Some people were wanting to let the other servers cap SM to farm and finish achievements… That doesn’t look right at all.
Doesn’t matter if it’s Friday, or if your server can’t lose by points or if you need achievements, this is just not how the game should be played… Right? :P
Then you try to argue and get flamed in chat. :S
Hi
Just FYI, on my server, SM flipping is not necessarily a bad thing. Many times it becomes an overall strategic server wide decision.
Reason being is that on Fridays especially after reset, it takes a HUGE amount of supplies to hold onto it and we would rather have those supplies available for upgrades on our own keep and towers rather then try to hold on to SM.
While we do cap it, and somewhat hold onto it for PPT, we do not repair or upgrade it. We will defend it by repeatedly wiping groups trying to get it from us and they eventually do, but our goal until we have our keep and the 2 rear towers fully secured is to keep it “paper” rather then invest all we have into it and keep losing all our other stuff due to SM supply drain.
So in fact, we use SM as a supply drain on our opponents and somewhat of a “buffer zone”.
The achievements thing just adds onto that a bit.
Please make sure that you actually verify that is not the case and you are on your commanders VOIP, before making accusations. Map chat often does not show strategies, juts people that dont understand them.
P.S. Also as posters above have stated, if we outnumber servers pretty badly and the conclusion is forgone, then we will usually be relaxed and let them flip stuff for some points, not just SM but other objectives as well. Reason for this is that if we prevent any points being made from the opposing servers whom we greatly outnumber, then it demoralizes them very badly and people stop playing all together. This is not what we want to happen.
Hope this helps you out a bit in the overall understanding of the game.
I understand the strategy, but in this case, it was Friday before reset and we had absolutely no problems in holding our fully upgraded SM (outnumbered them easily)
If they say that we wouldn’t defend because the other server needs achievements, that’s just silly and wrong. They have 4 more weeks to get the achievements, I don’t think I should stop playing the game how it’s supposed to be played because WvW design is broken.
If you can’t get the achievements because the game is broken, go discuss in forums (e.g. “Collaborative Development: World Population”) a way to fix it, get a transfer, make a group and go try to cap other things… I know this is not right, I don’t think anyone should be forced to transfer just to enjoy wvw, but look at my point of view: I bought the game because it offers this amazing feature called “World vs World” where I need to group up, cap and defend things to sum points for my server, then somewhere in time someone tells me to not defend them.. I was like.. What?!? Q_Q
Despite all this complaints, I like the idea of let other servers cap stuff just to don’t demoralize and complete achievements (once we can’t lose at all this week), but only because the design is broken. Anet should address it as soon as possible.
