This could work if they implement it right. Defensive siege should always have the balance giving it a slight edge on attacking siege to avoid zergs wiping out siege with pure numbers/supply with hammers and the defenders being able to fight back. An easy mechanic for that would be to put a cool down on any siege after it has been repaired. After a user taps some supply in, the Siege goes on an X amount of time CD where it can’t be used and a piece of siege can’t be repaired while it’s maned. This would stop repair on active siege but allow siege repair between engagements.
So they go with Alpine as the main server borders and redesign the Desert border as the guest home so that it doesn’t benefit any 1 server. I’d also like to see them redo the oasis area and make it something like SMC is for EBG with a central wp for the controlling server. Although they’d have to make some new Yak paths there to supply it.
Yes it would take a little bit of redesigning to make the new guest server not advantageous to 1 of the guest servers but an Alpine border redesign is already being worked on. It wouldn’t take much for them to include this idea into that redesign and it would solve a lot of problems.
Alternatively, they could replace the current Desert border with the new Alpine which is probably the more likely case and redesign the Oasis area to be like the EBG style SMC. The only issue the old alpine had was being able to siege the East and West keeps from towers and the main garrison.
With the new Linking I’ve seen a few concerns pop up and I think I have a way to fix the naming server pride issue while also fixing some other issue we have. Make a 4th home borderland. Since we currently have 3 borderlands and EBG you only have the main servers home as a borderland. Lets make a “guest” borderland that gives the 3 guest servers a home. This has a few different positives. It will alleviate map ques which are pretty substantial after the linking. It will give the “guest” servers a place to call home border. Most importantly this gives us an opportunity to not waste the desert borderland when alpine comes back. Make the guest border either desert or alpine map and have the normal borders be the same. Just an idea, but I think it may kill a few birds with one stone.
There are 3 guest servers in every match (at least for NA). You want to add 3 more bl’s when the bl’s are already being ignored except for the occasional karma train?
No I’m suggesting adding 1 border for the guest servers since they are lower population servers to begin with. 3 would spread too thin. I’m suggesting bring back Alpine and make it the guest home servers. Now that I’m thinking about it this could also serve to fix the lower tier glicko problem as well. Have their glicko populate from this map and each guest server will have a home on this border.
As for the decision to make the “guest” server Alpine or Desert and vice versa another poll thread like they did with the post about if we want Alpine back would be a nice way to gauge how players want that done.
With the new Linking I’ve seen a few concerns pop up and I think I have a way to fix the naming server pride issue while also fixing some other issue we have. Make a 4th home borderland. Since we currently have 3 borderlands and EBG you only have the main servers home as a borderland. Lets make a “guest” borderland that gives the 3 guest servers a home. This has a few different positives. It will alleviate map ques which are pretty substantial after the linking. It will give the “guest” servers a place to call home border. Most importantly this gives us an opportunity to not waste the desert borderland when alpine comes back. Make the guest border either desert or alpine map and have the normal borders be the same. Just an idea, but I think it may kill a few birds with one stone.
Hello, I’m looking for a guild with the Lost Precipice guild hall that has the ore nodes unlocked so i can mine the materials for the shimmering weapon set. Preferably on the NA Maguuma server but any server will work as I’m really just interested in mining the nodes.
While running around the guild hall the other day I noticed a non functional updraft! The other player in guild wasn’t able to see it and I’ve only seen it happen twice. It didn’t work though. I hope they actually do this, it would be really neat and would save us a lot of climbing materials.
More important than the fact it wasn’t caught when they tested it (which actually looks really bad on their part) is that it has been 22 hours and they haven’t hot fixed it yet. This basically breaks the entire class mechanic for the Chrono elite class and they didn’t revert the change. Really concerns me about the state of Anet’s priorities.
Well, no luck for me. Got an email back and they said they couldn’t verify the item loss. Guess I won’t be playing my Revenant for a while. Hopefully they look into the UI for deleting Ascended gear and change it to something other than a one click process.
I just had this same thing happen using the new Agony Resist extractors. It’s a drag and drop process followed by a confirmation of the extraction. I was doing multiple gear extractions and just missed the UI when i tried to do my Ascended hammer. I put in a ticket in game describing the process and how they should definitely update it to putting in the title of the gear when you try to delete it at least. I mean who deletes ascended items anyway. Hope I have your luck and they send it back to me. My Revenant is kitten without it.
It’s all good though, shortly thereafter we went to their home BL and ninja’d their WP’d WK with 9 people and I think they rage quit because their population dropped to almost nothing and everything was pretty much an easy take from there. Can’t mess with that Mag Swag.
So, the server we are playing against breaks our EBG waypointed keep with an omniblob and then we proceed to defend our fortified Jerri tower. Afterwards, we go to kill the guild catas that were used to take our fortified tower and see this. Good form ANET, good form.
True, maybe they could lock your IP into a server world each week. Like after reset the first one you log into your IP is locked into that server for that week. I mean, even locking it so you just can’t be on two servers that were fighting each other would fix the problem.
Link server location to IP in WvW. As it stands with all the $10 sales on the game we are seeing a lot of spies in WvW. This is annoying because you have people from the other server on your side sabotaging siege, doing false call outs, reporting positions etc. With the current design, all it takes is 1 alt account to be able to troll any server you are playing against and there isn’t really any way to report players doing this. Anet should make it so server is IP bound so that any account logging in from an IP has to play on the same server. It would really help WvW as a whole not having to worry about spies from other servers ruining our gameplay.
Well, thank you ANET, was looking for a reason not to play this game anymore. WvW was fun, until you match up with your “complex calculations” and give us something so bad that over 50% of our server decides not to play anymore…
Well here we go, the WvW nerfing has begun. With each nerf they add they are promoting zerg play over tactics. Portals are one of the few skills that when used properly could make a 30 man group able to fight a huge full queue zerg. The nerf to aoe being reduced to 5 men only and this new portal limit leads me to think that eventually WvW will evolve to nothing more than join the most populated server to win. I guess it was inevitable. I really wish Anet would ask for player feedback before doing things like this. If they had they would have realized that these tactical coordinated skills are the only edge lower pop servers have against massive zerg servers. I really don’t see the logic behind promoting zerg play over tactics. Good job Anet, lets make WvW as dumbed down as we can and give the advantage to easy mode karma train zergs.
