DUST Search - Faction Warfare Queueing

CCP Nullarbor wrote:

A small PSA since I suspect there may be some questions about this. We updated the matchmaking for faction warfare today and you should notice a couple of things:

- The battles will be full (mostly), we are putting more emphasis on these being a full scale balanced fight of 16v16
- Waiting times will be longer, especially around downtime when there are not a lot of players on.
- Waiting times will be different for different factions.
- The estimated time shown on the battle finder should be more accurate and takes into account which faction you are queuing for.
- Hopefully no more Scotty errors and endless spamming of the join queue button. If you hit queue you will eventually get in, unless there are not a lot of people playing and you've been queued for more than 10 minutes.
- We are giving priority to squads because they are generally harder to fit in to public contracts. We also want faction warfare to be pretty competitive so squads should be right at home here.

If you have any feedback on how its working out please leave it in this thread.

Thanks!

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Zeylon Rho Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 3127	Posted - 2014.01.11 04:15:00 - [1] - Quote CCP Nullarbor wrote: A small PSA since I suspect there may be some questions about this. We updated the matchmaking for faction warfare today and you should notice a couple of things: - The battles will be full (mostly), we are putting more emphasis on these being a full scale balanced fight of 16v16 - Waiting times will be longer, especially around downtime when there are not a lot of players on. - Waiting times will be different for different factions. - The estimated time shown on the battle finder should be more accurate and takes into account which faction you are queuing for. - Hopefully no more Scotty errors and endless spamming of the join queue button. If you hit queue you will eventually get in, unless there are not a lot of people playing and you've been queued for more than 10 minutes. - We are giving priority to squads because they are generally harder to fit in to public contracts. We also want faction warfare to be pretty competitive so squads should be right at home here. If you have any feedback on how its working out please leave it in this thread. Thanks! I tried a few matches after being on hiatus for awhile. It seemed appropriate to try them on Dust-launch day. I attempted to join 5/6 matches. I seemed to average something like a 1.5 to 3 minutes to queue for a FW match (solo). I only tried to queue for Amarr. Every battle I joined was already in progress, and the matches were often already hopelessly lopsided (like my side being down 50 clones, having no capture points, and a mostly destroyed MCC when I joined). I didn't bother playing any of these mostly over lop-sided matches. It's vaguely insulting to have that happen over and over again. It's like being served someone else's half-finished meal. Considering the long queue times, the whole thing was just a waste of my time. The match I did play was also bad/lop-sided for various reasons, but I'm not sure if matchmaking would fix that. That's my feedback. The queueing was among the worst wastes of time I've ever had in Dust, and I'll return to my hiatus now. Join my cult.