Guild Wars 2

Aidan Savage.2078:

Average active population for what though? WvW? There’s borderlands and EotM that people can be in, or they’re off doing PvE. PvE? They could be off doing WvW or sPvP instead.

an averange population of the whole server itself, its clear that when you compare it to other servers, in my case ET has low population in WvW, PVE and mostly any other aspect of the game.
in these circumstances not many will be encouraged to pay a transfers to a server like this, I mean, who, as a lone player, in a higher populated server would want to pay to go to a server with no WvW or active PvE population?

anyways, this is just a suggestion, I tought itd be a really good way to give chances to servers like ET to resurrect, since this really seems to be an issue thats been around for long time and its never been addressed (or if it was, it didnt seem to make any difference, did it?)

Aidan Savage.2078:

You missed the time where there WERE free transfers to such servers. They ended the day of the Spring WvW tournament. Now transfer costs are based on league status/rank I believe.

but, was it enough? I dont see any difference, if anything its worse than before, thats why my suggestion is based on reaching an averange active population instead of just opening free transfers for a limited time.

This is a suggestion topic, I didnt find anywhere else to post it (suggestions sub-forum is closed), so i’m sorry if its not the right place.

First, id like to start with an small introduction. Ive been a GW2 player since the game launch, having preordered the game before that.

Of course, at the launch most servers had a huge population, I personally started in a server which name I dont remember, because I switched servers (transfers were free then) quickly a few days after launch because my guild moved to Eredon Terrace, and thats pretty much where ive always played, at least the times ive been active. A few months after launch I stopped playing because of college and vacations and stuff. I came back around 7 months after, only to find that ET was pretty much empty, and last in WvW and stuff, however I could find a nice guild and had real fun in WvW, it was active and PVE was still decent even if server was quite empty. Again, after a few months I had to leave due to finals and getting degree and stuff..
Today, after around 4 months I decided to give the game another shot, so I log in only to find that ET is even worse than before, with every map pretty much empty and the chat of course dead.

After this, I decided to check how much do server transfers cost, since now I can afford it, when I saw the prices and saw they were different depending on the population I could see a logic of trying to put cheaper prices for underpopulated servers, but then, at least in my opinion, I belive that anyone who is willing to pay to transfer servers wont really change his/her mind just because lower servers are cheaper and go to that server instead, so that leads to my idea/suggestion:

While I belive its alright to have different prices depending on the population, I think itd be much better to have FREE TRANSFERS for those servers which averange population and WvW position is WAY LOWER than others. This way it’d inspire some massive transfers for guilds (because of course normally all the members of a guild aint in a position to pay all their transfers) and players who are looking for a new beginning (because seriusly, no matter how optimistic you are about a new beginning and stuff in a lower server, having to ALSO pay to go to a dead server can be really disencouraging.)

So to sum it up, I think it should be allowed to have FREE TRANSFERS to dead servers like Eredon Terrace, at least till they reach a competitive averange active population in relation to the other servers, and I see it as one of the only ways to actually give servers like ET a chance to resurrect and become competitive in both PvP and PvE.

Thanks for reading, and sorry if my english isnt the best, since its not my native language.

just wondering if there is any, ive been looking for one but ive just seen some empty list in the friend list; isnt there any actual feature dedicated to look for group that includes all the servers in one area?

if there isnt, well there should be one, I think it would add so much to the game, and if there is, well ive been missing much then lol