REQUEST LIST: Short Term and Long Term PvP

[CeveArthu]

Well the purpose of these prearranged games would be for practice/fun purposes, where friends can challenge another group of friends directly, not using the duty finder. Square wouldn't add rewards to these matches because it could easily be abused.

There wouldn't be a wait time for this as well. An example of how it could work would be for the leader of each party to target each other, and in their target menu, have an option that states "Request Match."

This already exists with half rewards by use of the language filter and the light party DF

[nickx]

This already exists with half rewards by use of the language filter and the light party DF

Not necessarily the same. With that method, you are assuming both parties have the same and equal ranks for all their players (lets say all rank 40s). As Koltik mentioned himself, even if one person is not rank 40, then there will be a long delay due to the faulty matchmaking system. What I and the people I spoke with were suggesting is to bypass all of those restrictions, make two groups of four people (following the tank/healer/melee/range format of course), and regardless of all their pvp ranks, have these two groups be able to directly challenge each other to a match. As an example, Ayerro mentioned that she has enough pvp players within her server to set up matches against each other for fun and for practice.

For those of you who played WoW, I am basically referring to implementing the "wargame" functionality.

[CeveArthu]

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We do scrims regularly, but yes there is a delay if the ranks of each side are not equal, around 3-5 mins

My point stands though, I think most people would rather wait 3 mins for the scrim match to appear and get half rewards than to get nothing at all aside from the match itself

[Koltik]

We do scrims regularly, but yes there is a delay if the ranks of each side are not equal, around 3-5 mins

My point stands though, I think most people would rather wait 3 mins for the scrim match to appear and get half rewards than to get nothing at all aside from the match itself

Ceve, keep in mind that the wait time depends on average lvl of the group. We have generally been lucky enough to have 3-5 minute queues, but in some cases that jumps up to 10 minutes between queues (depending on average rank differences).

Still, I personally wouldn't do very many of these reward-less skrims. I love PvP, but I also want to be able to gear up alt classes. I am not going to bother doing WD if I can't advance towards that goal.