90 replies to this topic

[Liveish]

Giving solo players the ability to opt into the group play would be great, It has little to no negative side affects to all players of the game as the solo members can chose where they play.

Mocked up a badly drawn paint image below ( from an old server select image I found in the patch notes)

This new section would only come up if you were not in a group.

Tick Option are:
Solo Queue only
Group Queue only
Have both ticketed to play both.

• Solo members who do not want to playing group don't have to.

  
  

• It can give solo players a feel of group play at their tier level.

  
  

• It gives people that hate playing solo a way to play they game the love.

  
  

• Good way for Unit-less solo plays to find a group to play with.

  
  

• Helps support Group Q, in low pop time

  
  

• Limiting it to 2 solo people per team to start off with.

Edited by live1991, 11 December 2017 - 04:16 PM.

[kakusaretaneko]

Honestly cannot see a downside to this in some of the slower times. Spending an hour or more - more than once quit literally - waiting for the matchmaker to get the right set of groups to jigsaw together a game and then playing mirror matches until someone leaves or another identical sized group forms and kicks you back into the glacial queue is a bit old and for a lot of our players has literally killed the game which simply worsens the problem.

[Rathnor1]

I would leave the group play box ticked all the time.

[Gaden Phoenix]

Why no Oceanic Region

But I totally support this.

[old man odin]

Desperately need this for AP nights. Me and my friends have just given up playing as a group during our prime time, and not everyone has the luxury of being able to play during the day. If PGI wants to retain Australian players this is absolutely necessary.

Get on it PGI

[Hairball359]

I think it would be good for the AP nights as population can be really low.

Having this option for players to choose (but defaulted to solo only) will not create any more buckets and could mean we get games faster so i like it.

[Kamikaze Viking]

Gaden Phoenix, on 17 November 2016 - 08:00 PM, said:

Why no Oceanic Region

But I totally support this.

Because all Oceanic players should have all regions ticked anyway.

[Gaden Phoenix]

At the start (years ago) were not single players (SQ) added to GQ if there was not enough groups?

Might get gimped unbalanced matches again, which some (not me) were very unhappy about.

[Mr Pataks]

I had the exact same idea myself, thanks live for posting this. I can see no downside to this and it will hopefully resuscitate the AP region outside of the few hours that are "peak" play times. I know many people log on, can't find a match in 10 mins and log off again with all regions ticket.

If PGI wants to support oceanic players this is required imo or they will just play some other game instead and that makes me a sad panda

[Ranger Dave]

Can only help with waits for oceanic group queue. Might also help when have groups of 11.

Perhaps some sort of popup the first time someone clicks to opt in reminding them that play in group queue is more coordinated.

[Killashnikov]

I am not sure really why this was not always an option. Especially once steam went live.

[BlackJesus1001]

Long ago groups and solo players were put in the same queue until people complained that getting stomped by groups was less fun than getting stomped by solo players so the dev's split the queue, but for reasons we likely could not comprehend even if they were explained they did not allow us to continue playing with or against groups unless you were in a group yourself.

Thus were the potatoes satisfied while the players capable of 200+ damage per game were mildly annoyed over yet another QOL issue.

[omnomtom]

As long as it's using one or two solos to "fill in" teams and not dropping 10 solos and a 2 man against a 12 man, I am behind this all the way, I'd leave that checked for sure.

[Jay Z]

Yes

[Night Fury76]

You're pushing **** up hill Live, but I voted yes anyway

[Arkroma]

Yeah well group queue population is always a problem. In AP prime time the queue pop is so low PSR just doesn't work.

[Liveish]

Night Fury76, on 18 November 2016 - 12:39 AM, said:

You're pushing **** up hill Live, but I voted yes anyway

Nothing worth doing is easy

[Skaav]

Great idea, even for people outside of AP region.

[Fox the Apprentice]

PGI has stated that the solo queue is doing well for match times (not talking about any server in particular).
Having solo players start joining group games will reduce the number available for making solo queue games, which will negatively impact the solo queue times.

Overall, probably a good idea for Oceanic server. Probably a bad idea for any other server.

[Liveish]

Fox the Apprentice, on 18 November 2016 - 06:33 AM, said:

PGI has stated that the solo queue is doing well for match times (not talking about any server in particular).
Having solo players start joining group games will reduce the number available for making solo queue games, which will negatively impact the solo queue times.

Overall, probably a good idea for Oceanic server. Probably a bad idea for any other server.

Heaps of people that play group Q, exit the game if they can not get a group going how does this harm solo ?

Also little know fact, most people in Australia play 5 in 100 games on the Asian server, its not to do with server but who is online at the time. ( Most Aussie have all 3 servers ticked)