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Your belief that night capping servers are “always going to be matched up against worlds who don’t have this ability” is subjective, you lack any real proof at this stage of the game. Is this going to happen? Yes. Will it always happen? Depends on how many servers are capable of it.
Also, your tone implies that people are deliberately flaunting a broken mechanic. I understand EU is a little bit different, but I’m Oceanic and on the US servers I’m not night capping or alarm clocking, I’m playing in my prime time. The top guild alliances in the US adapted to 24×7 battles even before the game was released. Why are the EU alliances so different?
Please spare me the ad-hominem.
Proof?
BEST CASE SCENARIO top 3 worlds (multiples of 3 are best case) have night-cappers/alarm cappers. Rotation ends, 1 team goes down to rank 4, so now we just killed WvW for an entire 2 weeks for 3 teams, 1 being the team that has went up to face 2 worlds of night-cappers, and the other 2 being the worlds that are now facing the night-capping world that has came down in rank. That’s best case concerning the issue without Anet intervening, assuming things such as night-capping worlds reaching top ranks and staying there together. Now what do the other worlds have to aim for knowing they’re inevitably going to hit this road block even if they do climb the ranks? I don’t know how to make it anymore clear than that.Your ideal solution;
All worlds field a full around the clock presence. Both you and I wish. Likely? Not a chance in kitten.Why do the EU worlds not deal with this like the NA worlds? Night capping is a result of either people behind prime-time for said region, or alarm clockers within it. The people behind EU timezones ARE the NA players, who already have their own servers, so why would would they want to come to ours and play with high latency? Unless of course they’re French Canadians who want to play with other French speaking players.
You do understand that West USA is pretty the last of the GMT time blocks, and the GMT turn over in around the middle of the pacific ocean, then the east USA is about 8 hours ahead of the west side.
The EU is slightly different because GMT = London so The eastern side of the EU is around 6 hours and many countries will be in the same block of time, you’ll still have people coming on during their daytime because people will be working at night and have fun during the day.
The NA servers are only different because their block of time is what 6 hours different to the first block of Asian countries who will be on the NA servers because that will give the lowest pings to the servers.
The problem for NA players/people in general is they don’t know about the rest of the world so think the whole game only works on USA times, and only US people use or play on these servers when that just isn’t the case.
The problem you have is thinking the US time zones are the only prime times on the US servers when that isn’t correct and completely wrong, they are 24×7 servers so anyone could play the game at anytime even if you couldn’t be bothered to play the game their will be people on there playing.
I just wonder if you still fuss about the servers when you can’t be on them when it’s prime US time because people would be zerging areas just as areas will be getting zerged when it’s this off peak time.
The realitly of this will be servers that have 24×7 player bases will end up matched together and only 1 will have a slightly larger point base than the other and those servers will always be pitted against each other.
No matter what happened even with this so called offpeak nerfing, you’ll only screw that server as it’ll only have people playing on 12×7 playerbase servers and you won’t make any where near as many points as a 24×7 playerbase server.
I find it quite funny that people actually think 24×7 means there’s an on peak and off peak play time on a server.
When there isn’t such a thing.
That’s the problem with 24×7 playtime in the real world.
NA players wouldn’t be prime time and Aust players won’t be prime time either, everyone needs to sleep at some point and well who ever is on while others are sleeping may or may not get it easier that life deal with it yourself.
The odd thing is the NA players want to make super points so they get swapped with other super high point servers, so if there was a server with a balanced NA and Aust player base then that server will be way above anyone else as they will have players online all the time and then there is never any sort of on/off peak time.
Thinking there is even on/off peak times in 24×7 server is quite silly thinking.
The only way to stop that would be to shut down the server for 12 hours of the day, tough luck if you work and only get 4 hours on the server.
I deleted my bank golum on 1 char
I didn’t actually know it was a permanent delete I thought you could get this back would I have to put a ticket in to get the banker item back again?