Guild Forced to change server - loss Influence and Tomes of Influence

#1 - Sept. 5, 2012, 12:54 a.m.
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Our Guild has been forced to change servers 1 week after launch due to it being constantly full and new members not being able to join us on that server.
We took the decision to move to a less populated server to allow all our guild members to play together and its worked we now are less likely to be placed in the overflow servers and we are all on the same world and new members/friends can create characters on said world.
However we originally picked a server which unknowingly to us and many other players become full in a matter of a day or so, this split the guild and by the time we had already spent our Tomes of Influence and started to acquire guild influence and started spending it to get our guild established.

Is there a way we could get any of this influence back, as we will not be going back to that world for the reasons stated above.

Really Hope something can come of this as I’m sure our guild is not the only one which was forced to change server and by doing so we have also helped Arenanet by moving a bunch of players to a less populated world, taking strain of the ‘full’ world

#14 - Oct. 26, 2012, 10:48 a.m.
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At the present time, and I don’t know that this will change, guilds accrue their Influence and upgrades on a specific world. They’re welcome to gain Influence and upgrades on multiple worlds, but we don’t shift things around upon request or through a mechanic tied to their world change.

I personally feel that the benefits of being on a less-populated world are considerable. As you mention, you can have folks join you in the future and that’s a real good thing.