Guild Wars 2

Dear ANet, please do something with guild rushes in Lornar’s pass because one of them is happening in our Overflow right now and it is screwing with our Marionette. We do not have enough people in the lanes.

I too feel there might be a bug. I’ve done the second Warden several times. We sever the chain and I avoid the kicks, but I still don’t have Marionette Sidestepper.

Astralporing.1957:

Celestina.2894:

Tbh, while I love these battles, it would really be beneficial to try and bring back the district system from GW1. Overflow just does not cut it.

District system would not help. As long as the events would require close to the zone cap, the district would either have enough people (in which case it would be full, and you would not be able to enter) or would not be full (in which case you would be able to enter, but you’d fail the event due to not enough people).
Basically, there’s no meaningful difference between overflows and districts as far as those big boss battles are concerned. The problem lies not in overflow mechanics, but in the high pop requirement for the fight.

Districts would help with this particular problem. Right now we have full servers and empty servers. And a half empty overflow. Nobody can leave overflow and people from low population servers can’t enter it.
With districts there would be several full districts and one half-empty. During the night there would be less districts and during Prime time there would be more. But most of them would be full in any situation, unless there was not enough people to fill even one or two.