Vote Dismiss During Battle (Frontlines)

[WinterSolstice]

On Midgardsormr, I've run something like 60 matches, and I've never waited longer than 6-7 minutes for a solo queue and most of the time it's under 5. These queues include peak and non-peak times.

Granted, I've noticed a large disparity when queuing with others, which bumps up my queue time to maybe 15 minutes at the worst.

[Starrywisdom]

Would love to know what GC you guys are with compared to the rest of your population.

I'm limsa(popular in my data center) and I NEVER absolutely NEVER have a queue for frontlines thats LESS then 15 mins. Ever.

[Gor]

Would love to know what GC you guys are with compared to the rest of your population.

I'm limsa(popular in my data center) and I NEVER absolutely NEVER have a queue for frontlines thats LESS then 15 mins. Ever.

Same here. Mine are nearly always one hour or more. It's to the point where where I've been doing more WD than FL lately. Mind you, I used to get instant pops or less than 10 minutes the first two weeks. What I think has happened is fails from Adder and Flames have jumped ship to Maelstrom once they realized we win most the time, looking to get carried. Thus making the Maelstrom queues longer because there are more people. I've noticed a few people that prior to FL coming out and the release of FL, I know for a fact they were on Flames because I remember their names and now they're on Maelstrom.

[TeddyPrime]

Right now, we have two people that always go afk during the whole battle. All they do is run forwards a bit so that they don't get vote kicked. I report them, but there seems to be no actions taken against them.
Is there a way to resolve these issues faster? Since they're even taking up spots for healers, it's even more infuriating.

[Woona]

Ugh, i thought the weekend would help the ques pick up a bit but still waiting 30+ mins :/ Then when a que finally pops, people afk. Sucks man.

Primal // Adders

[SeleneVenizelos]

Greetings,

In patch 2.35, we’re planning to make adjustments so you can vote dismiss players even while in battle when you are participating in Frontline.

With this change, however, there are concerns that the vote dismiss window popping up mid-battle may be a disturbance, so we’ll be looking into making it so the window is hidden by default and only the notification button appears.

This needs to be done in a hotfix ASAP, not in 2.35. Aether data centre has a string of people who go AFK every Frontlines. They are taking up space from other people and are making it very difficult for the Maelstrom to win in any match where they're present. A run I just did had five people AFK the whole run and we had 7 spaces that needed filling when the match began. That meant we only had twelve people at the start of the match. The worst part is two of them are on my server and I have GM'd both of them multiple times and received the typical generic "go away" response that frankly is as insulting as it is unacceptable.

What should we do meanwhile? Don't do Frontlines? Patiently wait and deal with it? Both options seem as pointless or terrible to me as the other. Please make this hotfix a priority!

[Buff_Archer]

Seems like this might work in a situation where one or more party members are afk- if the party members who are actually doing something can hold at the respawn point when getting killed off without any of them charging back off into battle solo (I know it's a lot to ask of some players lol) then vote dismiss would be an option again right? Is the vote dismiss option only disabled as long as one or more *party* members are still in battle, or is it if any of the *alliance* members are in battle?

Of course, if a party has enough afk'ers a vote dismiss wouldn't pass (because an afk'er isn't going to be voting another afk'er out for obvious reasons) that's a whole different problem, but hopefully that's not common.

[TeddyPrime]

Seems like this might work in a situation where one or more party members are afk- if the party members who are actually doing something can hold at the respawn point when getting killed off without any of them charging back off into battle solo (I know it's a lot to ask of some players lol) then vote dismiss would be an option again right? Is the vote dismiss option only disabled as long as one or more *party* members are still in battle, or is it if any of the *alliance* members are in battle?

Of course, if a party has enough afk'ers a vote dismiss wouldn't pass (because an afk'er isn't going to be voting another afk'er out for obvious reasons) that's a whole different problem, but hopefully that's not common.

Doesn't it count as in battle when frontlines starts, so you cannot vote dismiss when it starts. Also, vote dismissing only works after the first 5 mins. So even if you know someone is an AFKer you cannot kick them out.