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This isnt just an NA issue – the red BL is totally dead everywhere in WvW. Whoever is red for the week has a massive advantage (if you care about PPT) because almost no one goes there so the structures upgrade to T3 andcan stay that way for days without a scratch.
Really Anet, you can see from all your stats that having 1 BL map different from the rest has not worked at all. The snowflakes that voted for it don’t even play WvW (those votes should of been restricted to players with a minimum WvW rank). The gamemode is really dying, making 3 equal BL maps again is atleast 1 thing you can do to try and fix things.
Does this have any restrictions on who can vote? I don’t think so….
If we truly want to improve WvW, wouldn’t it be better to make sure only the target population has the say? Also surely some weighting should be given to those who have played WvW a lot (i.e. those who have experience).
Why not make it that only player with a WvW rank greater than 1.5k can vote? This would still be a big sized population and also a reward for those who have played for a longish time…
are you sure its the outfits only? it would make sense to get rid of the outfits until you fix it rather than ruin everyone’s game experience
Please don’t link Piken with anyone ;-)
tks
Hi,
Home team, at peak times, is always outnumbered in fights. Consider:
- Both opponents can have a full map blob all focused on the same thing (i.e. their commander).
- Often the opponents can work together to systematically double team your border.
- Home side who has to fight both these teams i.e. 2 v 1
- Home side who will have roamers / scouts / defenders around the map and not on commander tag.
What this means is that, as a commander on your own map you will never ever have equal numbers when all sides have queue. This is frustrating to most fight oriented commanders and players.
So why not let the home side have an extra 10-15 slots available to them?
great job and effort!
Linking has not worked out (for EU anyway, I assume the same is true for NA):
- We now have a situation where, as stated by the anet post further up the thread, they are intentionally stacking servers and ‘match making’. How can that can kind of interference by right?
- The sense of community within the smaller servers has been put through the washing machine and diluted to the extent where they have nothing at all left. In the larger servers, this is now starting to also happen. In EU there are maybe only 1 or 2 servers remaining with a large stable community.
- The linking has not created any balance at all. All its creating is gem sales for anet as players bandwagon to smaller servers linked to larger servers. The linking was intended to solve balance issues – it has not done this at all.
A lot of damage has already been done. My suggestion is that Anet now perma merge servers (so total population is 15 in EU), and allow the communities to stablise, rebuild and get their identities back.
Linking must go!
also surprised Piken got linked – yes we slipped to like 5th but we had the numbers to still challenge quite well….. we are totally stacked now ;-)
linking is a fail – just merge some servers and be done with it. Or some kind of alliance angle. Linking encourages bandwagon behaviour and kills/diltues the small communities with the constant changing…. does Anet even realize how special WvW communities are? We all have our websites/TS/personalities/identity beyond what they can see in their charts.
IMO the 2 biggest dangers to WvW, and why truck loads of players are leaving is a.) Linking b.) Skill lag. There are issues too, but these are the big ones.
WORLD LINKING POLL
Dear Anet, In the poll just posted to ‘approve’ world linknig, you indicate you have seen a big increase in WvW participation. As Alpine and other WvW changes (reward track etc) were released at same time, how do you know the participation has increased from world linking?
Long term I can world linking destroying the game mode – communities are struggling to hold together. withot a World to fight for anymore, its not really World vs World?
Just perma merge the servers and allow them to recreate their communities…… don’t shift and swap every 3 months its just silly and promotes all kind of system gaming and loss of community identity.
Deso and Vabbi are already bandwagoned.
This was my question actually….. Do 2 linked servers have potentially x 2 the population as a single server? So you have Deso which is already a big server (with loads of sleeper accounts of people taking a break from GW2) teamed up with Vabbi who I guess was basically empty pre patch. But then transferring to Vabbi is cheap so all the bandwagon people go there… so they have more than 2 x the potential population of my server (Piken)…. doesn’t seem fair? Why not just set a population cap that is equal for all ‘sides’. Sure they can unlink… but if this only happens every 3 months then the badwagoners will just move to the next cozy linked place for a relatively low fee.
At the moment this system is actually worse than the old one!
honestly these changes sound like a great start. Turning off the timer on upgrading is a good idea, but will will not really improve the core issue which is that servers with a coverage advantage will still be able to upgrade things quite easily with no effort other than the initial blob karma train i.e. server A&B goes to bed at midnight, server C Karma Trains for 1 hour longer…. the keeps and towers they cap will upgrade quickly with the usain bolt dolly’s feeding them and no one from server C even has to be there.
My suggestion for this would be that either a.) someone from server C still has to be present to activate the next upgrade tree (isn’t this common sense?) and/or b.) at the very least reduce the effectiveness of the dollys from the 3 south camps (either slow them down or reduce frequency).
Also the way points are silly….. Waypoints only at T3 (like SM) and whoever owns the T3 Keep should be able to use them (so home team can have WP in side keep if they get it to T3). This would bring a lot more interest back to WvW as people would have an actual incentive to defend their territory.
‘In 100 words or less, describe how the new BLs could be improved.’
- Either bring back the old upgrade system with slight modification (i.e. player activated at each stage at no cost) or make Auto-upgrade only applicable to Home keep and 2 side towers…. rest of map should not auto-upgrade when enemy controlled.
- Being able to WP into structures you dont own is silly.
I agree – the very first thing that needs to be sorted out is the auto upgrading. It just makes the bigger servers with the larger night caps even more powerful….. and infact they dont even need to push a start button… they will just upgrade themselves!.
If auto upgrade stays as is, all servers below ~rank 7/8 in EU will be essentially dead in 1 or 2 months from now.
If Anet want to keep Auto-Upgrade system, atleast modify it so that it only applies to Home Garrison and two nth towers and camps (same for EB). The rest of the maps should not auto-upgrade and should require some actual player(s) doing something to upgrade.
Piken v Baruch v Augury world scores reset to zero and world peace.
Piken / Baruch / Augury MU reset to zero and completely broken.
Hi Stephen,
Thanks a lot for taking time to looking at this issue. Just checking what changes you have made to the map cap though. My server (Piken) rarely has map queues at prime time apart from EB but tonight all our maps are full with big queues and a lot of the guilds/players cant get in. The various communities are ‘geared’ up at certain population levels so would like to think this reduced map cap is very temporary while an actual solution is found?
thanks a lot
bumping this ;-)
recent open raid on Piken
bump this back up
Are you looking for a fun, mature and stable WvW experience? Do you like a nice balance between fights (zerg, small scale and roaming) and matchup progression? Are you looking for a community experience where your efforts will be appreciated and respected? If so, Piken Square is interested in hearing from you!
We are an international server with players from all over the world not just the EU. In the past we have been home to some of the top WvW guilds and continue to retain a large and experienced talent pool. We are now looking to push 2-3 places higher than our current low gold tier position. The reason we want to do this is:
- We are no longer challenged by the silver tier matchups we often get and would like consistent higher tier opposition.
- We love open field fighting on both grand and small scales, we want to be back amongst this.
- Guild fights have now moved towards the top of Tier 1/2 in the EU, we would like to once again be considered a premier Guild server.
To achieve these goals we need more recruits! We especially need more Open raid commanders and Non EU Guilds and Players, but of course more EU players are welcome too. We want people who want to become involved in our community and work together to push us higher – but most of all we want people who want to have fun!
What can we offer you:
- A friendly, no drama, WvW experience within a community that is 100% addicted to WvW.
- Community WvW Forum at http://PIKEN.EU
- Weekly Events and personal Recognition Rewards
- Community Guild with > 460 members
- Weekly server meeting for everyone.
- An inclusive environment.
- Season focus and organisation.
- Short or No queues even during prime time (even on reset you and your guild would be able to get into a map in less than 10 minutes).
- Experienced WvW player base to draw upon.
- Server wide TS
If you are looking for a change or want more information then please drop a note on our forum (http://PIKEN.EU) or message/mail our server rep Doc Holiday.1326 (a.k.a Roy) in game.
p.s. Brief video of our season 3 fun:
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@ admins lending my voice to the ‘do not remove white swords’ camp… this would kill servers that don’t have the population to scout properly or who prefer a fight oriented game play to a siege/arrow cart everything in site style.
PPK is also a massive change and was one of the ideas discussed in the coverage thread so should be thought through in the context of that discussion.