Guild Wars 2

So…SoS…

Since when was most of your servers players in 1 guild [PDX].

Yet another WvW week of migrating guilds, this time SoS drew the golden ticket.

Well CD gave it our all, but numbers do matter in the end.
But can you guys give your ego’s a rest, its very annoying to see a post every few mins rubbing your win in others faces, yes you destroyed CD and ET but dont forget who your facing next.

I like this idea, being able to crawl out of an AoE would be a benefit.

I think I have sat guildless for a bit to long, ill PM you ingame later

I get this sometimes, then other times in WvW for example in large teamfights, the audio lowers and I hear what sounds like someone banging on a really crappy LOUD drum.

Its annoying as hell!

First off, the majority of players in GW2 really love the idea of WvW, the issue is that it is currently being abused by Guilds and Players transferring to new servers when scores reset in order to top the rankings. The World Transfer function was left free for far to long and has such a short cooldown that its killing both WvW and server communities.

The fact is even a change to World Transfers now by either adding a longer cooldown or giving it a STEEP price-tag (Which it really should have) is only going to make things worse.

As soon as you decide to do either of the above changes, players and guilds will begin mass transferring to servers and by the time the system is implemented, we would have a couple of full servers with lots of PvP oriented guilds, a few normal servers and then their would be the last few server which would have completed destroyed communities as a result.

There is one radical fix to both the WvW and Population issues and happens in a few steps.

1. Pick a future date and when it comes bring the servers down for about a day.
2. Reset all players home servers, so when they login after the servers come back up they have to pick a new home server.
3. Wipe all previous WvW scores and records to this point, the scores
currently don’t mean much due to mass exploiting of the Transfer system.
4. Give every server a new name, this is to avoid players logging back on and filling the previously most popular server before this started, if the names were changed, every server is a blank slate.

If you give the community enough time, say 1 week, they can sort out their guilds and friends and keep in touch with one another when this happens.

This may be an extreme measure but it may be the only one that will fix both these issues that are right now in the verge of crippling your game. Its fare to say other developers saw your WvW idea and will go with it in future, and avoiding the bugs and errors made on your part to make a system superior to your own.

Right now your community fully supports you and GW2 and im sure I speak for the majority when we say we would go with this if it would have a chance of fixing the game and most importantly its server communities.

I thought about this a couple of weeks ago but I couldn’t figure out how to automatically get those figures from the game servers. But there is a website that can track the figures submitted by players http://mos.millenium.org/matchups

From my perspective I see this as the only option to resolve this issue 100%.
Pick a Tuesday and take the servers offline, reset everyone’s home server and all the server rankings to date so that all the servers will be new again, the only thing to be saved is the players characters gear etc, they wont be changed.
Give the community like a weeks warning to make proper preparations for their friends and guilds.

Next and I see this as the only option to avoid flooding of the top servers at when they are restored is to completely rename the servers, then went the servers are restored and people login, no one will know who the top servers gonna be and we can let the community settle, keep free transfers open for 24 hours to let people find their friends/guilds etc then close it and make it a paid service with a 30 day timer.

Its an extreme measure sure but this is the only way to restore a balance to the servers without condemning other servers to death due to population shortage.

Well I think its a fair guess to say your going to be up against Jade Quarry in the next reset, so your about to get a mighty challenge indeed, question is whos going to be the 3rd?

The damage was already done, and as I commented in another thread, as soon as Anet announces any change to transfers, weather switching to paid or adding a longer timer, people will flood the top servers on the list with transfer requests and many other servers will suffer for it.

A great story, but the damage has already been done, the Free Transfer were left open far to long, now as soon as Anet even whispers Paid Transfer people will flood the top servers with transfer requests and many servers will pay dearly for it.

When WvW resets again and your up against JQ lol
I wonder what those guilds that flooded IoJ this week will do then.

Your server can do alot of great things but this weekend I saw how far some of your members were willing to go for map control, and I was disappointed. Ill be sure to catch them in the act next time, if we ever get our CD Garrison back.

But we had some good battles before that and I commend my server and yours.

Rankings mean nothing and will continue to do so while guilds keep mass transferring servers.

Well is was a pretty mixed group in the zerg, I managed to get 1 screenshot before dying but its not very good, if I see it again I will provide more evidence, but Im hesitant to point the finger at 1 guild since their was alot of them. But Im sure this was instigated but a small number since they used portals in the end to bring in the rest of their players.

http://imageshack.us/a/img211/782/gw013q.jpg

Well Your server can officially goto hell.

All day they have been exploiting the environment issue around Watergate of Crystal Deserts Borderlands Garrison by jumping the terrain into our Garrison without even having to breach a single gate.

We have enough issues with the world transfers in WvW without your players causing more trouble.