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Does the LFG Queue work on your server?

Acroyear2

By Acroyear2,
Posted on: 2011-05-17 22:58 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Biowraith View Post
I think the primary failing of the LFG system is/was that it goes as soon as it finds the minimum number of players, and won't add more players once it has the minimum.
That's not true, I've formed three LFG trials, one was at the minimum, but the other two were at or near the maximum for the trials. I was actively forming through global channels and team search, but instead of inviting them to a league, I was asking them to join the LFG queue.

 

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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat View Post
That's not true, I've formed three LFG trials, one was at the minimum, but the other two were at or near the maximum for the trials. I was actively forming through global channels and team search, but instead of inviting them to a league, I was asking them to join the LFG queue.
Not to nitpick but having to do that kind of defeats the purpose of the LFG tool, doesn't it?

 

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Originally Posted by Arilou View Post
Learn what "average" means. The times shown are accurate for what they show.
Nonsense. All the pre-formed teams are skewing it heavily, if you try to use it expect a wait that is much longer than the times given (if it happens at all).

 

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(Totally anecdotal)

Last Sunday night, on Liberty server, I deliberately formed a minimum size Lambda trial of 8 players. Partly this was to see if we could do it with only 8, partly this was because I'm kinda tired of joining leagues where we end up sitting around for a long time waiting for the roster to fill up. Once I got 8 people who all claimed not to be AFK, I queued us for the Lambda trial.

This team did 3 runs; on the first trial, we had 8. On the second trial, we picked up someone from the LFG queue, so we had 9. He did fine and got moved into the main team for the third run, where we got another person from the LFG, so had 9 again.

I have no idea how long the LFG people were waiting. I do think it's true that most trials try to fill to the max before starting. But I think this does show that LFG people can be added to a trial even over the minimum required to start.

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There is a short time after a league joins the queue where it will wait for more players. Once the run starts it will only add to the min.

 

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Originally Posted by AmazingMOO View Post
Does the LFG Queue work on your server?

Are you able to use it?

Do the average start times bear any resemblance to reality?

Do trial teams formed with the queue ever succeed?


On Victory, the answer seems to be a big fat 'No' to all the above. There is a perception that trial teams will not succeed unless they are full and that the LFG tool will not fill a trial team unless it has already been mostly filled by other players. This in turn leads players to not use it, creating a negative feedback loop on its use.

In fact, I've heard players swear up and down that it's broken altogether. It simply doesn't ever put them in trials, so it must not function at all.

What's your experience with the LFG tool?
I've had it work occasionally. Cinder and I kept it on while we were collecting exploration badges and got 3 calls in.

The trick, as others have mentioned, is that the LFG turnstyle doesn't mesh well with the "let's form and fill a league entirely before entering the trial" behavior that's become somewhat standard.

 

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Originally Posted by baron_inferno View Post
Not to nitpick but having to do that kind of defeats the purpose of the LFG tool, doesn't it?
It let me hang out at WWs instead of RWZ. I was mostly just testing to see if it was possible at all. Hoping it gets some kind of update soon.

 

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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat View Post
That's not true, I've formed three LFG trials, one was at the minimum, but the other two were at or near the maximum for the trials. I was actively forming through global channels and team search, but instead of inviting them to a league, I was asking them to join the LFG queue.
Yeah, I misworded it a little, should have said it strongly tends to go with near the minimum. When I said it won't add more above the minimum I meant once the trial had actually launched, and I think that *is* true? If so, that just leaves a limited window between the minimum becoming available and whatever timeout the devs have set for the system to launch, and in my experience that means minimum league size (or close to it) more often than not.

I'm not sure I'd take your example as a good one of the system working well to launch near full, as what you did isn't much different than a preformed group - you just removed the need for everyone to meet in a particular zone first, but you still had to do all the recruiting and organising that the system is meant to do for you (you're "soft" preforming, as it were).