Guild Wars 2

BOMB is out there to have fun. But we also happen to be pretty good in the process.

Are you learning how to WvW, want to follow some good commanders?

Are you looking to have a slightly different time out there, maybe switching up strategies you thought were the only way?

Do you like whiskey and snuggles? Do you like riding ponies into the sunset?

If you said yes to any of these questions; BOMB may be the home for you.

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It’s been a fun week so far!

To [EP] I wish I knew if you actually all wore purple to battle. That kinda makes me <3 you.
To [CERN] and [RE] thanks for walking dolyaks and kites with us. You know who you are.
To [KH], everyone screams when you show up; and it took me a while to learn they weren’t saying “cage.” Fix that pls.

To [Hero], you guys don’t seem very heroic from our side of the fence… I mean, we are the heroes, right?
To [DF] I’m sorta jealous that we don’t have a thieves only guild. We are so shunned over here, but at least we aren’t rangers.

To everyone complaining about spies, lay off the weed a little.
To Tequatl, I don’t enjoy what you have done to our community.

To [RISE] keep hunting those bags.
To [RQ] keep hunting those bags.
To [APS] keep hunting those PPT.
To [SND] keep being awesome, and make some grilled cheese.

My goodness; reading through this thread makes me want to transfer to TC. Not due to WvW prowess, but for the RP. I get tired of non-RP out here. Take that back, I tire of people saying “that’s gay” or “ure coming?”

Bleah, FA is “red team” again. That’s a whole month now… I tire of it.

Personal notes:

Me and some guildies were chasing down some incredibly speedy Maguumas, my guild mates gave up chase. I got splattered alone. Two came to help; died as well…. The Magumma players started shooting fireworks and dancing. I said “Thanks for the Fireworks, you don’t need to dance though.” At which point more of my guild showed up and trounced the trouncers.
I got the fireworks at the end of that fight; and thanked the player. Ended up with a great chat (yes you can private tell people on other servers) with that player. Thanks again!

We found a SoS hacker in Hills. Ended up getting his name; and kitten was he proud of hacking. He even TRANSFERRED over to our server to proudly ask how his hacking was going. Nothing against SoS here, just bad form for the player… Worst part? It’s likely a stolen account. T_T

Team Milk Shake is the best. If you got smacked around by a treasure trove of theives with a warrior wearing the [GODS] name; you can rest assured there were many “I drink your milkshake” or “we brought the boys” comments dropped while we did it.

This week we’ve (Fort Aspenwood) been paired against Maguuma and Sea of Sorrows.

A peek over at the ranking’s page;
SoS – 10 (green)
Mag – 11 (blue)
FA -12 (red)

SoS is a known Oceanic server.
Mag has some quality SE Asian players.
FA is mostly NA.

Friday night prime time; FA is dominating these two servers that “rank” above us..
Saturday morning; Mag and SoS have taken over the maps; FA is in third place (even though we claimed whole maps Friday night.)

Not to be outdone; FA works hard to maintain their day point advantage. We begin by reclaiming whole maps.
Saturday evening; we rest with a 3k point lead.

Sunday morning, we wake with SoS in the lead again. Everyone I hear is frustrated by this! SoS can literally get +600 points a tick with no opposition. We at most can get +460 to +520 a tick; as SoS and Mag also field some day pops.
We do not relent; FA resecures whole maps. Mag pretty much disappears from the game. We rest that night with a 7.5k lead

Monday morning; we still have a lead. Monday evening, a great lead.
Tuesday morning, an even greater lead. Tuesday evening; we are 40k over SoS and almost 80k over Mag.

We DID something about night capping; we stayed up late and woke up early. We are tired of this broken system and we went proactive. Do not give in to these night capping servers; dominate them.

I’m a player who can only get on late in the evening my time. I’m in NA Mountain Time here, GMT -7

I tend to get off work late, then hang out with friends, and only upon getting home do I have time to hop on; where upon I enjoy WvW.

I have long noticed that my play time on Steam is almost ALWAYS associated with the lowest number of users playing on Steam. 2.3 million, while the peak can hit 5.8 million (usually I can’t play at this time, NA East Cost evening).

So, I feel a compensation should be in effect.

Option 1: Time based hours
(after intensive knowledge of player numbers vs. time of day)
During peak play hours (when most NA or EU servers have the highest number of players)
Score every 10 mins, +5 points to all objectives.
During mid play hours (when most NA or EU servers are not peaked, or at low point)
Score every 15 mins, regular points to all objectives.
During low play hours (when most NA or EU servers are at the lowest point of players)
Score every 20 mins, -5 points to all objectives.

Option 2: Base scores related to the number of players on the field.
Underdog for that time of day? Objectives you claim and hold score for more and more often.
Fielding massive amounts of troops to the opposition? Objectives you claim and hold score for less, and less often. (see above values)

This way even a server that has a low pop while their two opponents are fielding high pop still gains from sitting in the fight. Likewise, when that flips around that the now high pop is up against two low pops they don’t gain much for conquering the map.

You are currently catering this game to players who play at all times. If you accidentally favor those servers stacked with off-time gamers you will frustrate and alienate your collection of servers that play within the game’s peak hours.

That sounds like an overall loss rather than a gain.

Also, while we are at it, can we swap the orb and underdog bonuses? Orbs permit more XP, MF, etc. Underdog makes players stronger +Vit, +Str if there are less of them.

I’ve also thought that structuring the point scoring based on the amount of players online is not the worst idea. This has nothing to do with Americans thinking they are better than everyone; it has everything to do with basing the scoring on PEAK hours of the day.

If the PEAK time was during New Yorks 4AM, then that’s when the scoring would be scaled highest. But since that’s probably the lowest pop time; it should score the lowest.

Reward players who fight during the peak hours; when maps and queues are full. And make the teams that have a solid late night group still gain something for it; just not as much. Why? Because taking over a skeleton held keep should not reward the same as taking over a defended one.

Why do this? I have heard plenty of talk about players leaving the game for this reason alone. Soon they will start walking that talk.

Obligatory kitten statement.

This was a fun match. Speaking from FA’s side; I think we did alright. Sure, we lost our maps to the “night crew” (relative to geographical location), but during peak hours we were more than adept.

FA, good work!
SoS, keep runnning!
IoJ, pat yourselves on the back, and pet some kittens.