Guild Wars 2

John Corpening..

Instead of implementing population caps/reductions/merging of servers etc, which all have their merits and de-merits, perhaps the solution can be found in the tried and tested system of two opposing Worlds, i.e NA v EU

For tournaments, two or three RANDOM servers from NA would battle together under one NA flag, against three RANDOM EU servers who also battle together under their EU flag.

Rinse and repeat the above on each WORLD so everyone gets an equal opportunity to fight in a busy and fun tournament.

This is a similar format to the old GW1 of FA v JQ.

The merits for this system that I see is:-

1. Over ‘stacking’ of a single server becomes irrelevant since the overall winning score will now depend on which WORLD has won the most battles across ALL its tiers/servers.

2. Each server keeps its present identity. Each server would fight for the pride of it’s WORLD.

3. With each tier becoming important for the success of winning the overall NA/EU tournament, this will encourage a more balanced system of players in EACH tier/server, thereby giving new life to ‘dead’ WvW servers.

4. This would also reduce siege trolling to a point.

5. By reducing the cost to transfer to a lower populated server the quicker each server will become more balanced.

6. Uneven match-ups such as the present and last tournament should now be properly addressed and fair to everyone, regardless of what server they are on.

Of course there are no doubt other considerations I have not touched upon or addressed, like there are 24 NA servers compared to 27 EU servers, however, this is my contribution towards finding a solution that I believe is worth considering..

Its been referenced before already in this thread and I will repeat it here..

There are a small handful of actual Siege Trollers across all servers, too few in fact to warrant a mechanism being implemented into the game to combat them. The ONLY real solution that is fair for everyone is to have the Siege Trollers reported using the inbuilt reporting tool and then have ANET investigate this themselves, implementing anything else will just impact the game mechanics and players alike.

Why hamper/hinder the game with restrictions that will effect everyone in WvW when we are talking about a small core of siege trollers!

Please ANET, let us use the in-game reporting tool and then you investigate these siege trolls yourself. We will make it easy for you to find them, the reporting tool will tell you who they are and on what server to find them on.

Same problem here too.. No guild chat (says I’m not in a guild), according to my guild roster I am the only member. I have a EU account playing on a NA server since I joined, never been on a EU server. Cant see anyone when I join a party. Restart of the game client does nothing, nor changing characters or standing down and representing my Guild again.