the waterson server pop is absurd

This was one of several threads started over the last few days predicting the impending doom of Waterson at the hands of an unstoppable wave of TR. My point is the opposite of that.

You chose the worst possible way to make that point.

I was keeping an eye on the server pop today, and here a bunch of population percentages starting from about EST 4pm till about 10pm taken at random times:

VS TR NC
24 34 40
22 35 42
24 35 40
29 36 33
26 40 33
28 36 35

So you can see that the population during prime time starts off with NC being more populous then the TR have more then near the end and it looks like the NC were going match numbers by 10pm. And the VS never broke 30% population.

Do this between 12a-12p


TR

50-60

NC / Vanu 20-25 each


this is when the TR can actually do anything on waterson - they need ridiculous pop advantage to even start moving the needle.

Well it's nearly 2am at the moment and I'm seeing the pop as 24 VS, 38 TR, 36 NC, hardly the massively overwhelming numbers of 60% (or even 80% which I've seen being used in some cases). I don't doubt that during off-peak time TR will probably have the higher world population but by my experience it's never been the extreme imbalance that others have said. Yes there is that screenshot of 60% TR pop, but that is highest than I've ever seen the imbalance even before the merger, so unless there is evidence that this is a regular thing (and if there is I'll stand corrected) then it's just an outlier and shouldn't be taken as fact that off peak it is always 60% TR domination.

EDIT:

I've just been looking at this and I don't see the massive TR population that is being touted here, and as you can see, for most of the time, off-peak, TR has the advantage by a few percent, but NC are still very close to it. Then when peak time rolls in, the NC numbers pick up and they beat out the TR numbers by a few percent. So can we please put to bed the myth that TR has a stupid population advantage. What this shows is that VS needs more numbers to bring it in line with the TR/NC

No I didn't.

So it pisses off the NC/Vanu alliance that TR has a couple hundred euro pop in when the server is almost empty?
You need to play COD this persistent world is not for you.

You obviously dont play at night. There are still platoons worth of people playing late night 2-8am. Easily.

TR pop is completely out of control - over 60% world pop for 6 hours last evening.

Last evening on Waterson from 2am - 8am: Pop levels: world

TR cant cap indar unless they have +65% pop on the continent.
Indar pop hit 70% TR around 4-5am.
2am - 59% TR
3 - 61% TR
4 - 61% TR
5 - 64% TR
6 - 66% TR
7 - 61 % TR
8 - 57% TR

You definitely are.

The point is - once the world pop hits 50% for a faction.. it should appear as full for anyone trying to log into that faction. They can roll another char on another server or on another faction on the same server. Anything over 50% world pop at anytime of the day makes the game a little ridiculous... and I dont mind fighting shorthanded but when every fight is 3-5 to 1 TR advantage its a little ridiculous and im sure this adds to players wanting to leave the game. Balance the game out from a numbers standpoint.

You have no idea how much I miss Jaeg....................

I even moved FROM Waterson to get AWAY from the TR zerg........and it followed me during the server merge! lol

When I check up and play once in a while in Waterson, VS is usually about 26 percent, which is bad. While TR and NC are rocking about the same numbers throughout the day.

Meanwhile on Mattherson, currently at 12:55 AM Central - VS has 42 percent.

This. They screwed the pooch when they decided on the merges..........coulda fixed alot of the pop issues.

I only play 1 character. A Waterson TR. What you're telling me is, because there are other people playing on my faction, I am not allowed to play my character? And if I want to play, I have to make another one with nothing unlocked just to play the game? No thanks. That's not a solution.

Sure it is. If your faction is gravely over populated dont ruin it for the other 40-50% of us.... when you could simply create an alt character.

I cannot simply create an alt. I have 18 DAYS of work in my character. Plus $100 in SC invested. All that is wasted if I make another character now. I would just not play the game at all instead. Instead of me not being able to play, why don't you just not play? Or you can make an alt.

You are not at fault for playing TR. HOWEVER, there are plenty of individuals who have chosen to play TR for the sole reason that they are the dominant faction on Waterson, they are at fault. They have to win, no matter the cost. Fun is irrelevant as long as they are winning. Saw the same sh*t happen in GW2. It was absolutely borderline insanity. Entire servers were abandoned to join winning server for WvW for the first few months the game came out. Entire servers became ghost towns & server populations were completely f*cked. It wasn't until they required people to pay to transfer did the populations calm down. Right now same sh*t is going on in PS2. Especially during alerts. 1 factions in lead? Switch toons.

The sh*t people will do for handouts these days is unbelievable.

I can certainly relate to that. I played GW2 from release till Christmas, then got bored with it and quit. Saw the same thing, free server transfers made WvWvW ruined. Part of why I quit. That's why in another post I made somewhere, I said make it a paid server transfer, so that less people switch as frequently.

Also I started on Jaeger, so I didn't choose Waterson.