Average wait time: Less than 5m.

[Tiramu]

I've wondered how this works for a while abd basically took to ignoring it after waiting 30 mins on a 5 min avg queue, or waiting 2 mins on a 10 min avg queue.

[Claustrum]

You would be correct.
What I mentioned would alleviate your initial issues as well. Perhaps not alleviate the lack of players in a specific duty, but that's somewhat outside SE's control.

Okay... do you think I don't understand that the game doesn't have enough players registering for a duty when I get stuck in DF hell? No, I'm in the queue because it's waiting for enough players to register. If it wasn't waiting for players, it would just pop up and I could enter the match, no waiting required. I don't need the game to tell me "yo dude, not enough people are signing up for this, so we gotta wait a bit." to understand why I can't get into a match.

The thing I'm complaining about is that the duty finder gives an estimated wait time, and the estimated wait time is completely inaccurate. My problem is that the game ALWAYS says the average wait time is less than 5m, yet I haven't been able to do a ranked match in the past 2 weeks despite being registered for at least an hour every night.

[Claustrum]

Nope, that is completely wrong.
Explaining how something works is not defending it. Nor is it advocating for change. It is just an explantion of how things work - nothing else.

Context is everything. Why do you suppose I'm replying to you?

[MistakeNot]

Context is everything. Why do you suppose I'm replying to you?

Since you are not writing anything relevant or interesting in your reply, I have no idea why you'd bother making such a reply.

[Claustrum]

Since you are not writing anything relevant or interesting in your reply, I have no idea why you'd bother making such a reply.

So you can't tell from context that I disagree with you?

[MistakeNot]

So you can't tell from context that I disagree with you?

From context? No.
I think you are reading far more into the context than is actually there.
But the disagreement is obvious anwyay since my first reply to you was a disagreement with what you had written earlier. But that is not based on the context, but on the plain text.

[KenaiChoppa]

Depends on what you are searching.

I have queued for Rival wings and it imminently says "More than 30 minutes". Ofc i have also had the "5 minutes" and had to wait 90 minutes before i just give up

[ShikiRyougi]

this seems to be a major issue. it shows average wait time for extreme trials on duty finder as less than 5m but then they never pop, and like you said, if you requeue says less than 5m again. kinda silly, they should make it an actual average somehow.

[MistakeNot]

this seems to be a major issue. it shows average wait time for extreme trials on duty finder as less than 5m but then they never pop, and like you said, if you requeue says less than 5m again. kinda silly, they should make it an actual average somehow.

I believe it is an actual average, but sometimes not a useful average.

If I am understanding correctly how it works, it shows the average time those currently in the queue have waited. Not a prediction of how long you will have to wait.
If you are the only one in the queue, it will just report back how long you have been in the queue.

When the game is busy, and people join the queue on a regular basis, the average time people have waited in the queue is a fairly good predictor for how long you will have to wait until the duty pops.
When only a few people queue, it is not a good predictor at all.

[ICountFrom0]

Okay, so, why would you leave que after 30 minutes though?

Sure, if the system is working as people think it is, having the expected time match your time means you are the only person in the que, so it might not matter. If people are wrong though, you could be at the end of a long line, get halfway through, and then you leave the line to go back to the end of it?

I'm seeing a lot of time used, and incomplete data collected.


I will say this though, having the que time track your wait time, if that does mean you are the only person waiting for that, gives useful information, "nobody else is doing this here, change servers" and I'd hate to lose that added bit of useful information.