11 replies to this topic

[Captain Locke]

I'd just like to play this game with a friend. However, I refuse to wait 15+ minutes just to get a game that lasts less than 5 minutes.

Something's gotta be done about it.

[Spheroid]

Play faction

[justcallme A S H]

Captain Locke, on 06 February 2019 - 03:40 PM, said:

I'd just like to play this game with a friend. However, I refuse to wait 15+ minutes just to get a game that lasts less than 5 minutes.

Something's gotta be done about it.

Low population time if it was at the time you posted. It's just prior to North America Prime. Try again in 2hrs.

Or get a Group of 4, that usually helps.

Nothing can be done about it when the games population is decline. It'll never get better, only worse.
I mean there is something that can be done to alleviate it a little - limit groups to even numbers only - that would mean PGI need to implement that change.

[Captain Locke]

Welp, still taking forever to get into a faction game with a group of two as well. Kind of hard to get a group of 4 going if I cna't convince one of my friends to stick around with these que times =/ Ah well.

[MechaBattler]

The game has never really encouraged small casual groups. Which in my opinion has greatly halted it's growth. They should have been catering to casuals instead of trying for 'hardcore' mode with FP or Esports.

[GeminiWolf]

Captain Locke, on 06 February 2019 - 03:40 PM, said:

I'd just like to play this game with a friend. However, I refuse to wait 15+ minutes just to get a game that lasts less than 5 minutes.

Something's gotta be done about it.

Wow another one of these threads... drop QP thats what most of the player base does

[El Bandito]

MechaBattler, on 06 February 2019 - 04:16 PM, said:

The game has never really encouraged small casual groups. Which in my opinion has greatly halted it's growth. They should have been catering to casuals instead of trying for 'hardcore' mode with FP or Esports.

PGI should have stayed 8v8 for QP.

[Snowhawk]

Some People and me had the idea to allow "fill-in" Solo-Players (max. 3 per side) in the Group-que… I don't know why pgi is not implenting this simple solution.

[Burning2nd]

yeah... We knew that 5 years ago

[adamts01]

MWO's problem has always been too small a population and too many buckets. And they keep adding buckets.... They should have combined group que with Faction Warfare years ago, but they added scouting. And then they added Solaris..... With 7 brackets... All the while having 5 tiers.....

And yeah, like was said above, there are plenty of solo players who desperately want teamwork who are willing to follow orders. Let them fill in group que. And seriously, merge FW and Group Que already. Keep the maps maybe, just with 1 life, and then add conquest and incursion in the the rotation. Let a Quick Play be Skirmish only, as that's all there's teamwork for.

Then go back in time and never create Solaris.

[Monkey Lover]

Play on the weekends and during U.S prime time, The Q should be a lot better.

[Antares102]

In defence of the OP we had the same situation with a 4-man group recently last sunday evening (CET) with a healthy amount of people online (~1000 based on steam).
Normally you dont get any drops with a 2-man because the group queue priorizes larger groups to smaller groups.
We knew that so we made a 4-man.
Still after waiting for 30 min we did not get a single drop.
In desperation we tried faction and only after 15 min we got a game afer which the group dissolved.
My expereince is that with a 4-man you get drops almost immediatelly almost all the time.

Two days ago I heard the same thing again that no drop could be found with at least a 3-man group.
Something is wrong, either with population of the the group queue.

Edited by Antares102, 07 February 2019 - 09:30 AM.