Guild Wars 2

Kazim.2043:

Cyclonite.5786:

What are we debating here? Anet recognizes night capping as a valid tactic.

Night-capping is a valid tactic. However it’s too strong so we want it to get balanced.

America is not the only country who plays this game, there is no such thing as night capping. If there’s a possible way the points could be toned down if 1 server has a lot more players then the others, then I’d like that but as for off peak/on peak time, it doesn’t exist.

Wow … The worse idea yet, talk about game breaking.

Kazim.2043:

RaCio.6891:

tl;dr: the tactic is fine, its rewards are problematic

Completely agreed. If we can focus on this issue, we can find a common ground to agree upon.

I do think it’s possible, but it’s a dicey situation since there will always be off-peak cappers.

The simple fact is night capping does not exist. If it’s night for you, it’s day for me. Does night+day=night? … no.

Kazim.2043:

Cloud.7613:

No we wont? Because our NA players will get demolished. People don’t understand how many Americans are up at Australian to early morning time and are actually playing. We don’t roll the competition, Sea of Sorrow’s actually loses a lot of the time to Americans, what do you know? we lose on all fronts. You want to make it worse?

Sea Of Sorrows at the ranking 8. It doesn’t look like a server that loose on all fronts.

Because we, like the top ranking server, has a team that is formidable at off-peak time? There’s no way of solving this problem which is fair for all.

Kazim.2043:

Cloud.7613:

Actually, by this you’re actually killing Sea of Sorrows and Isle of Janthir, which makes your opinion null and void as a way of helping the situation.

Sea of Sorrows and Isle of Janthir have a STRONG oceanic presence, and a medium NA presence. If by your rules, they’ve already lost. They would no longer remain on this server to WvWvW, they will have to spread out to other servers, we’ll no longer have a strong group to play with at that time and GW2 AND WvWvW is pointless for us. You will just make mid tier servers die and strong servers stronger.

I don’t understand this. If that is the case, whenever you face a strong NA server, that server will start to get less points on their peak time. Actually you still have more advantage here. As you have a above average population on your off-time where most NA servers don’t.

No we wont? Because our NA players will get demolished. People don’t understand how many Americans are up at Australian to early morning time and are actually playing. We don’t roll the competition, Sea of Sorrow’s actually loses a lot of the time to Americans, what do you know? we lose on all fronts. You want to make it worse?

Kazim.2043:

Pendragon.8735:

Temakura.1539:

The Oceanic folks are doing nothing wrong, they are in fact not “night-capping”, they are playing during their prime time.

This part is right. They are doing nothing wrong, and should not be insulted in various ways.

At the same, taking over an entire map with hardly any resistance should not be worth the same points, as it doing it vs full server caps, and when that means it takes many hours longer and is many times harder to achieve.

And this goes for anytime, regardless who or where the players are from. With a points scaling system, the Oceanic population servers would also benefit, as they claim a ‘dead zone’ during NA daytime. Then in this deadtime, while ‘they’ are severely outmanned, their opponents wold earn less points in return. Even steven.

Completely agreed. Sorry if any one of my posts offended Oceanic players, it was not my intention. I believe they have the same right to play. And they should fight in even grounds.

A system scaling score with current population is fair for all sides. If oceanics can bring full man on a map they will get full score. There is nothing unfair on that. And they will sleep better knowing NA population can not erase whatever they achieved on their primetime easily.

Actually, by this you’re actually killing Sea of Sorrows and Isle of Janthir, which makes your opinion null and void as a way of helping the situation.

Sea of Sorrows and Isle of Janthir have a STRONG oceanic presence, and a medium NA presence. If by your rules, they’ve already lost. They would no longer remain on this server to WvWvW, they will have to spread out to other servers, we’ll no longer have a strong group to play with at that time and GW2 AND WvWvW is pointless for us. You will just make mid tier servers die and strong servers stronger.

Pendragon.8735:

Temakura.1539:

The Oceanic folks are doing nothing wrong, they are in fact not “night-capping”, they are playing during their prime time.

This part is right. They are doing nothing wrong, and should not be insulted in various ways.

At the same, taking over an entire map with hardly any resistance should not be worth the same points, as it doing it vs full server caps, and when that means it takes many hours longer and is many times harder to achieve.

And this goes for anytime, regardless who or where the players are from. With a points scaling system, the Oceanic population servers would also benefit, as they claim a ‘dead zone’ during NA daytime. Then in this deadtime, while ‘they’ are severely outmanned, their opponents wold earn less points in return. Even steven.

May I ask you what server you’re on and what servers you’ve faced? Because I’m from Sea of Sorrows and I have 3 Isle of Janthir friends that will back me up on this, The pure American servers are in no way inactive. You act as if NO one is there during Australian prime time, I got news for you, every server has just as many people as ours. I’m not playing the blame game like you, but WvWvW more before you comment on this situation.

Not this again, there is ANOTHER thread already at page 5, use that.

CharliePrince.2071:

To ArenaNET’s RamonDomke: thank you but really people just love to cry. There is NOTHING WRONG with night capping. People just need to DEAL WITH IT.

I come from Isle of Janthir. Do you realize (besides Sea of Sorrows) that we are in the opposite situation? do people realize that we have an 11 hour dead zone (noon to 11pm EST, right in the middle of NA primetime) that we are absolutely weakest at?!

how do you propose we fix this?! do you see us crying for all you evil NA players which we simply cannot fight?!

and I’m NA myself! imagine how hard it is for me to play during primetime severely outmanned

look, i’m giving you all a difference in perspective

you cry about night capping

but you never imagine what it’s like for us servers whose weakest link are NA primetime hours

This, I’m from Sea of Sorrows and it’s even worse for us then it is for them and it’s bad for them too. If you want to reduce rewards for hard work in off peak NA time, we want reduced rewards for NA peak time. Oh wait, we’re at the same situation, nevermind …

EU would have big problems joining US servers.
Since all you US players who are willing to go to EU servers, that’s fine with me.
But for the Oceanic players, this is, GAME, BREAKING. So unless you all want to chuck on idk, $1 a month subscription fee so GW2 can get free Oceanic Latency Reducers for Australian customers, get, out.

There is already a thread about this, … why? moving on.

1) If the merge happens from EU to US, which it will EU players will RAGE and I’m Australian so I can understand their feelings, as you said, LAG. Will you suffer from lag? no. So get out of here with that, lol. So, so selfish.

2) I’m not even answering this.

Moving on from that, YOU can’t have everything either. Let the EU players play in peace.

I’m on a server that is somewhat struggling and when we do get the outmanned buff it’s pretty much a sign to quit for the night, because it gives us nothing and we know they’ll have 2 if not 3 orbs within the hour if they haven’t already. The orbs are just icing on the cake for the bigger servers and it makes it impossible for the smaller servers to even fight 1v1. I personally think they should scrap the orb idea, replace it with your idea and work out another system, because at the moment, It’s just making it easier for the big server to dominate not by numbers, but increased strength in numbers.

above mars.4586:

Anyone who complains about nightcapping is a fool. What do you want them to do, pause the war overnight? Do you realize people have different night times? Pausing the war for East Coast players would screw over overseas players, and even some PST players.

Besides the fact that people wanted an open world of wvw, and pausing would complete defeat the purpose.

I think its absurd that people wanted a response from ANet about this.

This, this, this.

Anyone who argues about the situation is selfish.

Have you forgotten about Badges of Honor? I’m not saying they’re incredibly common, but if you ARE an avid WvWvW player, you would have gotten at least enough to stock pile some blueprints.

Different skins for pets.

100% world completion is one of the easiest parts, grind 1 million karma and come back. Legendary weapon is clearly not for you.

Well my two cents are this should happen, but If there are any ideas of doing anything with the dyes in the future, I’d like a dye patch instead of two different fixes. Also I believe there are more things that need to be put in front of this.

Would absolutely love this and would pay for it.

I’m in favor of duels.
But as for inspection, absolutely not. I’m glad GW2 has no inspection because as Adine said, it brings elitism in the picture and it’s another way of insulting someone in my eyes.

I’m astonished people are even finding this to be a problem. Without trying to sound braggadocious I have 40 gold and I’m sure I’ve spent more on travel then ALL of you. I prefer instant teleportation that costs a few silver then 5 minute mounts rides. You even get a free town portal whenever you want to use it, no cooldown(heart of the mists portal). I don’t know, maybe I’m not getting it, but what more do you want?

Dyes not account bound a reason to quit the game? ok … that’s going a bit far.

It’s a massive problem because I see a lot of big servers complaining about this problem, but it’s 10x worse for smaller servers. Leave during one week, come back during the next. It leaves for absolutely no server communication and guilds just cannot be bothered trying to hold players who will server transfer for a week anyway.

As said above, shouldn’t be able to WvW for that server for a week after transferring.

WvW = Flawed system(whole reason I came to GW2) now you change dungeons which I actually have hated in every game since I can remember from something I like, to something which beats the purpose of the entire system. You are dictating what I want to do. If I want to do a dungeon over and over, that is MY decision. You screwed up with Arah, yet you punish the player base. Lol what are you doing with your game. :-/

I’m having the same issue. It gets to a point where the game is unplayable. It’s a shame.

Specs -

CPU: i7 960/3.2 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6970 Graphics
RAM: 12GB DDR3
PSU: 750 watt

Was told you needed a friend there, can anyone confirm? >.<

Stupid question, but I cannot find how to get to the zone. Thanks for the help x_x

Dear god, I give up on this quest, 6th time trying, 4 times Trahearne gets stuck on a wall. 2 times game goes down for maintenance. Please fix, till then, I’m sad panda.