Guild Wars 2

BrunoBRS.5178:

weird idea popped in my head:

what if the overall point value of structures was relative to how many points you have VS the total amount of points in the match up?

say for example, we have 3 servers, A, B and C. A has 150k points, B has 100k, and C has 50k. the total tally is 300k points. so if a structure is worth, say, 30 points baseline, in this system it could (easy to follow theoretical values for brainstorming’s sake) translate to:

• A: 30 x (300k/150k) = 60ppt
• B: 30 x (300k/100k) = 90ppt
• C: 30 x (300k/50k) = 180ppt

this would translate to unfairly populated teams scoring more until the score evens out. balanced match ups wouldn’t be affected because they all would have similar multipliers, whereas skewed match ups (be it a population or a coverage problem) are dynamically corrected the more skewed the points get.

this doesn’t mean covering off hours becomes less important, because even though you’ll be scoring significantly less if you own everything and are far ahead, letting the other team capture points during the off hour times could rocket them past you if unchecked.

of course, the numbers i showed might not be the best example, but the core concept is there.

TL;DR: a dynamic ppt readjustment based on the total tally VS individual scores.

Personally I like this system – cause it doesn’t force the day to be broken up into timezones (since some servers are stronger in some and weaker in others), but it still accounts for coverage disparity (ie the 24hr gameplay cycle of WvW & score snowballing).

Anybody out there willing to critique / play devils advocate with Bruno’s train of thought here?

+1

Great idea.

Hi Michael, a question bout the Community Team – what does that actually mean from the player’s perspective? What does the Community Team do?

Just a note about Gaile, when I was wrongly banned (twice) – Gaile was brilliant in being efficient / effective / patient / professional in helping me out.

If you want to know what disappointment and true abandonment feels like as far as GW2 is concerned you should speak to the WvW’ers. No Dev engagement as far back as one can remember.

Would be great to get some Dev input on the mega server in OS suggestion

Devs?
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Would be great to get some Dev engagement in this thread.

I think enabling Megaserver on the Obsidium Sanctum would be a great start and help re-invigorate the scene.

Submit a support ticket and explain how ANET were not clear about situations like yours (e.g. even if the Historian was out on June 3rd would transatlantic transfers have been able to claim the rewards at their new server?).

Hopefully the support team will be more helpful than the joke of a Dev reply above

Hi Gaile,

Ticket – 565343

It has been 8 days.

Would appreciate any help, thanks.

JQ is paying TC 20k gold this week for organizing this. Can you beat that BG?

Didn’t even notice this thread – but just a head’s up to the Devs you will probably find alot more content @ gw2wvw.net (there’s a video section).

How about the WvW community get roped in for Living Story in that we get to ‘invade’ PVE ourselves.

Really like the portal nature of the site – my go to site now for WvW vids.

After all the PVF/posturing is stripped away many of us are privileged to be part of gaming communities where we have made genuine friends. Really sorry to hear this.

My condolences to his family and IRON. RIP.

Looking forward to more lol, love it

I’m sorry the CDI on Commander Tags is over. Please use the search function in the future. This thread will hopefully be closed shortly.

The new Dev assigned to WvW has just responded to one post and closed another – your argument is invalid!

I was mentally preparing myself to take a break from GW2 given all the new titles coming out this year .. but ANET has truly surprised me and finally delivered.

Really looking forward to looking forward to 2015 in 2014 :-)

[DHP] – Danish Hippo Spa from TC.

An ele with a focus equipped so you can block treb shots.

My first main was a Ranger, and I have a Legendary equipped on it – but I only use it in PVE now due to 100% map completion.

Why I don’t play it in WvW anymore? Mainly the diminishing utility and ability to manage one’s pet as the size of engagements get larger. As others have pointed out, Rangers can shine in duels or very small engagements. But so can all other classes.

Who are these night cappers by the way – apart from when OP sleeps. For example NA is divided into three time zones, so in which time frame does ‘night capping occur’.

Also, what about day capping – all those folks who play and cap stuff while our NA brothers and sisters are hard at work or study .. I think we should do something to address this timezone too so OP doesn’t feel shortchanged.

Clearly siege damage needs to be buffed then.

Coldtart.4785:

‘Stop living in a different time zone to me! You’re violating my game mode!!’

This basically sums up the grumbling in this thread.

It’s obvious that the names were rushed and lazily done – but this is WvW!

Merry Christmas beaches

Furiousbeard.7602:

Wow, you guys need a nap. It’s getting emotional in here.

All this 2v1 talk, blobs and hate for FA. Is this a product of TC guilds moving to SOS?

Maybe take a break and spend some time with your families for the holidays.

Cheers

You wouldn’t happen to be related to “Kimbosbeard” now would you? If you do bump into him, tell him to rage less and enjoy my care packages more!

We make tonnes of money in PVE so tell him to consider his repair costs covered in perpetuity

Awesome fights in EBG the past few hours!

Although SOS have the smallest numbers, they’re playing king makers as they switch allegiances 2v1 wise – this feels like real WvWvW, great fun!

Came here to post this bug cause I can’t find a thread I am browsing on my phone – but looks like it is just the search feature bugged for months.

Welcome to the best end-game GW2 has to offer!

I think it will come after the end of Season 2, since they don’t do changes mid-season. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is mid-2014 though. (They’ve mentioned many things like changing commander tags, new traits, the EoTM map itself, that took quite some time to push out).

Evalana.5480:

Ark vs Choo 15 v 15 – 11/21/13 – Ark 4, Choo 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HKRemIMY_w

That round V .. what a slugfest right to the end!

Get your guild/server to create a plug.dj room so everyone plays and shares their music!

Definitely Red Guard – not only did they pwn, but they put it out there and shared it with the community, the ripple effect has been priceless.

Nakoor.1980:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=313x7EyAo5s

For those that didn’t get to test or watch any streams.

Thanku Nakoor!

lol

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1) – Skill Lag (please consistently update us and be honest – e.g. will GW2 WvW skills be ever able to work seamlessly when all three servers are Q’d on a map and fighting in SMC? And if not for the 50v50v50 in SMC if I’m 1v1’ing on the same map elsewhere can at least that kind of skill lag be reduced?).

2) – Alt Friendliness aka Account Bound WXP

3) – Commander Functionality

edit:
Regarding Skill Lag, I think you guys should add that it exists on your website when advertising GW2, it is misleading that you claim large scale battles are possible but fail to mention the dread that is skill lag (I’ve had some friends I recommended GW2 WvW to really disappointed with how skill lag is persisting).

Totally agree. All the folks who are not experiencing any Q issues are now taking the opportunity to gleefully say “told ya so” or “move to a lower pop server” etc. when the real issue is that the Q’s are not working as intended (seemingly random instead of first to Q first to get in a map) – and that the Devs knowing this problem exists did not address it before the expected new flood of achievement hunters from across the game into WvW with their new WvW Season Update.

I’m perfectly fine with being in a legitimate Q because the WvW population on my server is higher (due to Guilds transferring) or the general server population on my server being higher.

Cautiously optimistic – I just hope not too many people will have moved on from the game by the time it is released.

So unprofessional ANET. Quite shocked to be honest.

Ogre.1750:

Expect next GvG Showdown to be the last in a long time, if ever. I’m moving on to other games. Will deliver a couple more bullets in one form or the other GW2wise, but I think im pretty much done short term.

No sad goodbyes, cuz its not like im dying. No fee makes for an easy return if devs suddenly do things right… but i really need a new game (im figuring gtav).

Also Sacrx trilogy should be out in the next few days.. he had some codec issues but first video should be hitting his channel very very soon. Be sure to not miss those.

What can I say except curse and swear ANET for F’ing this whole scene up big time. So organic .. and so much passion and initiative from folks like you bringing it to spectators like myself and the actual people training and duking it out day in and day out.

kitten bloody shame.

Thank you Ogre for all you’ve done, again for spectators and competitors alike.

No thank you.

I hope this big announcement isn’t gonna be the new orb mechanic / power boost messing up GvGs.

Also, congrats to Scnd on their win!

Fully support this suggestion!

Support up to 30 players, WvW build diversity, unranked, use a random piece of PVE land that would be ideal or even an existing sPVP map (I’m sure Guilds will find a way around it).

Charge gems for tourneys/the custom arena itself etc.

DevonCarver.5370:

I’ll post this here as well:

WvW is a game type that we believe very strongly in. We’ve seen that people have been organizing their own combat in WvW and that’s really cool, but WvW requires changes that are not always in step with the gameplay that has been emerging. Our focus is on making WvW as strong as it can be and we will continue to make changes with that in mind. We have been and will continue to discuss these open field battles, but in the meantime the changes we make to WvW will always have that game type first and foremost in mind.

Orthodox WvW play (ppt/long sieges blabla) are fun and perhaps unique to GW2 – but please please don’t kill the burgeoning GvG scene bringing back the new Orb mechanic. This aspect of the game has its own issues that don’t seem to have a short term fix on the horizon and is pushing folks to GvG / pure open field play.

Worst case, as others suggested leave an option to turn off any stat bonuses. Best case, PLEASE PLEASE recognize the enormous potential in this grassroots scene and support it, cause if it dies, so will some of the major guilds in the orthodox WvW scene.

THAT LAST LINE, AWESOME NEWS.

Increasing the cost of building Omegas/Alphas might help since they are so much more accessible now (and the current WvW structure does not seem designed for this new golem wave meta when it comes to capping objectives).

E.g. Alphas – 400 supply, Omegas – 800 supply

Why do you have so many skill points .. don’t make superior siege?

Somewhere Devon mentioned this isn’t part of the scope of his team .. so I doubt a fix will come soon.

There’s lots of of quality of life fixes that could be fixed if there was more, imho, team-to-team communication and synergy in ANET.

There’s lots of skills/utilities/traits that remove immobilize or reduce the effectiveness of immobilize.