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10 minutes ago, evlover.6270 said:
Yes, your point being? To take the example of Gandara: they were t1 in March, then at the end there was an alliance beta + relink that gave them no link, but due to randomness after the beta they went straight from t1 to t5 from the week before beta to after the beta. Got no link the next time as well so locked into t5 for 4 months straight aside from random tiers after alliance betas. Link in August and climbing the ladder for a month, t1 during September, no link in October so dropping down the entire month, now locked in t5 since a month and for the next 2 months as well because it's full and simply doesn't have the numbers on normal days, only during weekend prime hours. The failure of the system that keeps the same 4-5 servers rotating in t1 does not justify locking specific servers in the bottom tier for months straight. The only thing we can do is play on main acc during weekend and play on an alt acc on other servers during the week (in my case, Underworld) cause if we'd transfer we wouldn't even be able to get back since Gandara is supposedly "full" while it has zero weekday coverage.
If there would be the guarantee that unlinked servers would always get a link the next time, at least there'd be something to look forward to. Now there is nothing like that, cause if there isn't a link at the end of January, the 3 months in t5 become 5 months straight.Things were better when there were no unlinked EU servers and there were 2-way and 3-way links instead of 2-way links and 3 unlinked ones. The only thing that destroyed the 3 way links was throwing French, German and EU servers together in 3-way links which ended in complete toxicity while the 3-way links should have been limited to 2 language types: either 2 FR + DE/EU, 2 DE + FR/EU or 2 EU+ FR/DE with Baruch Bay counting as a separate language since it's ESP so Baruch should only end up with 2 DE, 2 FR, 2 EU or a 2-way link. But ofc, that means more work to make the links instead of just making some random 2-way links without restrictions and gating the 3 unlinked servers in the bottom tier.
Languages being thrown together is also a part of the reason why alliances won't solve much. Whenever FR/DE/EU alliances and guilds get thrown together it will end up in very toxic weeks but that's another discussion I guess.
Ok. Got it. But you talk about ‘stale matchups’. What is the difference in a T-4/5 stale matchup and a t1 stale matchup when the teams are…. The same? You haven’t answered that.
Hate consistently being in T-5 unlinked, then maybe transfer to one of the servers that is a link server. Those servers bounce between hosts frequently. But then we hear ‘server pride’. (I’ve been on the same server now for 7 years…). There are options.
I mean, you can complain, and likely I would also, but you DO have some control. Or ride it out for the next two years until world restructuring which will do it for you. That is your current choices.
And don’t misunderstand me: I am NOT saying transferring is a great option. But it is AN option. Hope you find what works for you.
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Just now, Xenesis.6389 said:
Cal was turkey hungover.
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Lol. My post says I am as well…. 🤦♂️
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7 minutes ago, evlover.6270 said:
What does 2 weeks have to do with it? Servers from t4-5 already need a month to work their way up to t1 again, then they can fight on t1 for a month, get unlinked again and drop down to t4-5 in the first month, stay bottom tier for a month and repeat the cycle. Means 1 month of good content, 1 month no content and 2 months where they can at least fight different servers. Better than staying on the no content bottom tier for 4-6-8 months straight.
And yet, if you are correct as to the problem they would essentially fight each other in t-1 for a month….
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4 minutes ago, Karagee.6830 said:
Sadge extra whining.
Point was: it's ironic how you have big egos in NA, get yourself off kdr numbers and...those numbers are distinctly pedestrian.
It's a bit like someone moaning and whining about Gandaran complaining when there are literally zero posts about it. The irony may be lost on you, but fortunately we're not all made that way 🤣.
At least another step toward the 10k inane posts lifetime achievement. That isn't gonna get done by itself, amirite? 💯
Dude… I wasn’t talking to you. There is an old American song…. I bet you think that song is about you don’t you?
Last reply to you. Again, have fun my friend.
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2 hours ago, Xenesis.6389 said:
The good news is, relinks did happened.
The bad news is, they didn't announce the links, anet still hasn't changed their terribad communication in ten years, and wvw is still the desert borderland empty "Cornerstone".
Use to not tell people until after the week reset to ‘punish’ bandwagonners, but found it didn’t matter, so then the switched to giving people enough notification to transfer before rest so they only lost one week of pips.
Now.. it’s like they are just trolling us lol. EU no notice, NA, plenty of notice. 🤷🤦♂️
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2 hours ago, Xenesis.6389 said:
All that will accomplish is give bg sos double the ppt power, with the same amount of low energy courage. Mag would be happy to farm ppters.
Love the people who stalk you and try to troll… 😂
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18 minutes ago, evlover.6270 said:
Gunnars and Underworld camping t1: getting relinked
Baruch Bay camping t4-5 and Gandara camping t5: no link
Just stop linking based on so called population because it doesn't work, sitting in wvw and capping camps to get ticks is not the same as active guilds running around. If you want to condemn servers to the lowest tiers for 2 months by working with 3 servers with no links, at least alternate instead of condemning the same servers over and over again. Fairest option is to just put the t1's without a link so that way people can have a good time half of the year or work without no link servers and throw them into 3-way links.
So, update links for EU every 2 weeks then?
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3 minutes ago, Chaba.5410 said:
I wanted to add that BG used to not get a link for a real long time. That's how overstacked above the Full threshold they were. They had excellent historic coverage because of that overstacking that kept them from dropping tiers. EU servers don't really have much coverage compared to NA servers.
Now BG regularly gets a server link. So the intent of getting people to move to other NA servers by keeping BG Full seems to have worked.🙂
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1 minute ago, Chaba.5410 said:
I assumed @Morden Kain.3489 was talking about the algorithm that works off of playhours and not the Full/Very High status thresholds. Maybe he was lumping them together though? I consider them distinct.
I suspect thresholds have always been manually set, or at least there's very little automation evident in it. If you recall, the host servers used to all be marked as Full even if they weren't when server links first rolled out. The intent was to get people to move to the lower populated linked server. So at least there's a method they have to override any automation of a server's status.
And as you noted, BG has opened in the past.You are likely correct on each count. 🙂
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15 minutes ago, TheGrimm.5624 said:
lol, Mag roamers and YB siege, lol. Have to go with Princess Bride here, "Have fun storming the castle!" o/
Don’t worry. Based on the experience of the last 6-8 months, Mag doesn’t need siege lessons. 😂
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5 minutes ago, Karagee.6830 said:
Ah more whining...somehow I'm not surprised. For someone to write 7k posts like this something must be really wrong. I wish you all the best for a speedy recovery.
Huh. You consider that last post whining?
Love it when someone resorts to commenting on post counts. 😂
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1 minute ago, Karagee.6830 said:
They have been beaten on time by the kitten and sore losers whining about Gandarans requesting to be open or linked, haven't you?
Oh wait...
I know you play EU, but normally your English is quite good. This literary gem? Yeah…. No idea what you are saying.
But glhf. See you over the next 8 weeks. I figure you are more likely to be here than playing, though I wish it were different.-
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*waits for how unfair it is to Gandara posts*
20 minutes ago, Xenesis.6389 said:kitten.. that's gonna be hell to fight.
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6 minutes ago, Quadeard.8457 said:
Please don't forget that the majority of the world is not participating in your Thanksgiving turkey orgy 🐦
Even we aren’t participating in it today. That was yesterday.
Today is the in store shopping orgy called Black Friday. 😜
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1 minute ago, Xenesis.6389 said:
Wouldn't be the first time. 😂
And won’t be the last. 🤷
It’ll change next week now. And someone will claim it was just what was expected.
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Hmmm.. @Cal Cohen.2358 Relinks when?
I figure the grinding and gnashing of teeth should be soon…. 😂
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20 minutes ago, Karagee.6830 said:
That is not correct. Posting some indication (not the actual numbers) would show they have a system in place that makes some sense. Even if they did tiers. In a sense they already do with the server status, but they don't want to say anything that involves numbers because what happens if the metrics show something very different than server status? People would be ready with pitchforks especially on EU where 3 server get shafted for 2 months every relink.
Or, you know, they could just openly say that server status DIRECTLY reflects their metrics over a certain number of weeks and we should believe it. There is no harm in doing this since nobody can check, especially if it was true. However, people are often reluctant to outright lie when they can simply avoid the topic altogether.
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Join a stream with them and ask. Good luck.
Maybe when your server does another protest sit out you can take the time and join one.
Yeah. EU is abused. 😬
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On 11/23/2022 at 1:48 PM, Morden Kain.3489 said:
Well, unless you are an ANet employee with access to the source code, we are purely speculating as to the algorithm being used in the first place. It does not matter if it was posted to the wiki, then subsequently removed. Unless an ANet developer comes along and says "we do it this way" and fills in the blanks on the algorithm (in English, not code), we will always be hypothesizing, postulating, presuming, and speculating.
All we know is that ANet uses WvW participation as the basis for the world population. Until such time as this changes, feel free to continue hypothesizing on the algorithm.
What we ‘hypothesized’ about the ‘full’ status is that for a while they used one server from NA (and likely one on EU) that was their max server. For a long time (and maybe even now) BG was that server. No matter how many players left, they stayed full. The hypothesis was as BG dropped? Other servers became full based on that benchmark. It drove players to less populated servers. Over time (and we are talking years) BG started to open again, but they only kept them open for hours at a time then likely manually closed them again. Gradually, that ‘full threshold’ dropped. So…. Now we have a much lower ‘full threshold’. Which also means, some servers that were ‘open’ and a certain population/play hours, would now be full.
But play hours has always been their stated process.
As to all of the specifics, they won’t release it. Period. So, to some extent, we are speculating. But it does make me laugh when people keep asking Anet to tell us…. They have NOTHING to gain by posting the actual activity numbers.
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32 minutes ago, Melworm Starrain.6794 said:
oh so late? ok Bro thx
That is their standard time for posting relinks. They are based on the west coast, so, pst is their normal schedule.
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1 hour ago, Thomas.2564 said:
Let's see then.
Tactic's
Shield genies
Desertbl
Ac dmg nerfed to kitten
Rams got stupid amount of hp
Balista dmg nerfed to kitten
Mounts
Gliders
New upgrade system on keeps and towers is beyond stupid. Lets get the old system back, where players have to choose their upgrades for a cost, much more imteractive game exp.
That's just of the top of my head, but im sure i can find more if i try.
Good list.
But if they re-introduce cost based upgrades, I’d be like f no. Now, choosing to trigger an upgrade without the associated cost would be fine, but I don’t want to move back closer to the days where WvW cost more to play it than we got rewards wise
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11 minutes ago, Melworm Starrain.6794 said:
and again no relink post 😐
There won’t be one until close to 1200-1230 EST, or 9:00-9:30 PST. Deep breath….
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9 minutes ago, Sahne.6950 said:
Well... maybe i am dumb.... but... didnt dawdler say the exact opposite!?
He said that there is little you can do besides traps and some revealskills, but even they wont do the job... The part at the bottom... he is making fun about thief mains... idk what your even referring to here....
Dawdler:
"TL;DR traps and skills barely slow them down, but yeah its basicly the only option. If they are squishy a pull+hard CC from a few peeps might be enough, but if they run defensive gear they might tank through it. And that assumes you can catch them at all, considering the teleports
But no, every other class can be kitten like that but certainly not thief, the worst roamer, worst duelist slowest class to exist according to 10 out of 10 thieves on the forums."
Not worth the time. I gave up on this one and one other. 🙂
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1 hour ago, Daniela.6285 said:
Its a forum ban. So scared. I will not sleep tonight
I mean I get it. 🙂
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15 minutes ago, ArchonWing.9480 said:
. When people are like "omfg pvers are coming in to do dailies",. rest assured I'd take them over the former since the later probably went to meet Lucas at dodge training in Queensdale:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dodge_Instructor ..
Btw pro tip guys: Many attacks can be done while moving. You don't have to stand there.
Wait.., what??? HAXOR!!!
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Get the nuhoc crusher tonic. Send video of run. Cheers.