Frontline: Broken Queue or Broken Downscaling? Both?

[Kinseykinz]

I too play on the Primal Data Center, am an Adder and my queue is also becoming longer and longer w/ the ave wait being 'more than 30 mins' I always solo queue as 'join in progress' and stopped grouping with friends about a week ago when we waited over an hour and as soon as I left our party and queued solo we ALL got in....in the SAME party. The first 2 weeks it was out, I did over 70+ matches each week. This week, I've been able to get into 13. I've tried queuing different times of day/ways/etc. Nothing seems to help.

I am positive people are interested in doing Frontlines. So I don't think it's a 'lack of players' issue. Which leaves either: Frontline Queue matching is broken or Frontline downsizing of queues is broken.

Oh....and the darn hunts are blowing ALL queue times out the water....but that's a related, but heavily contested topic I really am fed up with.

[Titor]

I had a 2 alliance downscaled game once, it was really early in the morning (EST)

[Sygmaelle]

Yeah on Primal its pretty, PRETTY long. Not understanding it that well since like, last week it was a pvp fest

[Niroken]

Never really had to wait more then 5-10 minutes. After the first match it's near instant with Join in Progress.

[RavenGrey]

I really, really want to be able to enjoy Frontlines, but these queues are just not working. For the past week, they've really gotten pretty bad. Solo, they average about 30 mins+ with the occasional quicker "in progress". Tonight I had a queue estimated at 20 mins. After an hour, I finally logged off. Queue up with a party? Not a chance. Those queues are even worse. I'm starting to turn people down who ask if I want to group up for Frontlines after my friend and I waited 90 minutes last night in a queue before giving up and going to bed. Solo is the only option anymore.

These matches only actually last about 10 minutes, so these wait times are just not reasonable for this content. If there is an underlying issue with the logic of the Duty Finder, please fix it pronto, or at least give us a heads up on what is going on. I don't mind running smaller matches. I just want to be able to actually DO Frontlines.

Btw, I'm also on Primal and from Maelstrom.

[Seoulstar]

I have a few times. One was with two alliances. Then another where it was just one alliance from each GC fighting each other.

[Mergadeth]

Darn and i was just starting to get into frontlines...

Primal data center and also have more than 30 minutes queues. I hate to be the one to say it but i think people are just hunting....

[Warlyx]

30M+ here too

[Cleffy]

"So basically you are saying that re-queuing every minute makes things faster?"

-Yes, i tested it,please try to click "join party in progress".
I did some test about that.
I had a time wait of : 12 minutes with "join party in progress" active, I restarted the queue and It sent me on a front line started 1 minute before.
What it's means? re-queuing every minute makes things faster.

And this is wrong!! who is in queue before should enter before me.

No, Cleff is saying that solo queueing made it faster.

Yes i'm saying it too.

the person that join it the moment that the fight start is able to join an alliance and fill it = this person have the priority compared to those who are already waiting the frontlines.

And yes, you are right too!

[Psycnosis]

the queue system was screwed up at the time took 151 minutes of queue before mine popped and wasnt even a down scaled match. after that it popped regularly every 10-20 mins so think duty finder was just messed up at that time