Aether wolves den solo queue event

[Slib]

We are making a slight change - instead of queueing as english language only, please queue as french language only. Everything else remains the same.

I never understood why we would que away from English? Isn't the goal to get more people into pvp? You are preventing faster ques for those in english who try to pvp!

[Blubbers]

I never understood why we would que away from English? Isn't the goal to get more people into pvp? You are preventing faster ques for those in english who try to pvp!

It's entirely because the duty finder is dumb. If we can guarantee enough people of all ranks are queuing, it makes sense to have everyone just queue English. If it's mostly high rank people queuing, then if someone who is rank 14 queues up, it will "lock" the queue for whoever it matches them with. Let's say I'm rank 14, and everyone else who queues is rank 50.

I queue up, and 3 other 50's get matched on my team, our total rank is 164. Every other team that forms is all rank 50, so they have a total rank of 200. The "164" team won't get paired up with any other teams right away because they're too low, so they will likely have to wait 10+ mins for duty finder to give up and expand the search to match them with the other "200" teams.

Queuing English allows for a lot of low rank random people to queue in during these events, potentially taking 3 people out of the event for 10+ mins and locking the queue while other people get insta-pops. If we all agree on japanese, then all the rank 50 people in the know will queue up Japanese and we'll all get instant pops all night.

If we can get enough people of all ranks queuing up, this won't be an issue at all, but with the low population and the way the way duty finder works, if we can't guarantee a huge crowd one night we'll swap languages.