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[Alwrathandabout42ninjas]

Wait times are still awful and nothing has been done to fix it. Que times are 5 - 10 minutes, its been so bad I might as well que up for CW cause the wait time is almost just as long. PGI, you really need to fix your game. Otherwise people are just going to get fed up and stop playing.

And while I have your attention, how about increasing the damage on srm's please, I dont know if you guys realize this or not but right now weapon balance sucks and hardly anyone takes srm's anymore.

Were waiting PGI... still waiting...

[Speedy Plysitkos]

the difference between T4 and same T3 wait times are enourmous. 20 seconds versus 3 minutes.

[Clit Beastwood]

Titannium, on 26 October 2015 - 10:35 AM, said:

the difference between T4 and same T3 wait times are enourmous. 20 seconds versus 3 minutes.

Try leaving *everything* selected. All game modes all regions.

Edited by Fierostetz, 26 October 2015 - 10:54 AM.

[627]

hmm... if I have long wait times, it is maybe a minute or 1.5 but I never have wait times like 5 minutes. I have checked everything but the oceanic servers (those lag from here too much) and weight queues are pretty even these days so it doesn't even matter what mech I take.

All pug queue, though, haven't played in a group for a while.

[Jman5]

On average it takes about 7 minutes for me to go from one game ending, to the next game starting. On average my matches last 6:30.

I should not be spending more time waiting for a game than playing. It's even worse when you consider that the first minute or two of a game is just walking toward the enemy. Also many games are artificially dragged out by one guy running, hiding, or disconnected at spawn.

I think one easy solution to improve the Match Length: Search/Load ratio would be to decrease the maximum pre-load countdown from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

Another more radical change would be to keep all the connected players together and just scramble the teams. Any slots where players disconnected could be grabbed by matchmaker.

[MeiSooHaityu]

I hate to admit this, but while I wait for a match, I play Monster Busters or Soda Crush on my phone .

[Ascaloth]

The biggest waiting time I've ever had was about 4 minutes on solo, 6-7 minutes on group (without conquest checked, only NA server).
With NA+EU and 3 modes checked it usually go pretty fast, up to 1,5 minute.

[Lorian Sunrider]

The time of day also makes a huge difference. According to your post time, you are playing middle of the day on a Monday in NA.

Our playerbase is small, so yeah, during off peak hours its going to take longer.

[Alwrathandabout42ninjas]

Lorian Sunrider, on 26 October 2015 - 11:07 AM, said:

The time of day also makes a huge difference. According to your post time, you are playing middle of the day on a Monday in NA.

Our playerbase is small, so yeah, during off peak hours its going to take longer.

Thats just it though, its about the same even at night time during peek times. I honestly dont get it. Ive been watching and recording times since PSR came out and its been awful. Its almost like tier 1 players get the shaft and have to wait twice as long as anyone else, its BS. I didnt pay $700 on this game to deal with this crap. I just want to play the game and blow up mechs, but PGI is making it so I can only get in half the games I normally could during a day/night off from work.

Reduction in play time check
less c-bill earnings check
frustration check
complaining on forums check
not having fun check

why am I playing this silly game still.

[PurpleNinja]

MeiSooHaityu, on 26 October 2015 - 10:52 AM, said:

I hate to admit this, but while I wait for a match, I play Monster Busters or Soda Crush on my phone .

I have 3DS and the Flipboard app on the iPad.

[sycocys]

I download porn... I mean read the news.

[Monkey Lover]

Longer waits times for better games. What the use of 1 minute waits if the game isnt balanced.

[DarkMetalBlade]

Want to know another reason why wait times are so long for you?

*points at your tier ranking* That's your problem. Since you're tier 1, you're restricted to playing those that are no lower than tier 3. 'Tis the price of being good.

If you want to drop tiers quickly so that you can get matches quicker, I've got some ways that you can do that:

- Play light mechs, as contrary to popular belief, light mechs are very feeble & defenseless against anything that isn't in their own weight class. Thus you'll likely become dead weight to your team, & your ratings will sink like the Titanic.

- If on the other hand, you are a part of the .0000000000000000000001% of pilots in which light mechs happen to be your forte, the solution is to simply play Assaults. The steps that you can do in those is, charge into the front-line, become public enemy #1 for the other side so that they can deliver onto you the Battletech equivalent of DBZ's Kamehameha.

Edited by DarkMetalBlade, 26 October 2015 - 11:41 AM.

[xWiredx]

I wait somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes for a match these days. A couple of weeks ago when I was still in T3 the wait was usually 1-5 minutes. Maybe tier has something to do with it, but I can't help but feel like we could improve this system pretty drastically without much effort and without kicking PSR-balanced teams to the wind. Much like they have 'release valves' for classes/tonnages, why not borrow players from other tiers to speed up matchmaking if there aren't enough to make an acceptable match? I'm sure this mechanism already exists in some fashion and just needs to be adjusted... right? Please tell me the devs had the foresight for this...

[GernMiester]

Alwrath, on 26 October 2015 - 11:18 AM, said:

I didnt pay $700 on this game to deal with this crap.

1st - Yes, Yes you did pay $700 to deal with this crap.

2nd - HAHA you gave them $700 for a F2P FPS and I get the exact same game as you for a reasonable $14.95.

[MoonUnitBeta]

Nov. 3^rd 2015 Patch Notes

• AI mechs have been added to solo queue matches to significantly reduce wait times.
  
• If a match is not successfully created after 30 seconds, the match maker will populate empty slots with AI bots to fill the slots and balance the match.
  
• The mech for the bot follows the 3/3/3/3 rule and will be selected randomly from a list of champion mechs within the required tonnage range.

Is this what you want, OP?

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 26 October 2015 - 12:22 PM.

[Lugh]

Jman5, on 26 October 2015 - 10:51 AM, said:

On average it takes about 7 minutes for me to go from one game ending, to the next game starting. On average my matches last 6:30.

I should not be spending more time waiting for a game than playing. It's even worse when you consider that the first minute or two of a game is just walking toward the enemy. Also many games are artificially dragged out by one guy running, hiding, or disconnected at spawn.

I think one easy solution to improve the Match Length: Search/Load ratio would be to decrease the maximum pre-load countdown from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

Another more radical change would be to keep all the connected players together and just scramble the teams. Any slots where players disconnected could be grabbed by matchmaker.

It's 90 seconds and it's that high to allow people that are playing on potatoes to connect before the match begins.

[Jman5]

Lugh, on 26 October 2015 - 12:25 PM, said:

It's 90 seconds and it's that high to allow people that are playing on potatoes to connect before the match begins.

Oh wow it's worse than I realized! I know why it's there I just don't like the fact that 23 people get held up by one doofus trying to play on a netbook. Either way, the majority of the spawn points are spaced far enough away from the enemy that they should have time to connect and catch up.

[Alwrathandabout42ninjas]

MoonUnitBeta, on 26 October 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

Nov. 3^rd 2015 Patch Notes

• AI mechs have been added to solo queue matches to significantly reduce wait times.
  
• If a match is not successfully created after 30 seconds, the match maker will populate empty slots with AI bots to fill the slots and balance the match.
  
• The mech for the bot follows the 3/3/3/3 rule and will be selected randomly from a list of champion mechs within the required tonnage range.

Is this what you want, OP?

Why not, most people act like bots anyway, and the try hards use aimbot with radar hack. It feels like bots already. At least ill get c-bills faster.

Edited by Alwrath, 26 October 2015 - 12:56 PM.

[SilentWolff]

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Edited by SilentWolff, 26 October 2015 - 01:20 PM.