Quote Originally Posted by Scintilla View Post
If you encounter a premade, you'll know you encountered a premade. If it's a 'maybe', it's likely just a strong, well-coordinated random team. Though playing a couple of times a day at the very most may go some way to explain why you've been fortunate with your experiences so far.

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I enjoy PvP and don't want to see people stop playing it because of the issues caused by premades. We don't seem to be at that stage quite yet (at least, not on my own DC), but if left to continue we could well reach that point eventually. As I tend to play FLs with friends, I would be a little sad if the ability to queue as a party was removed and I hope that there would be some other solution. But, if it comes to that being the only solution to this issue, I would accept it.
FYI, I stopped counting when I hit 1000 FL, which was quite a while ago, I queue just a few times a day at most unless there's an event. I don't think we have the same experience or definition of premades - a premade aka a "light party" is not a " a strong, well-coordinated random team" by definition, it's not random, it may or may not be strong, although the longer a group stays together the stronger it tends to be as they know each other, they may or may not use voice comms- but not being a random group, having PvPed together and being on voice will all give them an advantage over 4 random people slapped together, and I doubt that anywhere here disputes that.

I fully agree that my experience as someone who queues a few times a day could be quite different from someone who may queue repeatedly for several hours at a time, especially if that happens to coincide with the exact time that an especially strong premade is entering, and RNG happens to match them up repeatedly against them. In my case, I would potentially meet up with that premade once or twice a day.

I would definitely not want to remove the light party option from FL, there are people in my FC who enjoy using it, and those who like to help sprouts with that option. I can see alternative options that could be helpful, so I see that as the last resort.

One thing that I don't thing anyone has considered- let's say that the option of removing light party was accepted by Square. I doubt it would be done quickly, it would likely take at least several months, if not more. So for that reason alone, if someone feels that it affects them, and thy have identified a specific premade - then why not consider varying their queue times with the goal of avoiding that premade?