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#1 ChickyChickyParmParm

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Posted 12 June 2022 - 08:32 PM

The matchmaker preferences drop down is not working. Cannot set those prefs!

Not sure if anyone else has this bug. but the drop down next to quick play doesnt pop up when either mouse-overed or clicked on.

#2 ChickyChickyParmParm

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 05:34 PM

and... for some reason today it's working :/

#3 Therax

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 05:40 PM

It is a well know and long standing bug. The workaround is to refresh the client by either logging in and out, or dropping into and completing a match, or entering and exiting testing grounds until it works.

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 06:17 PM

Exiting and restarting the client usually works for me.

#5 Escef

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Posted 13 June 2022 - 10:22 PM

Another work around is to create a group, change your preferences in the group's dropdown, then disband the group.

It's an old glitch that crops up for a lot of players from time to time. (I've only encountered it once, so I suppose I've been inordinately lucky on that one.) If I had to guess, I'd say the reason why it still exists is because its inconsistency makes tracking down an exact cause very difficult. Combine that with PGI's limited resources and most of the community being aware of it by now? Yeah, throwing manhours at fixing it probably just seems like a wasteful snipe hunt.

#6 Aidan Crenshaw

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Posted 14 June 2022 - 09:53 PM

Switching into Faction Play also helps to circumvent the glitch.

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Posted 16 June 2022 - 05:49 AM

Low, low player numbers will often trick the server preference into opening up all three options to speed MM up.

#8 Escef

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Posted 16 June 2022 - 09:00 AM

View Postcazeral, on 16 June 2022 - 05:49 AM, said:

Low, low player numbers will often trick the server preference into opening up all three options to speed MM up.


As far as I've ever heard, this is false.

#9 Duke Falcon

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Posted 16 June 2022 - 09:25 AM

Lately the whole MM seems not to work properly...

Just a side note (sorry if miss someting!):
Aren't PGI said something about an event queue? Both Solaris and EQ gone just QP and FP remained (+ some bugs but those slowly considered features instead)...

#10 Mochyn Pupur

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Posted 16 June 2022 - 11:57 PM

View PostEscef, on 16 June 2022 - 09:00 AM, said:

As far as I've ever heard, this is false.


As far as I've been affected by it, absolutely true.

#11 Escef

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Posted 17 June 2022 - 08:23 AM

View PostMochyn Pupur, on 16 June 2022 - 11:57 PM, said:


As far as I've been affected by it, absolutely true.


I'm going to have to ask for some kind of evidence of this. You saying it is so is all well and good, but I have no way of knowing if you actually saw what you think you saw.

#12 Mochyn Pupur

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Posted 17 June 2022 - 10:05 AM

View PostEscef, on 17 June 2022 - 08:23 AM, said:

I'm going to have to ask for some kind of evidence of this. You saying it is so is all well and good, but I have no way of knowing if you actually saw what you think you saw.


Why? I didn't know you worked for PGI?

Just because you have missed something doesn't mean it isn't a reality. What you believe means very little :P

Edited by Mochyn Pupur, 17 June 2022 - 10:07 AM.


#13 Escef

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Posted 17 June 2022 - 10:51 AM

View PostMochyn Pupur, on 17 June 2022 - 10:05 AM, said:


Why? I didn't know you worked for PGI?

Just because you have missed something doesn't mean it isn't a reality. What you believe means very little Posted Image


In other words, you are making a claim, a very dubious one, and offering nothing to back it up. What I believe may not mean much, but what you've had to say means even less.





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