Guild Wars 2

caljay.8720:

Mengelstad.6591:

Rather then blanket night protection why not weigh off peak times differently? If it’s an NA server select an 8 hour block where PPT is calculated at full value. Off peak times cut that value in half, or whatever ratio seems appropriate. That way your off hours coverage team still is contributing to the servers success but not disproportionately.

Personally, I dont agree with this. Basically what you are saying is that we are less important than NA, and on a server where our off hour is our best time of day, primetime for the server, we cant gain points like the rest can. I’m not trying to be negative, but whatever is done needs to be done across the board and the same for all timezones

You may be looking at this in the wrong way. Currently the system favors your time zone over NA time zone on an NA server. At NA prime time most servers are pretty competitive but once that ends there are wild point swings based on which server has a few active off hours guilds. In T1 it’s not that easy to gain a 200 ppt lead over the other servers at prime time yet it happens all the time off hours and often alot more then 200 ppt.

All NA server winners are determined by off hours coverage because the gap during those hours is so great that no matter how dominant they are during prime time (you know the time where there is actual competition) they can never catch up.

Rather then blanket night protection why not weigh off peak times differently? If it’s an NA server select an 8 hour block where PPT is calculated at full value. Off peak times cut that value in half, or whatever ratio seems appropriate. That way your off hours coverage team still is contributing to the servers success but not disproportionately.

The main issue I see is the 24/7 coverage issues. Changing strategic points values does little to mitigate one server dominating others simply because they have people at a given time while the others have none. There is no challenge taking undefended objectives that can be upgraded for more points.

One way to mitigate this would be to define general peak times and use a bell curve for PPT scoring. That way you wouldn’t see a single server crush 2 others simply because they have a 5 hour window unopposed and it would put more weight on times when there is actual competition.

The other way would be to lessen the weight of objective PPT and place much more on actual PvP.

At any rate the current system is not working very well if the idea is to promote real competition.