I can’t speak for other matchups but the general rule for ours is that one server will dominate the others. Rather than the bottom two then trying to attack the dominant force they will often fight each other, effectively fighting for second place and allowing the dominant force to build up an unassailable lead.
My suggestion would be for an occasional bounty event to be placed against the dominant force – for example to capture their garrison or other keep in their borderlands. The reward for this could be a chest / loot drop with an exotic and /or a small chance for a precursor or rare item etc. This should encourage the two losing servers not to team up but to race each other to capture this keep.
The most intense sieges I have been a part of have involved all three servers defending/fighting over a fortification and, if nothing else, this will increase the chance of this type of siege.
Of course this would need to be balanced with some incentive for a server to win the matchup and the “bounty event” – perhaps a similar reward as to succeeding to capture said keep.
Last night I mapped to the Eternal Battlegrounds map and this happened (see screenshot). I was unable to use any waypoints in the whole of WVW and had to restart the game to fix it.
Everything else seemed fine – I could see players and chat etc just my mini-map and world map, this has only happened once and I have submitted an in-game bug report, thought I would include it here also as the bug report screenshot doesn’t do the bug justice…
We are on Whiteside Ridge
We have noticed it today in Bloodtide Coast (but it has happened in most if every explorable area)
Party of 2
Also – we have found that if we are in a party together and one of us walks far enough away (about 1/4 mini map range) their blue dot on the map disappears and the party box goes blank. We use this method to gauge if we will be able to instance together (if the other party member doesn’t disappear then we’re good to go!)
