CrimsonNeonite.1048

You should join the server community discords, if you want to find out when a voice commander tags up, but on Deso we also use Arborstone's own discord, where they usually lead in french.

Otherwise, most of us are tired of T1, but we might drop this week, watch this space.

MM Event Raids have been done a bazillion times already, they just wipe against any cloud, any objectives with alot of siege/defenders and any organized groups.

The only time you could run such an event is dead at night, or in the early mornings, besides against servers with little late night coverage, at least in the EU it happens quite often. Wiping constantly isn't fun.

Like golem rushes can often go back unless it's reset night, where one server ktrains while the other two servers fight each other.

Yeah we had skill lag two nights in a row in T1 EU, but they were 3 way fights during the weekend and it wasn't even on EB.

It's about time to open Gandara and SFR, unlike what happened to Deso twice last year, after most of our guilds transferred off. It was okay at first, until the second time Deso got thrown into T5 with no link and a full server.

Playing on ALTs doesn't really help keep the system 'healthy' either, but too many servers end up rather lacking population without a link. Yet some links become way too stacked and populations end up not being adjusted fast enough, to stop the growing queues and dominating servers who end up stuck in t1, past the first 3-4 weeks after the relinks.

> @"Karagee.6830" said:

> > @"Strider Pj.2193" said:

> > > @"MoonT.6845" said:

> > > Happens to every server you deny a link to.

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> > Incorrect factually.

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> > Not wanting to play is one thing.

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> > Claiming that it happens to every unlinked server is factually inaccurate.

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> Looks like SFR is also boycotting just like Gandara. Baruch Bay are just the weirdest server, since they have a disproportionately high night participation and control the game for 8 hours at night when they significantly outnumber everyone and can just easily push whoever is winning into 3rd.

This has been one of the most boring post relink matchups, even if it is T1 with one server who doesn't belong here.

Some of their guilds have raided this week at least, so it hasn't been completely dead. All it might do is drop their population to very high though. BB will never go full though and some others like FSP and Dzagonur opened.

On Deso we didn't boycott, because we only have one community guild running closed for two hours and sometimes a few hours open 2-3 times a week.

At night it is just randoms from both link and host; who ktrains at night, only when there's no resistance.

Links have almost killed the community we once had, especially last year.

Surprised Gandara didn't get a link at least, but with the amount of tiers in the EU we have three servers including BB who end up with no link.

So somehow they decided Gandara was active enough with no link, but I would of thought even Piken had enough of T1.

If they don't post an update in the next week, about the next relink being on the 5th, then I would assume it will be next Friday on the 29th.

Honestly though, I think this relink will be quite predictable how things will go.

You might see a mix of a bunch of hosts and links, with their current communities which aren't going to work well, so there will be mass transfers to other links.

WSR will transfer with 100+ people, since dzagonur might have no link and Piken is almost certain to have no link along with BB.

You think we could do with another Tier, when you have JS and WSR perma T5 and AG/Vabbi or Drakkar/Viz dropping to T5 every other week?

I don't understand that logic.

RoF is old news now, after the initial hype and bandwagon. It looks like some people ended up transferring off too, but to another current T1 link server in the end and more might do it because of their queues.

Feelsbad for the servers who end up being stuck in T1 or T5 though, especially once the Tiers normalize after the relink mixed up the tiers and the transfers are mostly done. I'm still having a good time in T3, even though it can be alot of fights inside objectives with siege even, apart from on reset night where the skill lag was bad.

It's too late, until people and guilds start transferring due to the queues.

They need to adjust the populations more frequently, but alliances are coming in 2077.

There is already so much stacking on RoF, that people will be forced to transfer away due to the queues, when FSP was already quite active.

At least some servers opened up, although if Deso gets unlinked, it will be a big struggle without a link, after losing another 21 players this week, in addition to the 7 guilds who transferred to link servers.

We're already seeing the Server Stacking effect, which the new relinks bring and what the current system allows.

Arborstone could be getting overcrowded like RoF and maybe elsewhere, so I wonder how bad the queues will be, which will force people to maybe transfer off in a few or a couple of weeks. At least we'll be playing Cyberpunk 2077 in 4 days though and most wvw guilds will be on a break soon.

Have you joined SFR's discord yet? I'm pretty sure they have a guy called Elite running for them during the day, but it's only one squad and SFR is known to have quite a few Chatmanders and Guild Raids running.

You will probably have the same problem on alot of other servers too, one squad, guild raids and big queues or just one queue to EB, apart from maybe on Reset night.

We've had farm bots on Deso appearing now and again, who run into the cliff behind the portals at our spawn on Red BL.

> @"Fat Disgrace.4275" said:

> What's the odds that 75% of the community will QQ because they are in a bad/dead linked server

Well yeah the relink system is flawed and needs work or *cough* Alliances in 2021, but at least this relink will be 7 weeks, with Christmas and Cyberpunk 2077 in between it.

I feel your pain, most of us was hyped for the relink, but a week shouldn't be that much longer for us to wait.

Earlier this year Deso got stuck with a stacked link for an extra month only to get another stacked link, but at least Anet postponed that Christmas Relink in advance. :#

Some balance changes would be nice after the one earlier this year, but I doubt we will even see any changes by the end of the year. Even changes to the Server linkings and populations would be welcome, with no Alliances coming anytime soon, especially on the EU side.

Keeps and castles don't need more buffing towards defenders, unless you are heavily outnumbered or have no siege with a weak pug cloud. A new map will only ever happen, if it's in development for the new expansion, but there hasn't been any info about the competitive side of the expansion yet.

Do you think Alliances will be out by the next expansion? I doubt it, so the system could do with more adjustments before then, if they are still willing to support this game mode and it's players/worlds.

Personally, I do not think we have the population for Five Tiers in the EU, particularly with mass transfers happening every relink, which leaves other servers struggling in the lower Tiers for the duration of the server (un)linking.

Meanwhile, you even see T1 servers open for more transfers, no matter the coverage and activity they already have. It could mean longer queues for those servers who are already well populated, when they don't want or need it, whether it's new players choosing a world or veterans, it's not good for the game mode.

We are still waiting for that change to Tactivator banners, being only useable around their objectives too.

When RTK was on BB, they had a lot more Coverage at night in the late evening or early morning in the EU, but they moved to underworld.

Nowadays they have Guild Raids two hours before and after the usual EU prime time and any open tags, but besides that they aren't that active after 3-4am CET.

> @"Randulf.7614" said:

> Us in the UK gained our extra hour of 2020 on Sunday.

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> Just what we need... more 2020

Yeah that 6pm WvW reset feels weird atm.

The maps are working now.

Press F to pay respects to T5 EU.

Deso ended up going to EoTM, but most people don't like that map, especially with no mounts and with the way it is designed.

The best way we can get numbers is to go to EB too, but we couldn't do that tonight either, so gg.

Almost getting constant Disconnects now, time to do something else.

MS and AM are headed for T1 as High population servers too, but unlinked servers like Deso and Gandara will probably stay locked for the duration of the server (un)linkings, beCause oF ouR play HourS.

Even the night crew is small and random compared to BB and AM, but at least it keeps us out T5, even though we're often outnumbered during the day and prime time, with or without any PVE event.

Population balance is only a priority, if Alliances even happen anymore, which means no more Tournaments thankfully, cause we've seen this before with higher tier servers and links opening up, according to their algorithm.

So I doubt anything changes soon nevermind Alliances, at least Cyberpunk is out next month and the PS5 and Series X before it.

At least based on this weekend T5 EU isn't that dead.

Over 70+ players transferred within the past 9 months while people can leave freely to stack on most other host and link servers, even our links never were stacked as they used to be like last year or as recently as April. Deso is at least quarantined, from being Perma T1.