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Singapore Guild in SBI, for casual players!

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Seems like we are all kind of scattered across all the NA servers. There is a growing Singapore community in JQ and i think there is a big bunch of us in TC as well. If you guys would be interested in T1 WvW sometime soon in the future, drop me a PM. We are always looking to buff up some of our numbers in here.

How considerate to come into a Guild Recruitment thread and ask them about transferring to the server with the already largest SEA presence? Says a lot about T1 insecurity to keep overstacking their server.

Anyways SG is a great guild with some of our oldest and most notable players on our server. Much respect from [TE] for holding down our SEA even before the transfers. It is always fun to fight with you on the field. o7.

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Thank you for the great fights tonight [One], sorry we had some issues with interference from our server. You are a great crew, keep it up and good luck to you in future match-ups.

Another shout out to the BP zerg on SBI BL, you almost had us at bay but reinforcements showed up in the nick of time to keep it a fair fight. Had a fun few battles at the south hills bridge before that, although why siege creep 25 guys with superior ACs?

And lastly another shoutout to [DR] for a great fight in BP Garrison. 3rd floor of Garrison is OP!

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US Leagues - 4 instead of 2! Please!

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Why must you test over a 7 week period? The data from random matchups has been available all throughout the past few months. How will an extra seven weeks of increased score margins because of bloodlust have you reach any different of a conclusion?

Why should tier one have to murder tier four before you realize it would happen anyways. The community will be gone by the time you get around to fixing your mistakes

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Server Population Loss

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Since thread title was changed…

Add kaineng to the list of Servers who are dying because of the stupidity of bloodlust and leagues.

The tally:
Darkhaven
Devona’s Rest
Gate of Madness
Kaineng
Anvil Rock

I am a player on SBI and I can honestly say I feel badly for all of the WvW players on the aforementioned servers. As a recipient of some of the transfer guilds, it kind of makes me realize the same thing could have happened to our server. Heck, the same thing did happen to our server 8 months ago when big guilds packed their bags and left because of ArenaNet’s shortsightedness. Communities are being destroyed one by one as WvW guilds pack up their bags and move off of servers that they have called home since launch. How many other servers must survive brutal exoduses that see the life sucked out of them before action is taken? How many casual players (yes that is what ANET thinks all of us non sPvP players are) must be affected before you stop the bleeding, admit the leagues were a mistake, and do right by all of the players you’ve forced to shell out 1800 gems because you are making the game unplayable on their home servers?

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Good Fights tonight, lots of fun. Shoutout to TE was fun skirmishing ya’ll, hope you learned as much as we did, keep em coming this week everyone.

Thanks, we really enjoyed it despite the limited success. We are glad that you are willing to work with us as much as you do, and each time we see you in the open field or a planned skirmish we feel we are fighting the best. You guys have definitely been an inspiration for all [TE] members during our match-ups. Hopefully the rest of the week is just as fun.

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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150 heavy loot bags so far….

Thanks for your bags at hills.

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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Proof of ANET gulid on SBI

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9/13 BP|YB|SBI

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TE had a great time today in YB BL garrison. Can’t believe we took that from you guys. Awesome fight, hope it was as much fun for you guys as it was for us. That was such a close battle that went on for like an hour with non stop action.

Special shout out to [One], as soon as you left YB BL fell apart, you guys are really something special. Keep up the good work.

Another shout out to [DR] (of course), you guys are great and am looking forward to a fun week of fights from you.

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I play this game for WvW not sPvP

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Sacrx says it best, ANET harms WvW to funnel you into sPvP, to get more buzz around sPvP, to get more sponsors, to get a bigger eSports seen. The fact is, that GW2 will not be the eSport ANET wants it to be and ANET should rethink their strategy….

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If our words don't matter...

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Maybe our money will? I’m sure this thread will get locked or deleted, but it’s not intended as any kind of troll post. Despite the almost unanimous community distaste for leagues and bloodlust, it seems that Devon and the team are intent on shoving it down our throat. All I can say is perhaps those that feel strongly about it should protest by not spending their money on this game until ANET explains their reasoning behind releasing content that will be the final nail in the coffin of a dying prat of this game (bloodlust and leagues).

To the mods, you can keep locking, deleting and censoring posts and this forum, but the amount of hate and distaste going around is not a coincidence. We do not want what you are releasing, and we don’t have to continue playing either. Believe it or not, there will be large scale PvP games that will be released and will steal away your community here if you don’t get serious about listening to your customers. It isn’t the other way around, we paid you so that you make content that we want. It doesn’t have to be perfect, and some slip ups are of course allowed, we’re all humans, but a year of almost unexcusable neglect has been plaguing WvW development. It isn’t just me, as evidenced by the multitude of threads and replies here. The dissenting group of content releases may be more vocal, but I’ve yet to run into people who are optimistic that leagues and bloodlust will do anything other than divide the community (ingame or otherwise). My servers WvW map chat is constantly full of people dreading the release of blood lust and returning to the disliked Orb hacking days.

Please, I know you don’t like to hear things phrased this way, and want it to be flowery, but those threads don’t accomplish anything. I word it strongly because I feel strongly, and you should feel strongly about retaining your customers.

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Dear low (wvw) pop servers

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So basically you’re saying that you have utmost respect for server loyalists, then ask them to transfer to FC? The fact is that people misunderstand a server like SBI. We are not a win at all costs environment. We already had a community exodus, and are in no hurry to rush back to where our downfall began. People that stay on the servers they started with, including myself (through good times and bad), are the same people who won’t leave to start another bandwagon server.

I share your belief that server loyalists are a fantastic group of people, but starting more bandwagon servers is only furthering the problem. It’s Arena Net’s fault for emphasizing all the wrong things about WvW since launch. They made a step in the right direction by removing Orbs which were quite representative of coverage, and made it harder for smaller servers to stand up and fight, but showed that they can’t learn from their mistakes by adding bloodlust. I genuinely feel bad for every player on every server. Each server should be fun every week, but despite the multitude of ways ANET could make this happen, it’s more profitable to have disgruntled customers who will then shell out 1800 gems to transfer to wherever the grass seems greener. Oh well, just remember community comes first, and whatever you prioritize in the middle, PPT should come last. It’s just too bad all of this league nonsense is forcing communities that have been around since launch to destroy themselves for fear of where they will end up when the leagues are ultimately released.

Sorry for thread jacking, hopefully ANET realizes the leagues are very detrimental and will just remove them. Their policy of failing to include the community’s desires in major content releases will lose them their most profitable and vocal customers, and even though our words clearly don’t matter to them, when we stop opening up our wallets for this game, they will finally look back at their mistakes.

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Asian player looking for a skilled EU server

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SBI does have asian guilds, most notably Kiwi (active in GvG scene to an extent, but some ex WM that never made the move are in Kiwi), also TE, which is an international guild with an asian time force that isn’t necessarily large compared to tier 1, but dominates for our tier. We have some people from notable guilds like Saty on SoR and ND on BG who help lead Asia time on SBI.

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League System will kill WvW

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It’ll be interesting to see how the transfers shake out.

If your guild transfers servers now, but then participates in WvW, you run the risk of shifting your server’s position.

Even if your guild doesn’t, another guild might transfer in and do it.

Your best choice would be to watch the rankings and wait until the last minute to switch, but not everyone will think that far ahead and things might be muddled.

And if too many people resist playing, it might affect the rankings anyway.

The new update may also be fun or novel enough that people who are trying to resist playing right now will be unable to do so.

We’ll see how things go.

Yes indeed. Very interesting — in a disasters-are-interesting-to-see-unfold kind of way.

Hurricane Katrina was definitely interesting, as long as you didn’t live in New Orleans, I suppose the 12th rank server is New Orleans in this metaphor.

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Asian player looking for a skilled EU server

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The notion that T1 is a laggy blobfest is by people that are not in T1. Even though my internet connection is currently the lowest tier possible, I do not get lag in guild raids. However, if you have decided to complete fore go T1, that is fine. Feel free to send me a tell if you have any questions!

Correct me if I’m wrong, but IRON is an EU prime guild? That would mean you aren’t generally playing during NA Prime which would be the most prone to lag with most sides able to queue a map.

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League System will kill WvW

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This is totally not a drama thread.

Just an honest warning and assessment…

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Simple Solution to The Bloodlust Controversy.

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Since this makes sense and has straightforward reasoning, I would expect a 0% chance of you being taken seriously.

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Why Stormbluff Isle is the Place to be.

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Glad to see SBI picking up some guilds. And doubly glad that the new guilds seem to come from mid/lower tier servers and are not some top tier bandwagoon attempting to form the “next T1 server”.

SBI was a great place for SF to learn and get better at WvW. If the community is still the same, I have no doubt that we will hear more of the guilds that transfered over in the future.

Thanks for the kind words. It has been hard to fill the void that SF and Jed left. You guys were an excellent part of this community and I’m happy to see you are still active and having fun on JQ. It was a treat to have you on SBI and we miss you and wish you the best of luck on JQ.

On another note, I’d like to welcome [Abys] from Darkhaven. They have helped us polish up our late NA/early Oceanic coverage.

I’d like to extend an invitation to any disgruntled SEA/OCX/EU guilds or players who are disgruntled with their current server to consider Stormbluff Isle as a potential new server. We have an extremely active and dedicated Asian Time Zone crew who have had tier 1 experience. Some of the names include:

Brown Jayhee [from SoR, Saty]
O Fiddlestick O [from BG]
Yulo [SoR]

There has never been a better time to get back in to WvW on SBI, especially for off peak hours. If you have any questions at all, I encourage you to either send me a pm, or check out our active server forums where you can register and ask a question to the entire community: www.stormbluffisle.com

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Asian player looking for a skilled EU server

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Stormbluff Isle on NA has a very active Asian/Korean community. Many of the War Machine players that did not leave the server to join WM on it’s server hopping stayed behind to PvE. With the resurgence of WvW on SBI, guilds coming home, and many predicting our return to the ranks of the kings of WvW, the Asian Time Zone is again becoming a hub of traffic for Asian players. We have many very skilled commanders during this time who have been in notable guilds on Tier 1 servers like SoR and Blackgate.

The asians are in the process of creating a zergbusting and tactics focused guild in the OCX/SEA prime on SBI and are all enthusiastic and play 10+ hours a day (no lie…). This is a great server to go to if you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of something great.

Other perks include:
Dedicated community site: www.stormbluffisle.com
Active community teamspeak (even during asian timezone)

Hope to see you out there!

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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There is also a good possibility of seeing SBI a lot more in the future if we end up in silver and with IOJ moving up. As far as us getting rolled by higher servers, look at the BP match up last week. SE saw the blobs that BP runs around with and BP is pretty well organized. SE should be more worried about being on IOJ, you wont get good fights against lower tiers due to the numbers you can bring and you will get depended upon heavily to carry IoJ against any of the middle tier servers. Be prepared to face many weeks like this one.

What you dont seem to realise is that you guys got the coverage of a much higher rated server that what your current rank/rantings suggest. To the point of even holding IoJ off during oceanic time, I was there today and you guys easily had twice if not more our size.

YB, Bp, kaneineng and so on would still be difficult for us but Im completely sure the match up woudn’t be as one sided as this one is. From what I’ve seen it looks like a good bunch of sbi know this and want to go up in tiers for a bigger challenge in gold league which i gotta give props for being realistic. The numbers and organization you guys are pulling deffinetly belongs in a higher tier

The fact is that IoJ wants a better challenge than what they have been getting facing the likes of SF and HoD, but in all honesty, BP, Ebay, YB, CD are all going to be tough fights for you guys. Maybe not quite as tough as the SBI matchup is, but it seems to me not everybody from IoJ is in tune with what they want from WvW. Fighting large numbers day in and day out is how you get better, and it’s up to you guys as a server to set realistic objectives for what you hope to get out of the week and make it a positive experience so you are ready to take on the likes of other mid tier servers.

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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I come from DH, we just xefered to IoJ. We dealed with stupid SBI numbers last week on DH and have to deal with them this week as well.That is where being tired comes from.

+600 was indeed ridicilous, but personally i didn’t get much to see from that last week as we just xfered. I just know for 2nd week now it is like in 300 movie all day.

My point is, if it wasn’t clear: you guys are so proud of yourself and tell other servers they should learn to wvw when all honestly only reason why you win is because of absurd numbers. Come down from your high horse, high tier servers with same numbers would faceroll over you.

As for emoting and hacking, i hope you realize people get discouraged alone by faceing such numbers, getting teabaged is not helping really. Eventually they don’t want to WvW anymore. Instead of destroying wvw community, you should be encouraging it :/

Believe me, nobody from SBI NA coverage team wants to play IoJ or NSP. It’s nothing personal, and we all understand we got transfers. We won’t get better playing you guys, and most of our guilds/players would rather open field fight, and play for bags rather than be forced to attack heavily fortified structures because you guys feel you don’t have the numbers to fight or whatever. I get no enjoyment out of watching a vast majority of IoJ zergs run all the time, whether it’s because they feel they are outnumbered or outmatched, I don’t know. I’m confident that SBI will only stand to benefit as a server by getting face rolled by top tier competition. Not even one of our guilds on SBI cares about the PPT, that’s just the community vibe, we will come out to fight ticking 30, or 300. We’ll be able to rid ourselves of the fair weathers and continue to strengthen and build the best community on NA.

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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Hillarious, as soon as IoJ gets a match up where they can’t tick 600 during Oceanic, they start to complain about coverage. Rich coming from you guys, considering the only way you win your previous match ups is by late night PvDoor. Your server is clearly filled with fairweather PvDoor players and as soon as they can’t play it, they fall off the grid completely. As soon as the famed “IoJ Oceanics” stop showing up, the coverage complaining begins.

Also, thanks to the RUN genius who pointed out how IoJ is gaining 15k glicko and SBI only a few hundred. Nice, I guess that just means we’ll be seeing each other more often so you can continue to QQ.

I’ve seen BP talk some crap but IoJ is the most hypocritical server in match up threads. I say what I say not because I say it to all servers, but because you deserve it based on the ridiculous amount of kitten you guys talk in other match up threads, and only winning them because of +600 PvDoor during oceanic.

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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Hey ioj, I noticed your ppt was a little low most of tonight. Maybe if you defended your borderland against our double team your keeps wouldn’t be paper.

It has nothing to do with sbi targeting you tonight being a transfer server..

:) It’s just you guys not cutting it.

+1, IoJ just wasn’t really managing their numbers correctly. They totally blew it. They should learn how to WvW.

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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(albeit with the standard amount of SBI zerglings to compensate for ineptitude).

Awkward bro, considering IoJ BL was queued according to my buddies on IoJ and we didn’t have a queue there. At least you didn’t deny you use stupid quantities of siege on IoJ. Queued BL + Siege = You are bad. Maybe you’re just mad I didn’t give your absolute garbage guild a shout out. Sorry bro, I’ll fix that for you now.

Keep it classy IoJ, RUN will always be baddies. There you go!

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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I have to ask this because after defending bay for three hours I have to know… SBI…We’re you guys just “Trying” to troll or were you really “Trying” to take our Bay? Because I’ve taken keeps with way less effort and manpower… that was either a poor display of intelligence or a high display of idiocy.

Whelp… take your time with that question, anyways… good job [SE], was a tough, obviously dull and pointless battle to defend our Bay but was actually fun to fight alongside you guys. Oh and gonna have to repay [OS] for the love they’ve been giving us in IoJ at hills. I’ll be sure to bring chocolate hearts and flowers next time I rage on your BL <3

Nah, It’s never about taking keeps. We’re already beating you by 40k points, we’re certainly not playing for PPT. It’s for the bags and the fights. When we take your keep you guys get all demoralized and don’t seem to play for another 24 hours. It’s much more fun when you get to keep your structure so you entertain fights (albeit with the standard amount of IoJ siege to compensate for ineptitude).

Although perhaps it would not have mattered since only SE was really interested in doing any fighting. Nonetheless, we had a blast wiping you a number of times during our uplevel training night. Keep it classy IoJ, although I hardly expect it from anyone other than SE and occasionally CORE from your server.

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Simple Solution to The Bloodlust Controversy.

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9/6 NSP / IoJ / SBI

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PSA to all the roamer chest thumpers here.

The vast majority of us are here for zerg fights. We don’t run away from you because we’re scared, we just don’t care about you. We aren’t traited or geared for roaming or small man, and you are. We don’t find it fun, and you aren’t even good. We zerg you down so you stop wasting our time. Nobody wants to chase around a roamer for 10 minutes across the map. Thanks, and have fun, keep filling up the forums with your tales of dramatic conquest against superior numbers of enemies, they are at least entertaining.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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SBI Server zombies need more Brains! BRAINNSSSS BRAINNSSSSSSSS

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I think SBI is a better choice for [SE] than IoJ. You clearly want to not feel like NA prime is not riding on your shoulders, and that’s probably what you will find on IoJ. Based on score history, HoD and SF commonly out tick IoJ during NA Prime, which means only bad things for IoJ when they face more competent servers. I’m just feeling like you’d be moving from one place with insufficient NA coverage, to another, only the second option can PvDoor bad servers during oceanic prime? If you’re about the PPT maybe you should choose IoJ, if you’re about the bags and working with skilled guilds when you are online you should choose SBI.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Shout out to the BP blob on SBI today. You had us on our feet, the tide only turned when you wiped at NW tower after placing TEN (10) catapults. Thanks for wiping us a few times and reminding us how the dirt tastes, it only makes us better.

Sincerely,
Twisted Effect Guild

That was one hell of a lords room defense you set up o.O

The morale took a big bounce up when we held you at NW, we were extremely happy that we denied your blob the north towers or any of our keeps. Regardless of any of the crap people say about SBI I’m incredibly happy with how far our home borderlands defense has come during NA Prime. The home BL has once again become a point of pride for SBI, and we are a much different server than the first BP-SBI-AR matchup. Hopefully you guys can field that same blob on our borderland every night, it was a blast.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Shout out to the BP blob on SBI today. You had us on our feet, the tide only turned when you wiped at NW tower after placing TEN (10) catapults. Thanks for wiping us a few times and reminding us how the dirt tastes, it only makes us better.

Sincerely,
Twisted Effect Guild

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Many server forums I have seen talk of possibility of tanking ranking points to reach rank 13. This may be the first ever race to drop rank!

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I feel for you DR, I also feel bad for anyone that gets stuck at the bottom of the gold league. The bottom 6 servers in gold league sound like they’ll get a heavy dose of t1-t2 stomping for 7 weeks and that should be enough to chase away the players.

I agree with a point Devon made in an earlier post, sometimes servers should face strong competition to test their mettle, but they shouldn’t have to do that for 7 weeks in a row.

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Yeah, we have a few dedicated Small man teams, most notably GoLD which I believe covers most of EU/NA prime, then off hours we have SG and DIU which are small man havoc specialists that play during Oceanic. If you would like I could get you their contact information.

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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Devona’s Tears on here? o.O

Looked like Darkhaven QQ to me.

Hmm, I don’t remember Q Q-ing?

Indeed a great fight at bay.

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[SE] Side Effect looking to transfer

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Hopefully you’ve viewed our full recruitment thread, and I know I’ve talked to you via PM as well. End your search at SBI, you can start playing WvW for long hours because you are having fun, not because you have to. The guilds and community you would be joining already respect you from our encounters during your time on Darkhaven, and would love working with you to strengthen the already strongest community in the NA server group.

For months, the community was used to fighting outnumbered and without dedicated WvW guilds, now that we have them, we have the same level of tenacity, just more firepower. Join SBI, it isn’t just another server, it’s home.

P.S. Women on SBI:
http://www.stormbluffisle.com/index.php/wvw/item/225-women-commanders

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[BÆST]Just moved here from DR.
AMAZING COMMUNITY.
I cannot stress that enough. We have been welcomed with open arms and our reputation for what we do in WvW has already gained some serious respect from inside the community. If you’re a WvW guild looking for a home this is it. I have yet to find a thing that I dislike about this server.

If you’re considering another server, stop, pick this one.

Thanks, I assure you the community has gotten more from you guys than we could have ever imagined. You are an awesome addition and thanks for the kind words. Go SBI!

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What are you even talking about Devona’s Rest is ranked lower than SBI. You’re so uninformed it’s mind boggling.

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No one will “flock” when a server transfer is 80 Gold and the reward is less than that.

also: “The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.”

Which is why I said the 13-15 ranked servers may end up being markedly better than the mid ranked gold league servers. And clearly you didn’t read my post because just this week we had 100+ people from Devona’s Rest transfer to SBI. Clearly they are flocking, and clearly you’re not informed.

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If this thread gets any interest, i’ll save this reply for some solutions I had in mind for the league system to make every server content with their current position.

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League System will kill WvW

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Hi ANET, I wanted to caution you about this league system. I know you’ve already gotten a fair bit of commentary good and bad about this league system. Here is why this system will fail. I will keep the QQ and Raging out of it so this is an informative post from a player on the server Strombluff Isle.

1) Had you revealed this league system the day it was enacted, perhaps it would be more effective. Since you have warned people that their day 1 server will equal their ending reward, you should realize that this has instilled panic in the servers who are very unlikely to win their league. Their guilds are not thinking “hmm how can we recruit people to this server, they are thinking, hmm where can we go to get good rewards and how fast can we leave?”

2) Building off point #1, people will be forging mass Exodus from their old servers into new servers likely to receive rewards when the system is released. This will probably be repeated every time a new league match is set up. Guilds will flock to servers likely to get rewards, and as a result the 13-15 ranked servers could be flooded with transfers and in reality be much stronger than half the servers in the top bracket. This has already happened on SBI. Half of the Devona’s Rest guilds have come to SBI (We of course welcomed them), but the players on DR are probably panicing and considering a server transfer now. That server has no chance of receiving rewards and is likely going to die.

3) The resulting exodus every time league matches are about to start will of course kill all community ties guilds have developed with other guilds in their community. People will flock to trendy servers and communities that had been in place since day 1 will be destroyed. These exoduses have already been happening since the launch of the game, but when they are incentivized by rewards, they will happen much more often.

4) The end of the community ties will end up diminishing people’s interest in the game. You can keep adding trinkets, rewards, shiny things, and reasons for people to stay, but the social aspect of WvW on servers will be destroyed. People who don’t usually play WvW will come on demanding the capture of certain towers, or god forbid killing the grub for achievement points, and happily afk while the people interested in playing in WvW do so.

5) This will start bickering even within servers between PvE oriented players and WvW oriented players. I know you want people to play all aspects of the game and deny there is such a thing as a PvE or a WvW oriented player, but this will happen. WvW players will get sick of PvE players ineptitude at the game, and since they will likely be fresh transfers, will feel no reason to spend time training the PUGs. This will add to server drama, and contribute to community implosions.

6) The end game is communities will die, players will lose interest, and the social aspect of GW2 will be totally crap and nobody will want to play it. The rewards won’t force servers to work together, they will drive them apart when people aren’t winning. I’ve played enough MMOs to know that people are a lot quicker to start playing the blame game when things are tough than they are to rally and fix the problem. You might hope for the best case scenario, but it will never happen. Server instability will only be settled down when people leave the game entirely.

7/Conclusion) I know Anet may think this is a great idea for their bottom lines as the server transfers will increase gem sales, but it isn’t worth it. You are throwing away the long term revenue by cornering people into the options of staying with a divided community, or move to an unknown winning community. This is a game, you can’t count on people to stick it out, they will find somewhere with less drama and instability, and perhaps most importantly a community they can depend on for more than the next 7 weeks. I would imagine that somewhere won’t be a new server in GW2, it will be a different game.

Sorry for the length of this post, thanks everyone for reading and commenting and hopefully we get a response from Devon.

Star Player
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8/30/2013 BP/SBI/DH

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Radioactive.1248

Thanks for the amazing fights, TE. We should do that more often!

Thanks for the shoutout. We’re glad you popped our GvG cherry. We always love fighting you guys.

Star Player
[KEK]

Make Objectives Scale Based on Numbers

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Radioactive.1248

“We are going to take garrison. All upscaled, pugs and newbies stay the kitten out.”

“My guild kills the lord, all others go outside. You can only enter the circle after lord down.”

Sounds like fun

Star Player
[KEK]

Legit Response would be nice

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Radioactive.1248

You’ll see something come out over the course of the next ten years. This is obviously a concern but we are more concerned with other things like large developments. As a result the opportunity cost of preventing people from hacking our game is not worth undertaking. We obviously care about this, you’ll just need to give it time, or make fixing bugs as profitable as pumping out living story content.

Star Player
[KEK]

08/23 YB-SBI-NSP

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Radioactive.1248

Hax Bend laughs off the fact that they hack, then brag about playing PvD on the forums. I take it back, I have lot’s of respect for you guys! Keep it up!

Star Player
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Guild looking for new home ~ Blodeuyn

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Radioactive.1248

Welcome to Stormbluff Isle, we are all so excited that you chose us and you will make an excellent addition to our once again thriving community.

Star Player
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Darkhaven :: NA/Oceanic

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Radioactive.1248

Having fought against Prosecute, Darkhaven definitely has some skilled players. Keep it up [SE] and Darkhaven.

Star Player
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guild looking to relocate hardcore WVW

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Radioactive.1248

Welcome to SBI! We can’t wait to fight along side you.

Star Player
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Why Stormbluff Isle is the Place to be.

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Radioactive.1248

It has been a busy week of people coming in to SBI and seeing all that we have to offer,

A warm welcome to
[BAEST] from Devona’s Rest
[Bags] From Devona’s Rest
[Bow] From Ferguson’s Crossing
[LEXS] From Devona’s Rest

Thanks for choosing us and we’re sure you could not have picked a better server. We will rise again!

Star Player
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08/23 YB-SBI-NSP

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Radioactive.1248

Here’s a screen shot of about 20 Yak’s Bend who took a portal into a fully upgraded tier 3 northwest tower when no walls or gate had been down since it was flipped back to green, epitome of class:

The second screen shot took place 1 minute before the first. You can see us running to save the tower. The gate was still up, we thought we had time, until a number of yak’s bend ported right up onto the wall and rushed the lord as evidenced by the first picture.

The second screenshot clearly shows the gate heavily damaged probably below 20%. What happened I think was that we got in, then someone repaired the gate.

So, you are proposing that over the course of less than one minute, the lord died, we got into the lord room, repaired the gate, and fought YB? What was I thinking anyways, that there would even be one honest person on your server. Pathetic. I actually had respect for you guys but it is gone. You consistently exploit your way into our bay and NW tower. You were finally caught red handed and you make excuses.

Star Player
[KEK]

08/23 YB-SBI-NSP

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Radioactive.1248

Here’s a screen shot of about 20 Yak’s Bend who took a portal into a fully upgraded tier 3 northwest tower when no walls or gate had been down since it was flipped back to green, epitome of class:

The second screen shot took place 1 minute before the first. You can see us running to save the tower. The gate was still up, we thought we had time, until a number of yak’s bend ported right up onto the wall and rushed the lord as evidenced by the first picture.

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