Abolish Gc vs GC vs GC in frontlines.

[Chiramu]

Three way PVP is more interesting than the standard, two faction PVP battlegrounds that we've had in the past. Watching two factions killing each other in Heliodrome while you wait on the sidelines is funny as!

Way more epic than two factions charging each other in the face.

[Sessurea]

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Yes this is sadly a negative to it. I also enjoy this aspect of it a lot, but in reality, the people you fight are called <insert class >. If the player igns could be shown, and you could actually recognize the people you meet again from time to time, and somehow instil an identity to the opposition, I would feel the GC affiliation much more, but as it is now, I'm just fighting a bunch on no-names, with no idea if it's the same people I meet again and again. You do raise a good point. It just comes down to GC affiliation and its niceties vs absurd queue times for some of the playerbase.

[Geobryn]

we doesn't have to abolish it right away, we can just change the way the affiliation is counted in the matchmaking while not breaking the lore
there were 2 suggestions in other threads i really liked
1. make only the party leader affiliation count
2. make the FC's affiliation take precedent, it is not used for anything anyway :P

on the other hand, it should be mentioned that the queues are screwed on a system level
few examples (i am in Twin Adders at Chaos data center):
- i am sitting in queue for 1 hour no pop, my friend in adders finished 3 front lines in that time.... WTF ??!!?
- if you have full party its almost always insta pop
- if you have only like 3 ppl no way you can get a pop under 2 hours lol
- you are sitting in queue for hour > leave queue > re-queue > insta pop

- you can NOT replenish ppl during "warm up" period (before the gates open), is it not supposed to be "that" time where you should get ppl ???!?!?
- the system should be faster creating the 48/24 matches, instead of waiting for 72 one for 2 hours, pop 48/24 in 5 mins

[Geologo]

we doesn't have to abolish it right away, we can just change the way the affiliation is counted in the matchmaking while not breaking the lore
on the other hand, it should be mentioned that the queues are screwed on a system level
few examples (i am in Twin Adders at Chaos data center):
- i am sitting in queue for 1 hour no pop, my friend in adders finished 3 front lines in that time.... WTF ??!!?
- if you have full party its almost always insta pop
- if you have only like 3 ppl no way you can get a pop under 2 hours lol
- you are sitting in queue for hour > leave queue > re-queue > insta pop

- you can NOT replenish ppl during "warm up" period (before the gates open), is it not supposed to be "that" time where you should get ppl ???!?!?
- the system should be faster creating the 48/24 matches, instead of waiting for 72 one for 2 hours, pop 48/24 in 5 mins

All true for me too, and It's really annoying.

[amandakali]

This definitely needs to be addressed as i have been saying for a long time.

One thing they could do is also add Mercenary options like in Rift. Basically if you are flagged mercenary, they can put in w.e GC needs the people at that time regardless of your GC affiliation.

This would be a toggle option that you turn on if you want or do not use it if you are Lore enthusiast.

This helped alot in that game and i think it could do wonders here as well.

[yuixjfa]

I am all for this change to support faster queue times and what not, but I really enjoy the fact that I am able to represent a faction in PvP. I wouldn't mind the change as much if I was able to represent myself in PvP, rather than just a <Bard>.

[Argyle_Darkheart]

Like some others have said, lore isn't a good reason to hamstring content.

I really think we've reached the point where GC matchmaking is getting in the way of Frontlines' success.

While I can appreciate the feeling of fighting for a particular GC, I just don't think the pros outweigh the cons. I would much rather have faster queue times and the ability to group with whomever I wish.

[Sessurea]

This definitely needs to be addressed as i have been saying for a long time.

One thing they could do is also add Mercenary options like in Rift. Basically if you are flagged mercenary, they can put in w.e GC needs the people at that time regardless of your GC affiliation.

This would be a toggle option that you turn on if you want or do not use it if you are Lore enthusiast.

This helped alot in that game and i think it could do wonders here as well.

And here it is, that post in a million. This should keep the lore people happy, and will make the people strangled by GC affiliation happy. Now, how to make SE notice this? xc

[Gor]

Now, how to make SE notice this? xc

by creating a single thread requesting this and then having enough replies to it that creates a gazillion pages. i've noticed this is the only way devs have even replied to an issue when it reaches enough pages worthy of their attention. the JP forums has their organization together since they have more players. but its hard to even get anything noticed in the NA forums because there aren't as many NA players in forums to even generate enough pages most the time. the NA forums gets treated like a stepchild so almost everything is ignored around here.

can try posting to the jp forums and see what happens i guess, and hope enough people know english to reply. however if the request has been made before in there, SE will just delete the post. they are also more strict and moderate those forums a lot more seriously too than over here.
cheers!

[Shake0615]

One thing they could do is also add Mercenary options like in Rift. Basically if you are flagged mercenary, they can put in w.e GC needs the people at that time regardless of your GC affiliation.

I like this idea a lot. I say make a thread and see if there's enough support here.