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I believe a good strategy for ANET would be to possibly consolidate low pop servers into higher pop servers. Instead of 24 servers (6-8 of which can’t field large WvW numbers) in 3 Leagues, maybe go to 18 servers on 2 Leagues. Give only the low pop servers free transfers to a server of their choice, and lock the transfers for all other servers (or make them pay an actual monetary fee to transfer, no more gems).
This will give the Bronze Leaguers a chance to be incorporated into a larger pool of WvW player zergs, not to mention the increase in PvE players. Couple that with an increase in BL populations server-wide (instead of 100 per server cap, maybe bump it to 200 or something). Balance it all out with some Skill Lag modification, and some tweaks to defense/siege timers, and I think it could work out pretty well.
Another thought would be to couple servers together and keep the 3 League system in place. 24 servers could give 12 coupled matchups for some communal WvW play. 3 leagues of cooperative matches (SBI/CD vs. DB/BP vs. YB/IOJ for example) might be something worth considering.
ANET can use their vast system of Metrics and Statistics for WvW Population per server and make a determination based off high/low stats. Match a high pop server with a low pop server, etc. etc. etc. and switch it up every week in a League-wide scenario. Instead of a 1st, 2nd, 3rd reward system, make it only 1st place per League and give out very nice rewards (gems, gold, BL keys, a combination of all 3).
And for god’s sake ANET, open a test server!!!!!
I’d personally like to see an upgrade to the npc defenders at Supply Camps. If I’m spending an hour at a time trying to upgrade a camp to full, I’d at least like to be able to move to another control point without worrying about having to go back every 5 minutes to start over. Make those npc guards champions!!!!
The fact that Anet chose to only concentrate on one topic from the myriad of suggestions given leads me to believe that the collaborative development isn’t as serious as we would like to believe it is. There will always be those servers that can populate WvW more heavily than others, you can’t hamstring them for doing a better job of organizing their players.
If the devs were serious about trying to make WvW a better experience for all, and only want to focus on one of the many problems with the current League system, then the obvious choice regardless of collaboration is the Skill Lag issue. You can’t balance out WvW population on the maps if you can’t pop a heal in the middle of a 20v20 battle, or even a 3 way for SMC. Especially on Reset night, when Crystal Desert faced SBI and BP at ruins with a total of about 100 toons all clashing in the middle of an open field fight. I’m sure it’s worse on other higher populated servers, but the point is still the same.
Eventhough some servers can fill more bodies on a WvW map, it doesn’t make them better. I’ve seen 40-50+ blobs get their butts handed to them by 10-15 well organized zergbusters. But that can’t happen if the Skill Lag isn’t addressed first and foremost.
You can’t possibly expect Anet to consider a 2nd season when Season 1 is obviously no better than WvW without the Leagues. The only difference between Leagues and WvW of the past is the fact that we only see a smaller pool of the original 24 servers over the course of 7 weeks. Silver League is no better than Bronze League, or Gold League for that matter considering that there will always be one or two servers that can host larger zergs at a much wider range of timeslots.
2 words for this new overflow map………
Skill Lag
Thank you