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Yes, it was brought up. However it was implemented the current way anyway. It was also promoted as an inclusive system, not an exclusionary system.

It also doesn't make it any more difficult either. If a group goes in with less than the maximum, they should not expect the trial to be more difficult (scaled to the max with a minimal team), as the trials are specifically designed to scale with team size. Suggesting otherwise is just a falsehood.

Yes, people are jerks. That doesn't mean we have to enshrine their ability to be jerks. Asking for a league lock option will not stop people from being jerks. However, having a league lock would make it even easier to "make sure" that people don't join from the queue.

If there are that many leagues, then the player would be on one already. There wasn't so the game put them into that league expecting that players are less likely to be jerks and perhaps meet a decent player just looking for a good time.

The best possible solution is to remove the ability for players to be jerks, so the best possible fix for people in the queue just looking to play is to remove the ability to make a league before entering the trial.

As I've heard plenty of times in this section: Present a compelling argument for change. "Because I don't want to team with people outside a limited group" isn't a compelling argument in an MMO.

You started a thread in the player questions section with that expectation.
Less mobs, lower ranks.
The trials are raids. It doesn't matter if one of them has a minimal size of 8, they are still raids. They are not strike forces, they are not task forces. They are new tech meant to open players to teaming with other people. If you have teamed with another player and dislike them to the point of ignoring them, then (and only then) should the game step in and prevent them from teaming with you.
As far as I see, there really isn't any reason to have or expect a private league. All the expectations for limiting and locking leagues are, from my perspective, excuses for denying people access to the raids.

It is human nature. There will always be more excuses (and that is all that they are, excuses) to turn away people than reasons to team with people you don't know.

I've been in situations where both occurred. I've been a league leader either cherry picking (and not always to the max amount) or just sending out global messages to build teams. If I don't have a full league when I've started, I fully expect people to be added from the queue.

In fact, I've welcomed them with 1 exception. That person was on my ignore list (for griefing multiple MoLambda attempts) and someone else wanted them. They didn't get to queue with me. If they tried to enter with the queue, they wouldn't have succeeded because of the ignore restrictions.

It is only better if you accept that private leagues are good for the game. I don't. The queue system was meant to open opportunities for players to come together, not keep them apart.

Just like I think the reasons for wanting private leagues are baseless.

There should be no expectation of players wanting to form a private league in the current trials.

As for raising the difficulty, try unslotting incarnate abilities. There is also an indication that the raid leader's difficulty settings also affect mob size. The mere fact that you are running less than the maximum amount of players automatically reduces the difficult of the trials, in case you didn't know. The game automatically scales to league size on the trials.

Yes, because those wouldn't be multi-team raids.

Upsides:
By not having a league lock, the trials are accessible.

By not having a league lock people don't need to make teams before starting.

By not having a league lock you don't have to know anyone that you are teaming with.

There shouldn't be ANY expectation of being able to form a private league at all. That is the crux of the matter. Once a trial starts, the option to kick someone out of the trial (not the league, but the raid zone) should be removed as well.

Despite the fact that people want to insist that they should have the right, like in Task Forces and Strike Forces, to control their group they can't because Trials are not TFs or SFs. The queue system is to provide an opportunity for players to come together. By locking leagues or trying to make private leagues, players are denying others the opportunity to come together like the developers have stated.

You might want to read this carefully:
The trials are a new tech and design philosophy.

You're right, I will correct that to use a single word instead of "team" or "zone". The proper word would be "raid".

Assuming that there is another league forming at that time, and I can tell you that isn't always the case.

For the same reason that players aren't allowed to kick other players out of the Hive or the Rikti War Zone. The trials are raid zones with player minimums and maximums. If a raid falls below the minimal amount, other players can enter no matter what the league leader wishes.

The way the trials/raids work seems to disagree with your position.

Because those sizes are the maximum amount of players for the trials in question.

16 players - Lambda
24 players - BAF

Just like there are max limits for zones, those are the max limits for the trials.

Actually it probably would have been better if they didn't allow premade leagues to enter the Queue at all. That way everyone would have to enter the queue and take what they get.

And if players want a locked league, that option is there for them.

There is no reward chatter or "badge earned" message on any of the following types of badges:

• Veteran rewards badges.
• Loyalty reward badge.
• Anniversary badge.

Yes, having the option to lock teams is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Already people are misusing the team locks to try to do this.

Team builds has no factor in this. A team of 8 faces less challenge than a team of 16.

A team locking option will be used, and used heavily. It will get to the point that people will shun the queue entirely and pre-make teams.

This MISUNDERSTANDING is complete rumor and is COMPLETELY FALSE.

The team lock is to ONLY prevent the league leader from making changes to the team composition, nothing else.

I'd like to have the ability to name most player summoned pets (primary and secondary powerset pets, vet pets).

Exactly. If you want a pre-made team, then there is plenty of content to do so.

The leader was being unreasonable. The reason why the game doesn't give you any means to make a "private" league is that the developers didn't want private leagues.

Actually the LFG system does exactly that. If you don't want extras, then fill up the league before entering the queue.

Better ask the developers that question, not fellow players as we don't know what they were/are thinking. Despite several heated threads on this very issue they have remained silent. We are left to determine their intentions from the producer's letter and the fact that this system has remained in place through many months of beta testing.

Personally, I expect that the minimum league size is there to ensure a chance of success and the filling up to maximum to be their way to fulfil the promise that players will be expediently found a team to do a trial with.

Edit:
An I agree with posters in the thread you linked to that the leader in question was being a jerk, not the person just wanting to do a trial.

Except this content was designed specifically so that, according to the producer, a player didn't need to know anyone on the server to join one of these trials.

They can learn to be disappointed. The trials are designed so that the challenge scales with the amount of players, so starting with fewer players automatically decreases the challenge. The theory that fewer players equals greater challenge is a false theory.

The team can adapt or not. That is isn't the game's problem or the queue's problem.

It they screw it up, put them on ignore and try again another time. The league will try to prevent them from teaming with you in the future.

Because those concerns were deemed less important than fulfilling the promise of allowing quick teaming. If you want to limit your team, then there is plenty of content that you can choose to do that will allow it.

No, what you are witnessing is how the LFG Queue is supposed to be working. It is the developer's intention that if a league enters with less than the maximum amount of players that the LFG Queue then the game will try to add players up to the maximum amount for the trial from the queue.

The team lock is only, and I stress ONLY, to prevent the league leader from making changes to the team that is locked. It does NOTHING to prevent changes made with the entry to a league.

Actually it is a lot easier to get 10 instead of all 20.

Actually I think all that proves is whoever designed the Lambda badge requirements didn't care that they were essentially making 3 badges with one requirement. Additionally I think the same "stick it to them" attitude that got us the RV Isolator solution is in play here.

I think they are counting on people wanting the rare component from the Master badge to entice people with doing it. However, given the increased difficulty that component should be increased to a very rare component.

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You might also want to check out a few missions from Unai Kemen.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Unai_Kemen