Server Association

#1 - May 13, 2014, 8:53 p.m.
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I transferd a few weeks ago to another server, my problem is that I have played activly for about 3-4weeks everyday on my new server and it still says that my old server is the server I am associated with, which makes no sense because I barely played there. I wrote a ticket and posted in the account section but I am getting no help from there ( thanks anet customer support I guess)

Anyone can help me further?

#12 - May 14, 2014, 7:40 p.m.
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Your world association is not determined based on the sheer amount of time you’ve spent fighting for a world, but rather the things you’ve achieved during your time fighting with that world.

#70 - June 18, 2014, 8:07 p.m.
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Here’s exactly how Association worked for this latest tournament, and why it can have the effects some of you are seeing .

For WvW Spring Tournament 2014, this is how Association scoring worked:

  • Load into a WvW map for the first time that day: Gain 1 Association score for your current home world.
  • Complete any achievement that contributes to the WvW Spring Tournament 2014 meta achievement: Gain 2 Association score for your current home world.

Your main Associated shard is then the one with the highest score within the current datacenter. That last part is the caveat that’s preventing some tournament rewards from being issued. Or in some cases “wrong” rewards (working as intended, but not desired, and certainly not clear). In other cases, if a player transferred mid-tournament and has Associations in both datacenters, their rewards will be bound to the most-Associated shard within the datacenter when they talk to the Battle Historian to get the new tournament tickets. This is the intended behavior for this tournament, but has been confounded by issues with Association getting locked-in prematurely.

Some rewards were incorrectly granted too early. When rewards are given, your most-associated world is locked-in at that moment. This applies even if you change datacenters. Your Association scores can still change, but your one true Association for that tournament is still the one from which you received rewards. With the fix that went out on June 17th, that lock was reset, resetting your most-Associated world to whichever one has the highest score in your current datacenter, until talking to the Historian and getting the rewards locks/locked it in again.