Group Queue Poll

[Azarael]

People keep asking me about the SC queue, and I'm not willing to commit to any implementation if it's going to cause any rage, so here are the possible options:

Don't implement it yet.

I'm sure at least someone will vote for this due to the potential for group queue to cause scenario imbalance.

Allow any size group in the queue and assign as many groups as possible within the scenario.

Allows greatest freedom of players, but risks imbalance due to both bad group comp and larger groups being matched against many smaller ones and soloists.

Limit group sizes to 3 or 6, force proper composition within groups.

Removes player freedom to queue in sizes that are not 3 and 6 and to use an arbitrary composition, but makes queue math easier and results in scenarios that are more balanced in terms of the archetypes.

Other

If you've got something I haven't thought of, post it.

[Bozzax]

Are you planning on fielding premades vs premades or premades vs pugs?

[Azarael]

My personal preference would have been both to split the queues and use 3/6 queuing with forced composition, so that the PUG queue remains more casual / random and the premade queue is for more serious play.

I don't think we have the population for that at the moment though, and I'm sure some premade somewhere will complain that they can't engage in a spot of ripe old PUG-bashing. I'm aware that premade vs PUG isn't a guaranteed win for the premade, but I also know that some people do enjoy having an advantage over randomly assigned players, and I strongly disagree with that attitude.

[Jayzboi]

Nevermind.

[Azarael]

3/6 does not mean splitting the queues. In a situation where you have, for example, three 3 mans on one side and a six man with 3 soloists on the other, that would pop as 9v9.

[Dalgrimar]

Just use the group quee system of Live.
6man group quee.

[Azarael]

Live WAR forced you to queue as a 6 man...?

[Marley]

What Dalgrimar means is that you could join as party when you where between 2 - 6 plpayers.

Which would be option number 2 if I'm not mistaken.

[Jayzboi]

Live WAR forced you to queue as a 6 man...?

No.

What Dalgrimar means is that you could join as party when you where between 2 - 6 plpayers.

This.

[K13R]

Honestly if your going to split ques I'm all for it but there are some downsides After playing my entire warhammer career with the same or near the same 6 man it was I found no joy in smackin down pugs yeah it lol when you moral bomb some under geared noob the first time but after that zzzzzz so sleeply until you faced another premade then it came down to who the pugs were in mostly in a even match.

Now group que would make it exciting but the risk is what happened in swtor group rank there is going to be a guild that claims the throne as the alpha(everyone thinks it going to be there guild) once the hierarchy of guilds is est. then the group que dries up and it back to que sync'n regs for most guilds.

I'm sure the solo quer would appreciate being in there own que going agaist other solo's as it should be but I can see where this is heading and I hope i'm wrong