Guild Wars 2

Xine – I cannot think of people wanting to have to sign their guilds up for a slot 2 weeks in advance.

The solutions are so much easier.

Close tfrs and lock servers to new players on any server where W3 queues reach 30minutes.

This forces people onto the low population servers. They can then start getting organised and enjoying W3 more.

The guilds on servers with high wait times would then consider moving if they are guaranteed that they won’t just find themselves in the same situation in a month or two.

The servers with high queues will lose guilds who tfr and also player attrition (those who have less time/lose interest). In a few weeks/months they will settle also to low queue times.

Igjarjuk.8931:

Main source of frustration: joining for one queue, not knowing which one is shortest.

Solution: “Join any WvW-Battleground” option

It’s very simple. We can imagine eternal battleground has the biggest queue. But if all 3 borderlands have queues, we don’t know where we could go first. Implement this with group joining and a lot of stress and needless frustration would go away.

True, should be an option to join any you choose (to meet friends/guild) and a join all button that just puts you in the first free slot if your solo.

Fury.6248:

Just goes to show you most WvW players are newbs.

A level 80 char in Toughness gear with Exotic weapons can wipe a group of lower level layers easily (regardless of whether the game buffs them to 80 stats or not). You know a level 80 player form those who are not within seconds when fighting them in W3 as they go down in seconds.

A lot of people will play the game to mainly just W3 – the way the skill system works they need the XP from W3 or they will be forced to go and do something else when they would rather be W3’ing.

Once everyone is 80 – and it won;t be long due to the leveling in the game, it won’t be a problem anyway.

The number of French Speakers worldwide is a hell of a lot smaller than English speakers – so why not tap into that advantage and get a night crew or two – should be easy to sell seeing as they will have opposition in their prime time/your off peak hours…

In other words, get out there and do something about.

Agreed with the above – currently if a guild or alliance wanted to move to a low pop server at the bottom of the rankings what do they get.

No queues, but loose all their influence and upgrades – worse as they work hard for a few months, start doing well and become a top server. Tfr’s start flooding in and they start to get queues again – they gained nothing…. in fact the original server members who used to have instant pops will probably start to resent the guilds/alliance.

Simply put – W3 tfrs do not work – until they are stopped then you will have this issue continue – people need to fight for their homeworld, and not just ditch it whenever they want to glory chase.

You will never help the lower population servers until you start locking servers that have queues. People are using free transfers to go-to winning servers.

If ArenaNet forced the population evenly, even then with the current system withing a few weeks there would be queues on some servers and low populations on others – simply because your allowing people to just bunny hop around to winning servers – thus hurting your own playerbase by causing low pop servers (that then have no fun) and queues on winning servers (who then have no fun) – it’s a problem that caused by you, and will not be solved by the community spreading out.

Lock homeworlds with queues over a certain time – and stop free transfers.