Guild Wars 2

Maybe one way to populate the lower rank servers is to make them host servers.

For example, instead of SOS hosting GoM, make GoM the host.

So in 2 months, make all the 13th – 24th ranked servers hosts and top 1st-12th linked servers.

If BG were to link with ET, it would be ET hosting.

If ET – BG link were to staying on the top, ET would likely receive a lot of transfers because the visibility of being the host while the larger servers would likely to shrink.

One way to maintain friendship and to avoid fighting against each other is transferring to the same server,

hopefully we can witness population balancing at work.

Welcome to 2017!

Let’s wish for a lot fun time @ WvW in the New Year.

tym.3791:

IMHO, its the free to play model in WvW. Real easy to get a free account, troll the server your playing against, then log back into your reg account, and watch the fun.

Many a time it sure seemed odd that seige trolls run out a objective, only to have it hit by the enemy a short time later.

There is no easy fix. Servers will always be stacked, multiple accounts just mean people can log into the account of the server that is wining at the time, and steam rolling and karma farming.

Free account does not seem to be the problem because players are having fun.

Players are more likely to stay engaged and not quitting when they are having fun.

Free accounts could be an effective counter for siege hump a strategy that annoys many players.

Siege building depends on supplies. Without supplies, sieges could not be built.

One way to destroy supply is to waste them while in the disguise on an opposing server.

Yes. It might take sometimes because some players might have created a new free account and have not transferred away at all.

Moreover, server status change often took place on Monday.

So get on the new top server by transferring or creating a new account before it closes too.

Server status could be changed from Very High to Closed tomorrow, on Monday.

Transfer or make a new account Today, before it is too late!

In 3-2-1, the weakest server could still fight for a middle place finish, improving its score, when the 2nd place ranked server is facing most of the pressure.

No good reasons for the weaker server to join 2v1 against the top.

In fact no good reasons to be too involved.

With nothing to gain, might as well transfer away or play defense or do something else and come back at a different time slot.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

WvW encourages 2v1s. This is intended, and you guys need to get over the fact that it’s intended. However, what 2,1,1 aims to address is 2v1ing the right target and not the weakest opponent which is the case now.

So how would this work?

Say the 2nd and 3rd servers 2v1 the top in a skirmish. When does this 2 vs 1 alliance breakup, 30 min to the end of a skirmish? 15 min? Because one of the 2 in the alliance will get nothing, why would the weaker one join a 2v1 against the top anyway, it mostly likely gets nothing either way. In 3-2-1, the weakest still has a chance for a 2nd place finish because the 2nd place ranked server could face most of the pressure.

A possible adaptation to the 2-1-1 scoring for a server trying to maintain its ranking is to recruit and stack the strongest skirmish time slots currently it has and just forget about the rest.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Yes, Scoring will not fix population imbalances. In regards, to FA and SBI against 1 of the “Big 4” they simply have no chance. It appears JQ is the weaker of the 4 and still neither server has a chance.

Deja vu?

The “Big 4” used to be BG, JQ,TC with SoS sort of the weaker of the 4.

And after many tries, population again settles into this pattern.

Maybe after players figured out the top servers, many of them find more purposeful play at the top and the migration to the top occurs until the top is a mystery.

Maybe one way to make WvW balanced is to make each servers’ strength a mystery a the beginning of each match, like playing cards where no one knows what cards others have.

This might not happen because Anet has a business interest in advertising the winners as a way to motivate transfers and new accounts.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

@Tiny, I’m simply referring to scoring. Let’s use this week in T1 and last week.
In Tier 1 BG and MAG and JQ’s positions are already decided. The match isn’t going to change position wise. The score right now on MOS says:

BG 130
MAG 113
JQ 81

If the scoring system was 2, 1, 1 the scores would read,
BG 80
MAG 76
JQ 60

Would it be easier to have to scores be the number of wins,

BG 26
MAG 22
JQ 6

for

BG 26 = 80 – 54
MAG 22 = 76 – 54
JQ 6 = 60 – 54

by taking away 54, the number of skirmishes, where the winner gets 1 and the others 0, instead of 2-1-1?

Why not 1 for the winner and 0 for others?

The 1 in 2-1-1 only marks the passing of time and everyone gets it even for not playing.

Actually, the winning server wins the hearts and minds of potential transfers.

So the winning server gets more players when it is open.

The winning servers probably get more playtime from players too. Players usually stay longer if the game is in their favor.

And the losing side usually gets the outnumbered buff.

Second place characters automatically bowing to the winners and the third place kneeling when players encounter in Lions Arch.

Or maybe making them tradable at the Trading Post.

If one have an additional account, one would not feel frustrated to have fun in WvW by simple playing on another server.

If you are bored of winning or losing, just take a break at another server on a different account.

If you are frustrated at dying pugs not on TS but following your Tag, just take break at another server on a different account.

With multiple accounts one can switch to play on a server that is full now but was open for a short period of time.

With multiple accounts one can switch to play at the lowest tier, practicing solo capping without losing one’s spot at the currently closed server.

Multiple server accounts would make having fun in WvW so much easier.

Only a WvW player would pay for multiple GW 2 accounts.

How about making PPK scale by server online population?

At 8:00pm, there are 50 of server A, for example Mag, and 50 of server B, say BG, at the Eternal Battleground, then 1 PPK for each side.

Then at 4:00am, there are 5 Mag and 80 BG at EB, then Mag receives 80/5=16PPK and BG receives 5/80 = 0.0625 PPK.

Anyone who wants to have a taste of victory or the desire to learn or the freedom just to login and have fun and not feeling lost after you joined a map should have an account at BG.

Just open an free account on BG when it is open and convert when GW 2 is 50% off.

Except that more and more players have multiple accounts on different servers as a way to have fun.

It is good time to add one today with the 50% off sale ending tomorrow.

This is it.

Never leave the home server to keep its community strong, but have accounts in Tier1, Tier2, and maybe other Tiers to learn and have fun.

It could be boring playing the same Tier for a long time either winning all the time or losing all the time.

This is a great time to add accounts now with 50% sale until Nov. 22nd.

Also with 2 accounts, together they can do dailies twice and make 4 golds in total.

Threather.9354:

My tip for everyone is: transfer at least once, you dont need to make any friends or take your whole guild with you, and go back to your “home” after few weeks/months with your enbroadened vision of wvw. Repeat this everytime things get too “stale” for you to enjoy, you also bring some of new knowledge to friends as souvenir. Of course joining server voice comms is requirement for this to work

Just make a new account when GW 2 is on sale, like right now until Nov 22nd.

In this way, one does not have to leave the home server and it saves money too because one does not have to transfer back.

Having a second account does not abandon the original home server. This could give players more control to help home server to win.

One could spy as suggested or sabotage and one could choose which side to play when two servers meet.

atheria.2837:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Why transfer when one can create a free account on any open servers?

It costs 1800 gems about $22.50 to transfer to a Very Highly populated account. It might be easier to upgrade the free account when HOT is on sale for $25.

In this way, one can get extra storage space from the extra characters comes with it and jump into WvW using the level 80 booster.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level-80_Boost

Gee… What a way to make a spy who can pad any queue, huh?

Being a spy or not, GW2 50% off sale is on until Nov 22nd.

http://buy.guildwars2.com/store/gw2/en_US/html/pbPage.heartofthorns

For the those who opened a free account at the Top server when it was open for a few of days, this might be a good time to convert it.

An overstacked WvW server is likely to have a overstacked Eotm color too and an overstacked side wins most of the times.

Winning is always fun.

A great time to get another account to have fun.

Winning is the reason for most players to play this game and any other games anyway.

Why transfer when one can create a free account on any open servers?

It costs 1800 gems about $22.50 to transfer to a Very Highly populated account. It might be easier to upgrade the free account when HOT is on sale for $25.

In this way, one can get extra storage space from the extra characters comes with it and jump into WvW using the level 80 booster.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Level-80_Boost

JQ?

Or

He is taking a breeeeaaaaak?

“old soldiers never die they just fade away”

Well said and totallly agree.

But not sure if Anet would understand this though.

Digable terrain for tranches and tunnels, floodable lowlands, and

Hide and seek lords who can escape to another structure to avoid capture and defeat.

Batelle.1680:

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Like, how? Why?
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throw away what was no doubt countless hours of effort just before you stroll across the finish line.

Most likely, the game was already boring and meaningless to players before the last annoyance that made them quit.

The thought of spending over 24 hours opening 15+ stacks of champion bags and the sight of an infusion item from the redesigned infusion slots for ascended rings made me not wanting to play.

It is becoming obvious that this game is good at kittening people off.

If OP wants to punish zerglings, shouldn’t commanders being punished too if they fail to win?

Or even worse betray home server by transferring to another server?

So what should be the punishment for betrayal?

How about making commander Tag disabled if transferring back to any of the previous servers.

Nostradus.2187:

i have no problem with story quests, all mmo`s have them and thats fine,
-as long as i don`t have to listen to dialog`s for minuites without the option of skiping them!!!!!
-look stupid cut sceen`s i don`t care about! why is there no option to skip them?
why do you force people to look them ???

These cut scenes are advertisements.

If you watch them over and over and over again,

you are likely to grow to care and to think and prioritize your life around this game.

Jerry CCH.9816:

WvW Server open reset every Monday.

Monday is a perfect time to open servers for players to start thinking about transfer.

By Monday the winning and losing servers are already transparent,

but the match does not end on Monday.

It goes on 5 more days because the extra days can increase the pressure for transfer for players who want to win but actually experiencing the stress of losing.

Moreover Tier 1 servers have deeper pockets that can sponsor transfers and have sponsored and are more likely to sponsor transfers.

And this is good business as well.

morrolan.9608:

OK so YB and JQ are now full TC and Maguuma are not. My question to anet is how can you justify this?

Players are more likely to leave lower tiers to go to higher tiers.

With Tier 1 open and JQ full, there are likely more players leaving JQ to tier 1 servers.

This is a business after all.

Rin.1046:

tldr: GW2’s loot system is excessive in quantity and poor in quality. It needs to change before it drives me away from the game again. I want to enjoy GW2, but poorly implemented systems like this make it difficult.

I still have more than 15 stacks of Champion bags unopened since June 2nd. The thought and sight of the these stuffs made me not wanting to log on and I have not played more than 10 mins since June.

Another reason made me logout was the redesign of the infusion slots for ascended rings.

Lord of Rings.5371:

I still have about 15 stacks+72 bags to open.
It is 3822 bags and could be around 23 hours to go.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Why-so-many-items-currency-in-lvl-80-zones/6185028

Or just simply stop publishing glicko and keep it secret like population, etc.

With all the adjustments ratings are becoming meaningless.

On the other hand , maybe let players vote who they would like to play against next week and arrange matches manually.

OK maybe the clip was edited from two players’ screens.

How can a player change profession in 5 sec in the middle a fight?

It was done here in the clip as the Guardian with 12 sec on the game clock changed to a Warrior in 5 sec at 7 sec on the game clock.

Jayne.9251:

you never saw anyone from Deso on the forums complaining.

You might not see anyone complaining on the forum because some posts are deleted by censorship such as a thread by a Deso PUG Commander with 8K game time who came to this forum a few days ago to complain, quitting and thanking for the fishes.

His thread and all of its posts just total disappeared.

Heibi.4251:

Though I’m not color blind I have many friends who play GW2 that are. So the idea I thought of might be possible.

A Half Black – Half White tag.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Idea-for-color-blind-Commander-Tag/6311349

Same guy from the other point of view couple years ago on a different server.

TW is totally engaged fighting MAG in EB right now, being pin sniped, moaed, but having fun.

https://www.twitch.tv/eldsvadadods

We used to think,

Now we just react.

We learned.

These are former players’ souls materializing in this digital world showing their pain spasms when craving for the fun and excitement from their memories of the past gaming experiences.

In the beginning, there were 21 NA and 24 EU home worlds.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-worlds-of-guild-wars-2/

6 More worlds were added to NA and EU later to a total of 24 NA and 27 EU.

Popularity of WvW made this addition possible.

Now there are 12 NA and 18 EU effective competing worlds as participation declined.

We may have been clones that think alike but

we are not physically the same

nor even on the same continent from what I could tell.

Saw TW streaming last Thursday.

Amazing group of about 20 players, mostly Dragon hunters with

one Tempest, a war, a Herald, a Mesmer and some others

that could stood under JQ’s fire from defenders on the wall

above the SMC inner gate and repeated withstood attacks from JQ’s

circling from the right side through the SMC inner gate portal

without losing much health or have a downed player,

with most of players on constant boons and never below 75% health,

and after wearing down JQ’s supply and broke through the gate,

it took SMC from JQ all for about 10 minutes of play.

The Driver already commanded over 11 hours of the12 hour stream-a-thon,

And his disposition shown on the lower left corner of window was

a sharp contrast of the happy, energetic animations of the characters on screen

surrounded by flashing of lights and trails of rainbow sparkles of The Bifrost.

He was complete without happiness on his face nor in his voice,

no thrill of victory and no emotion of any kind after wiping JQ repeatly

and taking SMC.

He could not wait for the 12th hours to come

to log out and quit streaming

and on time

he quit.

A-net knows T4’s pain

and with Blackgate rated at “Very High”,

a temporary relief could be paying a ransom,

transferring to or new account creation at Blackgate.