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Server Merge

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Le Rooster.8715
#1 - Aug. 31, 2013, 5:07 p.m.
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As many of you have heard http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/08/31/pax-prime-2013-guild-wars-2-prepares-to-blow-your-mind-all-o/ there will be big changes coming to WvW in the sense of leagues where we will have 4 leagues of 6 servers. (NA)

Now as we also know many of the bottom tier servers are slowly dwindling in population so instead of 4 leagues of 6 servers why can’t we have 3 leagues of 6 servers cut down from 24—>18 serverscondense the population to give us more fair matches and better matches.

Just want to hear the general thoughts obviously people from the servers being cut will be given free transfers and guild buffs etc will be game bound.

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DevonCarver
#4 - Sept. 1, 2013, 9:34 a.m.
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NA will be 2 leagues of 12 servers, not 4 of 6. In addition server merges are not on the table as the population of the game as a whole doesn’t suggest they are necessary.

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DevonCarver
#6 - Sept. 1, 2013, 10:40 a.m.
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bradderzh.2378:

The issues are not usually that a server has low population, it’s that a server has a low wvw population. A top tier server that has lots of dedicated wvw guilds around the clock who primarily care about wvw don’t neccasarilly have a higher population than lower tier servers, it’s could just be that the ratio of wvw to PvE/spvp players is higher.

However, you can’t tell people what game type to play, so you will still lose each week because they don’t want to help out in wvw.

The issue is, that while you may be on these lower tier servers and still care just as much about wvw as the higher tier servers, you are essentially on the wrong server and if this system rewards the heavily stacked servers more it’s only going to promote more stacking.

You mention in this post why nothing is changing here. We can’t merge servers based on what percentage of players on a server play WvW. We make determinations about servers based on their overall population. Your best bet is to use the influx of rewards from the season to convince people on your server to start paying attention to WvW. Or convince people to transfer to your server to boost your WvW ranks.

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DevonCarver
#8 - Sept. 1, 2013, 10:58 a.m.
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styx.7294:

And influx of rewards? The influx of rewards is 10 gold/hour farming, talk to NPC for 10 achievement points, and unique weapon skins every 2 weeks in Living Story. You better be bringing hell of a lot of rewards for me to tell someone in Lion’s Arch that it’s worth their time to step away from autoattacking in a PvE map and risk actually dying somewhere.

Well, I can’t promise it will work, but I’m kitten sure trying.