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EU v US Servers.

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Out of curiousity. If anyone has played on botg EU and US servers would you care to shed some light on the differences between the two? I’ve heard US prefers to butt hug towers(generally personal experience) where as EU is more about the open combat and GvG

What exactly do you mean by “butt hug”?

NA servers vary greatly guild to guild. Some guilds live for open field combat, some guilds are there to defend, some guilds butt hug quaggans.

Observations about tier 8 (and math!)

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You fell into T8 after GoM curbstomped you at the same time Kain was continually scoring over 500k for weeks on end to beat the glicko trap (Week 52 in Milenium history). Until history repeats, you stay in T8. Everything else is window dressing and what if’s.

Yup, I remember that match-up despite my best efforts to forget it. We’ll get out one of these weeks. I just hope we don’t blow our chance and drop right back in it.

Should I just transfer?

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I recently came back to GW2, and my characters are on Gates of Madness. I want to get into WvW a lot more, but as far as I can tell, there is no server organization, website, mumble, anything.

Is it worth trying to find people to organize with, or should I switch servers? Anyone have a similar experience they want to share?

Thanks for the advice.

I’m willing to bet there are multiple guilds on GoM that use voice comms. Ask around in team/map chat while playing, and you’ll likely find one.
While it would be surprising to me, if you don’t manage to find one, you could always start your own. If a guild that uses voice comms doesn’t already exist, there are likely many people ready to join your new guild based on voice comms.

FC/ET/SF

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Wow, keep it classy LOL.
A lot of us “forum warriors” use the forums as an escape from work (those of us living the cubical life).

^^This. As much as I <3 GW2, it certainly doesn’t pay the bills. Some of us don’t have the luxury to play GW2 all day and have to work for a living. Being active on the forums during our work breaks is our way of getting our GW2 fix when we can’t play.

Oh…

Only on breaks?

Oh…

Remove the AOE limit.

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I would love to see AoE caps removed to stop the zergballs. A good point was raised about retaliation though, and without rethinking that, uncapping AoE would just make the zergball run X amount of retaliation so anybody that AoE’s them will be killed almost instantly.
I’m down for removing the AoE limit, but things like retaliation will need rethought.

FC/ET/SF

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now let’s try and be a tier that isn’t at each others throats in the forum

Well, you certainly won’t be ready for tier 7 with that attitude.

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Ahaha, well played sir.

There’s only so much we can do against SF’s still superior daytime coverage and numbers. You guys are still capable of retaking stuff in multiple borderlands faster than we can grab it. And, yes we still have plenty of moments that we wipe on SF and ET attacks. But I think anybody who would deny that now we are wiping far less than we did a week ago and WvW is suddenly more competitive is… well. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I want to smoke what you’re smoking. It must be some serious icky kitten.

And, hey, look, I’m not hating on SF or ET. As a matter of kittening fact, I’m pretty much dreading the moment SF gets their kitten together as a whole. It’s not going to be pretty for any of us stuck down here with you. And I don’t want anything to do with an Agg zergball, either. Been on the wrong end of that a few too many times to have nothing but respect. Still. Today is Wednesday and look at the point spread. Tell me things aren’t better competitively. Please, do, because I like to laugh.

Agreed completely. We have the numbers still. Also, I have nightmares of Agg zergballs, and I’m taking gold donations for therapy from the armor repair man (send them to Snarfica).

Observations about tier 8 (and math!)

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I’m actually now eager to fight you. You present a case where tier 8 servers have a stronger presence than now tier 5 servers. Remember that NSP fought against BP and AR for several weeks and this matchup was considered the most balanced at the time.

I can understand that FC and ET recently had transfers, but how did SF fell to tier 8 if they never had any business there?

We did belong here when we first entered T8. We even lost our first couple match-ups here.

EDIT: I’m sure the follow up question would be “what changed”. I don’t have an answer that I can without a doubt prove, but somehow (transfers or people going to WvW from Pve, or something) we got a lot more people in WvW. We have some skilled groups and some not so skilled groups, like all servers. I’m not trying to say we are special, and I have no clue how many folks you field in T7, but I can say SF fields a lot.
There will always be the delusional few that state otherwise, but SF has large numbers and for a lot of our fight in T8 have won PvDoor style, because it’s that or log out.
I can’t wait to fight in T7 because we may stomp there, or we may get our butts handed to us and find out that we truly belong in T8. The point is, nobody can know for certain what will happen until we fight. We know that tier locking is a side effect of glicko in a tiered environment. This is mathematically provable. However, if T8 is a result of tier-locking is most definitely up in the air.

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I’ve seen groups of FC wipe hordes of SF or ET.
I’ve seen groups of ET wipe hordes of SF or FC.
I’ve seen groups of SF wipe hordes of ET or FC.

See what I did there?
The fact that they dismissed people after a week of play is not very flattering.

That is all. That’s my last post on anything VK. Good luck to all, and now let’s try and be a tier that isn’t at each others throats in the forum (myself included). We’re gamers, let’s get along.

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The smallest server population is likely FC these days.
Here is what they look like:

This group was 55 people.

And skilled we got a spanking right there.

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Well, as all these thousands of threads say, I will be quaking in my boots in 2016.

Okay, I lol’d, and then cried a little.

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The smallest server population is likely FC these days.
Here is what they look like:

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I’m starting to see why SF suffers in the open field – more forum warriors that WvW warriors. Glad you guys got brave after we left. Wouldn’t have minded that attitude while we were in the tier. It’s weird you guys always seem to kill us when no one is on. Such is the paradox of forum battles. I’m also impressed with your “genuine” concern for FC. Hopefully, one day you guys break out of T8 and you utilize your easily T4 maybe T3 viable population because there’s a chance you’ll face FA some day then.

Good luck FC. Fight the good fight. You guys rock and your playerbase has an amazing attitude.

Talking about forum warriors, why would a visiting team come all the way down to T8 “on a vacation” then start to blow up the forums about all their skills. That was until Agg came down and showed everyone what top tier guilds are made of. I know for a fact there wasn’t that much propaganda in your old forums.

If by this time you are unaware of the dynamic, nothing will solve this non-mystery for you. Onward fair forum warrior. Crush your enemies beneath the weight of your ramblings. Know that though no one else seems to acknowledge your leet skills, the forum will embrace your bravery in perpetuity for all to witness through the ages.

Wow, keep it classy LOL.
A lot of us “forum warriors” use the forums as an escape from work (those of us living the cubical life). [VK] came down here with their nose in the air and a holier than thou attitude and you’re just proving it. To the [VK] that came and fought on the battlefield and taught all three servers some tactics ON the battlefield, thanks, it was fun having you guys here. To the [VK] members that need to be insulting in the forums, glad to see you go.

FC/ET/SF

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I don’t think most of those people are from FC though. Although I am sure there are some. As far as tying up population slots… how dare they tie up 30 slots. LOL. Seriously, that’s such a ridiculous complaint to lobby at VK.

Anyways how does the saying go… teach a man to fish (or something).

When FC said they couldn’t field those numbers two weeks ago it seems like a big deal, and it was 30+ (they said they can get about 30 on reset night). They took up spots that could have went to guild like LAW and some of the others out there (can’t remember the names) that are much more skilled than VK. Once you brake the VK little zergball the just scatter and run. (expected more from a T2 server)

Agreed, [VK] aren’t the skilled bunch they like to think they are. Granted, almost any organization is an improvement for MOST of T8, but other groups like [Agg] are a much bigger threat and a vastly superior group. On a respect level too, it’s nice to see [Agg] SHOW US how good they are in-game, instead of having to TELL US on the forums lol.
That being said, losing [VK] will still hurt FC because they were indeed skilled (don’t get me wrong), just not as skilled as others or as skilled as they seem to think they are.

Have you ever fought Legendary Defender?

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We’ve had groups zerg rush the enemy spawn before out of boredom, just to see who could make it the farthest in. Was pretty fun.

FC/ET/SF

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Good fights last night all. The big battle between ET and SF for the garrison was fantastic. [Agg], I had to lol a bit when I was trying to escape to our tower only to be blocked from the entrance… well played, and I barely escaped with my life. That’s a tactic that I haven’t seen pulled off so effortlessly on T8 before and will be looking to incorporate that in to our strategy. Well done, and great ZvZ fight last night, it was a blast!

FC/ET/SF

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@PVP
didn’t our pug Zerg destroy you guys 3 times in a row at bluevale last night?

I saw an [SS] tag when we got wiped here (image below). We didn’t return though, as we were outnumbered by quite a bit, and it would have served no purpose to go get killed again.
I’m not sure exactly when you think you wiped us 3 times in a row, but I can tell you that during our WvW event last night, we never got wiped 2 times in a row. We did get wiped, but never twice in a row.
Didn’t we wipe you guys 48 times in a row? :P I kid, it’s just getting so lame here in the T8 thread.

Anyway good fights, keep it up. The fights have been fun, but the forum time I usually get in at work is becoming pretty crappy. The alternative of actually working the entire time scares me though, so I’ll be here :P

EDIT: Thinking back, we did actually get wiped one time, came back, and about half of us died before we retreated, so you could count that as two wipes in a row if you’d like. It was not the same fight as the screenshot. I don’t have a screenshot of that one (I was way too busy fleeing).

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LOL this thread is super lame. For the record, my Dad can beat up your Dad. So there. Can’t wait to get out of T8.
Glicko ghetto? perhaps. Ghetto? Most definitely.

FC/ET/SF

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From what I saw, neither ET, FC or SoF showed any significant coordination or skill that was head and shoulders better than the other.

Dang, I should have recorded some of our WvW event last night from [PvP]. I didn’t know we were trying to prove that one server was head and shoulders above the rest with youtube vids…. We’ve been doing it by scoreboard :P

I kid I kid, all in good fun. Nice vid, and good fights last night all.

New Leaderboards

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This is what happens when you spread information around using random blogs and interviews, and pretty much any forum except the one legit one: the official GW2 forums. Seems the GW2 forums are the worst place to get GW2 news LOL

Observations about tier 8 (and math!)

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More likely HoD is going to move up and pull someone into T7 (Looking Like DR atm). Unless the world ends, T8 is staying as is.

If HoD swaps with DR, before SF can swap with GoM, then it’s likely the new T7 will have DR tossing GoM down to T8 quickly.
I see light at the end of the tunnel [sarcasm]unless for some reason it is decided that free transfers will solve the problem that free transfers to fix free transfers has caused… hmm, I think the only way to solve this issue is more free transfers.[/sarcasm]

FC/ET/SF

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I would like to retract my last comment. It seems that our hope was both unfounded and fleeting. Sanctuary bubble = popped. The road toward recovery is long and arduous. Get better soon OK?

We have a support group. We will get him the help he needs.
@pulsecodesgnl embrace the evil. If you’re in SF, you’re a jerk. Learn the lesson, and play the part Next time you see a good duel going on or somebody peacefully doing the JP, just go muck it all up. Since you’ll be accused of the jerk role either way, earn it.

FC/ET/SF

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while I do agree with your point about the inflated ego of a lot of these players, I gotta say that if SF has shown anything within the last few days it’s that they’re extremely uncoordinated.

For sure, I can’t seem to pull off that rub your belly, pat your head thing… Also tying shoes as of late has been a struggle. I’m going to try to start tying my shoes by numbers. Maybe if I can get a zerg of people to tie my shoes we can get it done :P

Joking aside. There are skilled groups in ET/FC/SF, and crap groups in ET/FC/SF. The server that is winning will usually have more of these bad groups show up. That being said, I’m gonna get these kitten shoes tied one day, then you’ll all see!

FC/ET/SF

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i think they’ve decided to leave already :\

That’s pretty lame
So they seriously just “vacationed” in T8, screwing up the score, and then bailing?
If that’s the case, then I’ve lost any respect for them that they gained on the battlefield. If that’s not the case, then I look forward to many more good fights to come.

EDIT: You guys ([Agg]) are here for the long run though right?

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Would like to point out that the xfers actually screwed you guys. You were on your way up to T7 slowly but you were and after the transfers you are currently on your way back down separating the gap. All you can do now is really cheer for the people you wanted everyone to push down for you, HoD. And hope we just target one server so they begin to drop significantly. Ahhhh karma got to love it.

Haha, indeed, and it’s looking like the new hopeful victim is GoM.

FC/ET/SF

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heheheh

i am finding myself highly amused by this thread now

same LOL. I am also anxious to see what will happen next. Will GoM move down to T8 or will SF rise to T7? As for now, SF is stuck here for awhile.

As for the upcoming weeks, I hope SF bleeeeds moarrrr.

It’s been fun. I understand we still have the numbers, but at least there have been some good fights. Agg has given us many a good fight, and VK as well. VK I hope you decide to stay here in T8 and you’re not really just coming down to muck up the points and then leave. Make T8 your home

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Super easy fix ANet, almost no changes are needed to the scoring system using the following:

Separate the server ranking list, from the match line-up list. Done. I’ll explain:

The list of servers rank by glicko score will not change. This will still be the ordered list of 1st to last place.
The list of server match-ups though would now be determined by winner move up loser move down. This will keep match-ups from going stale and tiers becoming out of scale with each other. This means that the list of current match-ups will be close, but not equal to the list of server ranking in order.

That’s a really dumb idea as dozens of players have pointed out in other threads. It just makes blowouts happen more often.

I’d prefer to have a blowout every other week rather than every single week.
I understand why you call it “dumb”, but I think it’s a better alternative than the current.
There are plenty of examples and scenarios that show why glicko fails in a tiered environment. This options mixes the tiers more often (more blowouts, you’re correct), and the reason for this would be to keep the tiers in the same score scale with other tiers. I don’t expect everybody to understand and/or agree with this, I just think it’s better than what we currently have. I’d love to hear a solution that is the best of both worlds; minimal blowouts, but tiers don’t get off scale with each other in regards to glicko score.

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Personally, the people on SF who wanted out of T8, should have taken the chance to jump to HoD or some other T7 server when the door was opened for you.

Why should we have to leave our home? I’ve been on SF since head start.
Let’s solve the issue, not work around it with server transfers (which caused the issue in the first place… well that and glicko in a tiered environment).

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NO NO NO! Don’t come with WULO! that will keep some servers stuck on a cycle where you roflstomp a week and get roflstomped on the next. Without a chance of ever changing your rank.

But glicko would still dictate your server ranking, so this allows you to improve or lose server ranking. Without WULD, you get stuck in tier lock, where the scores within the tier you are in become further and further out of tough with other tiers, since no server ever got bumped up to sow how bad they would get stomped by the tier above.
Think about our tier, tier 8. This system would let SF play 2 servers in T7 above them and find out if we really belong where we are, or if we were stuck in a tier lock in T8. This would keep the tiers in the same score scale, as opposed to now where any tier that repeats the same match-up more than a couple times, will become out of sync with the scores from the other tiers.
Right now, if ET and FC got enough transfers to become mega powers, and SF stepped up to the same skill level, we would all 3 be good enough to move up multiple tiers, but since we are only compared to each other, we would still be stuck in T8, because with a tiered environment, glicko causes tier lock by only comparing your performance to the servers in the same tier as you.

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Super easy fix ANet, almost no changes are needed to the scoring system using the following:

Separate the server ranking list, from the match line-up list. Done. I’ll explain:

The list of servers rank by glicko score will not change. This will still be the ordered list of 1st to last place.
The list of server match-ups though would now be determined by winner move up loser move down. This will keep match-ups from going stale and tiers becoming out of scale with each other. This means that the list of current match-ups will be close, but not equal to the list of server ranking in order.

free server medium transfer was BAD idea.

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But isn’t that what they wanted? Instead of having 3 full servers, they want to spread the population out more.

I don’t think they meant to trade one bottom of the bucket server for another. Now the ones that this was an issue with before will be alright but the problems will just be given to other servers instead. It’s like taking the “kick me” sticker off one person’s back and sticking it to another’s.

Well you don’t have to worry about NA tier 8 jumping up tiers any time soon, we will be tier locked for a while due to this action from ANet. Even if we are T7 or T6 level, there is no way for glicko to compare us to any servers outside of our tier, so we will be stuck here independent of server strength for quite some time.
Once one of the servers manages to either dominate enough to jump out, or if a T7 server does bad enough to bump down, then we will be able to finally see how T8 compares to T7 or above.
ANet, glicko doesn’t work well with tiers, sort your kitten out!

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Well after the free transfers, this is proving itself. The match-up in T8 is at least somewhat fun now, so no complaints there, but looking at how T8 and T7 are becoming further and further separated by points because of this change, shows the issue very clearly with tiers becoming out of scale with the rest of the tiers because glicko doesn’t work in a tiered environment where the same three servers get stuck together for any duration of time over a single match-up.
According to our score before the transfers, SF was almost ready to fight any of the three servers from T7. Now that the two servers we play have gone up in score, and even though our strength didn’t change much (got better if anything) glicko shows that we are hundreds of points away from being ready to play T7… even though there was no change to our server. Well, that’s because glicko doesn’t know how to compare any of the 3 servers in T8 to any other tier, because we have only played each other for about 3 months.
ANet, comment on this, let us know you are doing something, let us know you acknowledge there is an issue. Please bring this up in a meeting and discuss it internally.

I want it to be clear that I am very happy that we have some good fights going on in T8, I’m just using an obvious example to show the issue with glicko in a tiered environment.

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Good fights tonight all, so nice to have good fights

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I imagine that this week coming, starting tonight, will provide a true test of where things stand for this tier and Sorrow’s Furnace.

I for one am pretty tired of fighting the same two servers for yet another week. And I am tired of this because just when we think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, ANet goes and does something ridiculous and open the flood gates to free transfers.

Yeah, this is where I’m at. We will see how it goes tonight and over the weekend. If all this did was take the stomp fest from 4x opponent scores to 3x opponent scores, effectively changing nothing, and only serving to hold us here even longer, I will likely start looking (for the first time) to transfer to a different server.
I’ve been in SF since the beginning and it’s been rough being stuck in this stale match-up for all three servers. I haven’t transferred to another server yet because I didn’t want to be a part of the problem, and chose to stay and try to fight our way out of T8 even if by numbers alone. We got kitten close, and then ANet popped in shaking it’s finger at us with these free transfers, saying nope, no T7 for you. Well, it’s getting old, so I’m going to first see if we have an even match-up now, but if not I’ll likely be on my way soon.
I’m hoping we see an amazing boost in numbers for FC and ET and we make T8 a great place to call home, but if I had to guess, I’d say FC and ET got just enough transfers to keep us here, but not enough to create any sort of balance.

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Right now is a great time to move to HoD, ET, or FC as all three are completely free to transfer to until April 1st.

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It’s called tier locking, and it’s a huge flaw of using the Glicko-2 system for tiered match play. The same thing could happen in Tier 1 if all three servers there lost 80% of their players but still battled to essentially even scores each week.

Thank you, that’s what I was thinking.
It leads me to believe that to a much lesser extent that the longer three servers remain in a tier together, the more that tier, and the surrounding tiers become unrelated to each other, and sort of out of sync or scale.
If a few tiers end up locked like this I could see the scale of scores becoming wildly inaccurate in relation to other tiers.
Perhaps I can’t draw this conclusion from tier lock, I really don’t know.

no, that sounds about right…

now imagine allowing the possibilities when you allow drastic population shifts in locked tiers. doesnt fix the tier locking. just allows the locked tier to balance or unbalance.

itll get worse as the game ages if nothing is done.

I’d love to hear what ANet has to say about glicko in a tiered environment, and if they added anything special to it to try and keep the different tiers in the same score scale, or in sync with each other. If tiers settle down and become even matches across the board, we would all be tier locked to the point that nobody would know if T6 was actually significantly stronger than T3, for example.

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It’s called tier locking, and it’s a huge flaw of using the Glicko-2 system for tiered match play. The same thing could happen in Tier 1 if all three servers there lost 80% of their players but still battled to essentially even scores each week.

Thank you, that’s what I was thinking.
It leads me to believe that to a much lesser extent that the longer three servers remain in a tier together, the more that tier, and the surrounding tiers become unrelated to each other, and sort of out of sync or scale.
If a few tiers end up locked like this I could see the scale of scores becoming wildly inaccurate in relation to other tiers.
Perhaps I can’t draw this conclusion from tier lock, I really don’t know.

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They wouldn’t move up together. You’d have to grind out points and then a server from T7 would come down. Once that happens then it’s easier to climb up.

At least that is how I understand it.

But if all three servers continue having a virtual 3-way tie each week due to equal population and skill, wouldn’t they all start to just get 0 points? I’ve never seen a match-up where all three servers in the tier gain points.

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The server with the most points wins…
In other words you can be a 1 man army and tick 695 all day everyday and become the best server

I guess you don’t understand the question, or I just didn’t communicate my question clearly enough.

In less words.
If T8 fills up with the 3 BEST servers in the game (remember, hypothetical), and they are all 3 at equal skill, would they somehow move up together, or would all 3 of the best servers in the game be stuck in T8 forever because they are even skill (scoring even points every match-up) even though all tiers above are lower skill (again, hypothetical, I’m delusional and all, but not that delusional)?

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This is strictly hypothetical, please treat it as such.

If all 3 servers in tier 8 get a ton of transfers, and we have great even fights in tier 8, but ALL 3 servers with their mass hypothetical transfers end up performing at a much higher tier’s level, how would glicko treat that?
The way I would see it is, if we are all 3 fighting at an even level, we would end up averaging our points (979, 636, 577) and settle with all three servers at the average; 730.
So to further this hypothetical scenario (only because I’m asking about how the system would react to this, not because I think this is what is happening), let’s assume all 3 servers in T8 start performing at a T1 level… wouldn’t they still just sit at roughly 730 points forever unless a server from a higher tier drops down to our average score?

Please discuss, and try not to flame me ( too much :P ) because I’m not trying to insinuate anything here about my server or any other servers strengths, and I’m not voicing an opinion on the transfers, I’m just honestly curious if the system could recognize that a tier as a whole has gotten stronger, or not.

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Its only since the patch that I realised how lame it is. My first thought was a health or damage decreaser once it gets above a certain amount of players in an area IE 1% less damage if over 30 players etc etc. I don’t know if theres a better idea, but I really hope something is integrated into the game that reduces the full on zerg mentality that is in the game. And I don’t believe its possible for the players to just adapt. The system needs to adapt so its not so beneficial to play this way.

I’d love to see them drop the AoE cap. It wouldn’t be so rewarding to stack.

3/22 SF/ET/FC -- Deja Vu edition

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D W.5179

Oh hai, SF was nice introducing my guild to your server in EB tonight. Jerrifers was fun.

We are thrilled to have you guys in T8, you guys are now one of if not THE MOST skilled small group on your server. The fights have been great, and the tactics have been a little eye opening. Keep it up, and welcome to the tier

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According to a developer post, population are “home server accounts”, not determined by time of the day.

My only guess would be they might be looking at WvW populations? This also doesnt make much sense though….

Yeah, I’m truly confused why SF was on that list, and GoM and NSP. These servers don’t show as medium…
Perhaps they DID have medium populations but people transferred in so fast they jumped to high right away?

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D W.5179

All the other traits stack, why not this one?

If you’re asking me, I’m not saying it shouldn’t, I was just originally thinking none of the WvW traits stacked, so this is awesome to see that they all stack

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D W.5179

And might I add OMG the WvW traits stack
(Supply Capacity 1/3/6/10/+15 supply capacity)

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Yeah DW My jaw dropped this morning when I saw the NA list. I had to log in and check the servers again …Nope still only 3 med pops and SF wasn’t one of them.

I don’t know if ANet has different stats than they show to us on the World choice screen, but it feels wrong lol

My guess is that depending on time of day, the population may drop low enough to send us to medium? I’m not sure if it works this way, but I think it does since I’ve seen other threads on the cheapest time of day to transfer to specific servers.
So if you want to join sorrows furnace for that map completion or for any other reason, keep an eye on the population and come on over if it hits medium.

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D W, according to the Anet blog post Sorrow’s Furnace qualifies…
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/free-transfers-to-medium-populations-worlds/

Oh, well in that case, transfer to Sorrows Furnace and come get your WvW map completion in a single night, before we bust out of T8! Act quick before our population goes back to high and you’ll have your WvW map completion in no time.

This is the perfect opportunity to get that fancy star for your main and get a head start for all your alts.

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D W.5179

I thought it was 3 seconds with an incorrect tooltip, but my pessimistic attitude may account for the other second :P

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D W.5179

We are eligible for free transfers at SF? I thought we were high population.

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I’ll just say this: The amount of folk we had in FC last night … let’s do that again. Hell, bring me more berserked Fergs!

Yah. You guys got some peeps on the field now.. dang!

Good show all the same. lets hope that the increased interest does not dwindle too much.

Indeed, both FC and ET had quite the showing last night.
While there is still a large population difference between SF and FC/ET, I do feel like it’s at least starting to even out a bit with the free transfers and/or patch. Last night was the most fun I’ve had in WvW in a while. Keep it up!

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I only know 1-4 = Invader
5 – ? = Assaulter

EDIT: Ninja’d by Xerran :P