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[MonkeyCheese]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 20 May 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

[color=#00FFFF]Wait times have extended in some cases farther than expected. As a result, we are removing the one-premade per team limit at this stage, while retaining 3/3/3/3.[/color]

I was just going to say it is prob the "one premade" rule jacking up wait times more than the 3/3/3/3 but you beat me to it.

Anyway first match went perfectly for me with 3/3/3/3 and wait times seemed normal.

[Troopie]

1 Medium 17 mins.
Edit: all game modes. 3 pm EDT

Edited by Troopie, 20 May 2014 - 11:41 AM.

[zhajin]

going to hard to find a match with 8 people playing... but keep up the good work PGI. oh and dont worry about that public testing thing, we dont really need it.

[Captain MKTauric]

15 20 24 minutes wait time
solo
Assault
skrimish

FINALLY GOT ONE


thats not funny

Edited by Captain MKTauric, 20 May 2014 - 11:30 AM.

[Doomcreeper]

22:14-22:20 GMT+3 May 20th. While writing this, still no game. Assault, solo. 8 min. no game. Why with every patch is this game getting worse?

[Butane9000]

So how many people are ACTIVELY playing the game and not waiting for match. Surely with your infrastructure you can tell how many are stuck in the ques and how many are playing.

[Medemer]

21:09 UTC +1
Solo Player
Assault
20+x min of waiting time

I am out for today... This patch sucks!

[Argent Usher]

[Biaxialrain]

"For shorter wait times please choose a "light" mech."

Yeah, sure...........not on your life.

If I wanted to circle strafe or twitch shoot I'd play something else.

I want big, heavy, cumbersome, armored and heavily armed BATTLEMECHs, not twitch.

[Hellen Wheels]

Hellen Wheels, on 20 May 2014 - 11:10 AM, said:

Patched, Dropped, Always Solo Drops,

@ 1330CST, 4 minutes wait time, dropping AS7DDC, assaults, around 25% full: dropped into a fun game.

next game circa 1400CST, try same DDC, assaults again, 25% or so assaults waiting......

10 minutes searching, cancelled. Trying again.

Logged back in, same mech, no changes, Assault queue 27%, Launched.....

cancelled after five minutes, rebooting now.

<sigh>

[Mechteric]

Sounds like they should make it more flexible, instead of static 3/3/3/3, it should be allowed to do things like 4/3/3/2, 2/4/4/2, and so on in any combination (hopefully only with max of 4 for each weight class).

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 20 May 2014 - 11:24 AM.

[Triordinant]

Bront, on 20 May 2014 - 11:18 AM, said:

Not if it's a lack of solo players causing groups to back up (causing the entire process to back up as it waits to find matches for groups first).

Shouldn't it find matches for groups last after the majority of players have found one? In any case, it looks like a lot of us will have to find something else to play for 2 weeks until they get the 1 premade per side working. Better yet, they should just have a premade-free, PUG-only queue alongside an unrestricted premade queue that PUGs could join if they wanted.

[Malakie]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 20 May 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

[color=#00FFFF]Attention players.[/color]

[color=#00FFFF]Wait times have extended in some cases farther than expected. As a result, we are removing the one-premade per team limit at this stage, while retaining 3/3/3/3.[/color]

[color=#00FFFF]This means that each team could include more than one 2-4 person premade per side.[/color]
[color=#00FFFF]The matchmaker will continue to aim to match an equal number of premades per side, though edge-cases may still occur in order to push you into a match rather than leaving you waiting longer.[/color]
[color=#00FFFF]Note that this will NOT re-enable situations of 12 person teams versus pick up groups.[/color]

[color=#00FFFF]Thanks for your patience. We hope to hear your feedback on how this affects your wait. [/color]

Been sitting here since patching and have not been in a single game yet... Waiting an average of 10-12 minutes for each mech I have tried so far... and nothing....

Not going to sit here hours just to play.. this is ridiculous.

[StillRadioactive]

StillRadioactive, on 20 May 2014 - 11:17 AM, said:

1500-1520 EST, solo, medium. Still searching.

Finally got a match after 25 minutes. Wrong game mode (I selected Conquest and got Skirmish). My team got stomped.

[Sir Hans Olo]

9:26 CET Solo Medium Mech Waittime 15mins and still waiting....

[Kojin]

Single player drops seem to be the ones taking ridiculous lengths of times. Lots of premade groups dropping tonight and skewing the figures and queues maybe?

[MilesTeg1982]

CMIRKO, on 20 May 2014 - 11:15 AM, said:

although I think that 4x3 is a wonderful idea in theory I'm not really sure is it feasible in practice if these are the intended wait times....

Sorry, 3-3-3-3 was and will allways be a terrible idea. Why? It forces players to play mech-classes they don't want to play - not everybody likes to play a light for example. And how should this work afterall if there is a serious overhead of a specific mech-class - like 1000 lights, 500 mediums, 2000 heavies and 2500 assaults - this will allways result in a situation where people have to wait endless to get into games. The only way to avoid that would be to change to other classes and hope for the best.

The only reasonable way to avaid inbalances between teams is -> wait till all or allmost all players are assigned to a game and then distribute them to the 2 teams according to there classes and weight like - oh we have 8 assualts 6 heavies 4 mediums and 6 lights - lets to 4-3-2-3. (off course if a premade joins this should be taken into account also, no reason to split them up)

tried to enter a public with assaults, first try 10 min+ before canceld, second try 5min+ before canceld, also tried a medium - 5+ min before canceld, tried it with heavy - 5+ minutes before canceld.

ps. Guess I never understand - but why even try to force people to do something in a game which they don't want to - its a game and should be fun - when its not fun people stop playing.

pps. you know MWO is a F2P

Edited by MilesTeg1982, 20 May 2014 - 11:29 AM.

[Karpundir]

Searches taking longer than 5 minutes as a solo Medium mech in all 3 modes.

I ran 3 searches as of 3pm EST and have only hit 1 match and it is now 3:29pm EST.

[Triordinant]

Kojin, on 20 May 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:

Single player drops seem to be the ones taking ridiculous lengths of times. Lots of premade groups dropping tonight and skewing the figures and queues maybe?

Maybe that was their plan all along...

[Malakie]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 20 May 2014 - 10:51 AM, said:

Greetings MechWarriors,

With this Patch, we have successfully enabled 3/3/3/3 AKA 4x3 AKA The Rule of Three's.
This is currently in combination with restrictions ELO bracketing.

Please let us know your experience with this system. If you have encountered wait times of longer than 0-5 minutes, please include in your feedback details of:

• The time and date of matchmaking (Please provide EDT, PDT or UTC values)
  
• The weight class desired.
  
• Whether or not you were solo or in a group, and if a group, of what size and composition.
  
• The time taken to find a match.

Just gave up... 14:29 CST Waiting using a Jagermech for 12 minutes, Orion for 10 minutes, Banshee for 10 minutes and an Atlas for 10 minutes. I am solo NOT in a group.

All that waiting and not one single game...