[Request] Frontlines Player Trading

[Serilda]

Changing the queue would be a pain, especially on tiny datacentres where waiting hours for a single 8v8v8 is normal (my team was 6man for a while in one game this week and DF couldn't fill the empty slots for ages - and I'm pretty sure Flames are actually the ones with the lower numbers here). I often queue as one job but don't mind playing the other, and just randomly pick one to join as.

When I get on at prime time and see my team has 5 healers while another party has none it really is silly though.

Fortunately most players have both a healer and a DPS job available and will swap for the good of the team, but if letting us organise our own groups is too difficult then a simple solution would be an 'alliance sort' feature which works like the local party sort but rebalances the group to share the roles across the whole alliance.

- Message: ____ has requested an alliance sort.
- Yes/No
- Majority picks yes (just like with voting on a kick) and the alliance is automatically shuffled to balance the jobs better with the minimum of fuss.
- More people get to play the role they actually wanted to in the first place and we don't have teams with five DRGs and no healers.

Even if it can only be done while waiting in the starting area, it would really help.

[TiaHariberux3]

"Majority" is hopefully ur own party cause some people want to stick with their groups like premades etc. and I rarely met people who switch to healer I always see 5 smn without any healer x.x

[Serilda]

"Majority" is hopefully ur own party cause some people want to stick with their groups like premades etc. and I rarely met people who switch to healer I always see 5 smn without any healer x.x

There would have to be some kind of logic where it wouldn't balance parties which were already reasonably balanced. So if A has 8x DPS and B has 4x healer and 4x DPS, but C is a decent mix of jobs, it should balance the first two parties instead of swapping everyone around chaotically.

You could also have it where you could opt in/out of being balanced on the same screen, though this would make it more complicated. Personally I wouldn't mind breaking up premades if it's necessary for the good of the overall alliance but I can see where it would not be fun to lose your buddies.

Maybe the switching is a JP thing. We almost never have more or less than 2 healers in a party because most people in my server's group will switch until the configuration is balanced. It sucks if you prefer playing a certain job though, or if you happen to be in a terrible configuration and nobody has a compatible job geared up. I guess I didn't consider that there might be arguments about shuffling the parties on English-speaking realms.

Being able to queue for the same thing as multiple jobs would also help (and it would help PVE too so I guess it has more chance of being implemented).

[TiaHariberux3]

You could also do lets say 2 spots in a party which needs to be filled with healer and people with this spot arent allowed to change class. Idk if it would work but atleast it would gave people a reason to heal/learn to heal in pvp since they would have shorter queue. At the moment there is nothing for healer except (winning? lol).