Guild Wars 2

24 hour coverage
How do we make play time in off hours valuable without blowing out the score? Get rid of servers, balance maps, make an individual/guild reward system.

Snowballing
How do we give worlds a fighting chance throughout the duration of the match? Get rid of servers, balance maps, make an individual/guild reward system.

Stagnation
How do I feel continuously challenged when my world is ahead? Get rid of servers, challenge guilds based on when they play.
How does my world break the hold that other worlds have on me when I’m behind? Get rid of servers/balance maps, make individual/guild reward system.

For all of these you need to change the scoring system.
I would suggest giving everyone an achievement/title for the server they are currently on for the people that have server pride. Announce it and allow transfers before, for people that had pride in a server they moved from. Scrap PPT. Make a few more maps so you have a random rotation of maps. But starting the EOTM/EB/Borderlands maps are okay, but they should be balanced and similar in the way they work (supply delivery). You can keep the colors and three way fighting setup. Change the rest to a guild based setup. Let guilds go in during the times they want to play. You can open or close maps depending on how many guilds/people are on.

Guilds that capture/hold camps, towers, keeps and other objectives can gain influence/merit (or another currency) based on how long they hold them (to encourage defense), what they take (for people that like offense and zerging) /kills & stomps (for people that like open field/roaming). Then they will also feel like they are not losing anything when they want to log off for the night.

You will need to track the influence/merit gained each week from WVW. You can post this so people know what the top guilds are. When the week is done, assign colors based on position from the previous week. Keep the current score hidden during the week to keep people from gaming the system. When the week ends you can make it a reward for the guild, based off score or participation.

You can also add WVW daily achievement section for personal rewards for helping your guild, boxes with guild commendations, laurels, bonus badges of honor, chance at good loot (ascended/precursor), and occasional wvw exp boosters or metabolic primers.

People would want to play WVW for the rewards. They would want to play WVW for the glory of their guild. They would have balance in the maps. They would have balance in population.

This system would allow you to expand on the marketplace for guild commendation items, as well as the guild influence marketplace for cool tower buffs, siege equipment, traps, buff flags, etc. It would also allow for prestige and bragging rights for guilds on the scoring ladder.

Population balance should come with getting rid of servers. Before you log into WVW you can designate your wvw guild for the week. You can change guilds free as long as it’s the same color. To unlock a different color set for wvw costs gems. Then maybe an increasing amount to unlock the 3rd color set of guilds. Then ANet can make their money. People can belong to multiple guilds so you can go to whatever color you want you just have to be representing that guild. Sometimes you might get lucky and all your guilds are one color, sometimes you might have to pay if you really want to wvw with another guild.

I think just changing the structure of WVW would fix a lot of the issues. Maybe open people up to making friends/alliances from other servers. Get a chance to play with more people. Get meaningful rewards for their time and engergy spent. Make being in a guild and working together more meaningful.

If you want the nice shiny loot in Living Story you have to run around Lions Arch and fight stuff. Sometimes the enemies are more than you can handle. If you have a group of people it helps.

If you want the nice shiny loot in the WvW Tournament you have to run around the wvw maps and fight stuff. Sometimes the enemies are more than you can handle. If you have a group of people it helps.

Do you expect the enemies in PvE to just lay down and give you stuff? You’re in a WvWvW tournament. A tournament is a competition involving a large number of competitors. Compete. Don’t try to badger people with honor and respect when you don’t even respect that you’re in a tournament. Have some honor and fight for your shiny loot.

x Rubber Banding, skill lag, or in a few cases game crashes.
x Sea of Sorrows
x I have experienced disconnect/lag with party members at times and other times I was the only one with lag/disconnect. I have also heard party members comment they had skill lag and rubber banding when I did not, we were playing in the same area of the map.
x The skill lag almost always occurs during zerg vs zerg battles. They didn’t appear to be large battles. 30 vs 50? One crash occurred in the middle of a zerg vs zerg battle in SM, but another was when I was just escorting yaks on a different area of the map.

jacobo.8240
“Well, we (SoS) had the same problem in the past matchup with the same thief you’re talking about. I think he’s just trolling the green server for some reason.”

Yeah that’s not our thief. It was on CD last week sneaking into our keep. Just take screens and report! That’s about all you can do.

EnRohbi.2187:

Tygr.9402:

EnRohbi.2187:

On another note, though.
Where is SoS right now? ._.

Based on that picture I would say we’re all camping.

I’m just surprised.
The score has looked something like that since I woke up this morning

Last time we closed 20,000 points of a gap in one day was in like tier 5

Just different time zones, or work/school schedules. When I woke up it was almost all green.

EnRohbi.2187:

On another note, though.
Where is SoS right now? ._.

Based on that picture I would say we’re all camping.