3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

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Can Feast-solo queue please be changed so you are never queued against someone on your server.

I'm not really sure what you're specifically getting at here, since you're doing a pretty fantastic job of skirting around it, but ... queue times...

I don't have a terribly active server/world as it is (at least, not that I've noticed), but that doesn't mean that I want to remove an entire world worth of queues out of my queue line. Illicit activities or otherwise, I still want to at least get into matches. If anything, I would prefer if they merged a few data centres together to increase the number of players, not reduce them. Most of the time I don't even pay attention (gotta catch that queue train), but sometimes it's fun to see a fellow Diabolos member in the end-results. It's nice to know that there are other people in my world that queue for PvP.

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I'm not really sure what you're specifically getting at here, since you're doing a pretty fantastic job of skirting around it, but ... queue times...
I don't have a terribly active server/world as it is (at least, not that I've noticed), but that doesn't mean that I want to remove an entire world worth of queues out of my queue line. Illicit activities or otherwise, I still want to at least get into matches. If anything, I would prefer if they merged a few data centres together to increase the number of players, not reduce them. Most of the time I don't even pay attention (gotta catch that queue train), but sometimes it's fun to see a fellow Diabolos member in the end-results. It's nice to know that there are other people in my world that queue for PvP.

Can you get banned or reported for throwing matches on purpose? How hard would it be to detect someone doing this?.. Even subtlety


Hypothetically, I wish that the option of say 175 people in the same free company all decide to want to play feast - solo, maybe even at 6am

Even if this would increase queue times, i hope it's something that can be addressed to retain the feasts incorruptibility. Maybe this can happen if groups of 2 data centers were merged together. Then maybe changed the top ranking to be top 150, top 15, top 3 for rewards.



Edit: After calming down I hope the best of people, but deep down suspect foul play. Voice chat would even bypass any evidence of cordination. It's like triple-triad tournament 2.0 but a much longer tournament. Good for them, this is good practice to try not to let what others do bother you personally. :/

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Can you get banned or reported for throwing matches on purpose? How hard would it be to detect someone doing this?

You'd be amazed what you can be banned for. There was someone complaining on here a while back about getting slapped with a ban over macro usage, and there's been several accounts of "witch hunts" for match throwers and alleged hackers. All it a takes is a sufficient number of reports to the support desk, and SE will look into it. Unfortunately, slapping said people with bans is not going to change the fact that they threw a match.

Even hypothetically, if 175 people from the same FC/Linkshell/Teamspeak/whatever all queued for Solo-Feast at the same time, there's no guarantee that they'll get into the same match. Match fixing in this way is very difficult, especially with rank restrictions on who can play with who. That was the whole point of making Solo-Feast a solo queue in the first place, to avoid the same monstrous matchmaking/fixing that happened in WD. This is especially the case because queuing with a team of people is not required to throw a match. All you have to do is queue as a healer and do a crummy job. The only thing a team queue would be good for is if you are trying to tilt the odds in someone else's favour, but seeing as how you can't guarantee that you'll end up on opposing teams, it's not an efficient way to match fix.

Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No. It's far more likely that the people who got into a match with just happen to suck at the game or are tome farming. When it happens, it really sucks, but there really isn't much you can do about it except roll with it and hope for better next time. Having SE shoot our queues in the foot isn't the answer. The majority of us shouldn't be punished because of the actions of a few bad apples.