The purpose of this delay is to give all players time to connect.
This is utterly pointless though. A 20 sec timer would be more than enough.
Theres always 1 - 3 guys afk/disco when the game actually starts. No matter if you wait 100 yeras or 1 thousandth of a nanosecond.
Sometimes you gotta wait a few minutes to find a game anyway. Then the voting screen which takes forever too - then the map loads which - by all means - takes forever too. And then another 80 seconds waiting for 1 - 2 ppl that havent connected only to see that...well.....1 - 2 ppl are disco or afk when the game starts anyway.
Cut those 80 secs to 20 or max 30 secs.
You not only wait 80 secs but then you have the dropship animation and the cockpit/powerup time. All in all it takes FOREVER (aka = forever + eternity) before the friggin actual game starts.
Way, way, WAAAYYYYYYY too long.
Its just way too long.
Cut all this waiting down as much as possible.
Right now thats by far the most annoying thing about mwo.
Thats the number one annoyance.
Edited by oneda, 05 June 2016 - 02:50 AM.