Kitsune
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And they can just pay the one-time fee to transfer to where their friends are. It's not like it's a big deal. And only relevant to WvW. If their friends are just PvE it doesn't matter in any event.
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As for the "I want to play with my friends" bullshit excuse for wanting free WvW server movement, anyone who didn't even know which server to pick ahead of time with their so-called close "friends" deserves to be fucking friendless.
OK? In any case, server PVP skill is a tricky thing to nail down. In WoW I played on 4 different servers, and the disparity between win/loss ratios in TB, WG, and Battlegrounds was huge. Like huge. Either one side always won everything, or it was somewhat balanced, or whatever weird pattern. The point is, how can anyone know what server to pick in GW2 without waiting a year to see the stats play out? Might as well pick a server at random and roll with it. |
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Kitsune
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Unless every single good player only joins one server, it shouldn't be an issue anyways as long as they do a good enough job at pairing up servers for the battles. Then the hardcore WvW guilds will be facing the other hardcore guilds and not a server that's 90% zerg.
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Ingmar
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Unless every single good player only joins one server, it shouldn't be an issue anyways as long as they do a good enough job at pairing up servers for the battles. Then the hardcore WvW guilds will be facing the other hardcore guilds and not a server that's 90% zerg.
That's entirely dependent on win rate, no? The servers that win a lot will be at the top, regardless of what their method for winning is. if 'being awesome and having lots of small groups' wins, and 'zerging into a mighty uberzerg' wins, then those people will still be playing each other. |
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Kitsune
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That's entirely dependent on win rate, no? The servers that win a lot will be at the top, regardless of what their method for winning is. if 'being awesome and having lots of small groups' wins, and 'zerging into a mighty uberzerg' wins, then those people will still be playing each other.
Well, true. The same end result being that (hopefully) no server winds up either trouncing or being trounced by all competition. |
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Kageru
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I don't think the world PvP system is guaranteed to work. But it does over-come the guaranteed to fail system we've had up till now of expecting the factions to be remotely balanced and provide a good foundation. Even if you do get a "god" server they'll still be fighting the best of the rest who may well be motivated to beat them and no opponent will be facing them continuously since it rotates. While the average servers can watch it as entertainment without any fear they'll be thrown into the meat grinder. Indeed from a personal point of view a "god" server would be excellent. The "I'm so bad-ass" people can go there and test their virtual manhood while I play along with the casuals and bads. Well, true. The same end result being that (hopefully) no server winds up either trouncing or being trounced by all competition.
Less likely to be an issue I think since the focus of self-selection will be lower. The serious PvP crowd might flock to one server, but they'll leave all the non-contenders equally. |
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tazelbain
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I vote Fort Aspenwood server.
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Kageru
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I'll be a guest member, since I know most of you are US timezone so better to be wherever the aussies end up as home server.
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Redgiant
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fwiw, gw2guru has Sorrow's Furnace then Jade Quarry as ex-DAoC servers.
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A FUCKING COMPANY IS AT STEAK
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Tmon
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Count me in, my WoT clan shows 0 interest right now. Hopefully by the time BC hits its expiration date some of the people in the clan will have discovered the game.
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Sky
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VOIP with Helm would be so awesome. I'd do my garbled Ahnold impression the entire time, speaking my horrid pidgeon deutsch.
Which, oddly enough, is also my plan if I have to go work with Iain some day.
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Nebu
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VOIP with Helm would be so awesome. I'd do my garbled Ahnold impression the entire time, speaking my horrid pidgeon deutsch.
I can understand common German pretty well due to a childhood of being yelled at in German by my mother and grandmother. Unfortunately, my spoken German is pretty terrible. |
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Sky
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I took German in my junior year of high school from a madwoman.
But when I was in jr high I found a german porn mag, so I knew how to say naughty things long before.
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(insert 'gunther tra la la' youtube link here)
Here in Hungary everyone needs to learn at least one language alongside English. Our teacher was a huge trekkie (once he even came to school in his starfleet uniform). Incidentally, my first/last experience with star trek was the "Borg" episode from TNG that we watched in German during class.
Then there was a test. /sadface
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I look forward to joining Bat Country despite not knowing any German.
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Der Helm
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I'll practice my Old and Middle English pronunciation then, just to throw you of your game.  |
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Nightblade
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Can I come too? I don't eat much and I don't know right from wrong.
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Ingmar
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Clearly the guild needs a new name.  |
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Bad Country Accent?
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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kildorn
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I'll be a guest member, since I know most of you are US timezone so better to be wherever the aussies end up as home server.
Guesting will not be in for this beta event, but if you mean release, woo So have we actually picked a server yet? This thing lights up tomorrow at noon Pacific, so should be playable by sunday. |
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Bann
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Google translate tells me the guild should be named "Schläger-Land"
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Sky
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A Dark Guild Rises.
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Ard
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Dark, Dork, one of those at least.
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One-man Boy Band
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Phred
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Typical f13. 1 day to go until beta starts and no one has picked a server yet.
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« Last Edit: April 26, 2012, 06:00:30 PM by Phred »
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kildorn
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I'll probably go Fort Aspenwood. Just because (and because I don't think the majority of Slap is picking this up this early)
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Nevermore
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By the time Slap picks this up you'll have moved on to your next game anyway.
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Over and out.
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Ingmar
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Google translate tells me the guild should be named "Schläger-Land"
Wrong kind of bat! Fledermausland. |
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Phred
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I've been reading up on server transfers and I think we have it wrong. Someone earlier posted that you were stuck with the server you created your first character on, but from my reading of arena.net's blog, http://www.arena.net/blog/choosing-and-transferring-worlds-in-guild-wars-2 you can transfer your home world for WvW, once every 7 days. Anyone know if they are doing some kind of LFD tool? I haven't seen it mentioned. |
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waffel
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nm...
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kildorn
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I've been reading up on server transfers and I think we have it wrong. Someone earlier posted that you were stuck with the server you created your first character on, but from my reading of arena.net's blog, http://www.arena.net/blog/choosing-and-transferring-worlds-in-guild-wars-2 you can transfer your home world for WvW, once every 7 days. Anyone know if they are doing some kind of LFD tool? I haven't seen it mentioned. You are stuck with your home server without RMT payments for transfers (the gems thing). For the BWE, we will be given enough gems to do it, if you really want to. What is NOT in this BWE is guesting. You won't be able to play with people on another server in PvE without transferring. |
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