Took a hit when chest turned to once a day per account versus once a day per character. YB mesmers used to port which sometimes brought the enemy to fight…..
@foefalller – exactly.
@kuru – we now know to report hackers as botters from the other thread. exploits is a different group of people at anet. Anet could have cleared that up earlier, but better late than never.
@michael h (anet) – thanks for your responses in these threads. I hope DHUUM is awesome……..
Coming from YB, I don’t take any t1 talk seriously because of all the things mentioned above. No one person speaks for a server of course, but I don’t think many others on YB take that talk seriously either.
Besides, I am having fun in the current tier when I do have a chance to play (darn work always getting in the way). Why ruin a good thing while it lasts? These matches and t3/t4 pre-tourney 3 are the most fun I have had in wvw.
Caveat: did not wvw much at all for the first 6 months of the game – those could have been the good old days for others, but not me.
I thought you could still WvW right from level 1, the only difference is that you don’t have access to the WvW panel, it remains hidden until lvl 18… did they try going to LA and using the portals to enter? Unless it had something to do with the free trial week when they blocked wvw to trial accounts… bug maybe?
This was how I understood the notes as well, but I admit could apply to toon under 18 on the same account as your other + 18 toons….. I have had no interest in leveling since the trait change myself…..
Free trial transfer to any server other than the two you are facing. After 7 days, you pay the transfer fee or are returned to the original server. You can only trial transfer so Kant times – once a month? Twice a month? If you like your new home, the transfer fee could be graduated as others have mentioned…..
That is one way players can try a lower tier or another server to see how well they fit…..
Actually, you know you are on great server when you can play the way you want, have fun doing it, have little or none ts / map drama, or people telling you are doing it wrong.
It is strange that the issues are often confined to specific BLs…. Took one camp and had all sorts of issues – others around me dcd. Green can keep their bl, just not worth my time.
7v8v9, meanwhile 1v2v4 and 3v5v6 please. Why can’t nearly impossible RNG matchups work in T1’s favor for once. YB for T1.
Wasn’t possible according to snow reap’s matchup probabilities he posts every Thursday – 6 dropping was possible, but pretty unlikely (1 % ish if I recall)
Gvg isn’t for me, but I hope you all get what you want. I do think it is somewhere between a niche and minority of wvw pop so I wouldn’t hold my breath on extensive changes…..
I am not into gvg myself, but I love the fact that fights can be found pretty much anytime I login (NA prime – slightly later midnightish central time). See plenty of all 3 sides at that time…
Only thing you can semi count on is the wxp boost. The others take too much corn / time (there is a small cd) to keep trying for. Corn won’t be 27 copper forever either…..
Now to get eaters that consume dragonite and empyreal for even blue/green/mats…..
@menaki – don’t worry many have had fun on all sides. A few loudmouths living in the past don’t speak for everyone. And really, they don’t have much choice anyway unless they xfer.
I also think some are being misinterpreted. They are trying to even out the sides a bit and we do have better coverage right now even though Glicko says we are #6.
Will That continue next week with LS kicking back in (and our ton of Pvx) ? Who knows, but most likely due to the new blood..
@tiffany – and that sums up why we appreciate you. I have followed both the eu group and NA group at times. Besides being accommodating, you guys/gals are fun. In the end – fun factor is the ONLY thing that really matters in a game.
Good luck in whatever you decide, but don’t let a couple of blowhards on that other forum with their 18 million #revival bs deter you. I can’t say what your ts / map chat is like, but I always seem to find fa peeps to fight that are taking/holding structures.
We ended up using the NPc one time for the real season 2 rewards. If it isn’t obvious, season 3 was put in the exact same day another game title released, I don’t think they had time to fix the ticket distribution system.
It was done this way because if the reward fiascos in both season 1 and 2….. Mail delivery did not work and they must have never solved the loophole of people not getting the mail.
Probably right on 1 up 1 down, but t3 / t4 was very close albeit a short period of time 5-6 weeks.. That is probably what I recall as thinking 1 up 1 down would have more variety, but it was 5-6 weeks not 52…..
Fair enough – I stated I could care less myself if that was what a guild/player wanted to do. I simply stated the reason I though anet has not been willing to do this thus far. I could be wrong of course.
Thinking about it, another way for it to work would be simply a 1 up 1 down structure of wvw. Using FA as an example, they could face some combination of TC/JQ/SOS/YB/CD/DB (possibly more) on any given week allowing for the variety wvw/GVG might BOTH want (outside of GVG your own server). GVG guilds could transfer and not fear moving to the wrong server and matchups would have some variety for the ppt crowd. Not as good a solution as the other – but two birds one stone?
Instanced OS with participants not relegated to those involved in the match-up, as the bare minimum. This alone would do wonders for the GvG community. Means that all the GvG guilds don’t have to stack in one tier, and might even be able to GvG those on their own server.
That is what would need to happen to make it sustainable I think. If anet did that, would there also need to be parameters that didn’t kill wvw? Something like 2-3 concurrent os instances, matches que for the Instance lasts 30 min or until 1 team leaves. Or 1 hour wvw time earns 30 mins GVG time.
This way a guild can’t spend ALL theiR time there. I personally wouldn’t care if they did – just thinking anet might care and is the reason they haven’t done this.
So if a group is 10 guild and 10 from other various guilds – the credit for taking a tower prorated? How do you prorate contribution properly? How do you credit guards and scouts versus peeps at the crafting area or AFK?
You don’t, so any metric measuring this has flaws to make it meaningless. Every server already knows their mvps….
What If ppk was a tick score like holding a keep. That is – not really a ppk, but25-30 points per tick for the server with the most kills (out of 725 instead of 695) , maybe everyone can play how they want without drastically changing play style of everyone.
Of course the 25-30 is up for discussion and maybe ppk is a 50-25-0 pool or something ( differentiating 2nd from 3rd)
I don’t understand this at all gvg is a player made activity in gw2 so what do people want anet to do?
The only thing I think they could do is take gvg out of wvw and make a map you access through pvp with a 10-20 player per team cap with leader boards or ranked matches.
Now the question is would every gvg guild stop playing WvW?
You could put a limit per day or week – sort of like certain raids instances are only available once per week in other games.
Thing is – if it has to be revived, it died for some reason or reasons. No doubt there is SOME interest, but just how niche is that interest? And have the reasons for its death/coma state really gone away?
Good luck to you all, but I think some are like the guy at the high school reunion that is still trying to live his glory days in HS football.
WvW as a whole is on the decline and as a result these GvG guilds may get a few GvGs here and there, but they are being forced to move to the few remaining populated servers. Without things to fight, people get bored and move to other games, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily GvG that died, more like it’s going down with WvW.
You make a valid point, but I don’t see guilds moving to server 6 just for GVG as who knows how volatile that will be. If we can’t hang (YB) and we rolled t3/t4 in seasons, how long will those servers stay? It’s almost like people would have to have multiple accounts on multiple servers and play the character in the right match – that isn’t happening……
Thing is – if it has to be revived, it died for some reason or reasons. No doubt there is SOME interest, but just how niche is that interest? And have the reasons for its death/coma state really gone away?
Good luck to you all, but I think some are like the guy at the high school reunion that is still trying to live his glory days in HS football.
There’s some encouraging signs that YB might stabilise in T2;
We’re not PPTing very hard at all right now, not like seasons;
We gained a significant guild in SG;
There’s a fair few regulars taking a break right now;
We got a fair few individual transfers during seasons that still turn out. this includes OCX;
Our few ‘for fights’ guilds are having a blast.
Throw in the fact that by all reports SoS lost OCX guilds, making the tier more competitive.
I doubt T3 has any servers to replace YB at this point, population wise.
I missed this whole week because my power supply died. Very uncool lol
There’s some encouraging signs that YB might stabilise in T2;
We’re not PPTing very hard at all right now, not like seasons;
We gained a significant guild in SG;
There’s a fair few regulars taking a break right now;
We got a fair few individual transfers during seasons that still turn out. this includes OCX;
Our few ‘for fights’ guilds are having a blast.
Throw in the fact that by all reports SoS lost OCX guilds, making the tier more competitive.
I doubt T3 has any servers to replace YB at this point, population wise.
SG was never a significant anything, all hype, they could never manage more than a dozen guildies and none were effective enough to win either the pvd ppt ocx/sea time slot or in open field. To me they are the epitome of the cliche “Johnny Come Lately” Coat Tail Rider.
Significant for us. Anyone I see everyday AND is willing to lead pugs is significant.
Anet promotes population imbalance.
They want it.
It fills their pockets.
Those discussions threads are just a PR stunt.
This. Very High=most gold for transfering. With megaserver, server identity is completely arbitrary, so there really isn’t such a thing as medium/high/very high anymore.
Very high = highest cost / most gems makes the most sense of any stated reason.
I really hope this keeps up, but I have a feeling SoS is taking a week off and YB is pulling overtime due to the excitement of putting up a fight in a new tier. I think in 2 weeks we’re going to have less balance.
Whatever happens it’s at least better than it has been.
Only time will tell, but let’s face it many thought YB would get steam rolled. Win-lose-draw, that didn’t happen week 1 of T2. I did play maybe an hour or so later a few times, but not because of the score – it was simply fun fighting people at the time and not doors…
People can move wherever they want right now – all the servers went very high. The people that don’t move obviously like it where they are. No need to force them from where they feel comfortable enjoying the game they have fun playing…..
We just came out of a free trial time period. They probably did some housekeeping then the new accounts rolled in and filled up the servers. The number might also be a reflection of retention. Until someone stops logging in for a time period they are still counted as a ‘live’ account.
Doesn’t answer why every single server iS the same – very high. Sound like they did a pop reset and default is very high.
……... Very uncool lol