OCX JQ/BG are almost identical numbers. Difference being JQ has the follow up on SEA. Without SoR this week is disproportional because all our servers are built for the 3 servers to compete. JQ deadzones align with SoR strong periods and BG strong zones align with the deadzones of JQ/SoR. It’s what makes it so competitive.
I’ve never understood how Strongzone vs deadzone makes it competitive, alternating or not. Perhaps it’s personal taste. Not knowing the outcome, makes it competitive. As is, it’s a no brainer.
I’d consider that being waaay too serious. But then again, I find that gaming is a fantasy and not real at all. People do act differently when they have the internet anonymity.
Well, you payed money for this game. You can pretend it’s not real, but it costs some very real Money, takes some very real Time, and some very real Brain usage, as well as occasionally Emotions. The characters may be imaginary but those who play it are very real. And how many of corpse dancers try to insult pixel characters? None. They all go with the intention of insulting that very real player behind the character.
The main difference is the lack of physical consequences. That’s why some people say this is not real. When there is someone to inflict physical punishment there’s a sense of reality. On the Internet you can be who you want to be: dancer on corpses. Without physical consequence.
But again, the main point I was making was: Corpse dancers are not different IRL. You’re not going to convince me that someone who acts online as if he grew up on the street is in fact a deeply respectful and noble person IRL. He might withhold his actions IRL, but his mindset will be the same.
That’s all.
No one needs to convince you of anything. That’s your own responsibility. You’re entitled to what you believe is true for you. That doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way as you do?
There is no difference between a game and a real life. None. A game is a part of your real life. If you act like an immature idiot in the game, you’re not going to convince me that you’re anything else in real life.
I’d consider that being waaay too serious. But then again, I find that gaming is a fantasy and not real at all. People do act differently when they have the internet anonymity. However, that may be off topic and a discussion for another thread.
Tough one to answer. On the higher tier levels you get rewarded every 3 mins while defending (assuming you are doing enough damage/repairing) which is fantastic when all you have to do is operate an arrow cart for 3 hours having multiple loot bags drop at your feet.
It is very goal dependent. If your goal is to grind individual Karma, then yes defending may not be so rewarding if you’re not getting attacked. However if your goal is to help your server win, then watching that Garrison Water gate entrance for attacks is more rewarding [for your server].
Also you already earn money though loot bags (arrow cars… love them). I believe WvW is supposed to be a money sink.. not the other way around.
Please take the time to call it what it is, and then do a search in these forums/google for it. This has been posted many times. It’s called a “survival stack”. FYI people post about this stack at least once a week calling it an exploit when there are mechanics in this game to counter it. It’s not an exploit just because you are unaware how to counter it.
I love it every time the enemy does this.. more bags for me.
This is why, ultimately, the counter to a zerg is another zerg.
Defensive siege can cause delay to a zerg, namely by killing their rams, but that’s all it can do: delay. And not by much, really, because a 40-man zerg can beat down a reinforced door with just their fists quickly enough.
So there’s your counter.
A 40-man zerg is countered by another 40-man zerg. Throwing down a couple ballista during the scrum can have a serious impact but siege needs a zerg to screen it and sweep up when facing an enemy zerg. You simply do not counter a competent 40-man zerg with a 10-man defensive force. Not in any fort, not with any upgrades, not with any siege.
If the “AE only hits 5 people” rule was lifted for WvW, then that changes everything but for now, it takes a zerg to beat a zerg.
Or you could just use the game mechanics (mesmer + necro). This 2 man team + say 1 arrow cart = mass death to stack. (arrow cart not necessary). I’ve included a photo above of 8 vs 30. 6 held them at the gate till the necro and mesmer arrived. Then they just dropped like flies.
My first impression: Not impressed at all by Ruin. Weak tactics, mostly inferior players(both gear and skill, or so it seems). Lots of players though.
We kept them at bay rather easily on the map we were assigned to because they never split their zerg or employ any kind of advanced raid tactics whatsoever…
I fail to see the point, why would any massive US guild do this to themselves……
SoS was a top 5 server before Eredon Terrace came in and destroyed us completely and snagged a ton of our players. Sad that they resorted to spamming our chat channels trying to recruit all of our players. No honor server in my opinion.
ET probably took a bunch of oceanic players.. which is not what you’re recruiting for. I’m guessing they transferred out of their own free will under no act of force. Perhaps I misunderstand the meaning of honor.
This sounds like the mesmer bug. Once a mesmer targets someone.. they do not need line of sight to use their bezerker phantom on their target. This needs to be fixed.
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What you would like is for the world to change for you. Anet have established a set rules of engagement that makes this GW2. The rest of us accept and play by those rules. Feel free to play spvp if this is not to your liking, or another game.
Alternatively feel free to fund any additional hardware and labour to Anet to implement your rule changes for a completely different game.
Not really. Please consider one of the lowest populated servers Eredon Terrace as an example. A server population does not represent a WvW population and will thus gain a silly advantage if it has a small and efficient player base like ET. So it would give them an unfair beneficial weighting to what is already a top 4 NA server in WvW.
In addition to that.. servers with a FULL population.. FULL of PvE’rs will have a sad weighting on what is an already small participation of WvW players on their servers.
Nope..not a solution.
Co operate with another server. Or convert the PVE players to WvW players.
Dynamic population limit will fix the unfairness of PvP. But will also leave some people out of PvP who would be in otherwise. (though it really isn’t PvP when you are just steamrolling everything, without any resistance.)
Just like queues keep people from ultra full servers out of WvWvW? Hmm, maybe it would be fair after all.
Queues kinda force prime time players to spread across all the servers. There’s no such mechanic for the night time players. Why?
This. A thousand times this.
Having a cap would force people to spread out among all servers and make things fair instead of all grouping on 2-3 servers and pwning everyone until Anet fixes their broken matchmaking.
Excellent question. Unfortunately, logic and reason does not seem to apply. The obvious as you have stated above is ignored as long as the users remain emotional about pixels they don’t own.
Just thought I’d put it out there instead of looking like a troll on the numerous silly threads on fixing something that is not broken… that being the problem of being squished by the leading server.
If your server is co operating with another server to take down Goliath… Please do share. I would be curious to see how many servers are taking advantage of this hidden weapon of mass destruction.
Have you stopped to consider if the said losing servers are co operating at all? It’s extremely tough when you have two servers against you.
7 of the 8 matchups currently have the leader with more points than their two opponents combined, so it would seem that they are quite successfully beating down two servers simultaneously.
I can say that on my matchup, where the leader is currently more than 150,000 points ahead of the other two servers, they basically steamroll all 4 WvW maps every night starting at about 2:00 AM EST. They have such a population advantage that it is nearly impossible to defend anything against them for the next 6 to 10 hours. We practically have an alliance with the other losing server in our matchup because it’s not like we can fight against each other – we have nothing to take.
Not really. The scores do not show what would happen if the leader is being sabotaged by two co operating servers. It only shows how long they have NOT been co operating.
Nid’s solution is the simplest form of co operation. Get to it people.. chop chop! Heck use server transfers to get the message out to the other server if Nid’s solution doesn’t work. It’s free and wont take you more than 5 mins.
Have you stopped to consider if the said losing servers are co operating at all? It’s extremely tough when you have two servers against you. The data shows that the non leading servers have not extended their communication abilities to take down the leading server.
This can be done at any time… yet they are in it for themselves. It’s very disappointing. This game is about the community. Rally up people. Work together and take down the leader.
Keep an eye out on IoJ and SoS. The co operation has started.. and change is in the air. This solution is so obvious. Yet people insist to shut there ears and cry foul at Anet.
Of course you want to keep the status quo. Right now, U.S primetime is completely meaningless and the entire game is decided by Australians logging in during their primetime.
Most of us U.S players are just asking for U.S primetime and Aussie primetime to be equal in terms of point contribution to the final score since all-capping the map is mysteriously (sarcasm) so much easier during the aussie primetime…
Who is really being selfish here?
Anet Intended this game to be a 24/7 Global event. A global community is required to work together in order to progress. If you don’t have a global community on your server, you will then face others that are in the same position. Build your community. And don’t ignore Asians either. Time to accept the facts.
So if your server is not global.. you will face other not global servers.. and the fun times will return.
This is untrue unless 24/7 servers happen to occur in groups of 3s. Think about it for a sec before spouting the same old party line rhetoric…
Also, happening to have Oceanic guilds on your server is not working together. Its winning due to sheer coincidence and 99% of players in this game did no pre-game strategizing. Are they SUPPOSED to be screwed now?
I rather face the facts and the boundary conditions that are logical. People choose to be where they are. It’s not a coincidence that the oceanics DECIDED to be on an unoffical oceanic server. All this takes planning and organizing. Lots of it. Clearly something you would realize with research. They put in the effort, and then co ordinated with other guilds. That is why the top ranked servers are where they are. Time to smell the roses.
Of course you want to keep the status quo. Right now, U.S primetime is completely meaningless and the entire game is decided by Australians logging in during their primetime.
Most of us U.S players are just asking for U.S primetime and Aussie primetime to be equal in terms of point contribution to the final score since all-capping the map is mysteriously (sarcasm) so much easier during the aussie primetime…
Who is really being selfish here?
Anet Intended this game to be a 24/7 Global event. A global community is required to work together in order to progress. If you don’t have a global community on your server, you will then face others that are in the same position. Build your community. And don’t ignore Asians either. Time to accept the facts.
So if your server is not global.. you will face other not global servers.. and the fun times will return.
2. You won’t like this but you’re such a small part of the player base that you have no right to dictate how the game should be balanced around you. It’s just how it is.
What gives you any more of a right to play and dictate the score than oceanic players do?
They’re our servers thus the “EUROPEAN” and “AMERICAN” listings, not “Oceanic/Australian/Kiwi”. So yes, as a European playing on a European server I have every right to express my opinion on the matter and suggest they balance the game best.
We weren’t given oceanic servers, ANet obviously wanted us to play with you guys so stop crying.
You weren’t given servers because there’s too few of you to actually populate them. Face the facts here. You’re the minority and you’re causing unbalanced WvWvW making it impossible to be at all plausible for a competitive game type. Even on these forums there are many guilds recruiting Oceanic players with the intent to WvW when all other servers are offline and have even stated this outright in their recruitments. How is that fun for anyone when you outnumber two other servers 300 to their collective 100?
All I see from players like you is constant complaining over possible fixes to balance. Instead of kittening about our suggestions that will ultimately fix the situation why don’t you come up with some other solution?
You DO realize that Asians are already on board on the servers? That is the reason HOD is so dominant? Everything else is working as intended.
Just make sure you repair one item. A wall. A Door. Then go back to killing. Rinse and Repeat. If i’m not mistaken.. getting experience during the event is key.
