issues so we don’t get locked onto a server that no one will pay to transfer to!)

So my guild is currently looking for a new home as our server rapidly depopulates for greener fields. We’ve stuck it out as long as we can manage, but it is impairing our ability to do content effectively with no population around to assist in events or making WvW remotely doable. So, we’ve begun to scout. The following is all we are looking for:

PVE:
A pve population where people are available for dungeons and large events
populated maps

PVP:
A server with actual warm bodies to at least -try- to put up a fight in wvw. We aren’t looking for a server that dominates their opponents totally, but we DO want to participate in wvw where we stand a chance and are not being spawncamped for the entire week for there being no more than 20 people per map.

Mostly, we’re looking at population. And while it is easy to see what servers are full/high, what we cannot see is which of these servers have a nice distribution between pvp and pve so our options for content are not so regrettably limited.

So I’m looking for suggestions, and additional information about prospective servers! Thanks!