Guild Wars 2

If we did move back to 24 hour matches, I’d also like the matches to start around noon in the server’s timezone to limit the influence of off hour players. That way their contributions would be tilted toward the end of a match rather than the beginning, and the beginning multiplies their contributions two or three fold by giving them more point ticks.

So it’s not a problem for Aussies or Euros playing in NA servers, but it’s a problem for other servers who have NO recourse to counter the influx of Aussies on HoD. Seriously, we can’t just get NA players to just give up sleep and work, and we can’t force the Aussies to spread out to different servers. In its current form, WvW is unsustainable for this game except for the top server. So yes, Arenanet has to do something that will inevitably tick a lot of people off (and make other people happy), but something needs to be done, or as other people have said, HoD will be fighting empty servers. I mean, that’s what they’re already doing between 2-10 AM EST.

Gotta say that this is a pathetic. We went from a 26k point lead over HoD that we had to work our butts off for the past 72 hours to a 6k lead in about 8 hours. I agree that Anet needs to get rid of the different server regions to boost server populations during all hours, or it needs to separate the Aussies and Euros from the NA servers. I’m feeling pretty demoralized about WvW if I know that my server can even maintain a slight lead all day only to fall another 10k points behind at night. SBI vs ET vs HoD is fun during NA daytime, and nighttime just screws it all up.

That is one of the best ideas I’ve read about this game in weeks.

Here are some changes that would make queues more bearable?

Let us know the total number of players queued and our position in that queue. Example: You are #24 out of 35 total players queued up for Eternal Battlegrounds from your server.

Also, make it the standard first come, first serve queue.

Lastly, implement population cap tiers. If all servers can put forth 200 people on a map, and all of them have an additional 25 people queued up, increase the cap by 25 players temporarily (just as an example – I have no idea what caps are currently).

I’d also cap each server specifically instead of the total population per map. Don’t limit maps to 500 total players just so server A can load in 350 players and dominate the other two servers (I hope this is how the queues work already).