Time to pony up Anet, with your sage like wisdom, explain to your customers what you are doing about this. No response just continues to foster these discussions. And you wonder why there are so many threads on the same subject…
Seeing how this thread hasn’t been merged and the appearance of server call out threads, I’d say the moderators are out for the night.
I am from TC and just had a blast in EB. We were constantly keeping pressure on both sides and capping points. Sometimes you just have to play like that scoreboard doesn’t exist.
i guess what the real question should be is should i even be trying to wvw before i hit 80
Yes, you can be a great help, but if you are trying to go about WvW solo, just as if you are a level 80 in full exotics, you will get killed and killed alot. Unless you’re a stealth class you will not out run a zerg while in combat mode. There will be people out of combat and they will close on you very fast.
I will tell you what I tell everyone who is new to WvW look at chat figure out whats going on and help others. I am not saying join the biggest zerg and get herded, but at least find a group of 3 and hit camps and harrass stragglers
Its a GREAT idea. This is make all the server fight harder and hang on to what they got.
It really isn’t, and will never happen. It will just end up with even more people transfering even more to the winning server and get tons of xp and karma cause the zone will flip and they can recap everything all over again.
So you want to lock out entire servers from a huge chunk of the game? That will only make the huge problem of server hopping 100x worse. I respect your opinion, but I think its a terrible idea.
Where do propose Aussies go? They are kinda out on an island by themselves. The population imbalance has nothing to do with where people come from and everything to do with people wanting to be on the winning team. Restricting people due to where they live will not fix a thing. Ending free transfers will, but that is just my opinion.
I also agree 100%. At least with the one day matches everyday at 5pm all three servers would show up and the huge point difference would only exist for a few hours. It is not fun for the guys stomping two lame ducks, and its even worse for the guys getting the boots put to them.
Why they added map completion, jump puzzles and PvE mobs to WvW when the game can’t load the all players is something beyond me. I know I can’t be the only person who rolls their eyes hearing plea’s for help to clear the jumping puzzle in /t. To remain on topic, Yes, if the puzzle is something you are compelled to complete you will need to kill the people camping it.
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Maxi, I am confused. A hacker from China hacked an account 3 days before it was activated? China must be kicking our kitten in technology right now!
Edit; I did just wake up so I might be reading it wrong.
There are a lot of topics on Server-Transfer and the issues arising with it.
I will sum up the basic problems I and obviously a lot of other people are seeing.
1. The WvW-Ratings are meaningless. As long as guilds transfer around as they like it is hard to rate servers based on their current population. A servers performance decreases if a strong guild leaves and increases if a strong guild joins, but the rating does not notice such changes. In the Europa-Brackets this and some other issues create a situation where 7 out of 9 Matchups are heavily dominated by one Server and this is without heavy nightcapping, which isnt as much an issue on weekend as it is during the week.
2. Although your stats say that this is only a minor issue, there are a lot of people that join strong servers instead of weak ones. This “Winning Team Joiners” ruin the experience for servers performing good by increasing their Queues. I share your position, that it isn’t an important issue, but it does not help either. It is something that upsets people and I can understand them.
3. I haven’t seen a lot of changes in the lower half. If you put Kaineng aside most people will tell you that servers with low pop are losing players instead of gaining them.
My suggestion is simple and I don’t have only one but 4 of them:
1. Stop Free-Servertransfers
2. Give every player one free transfer to use as they like with the option to undo the transfer within 2 weeks.
3. Keep free transfers open for Low-Pop-Servers (exspecially the last bracket)
4. Gradually increase the price for a transfer until reaching your normal idea about how much it should cost.
Exspecially Number 2 should make it possible for every player to find a home. And if they don’t use their transfer, they could keep it for later, maybe they should be timed.
Number 3. Should stop the jumping between Mid-Pop-Servers. I would like to see stats about this, because as far as I noticed the destiny of most transfers is a server with a medium population and there is a lot of movement between such servers and of course a lot from full servers towards medium servers. But only a few people really transfer to empty servers.
Since I guess that not only the community has thought about server-transfers and their impact on WvW you may have some thoughts avaible that we miss. I would be happy to hear your ideas about this, since we might lack information or maybe you are always investigating the options of cutting the free transfers without removing them completly.
I’m sorry to create yet another thread about this, but I felt the need for at least one thread centered about solutions and alternatives instead of useless “Do this or I quit.” etc.
This plan is good and I would love for it to happen, but I do not get why this is such a tough issue for this game. Just stop doing transfers after you give a date a week or two out saying get where you need to be, and after that its a industry standard 20 dollar service.
So What happens when you decide to be a solo runner and enjoy killing your opponents ONLY by your own ?
You find yourself at one point where you just can’t repair your armor because you don’t have enough MONEY.
So, from there you have two options follow a zerg and cap or log out.
As far as I’m concerned, I just logged out.
I think you answered your own question. WvW is a group effort, and while no one forces you to be in a group (You don’t have to always zerg, finding a group of 5 can wreck enemy supply.) it does benefit you greatly to do so.
Another post I totally agree with. I do not come to these forums often, but after two weeks of getting shafted because the server standings are so out of whack due to the free transfers I have to say something. At this point can we just have random servers fighting each other and just get rid of the rankings?
You don’t kill a snake by cutting off its tail. If they removed these, they would probably be replace by five new ones the next day.
Funny analogy because just like botters if you keep cutting that tail off, like a snake it will bleed to death.
To be fair, this is an easily controllable situation. Bots are not. There is no “plus” to having them in the game, only downside. So if they could press a button and destroy all the bots they would.
I was just reading about someone getting a 3 day ban for his name, which I am sure was less reported than the botter gang. So yes, I think they can press a button or maybe even click a mouse a few times and POOF botter gone.
Please don’t take this as me saying I should never see another bot again, but the gangs of naked rangers and there furry friends are out of hand, and there is no excuse why they have not been dealt with.
Nop noob train crashed cause we left, they are now at JQ
Short version: Good ones gonne to blackgate, HoD started losing, bandwagon massive transfer to JQ, HoD ghost town.
Sorry, I just saw your grand announcement of the transfer, so was confused how you could call them a “losing server”. If you ask me, if competition is really your main focus you would now go back to HoD since it’s a ghost town, and say “mission accomplished!” as far as the noob train is concerned. Since now they are JQ’s problem. I know you alone did not make the imbalance of 2 of the top 3 tiers, but you are part of the alliance that did.
Blackgate is the top seed in tier 3. Saying they are losers (You did call them “The losing server”) is kinda funny. As far as your plan to ditch the noob train goes. You realize once you reach your destination they will be right back, so are you going to leave BG in 3 weeks too?
The honorable players left before HoD started losing, the bandwagonners just left because they started losing…
The people who hate competition left before they started losing, and then of course Bandwagoneers followed suit. At least the Bandwagoneers stayed in the same tier…
HoD had a mass exodus this week. You can thank Anet’s server transfers for that.
Servers merge everyday. Its called free server transfers. So do like the cool kids and abandon your server for the greener pastures. Blackgate I heard is the coolest!
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