What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:
I was expecting the PVP regions’ restrictions to be random. In fact, the inner ring (Geheron, Southwild, Aidana) have been cycling the same restrictions for the past 11 weeks (since the beginning of June), changing every other week. Aidana has been switching between Yellow and Green. Geheron has been switching between Purple and Blue. Southwild has been switching between Green and Purple.
How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?
Since June 3rd.
Steps to make it happen again
N/A. It happens every week when the regions are supposed to randomize the restrictions.
You do know that restrictions are not really random random anymore? It’s what winning alliance votes for on Sunday. (So, obviously, people select restrictions they have easiest time making teams for as soon as they see them offered.)
EDIT. Could see that one coming from a mile away, one must add.
Ok. That’s fair. In all honesty, I don’t actually play PVP anymore. I just keep up the tracking spreadsheet for my guild (who, I’m pretty sure, doesn’t even look at it anymore).
Still, it seems to me that this began before alliances started.
The same thing happens on PlayStation. The three colored regions haven’t changed in a long while – and the voting every Sunday doesn’t appear to be very close even as I cast my ballot in futility for something different – but some of the other external regions exhibit many of the same behaviors in that certain restrictions are very popular on a weekly basis.
I don’t really have a good “solution” to this “problem”. Each of the inner regions (theoretically) can draw from one of four colored restrictions on a weekly basis, so maybe the “solution” there is to discard the one color that is the current week’s restriction and force the vote to be amongst the other three.
But this shouldn’t ever be an issue in the outer regions; the pool of potential restrictions is deep enough that we shouldn’t see the current restrictions even come up in the vote, let alone remain for multiple weeks at a time.
Not that there aren’t other very real issues with the current PvP paradigm that I believe ought to be a higher priority for the developers. But I view this one as a problem, too.
