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[Appogee]

Four times over the weekend I tried to drop in CW, in the Jade Falcon faction.

Twice in a team of four. Twice solo.

Each time, 20 minutes of waiting and no apparent prospect of a full team forming in any reasonable timeframe.

It's a shame. If enough people are having the same experience, then I guess we'll all just avoid the frustration and not bother trying.

Perhaps PGI need to limit the border to just a few planets, Clan vs IS, until the CW population rebuilds. Or better still, make the number of borders and planets scale with the available population.

[Apewar]

solo events like the last one for the past few weeks always kills CW. no doubt a new CW event is in the works and it will have the population up for at least a little while'

[meteorol]

At which times are you dropping if i may ask? During EU prime, i usually get games in under 10 minutes.

[Armando]

Appogee, on 15 August 2015 - 07:32 AM, said:

Four times over the weekend I tried to drop in CW, in the Jade Falcon faction.

Twice in a team of four. Twice solo.

Each time, 20 minutes of waiting and no apparent prospect of a full team forming in any reasonable timeframe.

It's a shame. If enough people are having the same experience, then I guess we'll all just avoid the frustration and not bother trying.

Perhaps PGI need to limit the border to just a few planets, Clan vs IS, until the CW population rebuilds. Or better still, make the number of borders and planets scale with the available population.

Appogee...are you looking at the drop stats for the planet (before you can drop in CW you have to select a planet....next to the planet name there are numbers)? If the planet is sitting at 0 / 0 (0 attackers / 0 defenders) you can literally wait FOREVER to get a drop. Look at the planet drop stats and pick one that people are dropping on (numbers like 48 / 52....or even 12 / 12) and you will have much better luck.

Also, please make sure you are not dropping in trial mechs, and that you understand that even though you are dropping without teammates, you are ALWAYS a part of a team in CW, then act accordingly.

That said, good luck have fun, I look forward to dropping with and against you on the battle field!!!

Edited by Armando, 15 August 2015 - 11:15 AM.

[Felicitatem Parco]

I get games in the Solo queue within 1 minute. They pay more C-Bills and XP per hour.

CW is currently structured to support the kind of gamers that already have copious C-Bills in their accounts and have structured blocks of free time. It is not designed to support players who are still saving up for modules and upgrades, and play when they happen to find themselves with time to play.

CW is meant to be "hardcore" more, not "majority of player base" mode. That is why we have obscene wait times.

[Vlad Ward]

Falcon is dead in NA prime.

Try EU prime. 2pm-6pm EST. There's usually a couple dozen people attacking.

[SpeCtaCular]

Try Steiner. Last weekend i waited 105 minutes for an attack and most we got was me and 2 other people. hehe.
Broke my contract couple days ago and probably gonna look for an active unit if there is any. To me it seems like only clan units are active at attacking.

[Postumus]

CW is going to stay dead until it is at least as fun, interesting, and rewarding to play as solo queue. Right now its kind of like a poorly designed FPS mech MOBA, with bad matchmaking.

[Appogee]

Happy to report I was able to get two matches fairly quickly in the EU evening. (The first was a victory so easy that I felt bad for our opponents. The second was such a poor loss that I felt sorry for myself LOL.)

Armando, on 15 August 2015 - 11:12 AM, said:

are you looking at the drop stats for the planet (before you can drop in CW you have to select a planet....next to the planet name there are numbers)?

Yep. I always pIck the planet where there is the most people on both sides... where possible I look for players close to a multiple of 12.

Armando, on 15 August 2015 - 11:12 AM, said:

Also, please make sure you are not dropping in trial mechs, and that you understand that even though you are dropping without teammates, you are ALWAYS a part of a team in CW, then act accordingly.

Yup. Would never diminish a team's chances by taking a trial Mech.

Armando, on 15 August 2015 - 11:12 AM, said:

I look forward to dropping with and against you on the battle field!!!

Me too. <0

Edited by Appogee, 15 August 2015 - 12:23 PM.

[Appogee]

meteorol, on 15 August 2015 - 11:04 AM, said:

At which times are you dropping if i may ask? During EU prime, i usually get games in under 10 minutes.

I couldn't get a time during the EU day. In the evening things picked up.

[Armando]

Appogee, on 15 August 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

Yep. Always pIck the planet where there was the most people on both sides.

Yup. Would never diminish a team's chances by taking a trial Mech.


Me too. <0

Sounds like you have the bases covered. Falcon is the one and only faction that I have yet to play in so I don't know if they have a faction hub, or how active that hub is. The only other suggestion I could make would be to see if there is a Falcon Faction Hub...hop in...and see if you can find out where/when the action is.

Based on the fact that Falcon is one of the more successful CW Factions (at least planet wise) I would have thought it would be a viable faction to play for, maybe it is the PUG events we have had recently.

[LordNothing]

just finished getting rank 6 in falcon the other day. it took a 2 week contract to pull it off, probibly because i wasnt getting any games. i usually play towards the end of the us block, but most of my game time falls on the oceanic block and that is always dead. rarely do i have any game time in the morning durring the eu block. unless i want to keep schizophrenic hours.

[Deathlike]

JF does have a hub.

ts.clanjadefalcon.com

[Jon Gotham]

Postumus, on 15 August 2015 - 12:18 PM, said:

CW is going to stay dead until it is at least as fun, interesting, and rewarding to play as solo queue. Right now its kind of like a poorly designed FPS mech MOBA, with bad matchmaking.

Did you have a straight face whilst typing that?
I mean REALLY?
Solo play is certainly not much fun, nor is it interesting and frankly since last few patches not that rewarding either. Best damage on your "team" with most kills? Or maybe tanked half the enemy team and ground them down before dying so your "team" can profit? Scouted the enemy successfully for your "team?"
You get next to nothing!

If peeps really find the solo queue fun and relaxing then by crikey you have low expectations and are easily pleased. Some of us want MORE than team self interest/solomatch.

[Armando]

Deathlike, on 15 August 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:

JF does have a hub.

ts.clanjadefalcon.com

Awesome, Thanks Deathlike

[meteorol]

Appogee, on 15 August 2015 - 12:24 PM, said:

I couldn't get a time during the EU day. In the evening things picked up.

Yeah EU day is pretty dead, guys have to work and so on. Things start to get going in the evening (Attack phase after 5pm).

[Kin3ticX]

-MS- was talking about doing 4-man challenges but the way the CW MM works right now would make it too painful in wait times alone. 12-mans go to the front of the line and the low population makes it hard for the MM to stitch groups together.