Guild Wars 2

Greysonn.3698:

I don’t think this is going to be a thing, for the sole reason that right now it ‘forces’ you to buy extra bag and banks lots which translate into $_$

This. Bag slot is a money maker for Anet so you are not going to get any for free.

This issue is made worse by the fact that in GW2 people an see your account and not just a character. In other games you can “hide” in a different character

I never really understood why Anet allow people to see the whole account…

Isciira.2958:

The only thing that will fix this problem in to reduce the amount of exp given by crafting, but I don’t really see that happening.

If they reduce crafting exp, then it will force some people to go out into the world and level up where by increasing zone population. However I don’t like forced behaviour since we are all different and we have different play styles. Anyway I don’t think drastic change such as this is needed since there are other ways to increase population count.

Astral Projections.7320:

Maybe one day they will put is underflow servers to merge low population zones. However it will be a problem with timers. If someone goes to a map to do a particular event and gets put into another server where the event is over with, then that’s a problem I’m not sure how they can get around.

I agree “underflow” servers has issues but so does “overflow” servers but they are supported by Anet. I am surprised “underflow” servers are not in the game from the beginning.

In many MMO (such as WoW) sometimes merging serves will create problems such as unwanted world pvp, competing for resources and quest drops etc. but theses are non issues in GW2. In fact in GW2, another player in a zone is almost always an asset and not a liability so there is more reason to add “underflow” server to GW2.

Darthaemos.6370:

lostforever.3106:

I have recently returned to GW2 and found that many of the pre 80 zones to be empty of players. Note that I am on a “high” population server and big cities such as LA and other level 80 zones are filled with players but it just the pre 80 zones are almost empty. I hopped around to number of other “high” population servers and in my experience, zones are empty on all of them.

Empty zones makes levelling up a character a very lonely and difficult affair. Not many people around to do dynamic events, kill champions or even talk to on chat! I think something needs to be done to re populate these pre 80 zones. I would say server merge in other games but does that make sense for GW2? May be zone merge?

“High” population is a relative term. You need to go by what the most popular servers actually are, not what’s merely listed as “High” by ANET.

Even then, you’re not likely to find the 20-70 zones brimming with new players. That’s just the nature of any MMO that’s been out for nearly a year.

How can I figure out the most “popular” server please? Is there a community maintained list?

I do agree that nearly after year of release there going to be less new players and those starting alts. However I do feel that there are enough of us but we are spread too thin across servers.

Sai.5908:

This is why I suggested heroes and henchmen , because as you go up level in maps population gets scarce and there’s hardly anyone to help you do quests .

Henchmen will make levelling easier by allowing you to complete DEs and kill champions but it still will be lonely world without real players. Anyway I don’t think Anet will add henchmen any time soon since adding henchmen to a MMO is admitting a design failure on their part.

I have recently returned to GW2 and found that many of the pre 80 zones to be empty of players. Note that I am on a “high” population server and big cities such as LA and other level 80 zones are filled with players but it just the pre 80 zones are almost empty. I hopped around to number of other “high” population servers and in my experience, zones are empty on all of them.

Empty zones makes levelling up a character a very lonely and difficult affair. Not many people around to do dynamic events, kill champions or even talk to on chat! I think something needs to be done to re populate these pre 80 zones. I would say server merge in other games but does that make sense for GW2? May be zone merge?

Another vote to this idea. I have recently retuned to GW2 and the world feels empty even on “high” population servers. Its hard to complete any DE due to this and kind of defeat the purpose of MMO. So please implement something like the idea suggested here to repopulate the servers again.

I take it this is not possible in game?

Hello,

Is there anyway to save your chat/combat logs to a text file please?

In other games I have played, I have used command such as “/log” and my chat/combat logs get saved to text file on the PC. I am wondering if something like that is possible in GW2 as well.

Thanks in advance