Abolish Gc vs GC vs GC in frontlines.

[Gor]

That would give everyone a much greater chance for nice queue times, and there wouldn't be any stigma about "this GC is great" or "that one sucks."

... and a better chance of winning. when i swapped to Flames, it was a morale killer walking into a match just knowing i was grouped with a bunch of clueless players and that there was a 98% chance it was going to be a loss. one day i played and lost ALL games. ridiculous. at least with no static gc affiliation players would get a chance to know what its like to play with good players and possibly learn what they are doing wrong rather than being stuck with bad players and continuously doing the same things wrong thus becoming even worse players.

[Geologo]

Another suggestion

Make them ignore the lore up to me is a little hard, so maybe we can suggest some "tips" to reduce the Que time, I have 2 of them:
- Add a Frontline and a Wolve's Den Roulette
(and possibly don't give only PvP based rewards, so even not totally interested PvP gamers will try it and maybe let the final reward of the Roulette too be balanced with the win/loss)
- Add to FL the "Player in need reward" feature, like for the Duty roulettes, it will display the GC more required at the moment.
(It could even don't give any additional reward, or a really little one, but PLEASE display the GC that is blocking the queue, so If I see that the GC required is mine I will immediately go in FL!)

Ps. Sorry I hadn't a lot of time today and I didn't read all the previous post, after I'll do it >-<

[Divinemight]

... and a better chance of winning. when i swapped to Flames, it was a morale killer walking into a match just knowing i was grouped with a bunch of clueless players and that there was a 98% chance it was going to be a loss. one day i played and lost ALL games. ridiculous. at least with no static gc affiliation players would get a chance to know what its like to play with good players and possibly learn what they are doing wrong rather than being stuck with bad players and continuously doing the same things wrong thus becoming even worse players.

Are you still on Primals? Flame isnt that bad in the eyes of the opponent tho. They are more aggressive than Malestorm for past few weeks. Twin Adders start to focus on Flames more than Malestorm now.

[Blubbers]

Add to FL the "Player in need reward" feature, like for the Duty roulettes, it will display the GC more required at the moment.
(It could even don't give any additional reward, or a really little one, but PLEASE display the GC that is blocking the queue, so If I see that the GC required is mine I will immediately go in FL!)

This for sure seems like a no-brainer, being able to view what queue times look like for each GC and which GC is currently the bottleneck would help players make informed decisions about which grand company to pick.

[Gor]

Are you still on Primals? Flame isnt that bad in the eyes of the opponent tho. They are more aggressive than Malestorm for past few weeks. Twin Adders start to focus on Flames more than Malestorm now.

yea im still on Primal. the person i usually play with cried rivers of blood that we kept losing on Flames, even though personally i didn't care because i expected that before I swapped, but apparently it was too big of an issue to him so he swapped back to Maelstrom. so i switched back to Maelstrom too, back to the long queue times. for the last few days i haven't even really been doing FL since i'm tired of just waiting on pops and have just been playing other games.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Yay, you came back to Maelstrom! I'm sure at some point we'll be in group again.

[Sayori]

aww yiss..

Yeah no, this definitely needs to be adressed. I'd switch GC, but to do the grind up to rank 30+ again? No, thanks. This also kind of demotivates me to change GC and i'm sure i'm not the only one.

[Gor]

aww yiss..

Yeah no, this definitely needs to be adressed. I'd switch GC, but to do the grind up to rank 30+ again? No, thanks. This also kind of demotivates me to change GC and i'm sure i'm not the only one.

from what i hear, JP servers don't have these long pop problems. my biggest fear is that since SE listens more to their JP community, because they are the larger customer, that they will just ignore the EU and NA servers and leave us with broken queues.

[Geologo]

This for sure seems like a no-brainer, being able to view what queue times look like for each GC and which GC is currently the bottleneck would help players make informed decisions about which grand company to pick.

I don't see any problem about them, a lot of people don't decide their GC based on the FL, but if for someone FL is one of the most important content, yep for him it would be useful.
Also remember that u can switch only every 15 days and you (I'm not sure) would freeze your Rank and restart to 0 in your new GC.
If it would balance more the queue time I don't see any problem about it, but if I'm wrong, explin it to me >-<

Also I'm a Gridanian, and sometimes I waited up to 2hours, other times I queued 5 times in a row. (I'm in Ragnarok)
So I don't think that always there is just one GC that is the bottleneck.

If I woulded able to know if my queue time will be surely short, I'll join as soon as possible, and this will help the whole queue time of FL.

[Atreus]

... and a better chance of winning. when i swapped to Flames, it was a morale killer walking into a match just knowing i was grouped with a bunch of clueless players and that there was a 98% chance it was going to be a loss. one day i played and lost ALL games. ridiculous. at least with no static gc affiliation players would get a chance to know what its like to play with good players and possibly learn what they are doing wrong rather than being stuck with bad players and continuously doing the same things wrong thus becoming even worse players.

Literally the only reason I only FL with a premade now. I wouldn't be opposed to removing GC restriction. Would work to counter the waves of GC hoppers looking for carries by opening the player pool to everyone. As everyone's already mentioned though, dat lore.