Frontlines: How is this fair?

[Lithera]

That's a rare situation right there. BOTH other parties would have had to withdraw altogether for that to happen as if your group had been 8 or 16 it would have been a 24 or 48 person match. They should probably look at this I think since the DF may not be able to refill parties that never existed in the first place.

[JayCommon]

That's a rare situation right there. BOTH other parties would have had to withdraw altogether for that to happen as if your group had been 8 or 16 it would have been a 24 or 48 person match. They should probably look at this I think since the DF may not be able to refill parties that never existed in the first place.

Just curious, but has anyone ever taken part in one of these phantom "24 or 48" person matches, because I'm slowly becoming convinced that they don't exist. What I see as part of the Immortal Flames is always along the lines of OP screenshot. Queue for Frontlines, see 62/72 people queue before entering and all 10 people missing from the match are from the Flames.

I appreciate the fact that SE addressed the queue problem with 71/72 and then a back out happening, but this "24 or 48" people shit is a farce and I have never seen it happen. If one team out of 3 is missing damn near 30% of their alliance then the match should scale down and kick the last extra people from the other full GC's to enter the queue out of that specific match and combine them into the next one. It is clearly not working correctly, and provides for an experience that isn't fun at all.

[LadyVal]

Just curious, but has anyone ever taken part in one of these phantom "24 or 48" person matches, because I'm slowly becoming convinced that they don't exist.

I've been in three 48-person matches. So, yes they do exist. Generally if I queue before 1 am, it's a 72-person match. It's like between 1 and 5 am PDT that I ever get matches with less than 72.

[JayCommon]

I've been in three 48-person matches. So, yes they do exist. Generally if I queue before 1 am, it's a 72-person match. It's like between 1 and 5 am PDT that I ever get matches with less than 72.

So then Frontlines matchmaking is blatantly broken. There is no good excuse for allowing one GC to enter a 72 player match when their 24 player alliance has 10-14 players and the others are full. Queue-in-progress happens but it takes awhile in the match for a gap that large to be filled. More often than not, when the players that get matched up into such lopsided BS that as soon as Duty Commences, half of the people on the team leave anyway. This needs to be addressed, what's the point of having lower match options if they don't get utilized in situations that keeps the balance fair?


OP: You should really post this in the PvP section of the forums also, if you haven't.