The system itself is flawed. I’m sure when Anet thought of this they figured there would be equally populated servers across the board. They aren’t, people have over stacked 1 server, and migrated heavily to another 4. So you have 1 super populated server and 4 high populated servers, and everyone else is light. They need to change the system completely.
There should be multi-guild alliances which can be created across all servers with a “roster cap”, and then those alliances compete against each other in a BL. it is the responsibility of the alliance to fill in their coverage gaps for the 1 BL for 3day-1 week matchup.
That way alliances create their own roster and then go at it, and alliances move up or down, NOT servers.
A NA guild(s) from JQ, with a Oceanic guild(s) from SoS and an asian guild(s) from Dragonbrand and a Euro guild(s) from Blackgate can form an alliance within their roster cap and fight other guild alliances.
Game would be 100x more fun and interesting. Be a lot of dynamics and change, with the ability for anyone to put together an “alliance” and be competitive, right now the server v server is stagnant.
And quite frankly, this type of system would actually fit the game name infinitely better than what the system is now.
This is the best idea I have seen so far. With some functionality to enable guilds to stay together over multiple matches to maintain continuity of cooperation you would get much better results than we currently have.
I play on SF. We definitely outman ET/FC most of the time although there are times (specifically 4am-7am EST) where we have almost no one on and as you might expect lots of things flip. I have also played on DR. I xfer’d there from SF for a few weeks to see what life was like b4 returning to SF. I was there as Magumma and then Kain blew through on their way up. I know what its like to be so devastatingly out manned that you cant hold onto anything. I have played against NSP, BP, AR, IOH and EB etc. IMHO, SF can be competitive in T7 and perhaps T6. Our biggest issue is sloppiness after being in T8 for so long and not being consistently challenged. Given a chance that would be corrected against a stronger opponent.
The issue of tier locking don’t just affect ET and FC. SF manpower is on the decline out of boredom or the realization that the system is weighted against us, literally. I should not be forced to xfer in order to get a fresh matchup. A matchup that will be competitive.
For those who don’t know, the current math behind rankings uses historical data to predict how you should be doing and if you aren’t doing as well as you should be doing, you can win a week by a huge margin and still lose points.
In the fantasy world where the rating were reset chaos would have ensued BUT the end result would be better matchups. Since the current matches are based on flawed data due to the massive xfers and the inherent problems in T8 and to a lesser extent T1 at least in fantasy world after a chaotic start things would be settling down about now. Sure there would have been some really lopsided results but from where i sit, it would have been a lot more fun for SF.
Now down to the brass tacks.
There are lots of opinions. I wont comment about their quality. Conspicuously missing is some communication by ANET. Of all the flaws this is the one that matters the most. It is verging on shameful.
