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[WhiteWolf56]

Just wondering because almost everytime i try it it takes for ever to even get anyone and the last and first one i finally got to do was just against turrets.... So it seems like everyone is ignoring the warfare and just doing instant matches only

[Tarogato]

Are you going to planets that already have population numbers in queue? If you don't go to the right planets, it will take forever to get a drop.

Go to planets that are just shy of a multiple of 12 players for your side of the team. So anything just under 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72.

If you see 11, 10, 23, 22... 35, 34... then hop in and you'll get a drop almost immediately.

If you go to a planet that doesn't have any opponent numbers in queue or significantly fewer, you'll get stuck waiting for a ghost drop (turrets and no mechs). So look for planets where the numbers are either equal for both sides, or your side has fewer numbers.

Oh, and by the way. Clan Wolf is landlocked right now by the other clans. Wolf isn't really supposed to be fighting the other clans, since they are all allies. But right now it looks like you guys are pushing through Tamar in hopes of getting back into contact with the Innersphere factions.

[Caboose30]

I'm not seeing any drops with more than two or three people in it. I tried a handful of times, it got all the way up to 11, and then they suddenly all disappeared.

[Davers]

JuiceCaboose, on 04 February 2015 - 06:50 PM, said:

I'm not seeing any drops with more than two or three people in it. I tried a handful of times, it got all the way up to 11, and then they suddenly all disappeared.

Grouped players have the 'right of way'. Solo players can be pulled out of their queue to fill those groups first, making other solo players wait. Could be that.

[Kjudoon]

It ain't dead, but people are burnt out because the pace is too fast and the realization that battles don't matter have taken hold. Skirmish with respawn and no consequences. Such a small minority of the game wanted such nonsense.

[Johnny Z]

Seriously its in beta give it time. I tab out and come to these forums while waiting for a match. I figure slowly play towards top rank.

I hope they make captial planets captureable to really add some spice to the star map. But only after its out of beta and a few other things in game. Players losing their faction and perma contract etc will add a new lvl to the star map. Then have faction re emergence and restart the defeated faction on a random conquered world.

[Joseph Mallan]

Kjudoon, on 04 February 2015 - 07:27 PM, said:

It ain't dead, but people are burnt out because the pace is too fast and the realization that battles don't matter have taken hold. Skirmish with respawn and no consequences. Such a small minority of the game wanted such nonsense.

LOL. When I worked the Chowhall on Oki, The Meal was veal, In a jam we had ham. I waited for someone to start that chant.

[SteelWarrior]

Not sure where you guys are queuing up but i get all the games i could hope for!

[Kjudoon]

Games are still skirmish with respawn and no consequences... aka nothing worth jumping up and down for, but nice.

[Malcolm Vordermark]

The time you play matters. If a cease fire just ended it is very likely that nobody will be playing. As it gets closer to the next cease fire the fighting picks up. Also it depends on which attack window you are in. The NA and EU windows should be active. I have heard, but cannot confirm, that the Oceanic window is less active.

After that, just check the queue info to see how many people are on a planet.

[Kinski Orlawisch]

CW is just attacking CGB backworld planets. Sorry we are busy attacking the IS. Fight for yourself with our turrents..I hope you get them down.

[Kjudoon]

Rouken, on 05 February 2015 - 07:00 AM, said:

The time you play matters. If a cease fire just ended it is very likely that nobody will be playing. As it gets closer to the next cease fire the fighting picks up. Also it depends on which attack window you are in. The NA and EU windows should be active. I have heard, but cannot confirm, that the Oceanic window is less active.

After that, just check the queue info to see how many people are on a planet.

I can confirm the Oceanic window is dead. If there are more than 200 players for an 8 hour stretch across all 10 factions... I'll be shocked.

It's sad because this should be prime time for NA overnight people, third shifters and the like. But the PQs are active.

[Fox Kell]

Marc von der Heide, on 05 February 2015 - 07:06 AM, said:

CW is just attacking CGB backworld planets. Sorry we are busy attacking the IS. Fight for yourself with our turrents..I hope you get them down.

Sounds familiar dont it... We are merely trying to get an IS attack lane since PGI keeps screwing us over.

[Livewyr]

Isn't it nice having 0 community control in community warfare?

#neversawthiscoming

[Almond Brown]

Livewyr, on 05 February 2015 - 07:17 AM, said:

Isn't it nice having 0 community control in community warfare?

#neversawthiscoming

Perhaps when the Community shows it might be able to handle some control, then PGI may provide slack. At this point, this Community can't control their own e-peens on the open Forums. Given the rampant hate for "Casuals and Pugs" noted here, the Community should never get any control until it grows up some.

#hopeitneverhappens

[Joseph Mallan]

Almond Brown, on 05 February 2015 - 09:29 AM, said:

Perhaps when the Community shows it might be able to handle some control, then PGI may provide slack. At this point, this Community can't control their own e-peens on the open Forums. Given the rampant hate for "Casuals and Pugs" noted here, the Community should never get any control until it grows up some.

#hopeitneverhappens

And teh rampant hate for Teams as well Almond. Both sides spit at each other. It is not a one way street ya know.

[Dino Might]

I have a dream, that one day, all 12-mans and Pugs will be judged not by the composition of their lances, but by the content of their mech builds!

Wait...no...

but by the content of their gameplay!

no...still would be meanspirited.

but by the content of their team chat jokes!

YES!

Edited by Dino Might, 05 February 2015 - 10:17 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Dino Might, on 05 February 2015 - 10:17 AM, said:

I have a dream, that one day, all 12-mans and Pugs will be judged not by the composition of their lances, but by the content of their mech builds!

Wait...no...

but by the content of their gameplay!

no...still would be meanspirited.

but by the content of their team chat jokes!

YES!

Yeah but if they are a 12 man PUGs won't see their "Team Chat Jokes"

[xe N on]

Pretty much dead. But hey, premades can soon do pure turret raids, so we have community warefare as PVE mode.

[bobF]

Almond Brown, on 05 February 2015 - 09:29 AM, said:

Perhaps when the Community shows it might be able to handle some control, then PGI may provide slack. At this point, this Community can't control their own e-peens on the open Forums. Given the rampant hate for "Casuals and Pugs" noted here, the Community should never get any control until it grows up some.

#hopeitneverhappens

Of course, the people using hashtags with the hate for organized units, advocating that PGI not improve their attack algorithm because some random on the forums is butthurt, certainly smacks of maturity amirite?

There's no hatred for pugs, just hatred for mouthbreathing idiots that 1) refuse to join a unit 2) refuse to join a TS, who then go to these forums and post their tears about getting gaped in the CW queue. I have zero sympathy for these scrubs, and I dutifully do my part to wreck them with ease while part of an organized 12man. I hope no one is mad.