My approach to WvW wasn’t the context of any of my post. My post are a reflection of things I experienced playing this game for its full duration as a leader.
Now you say the BG War Council doesn’t do the things I’m getting at but then you say in the same post that BG looks to fill its coverage gaps they think they have.
1. BG During Season 1 made deals to recruit mercenaries to BG for the sake of winning Season 1. Doing this time, the only say I had was as a guild leader.
2. During Season 1, Riven of KnT was appointed server leader of the BGWC and his first actions was to make a deal with Jericho of AGG to not hit BG. He then proceeds to announce in global Commander comms to not hit AGG at all because they are working for us.
3. BG War Council had several auctions to auction off legendaries and collect funding. At one point in time BG community donated over 11 thousand gold. BG also bought Ra and while the deal was sealed by me, it was backed by the entire war council. After all 11 thousand gold didn’t come out of my pocket nor do I speak Chinese thus, BGWC hand to handle the deal.
4. BG War Council is directly responsible for sending TW to JQ in efforts of stabilizing JQ with alt accounts. Yes, indeed that was also a Black Gate War Council meeting in which BGs War Council was scared for it’s own community because of a lack of fights. Thus, TW opted to save the day and the BGWC agreed.
5. Everyone knows BG is steadily trying to recruit JQ’s off hours guilds and if BG did open up, BG would aim to grab the last remanding JQ SEA guilds although they need zero coverage.
You see coverage isn’t a matter of everyone having equal time zone coverage in a tier. Balanced coverage works like a jig saw puzzle and just because you don’t have a lot of EU doesn’t mean you are in need of more numbers when your other timezones have 95% of the game out numbered.
6. BG attempted to 2v1 TC out of the tier for FA. BG attempted to 2v1 Yaks Bend out of the tier for TC.
Now, I will say again. I think everything that BG has done was in the light keeping their own community healthy. However, the effects of what they’ve done has had negative effects on others. But this is just the game we play in called WvW and this is generally what happens when any community organizes to achieve a goal.
The only issue is there are no restraints or restrictions and no structure to monitor and if there had be a structure to monitor, the events of the past wouldn’t have dealt so much damage to the surrounding servers.
Lastly my name comes from a comic book and is used to draw attention in this game. It’s easy to remember and gives me a platform that you are clearly showing right now.
As a member of BGWC and BG in general Ill vouch for most if not all of what Mal states here
1. BG actively recruited to fill out EU gap and the massive gap during OCX for season 1 after JQ bought MERC from us. We didnt get the OCX coverage but EU was covered by ZD (?) Russian guild.
2. Im not aware of this but possibly true, whether its outside standard map politics is unsure. Similar things occur to this day in WvW but this would only be 1 time zone and usually only 1 guild involved with the opposing guild just staying out of the way. Agreeing not to hit a target can be just to get a better fight as a result.
3 True. Ra brought in becuase BG facing 1x 35-40 man JQ blob and a few smaller 10-15 guild groups during this time zone. After Ra came in we had some great fights for a long time during this time zone with equal numbers. Then YB came up and OCX -EU were dead time zones for fights
4 Hmm questionable on that one. The whole TW affair caused both Mal and a lot of BG community grief over the kitten storm that went down as result.
5 As a regular OCX/SEA player Im not aware of any of this. Can’t verify because Im not in the loop on this one but yes BG are currently struggling during OCX and SEA. Lack of guild forces and too many fair weather militia doing stuff all are doing us harm. BG militia can be the best in GW2 but I think the standard of wvwers has dropped over the years
6. Neither TC or YB were providing entertainment for either opposing server. Both servers were guilty of running 30-40 man groups that would run as soon as you moved maps or if you went for their stuff would built 30 AC’s. This wasn’t a numbers issue as much as a militia/ppt/not getting in TS mindset (same as BG’s issue in point 5).
Remember before season 1 when every time BG popped its head into Tier 1 we’d get smacked down 2v1 by JQ and SoR (SoS?) for months relentlessly. TC and YB are a bit like that at the moment and just like BG did they’ll get crapped on if they dont bring a good fight.