Guild Wars 2

:O

Very impressive.

This kinda shows how important actual skill is in this game. Regardless of whether or not viewers see these 4 as skilled players, the skill differential between these 4 and the mob of other players was obviously there and had an effect.

So that people kinda understand the situation at ET:

Atm our server population is “High”, but just last week we were “Medium” so relatively speaking, we have fewer people. But besides that, our increased population is largely new players (like myself).

A lot of our experienced players are packing up and leaving the server. My old guild basically up and went to Kain 2 days ago, and the guild leader, after transfering, quit the guild, so that is a mess atm. Players may not be transfering to FC or SF, but a lot of them are transfering. This is largely out of frustration.

Our commanders that are still on the server rarely tag themselves because they cant get anyone to listen. Because we are losing a lot of good experienced players to transfers, we are left with a influx of new players, and lonewolf/bad players. Just last night we couldn’t even do breakout on Mendons in EB. Players wouldn’t build siege, wouldn’t help commanders take Speldan camp. We basically sat there for over an hour autoattacking the gate until SF’s zerg took the rest of EB and came back to wipe us. We couldn’t even get people together to hit SF-BL, FC-BL or our own borderlands because as soon as people rezed, they would run straight outside the gate towards Overlook and engage the 30 or so SF. We tried getting people to go around to hit supply camps instead, but it was like a magnet was pulling everyone in.

Now I’m sure every server suffers from this problem. Not everyone listens. I see a lot of the same when defending vs FC and SF. People wont build siege and I can tell people are not following directions just by watching how bad some fights go. (SF is kinda notorious for building rams under manned oil pots, at least from ET perspective) But on ET the problem is worse only because we don’t have enough people active in WvW and we are losing a lot of experienced players. Having 4-5 people doing the own thing/lonewolf and 4-5 people not following commanders’ directions isn’t bad, if you have 25+ people in a map. But when you have only 15 or so people it becomes impossible to do anything.

We can pull 20-30% of the map during the afternoon-lateafternoon. This is basically when the majority of our server is online. However, even these people are getting frustrated and transfering because despite their good effort (they try hard, follow commanders, succeed in taking the map back) we dont have the same quality of players show up a few hours later. Thus we just end up losing everything every evening and all their effort is in vain. Evening time (around when SF and FC get their nightly 30-40 players and start zerging the maps) we have around 15-20 people total (not counting the lonewolves that I cant see) and about half of these guys just kinda do their own thing. They are either new players who you just have to teach or don’t care in which case there is little you can do.

In my opinion, the situation at ET is just going to keep getting worse as more people get frustrated with poor performances, transfer causing poorer performance thus frustrating more people and getting them to leave. The only people that seem to be staying are those that want to hop into WvW, run around killing things for an hour and log off, which is pretty unfortunate (well besides our patient ET patriots xD). It seems that this cycle is almost impossible to break at this point, and likely it wont until we hit rock bottom with a completely new set of players, get our new players good experiences (not the current terrible performance we’ve had) and basically build up from scratch.

As a post script: We not only have a case of people-not-following-commanders but also this weird case of “if you are not a commander, I-will-not-follow-you.” Commanders atm have a hard enough time finding enough people to do anything, but good luck if you are not a commander trying to find a few people for camps. People are complaining that commanders wont tag themselves, yet if someone is looking to start a group to hit camps that isn’t a commander, they’ll get completely ignored, maybe even shunned.

/disapoint face :<

Edit: and literally immediately after posting this Anet announces they will be removing free transfers. That will certainly help since hopefully we’ll have more people willing to stay and build up the server instead of leave and making it worse.