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[MAX3D2]

15 min, 30 min wait times to get into a CW match. ??? I am a wee bit disappointed in the roll out of CW. What things can be done to decrease wait times to possibly one minute?

[Truthstar]

MAX3D2, on 17 December 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

15 min, 30 min wait times to get into a CW match. ??? I am a wee bit disappointed in the roll out of CW. What things can be done to decrease wait times to possibly one minute?

Player controlled lobbies.

[Alistair Winter]

They've said they're working on a way to make it easier for players to see how many players are waiting for a match.

Right now, the answer is: get in a group. Bigger groups have very, very low wait times. Also, don't stay in queue for more than 5-10 minutes, because some planets have a lot of matches going on, while other planets have very few matches going on. Without any way to tell one from the other, just keep switching planets until you find a busy one. Don't stay on one planet for 30 minutes.

[Ripper X]

2 1/2 hours searching and we get 1 freebie match and only 1 real match on Butte Hold. Umm like wth is going on?

[MAX3D2]

Out of the frustration of waiting and getting 2 matches in 2 hours I quit for the night. I have better things to do than wait 3 years and 240$ invested then to have the roll out of CW to be like this. SAD!!! Star Citizen is going to kill this game.

[Fuggles]

im guessing your queing solo. this is community warfare. emphasis on the community thing.

what you need to do is get active in your respective community so you can coordinate where they need bodies either attacking or defending. you dont need to join groups or even join a unit, but you at least need the intel on where the fight is.

in addition to this, hopefully the fixes to the CW UI friday will make it at least more obvious where you can find a match.

[Talono]

MAX3D2, on 17 December 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

15 min, 30 min wait times to get into a CW match. ??? I am a wee bit disappointed in the roll out of CW. What things can be done to decrease wait times to possibly one minute?

How did you manage to find a CW match in just 15 minutes ? Are you a personal friend of Russ or something ?

[Achilles59]

Fuggles, on 17 December 2014 - 10:20 PM, said:

im guessing your queing solo. this is community warfare. emphasis on the community thing.

what you need to do is get active in your respective community so you can coordinate where they need bodies either attacking or defending. you dont need to join groups or even join a unit, but you at least need the intel on where the fight is.

in addition to this, hopefully the fixes to the CW UI friday will make it at least more obvious where you can find a match.

Yeah no, that's bullshit. I frequently hang out in House Davions Teamspeak, and sync-drop with several larger units who field 5-8-10-12 man groups every night.

I just sat for literally 25 minutes on Hoff, while listening to a battle go on through TS, up to the battle end and the entire 10 man group queue again for another battle. Active attacks/defends on either side, and this group gets into another game within 2 minutes. I'm still sitting there listening while multiple groups get through on games.

I really want to like CW, but this seriously sucks and is garbage for the MAJORITY of players who will be soloing. Community warfare means being part of a larger thing, done right like in Planetside 2 where you don't have to open a third-party piece of software to even figure out whats going on, not being forced to join a clan to even GET INTO A MATCH.

It's really disappointing, but my bet is on PGI not listening. They seem to have an incredibly hard time doing that.

Edited by Achilles59, 17 December 2014 - 11:26 PM.

[MikeBend]

Especially so in European time zone, i am in GMT +2, my playing hours are 12 to 3 pm in PST time. Its kind of weird - all those messages pop up in the bottom right corner, saying how planets need defence, going there, watching empty lobby for 10-15 minutes, then just dropping the whole thing and going regular solo matches. I really would like to play CW, but i just have better things to do in 1 am, then waiting half an hour for a match. I guess MWO does have a relatively small player base, you cant just fix that with a patch.

[Roadbeer]

Wait 5 minutes, cancel
Launch again. Match

Works every time. If you don't hit it in 5 minutes, you're not going to, so leave the queue and start over.

[Driftwoood]

Mike Bend, consider joining the Golden Skulls, they're a Liao unit in Germany... Look in the Liao forums for their info, its posted in there somewhere...

Frankly, the game is more fun once you find a unit you like and can mesh with... hopefully tomorrow's patch will help a little, but yeah, very hard sometimes to get a drop solo, so I joined a unit... hoping things pick up...

[Willard Phule]

MAX3D2, on 17 December 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

15 min, 30 min wait times to get into a CW match. ??? I am a wee bit disappointed in the roll out of CW. What things can be done to decrease wait times to possibly one minute?

Join a group.

If you're not part of a unit that can field constant 12 man groups, you're NOT the target audience for PGI. Keep that in mind. The only people that matter to them are the organized units that keep shoveling money at them, regardless of what they do.

[Pahrias]

a possible fix could b to include invasion in the public que, as an additional game mode. that way a larger portion of the player base would b in the waiting lists for invasion games. tho i geuss ud have to have ur deck available for that... or i geuss u could do away with the pub que all together, and just have cw with all the modes some how. consolidate all the players into cw.

as this guy said:http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/182724-one-simple-way-to-help-the-queues/

Edited by Pahrias, 18 December 2014 - 04:58 AM.

[Tangelis]

Hopefully the patch today will reduce wait times.

Although for my part I have only waited for a match post 30 mins once. I check the forum prior to selecting a planet to see where some action is. 5 Mins max is what I wait, if nothing happens I cancel and try again. There are exceptions of course but It usually takes less than 7 mins to get a game.

[Fuggles]

Achilles59, on 17 December 2014 - 11:25 PM, said:

Yeah no, that's bullshit. I frequently hang out in House Davions Teamspeak, and sync-drop with several larger units who field 5-8-10-12 man groups every night.

maybe because your in a larger faction, davion having a very large player base, your actually waiting on other factions to get enough people to form a game i dont know, all i know is im having the opposite experience you are. coordinated drops result in very low wait times.

wait until tomorrow before you start whinning, see what they can do with their first patch.

[Odins Fist]

Pick the right planet.

[R Razor]

Been over an hour since I was able to get into one.............waste of time.

[R Razor]

Thinking maybe Community Borefare would be a MUCH better name for this abortion of a game mode.

[Roadbeer]

R Razor, on 18 December 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

Thinking maybe Community Borefare would be a MUCH better name for this abortion of a game mode.

PUG QUEUE --------------------->

Let those of us who have an attention span greater than that of the common dog continue to have our fun.

[R Razor]

Bite me chicken boy...........I've been "in que" for over an hour without a drop (total time, give 10min per shot) so don't talk to me about attention spans.