PvP dead once again?

[Lovescake]

Yeah, it got boring after a while but the system was very flawed. Not sure if they fixed it, but I remember queueing only to be in a party with around 4-6 members. sometimes we were missing an alliance

72 player = 3 alliances
48 player = 2 alliances
24 player = 1 alliance

you weren't missing them as a flaw. it was designed like this and it works.

[ElHeggunte]

72 player = 3 alliances
48 player = 2 alliances
24 player = 1 alliance

you weren't missing them as a flaw. it was designed like this and it works.

It is a flaw. In an attempt to keep the queue times down SE made it so all three sides don't necessarily need to have a full roster before the match can start. The game will start as a 48/72 person match, but when you actually get into the instance you don't always have two/three full alliances like you should. I've had my fair share of 72-player matches where the Flames had less than two full alliances for more than 10 minutes into the match and that was pretty common. The system back-fills as the match goes on, but you're typically down players long enough that you have little to no chance of recovery even if you eventually fill up.

I haven't done Frontlines in a good while now, but if people are actually queuing even less than before the problem is only going to get worse.