World Restructuring
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World Restructuring is an unreleased system that replaces the existing worlds for World vs World matches, instead matching players based upon a players nominated Guild. A related system planned for this is Alliances where Guilds can group together for Match Making purposes.
World Restructuring was initially announced in 2018[1], and aims to deliver a World vs World experience that has more even population and coverage between opposing teams. It was first released for beta testing in late 2021[2]. No formal release date for a completed system has yet been announced. With this new feature all players will be removed from their current worlds. Then the system will create new worlds by matching people in the same Region (NA or EU) with similar predicted participation, whilst keeping players with the same nominated Guild together (the full algorithm for this is still subject to change based on feedback).
Alliances are a future development of this system, where a WvW guild will also be able to invite other WvW guilds to an Alliance in order to have the guilds play together on the same team. Each Alliance will have certain restrictions though, such as a finite number of guilds or players.
Matchmaking[edit]
The primary goal of matchmaking is to ensure that each World has a balanced active population in World vs World, with similar coverage to their opponent worlds. Unlike the existing world system where some Worlds have a designated Language, language is not known to be a factor.
Players can be in several states for the Matchmaking System to consider:
- Player is not active in WvW and does not have a World vs World Guild selected.
- Player is active in WvW but does have a World vs World Guild selected.
- Selected World vs World Guild is not part of an Alliance.
- Selected World vs World Guild is part of an Alliance
A player who has no World vs World Guild selected and is new to World vs World will be asked which world they want to be assigned to when they go to play World vs World for the first time in a match. Each world has a limited capacity to accept these players, to prevent population imbalance.[2] A player who is active in WvW but has no WvW Guild selected, will be automatically matched onto a team. A player who has selected a WvW Guild will be matched onto the same team as the other Guild Members who have selected that Guild as their WvW guild. A player who has selected a WvW Guild that is part of an Alliance, will be matched onto the same team as all of the other Guild Members who have selected a Guild in that Alliance as their WvW Guild.
Selecting a WvW Guild[edit]
Players set their WvW Guild in the Guild Panel, by pressing the "Set as WvW Guild" button when they have the correct Guild selected.
Alliances[edit]
Alliances are considered Phase 2 of World Restructuring, in that they require World Restructuring, but World Restructuring can ship without Alliances. See Alliances for further information.
Betas[edit]
Several Beta events for World Restructuring have been run, which at various points included testing the following functionality:
- The UI for choosing or changing your WvW Guild
- Correctly matching players together based on nominated Guild
- Correctly handling players with no guild selected, or new to WvW
- Correctly generating teams of comparable player sizes and activity.
- Checking that matches are close, by watching Victory Point disparity
| Beta Event | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Beta 1[2] | September 24, 2021 | October 1, 2021 |
| Beta 2[3] | December 3, 2021 | December 10, 2021 |
| Beta 3[4] | January 14, 2022 | January 21, 2022 |
| Beta 4[5] | August 12, 2022 | August 19, 2022 |
| Beta 5[6] | October 14, 2022 | October 21, 2022 |
| Beta 6[7] | December 2,2022 | December 9, 2022 |
| Beta 7[8] | June 9, 2023 | June 23, 2023 |
| Beta 8[9] | January 12, 2024 | February 2, 2024 |
Notes[edit]
- Regarding the development of Alliances, the Game Director Joshua Davis said on June 5, 2022 this:
“To clarify, World Restructuring hasn't been actively developed since its original announcement in 2018. Previous studio leadership deprioritized the project shortly after it was announced. We put a team back on it last year. The idea has existed for 4+ years, but meaningful progress has mostly happened over the last year.
— Comment by Joshua Davis, Reddit.com
References[edit]
- ^ World Restructuring
- ^ a b c Studio Update: World Restructuring and the Future of World vs. World
- ^ WvW World Restructuring Beta Update – November 24, 2021
- ^ WvW World Restructuring Beta 3 begins on January 14
- ^ WvW World Restructuring Beta 4 Begins on August 12
- ^ Guild Wars 2 Fall and Winter 2022 Roadmap
- ^ World Restructuring Beta #6 Begins Tomorrow
- ^ Dev Notes: June 6 WvW Updates and World Restructuring Beta Test
- ^ World Restructuring Beta will run from January 12 to February 2!
