The new Que

So who's going to use the que for the taskforces vs. pre-made teams? I like the idea of it. I still believe that the trials will be formed before hand in RWZ, Pocket D, and maybe DA.

Queue vs Que

I would say, if you have the minimum for the tf, to queue up and see if you get anymore

I am definitely use the new feature, given that it works as intended and other people queue up as well. I feel like one reason we don't see more TFs running is people don't really want to put in the energy to form one. I'll often get online and see if any thing is going on and see a lot of messages of people saying they'd join something if anything is going on. When I started running my own TFs rather than waiting for one to start up I ended up getting to do them a lot more often. Sure there are times when it is hard to get something started but even pretty late into the evening I can get a team together if I start doing tells to the entire search list (and that is super tedious). So I imagine that taking away some of the difficulty in getting a TF together will really help things take off.

I know I would - been trying to do a Citadel for a week now to finish TF Commander. haha

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

Personally, I will use the new queue extensively for TFs. Incarnate trials, and possibly certain TFs like Dr Q., probably won't work so well with a team from the queue, for the reasons mentioned, but you don't need to be picky for something like Positron.

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Originally Posted by DreadShinobi I would be very sad if it worked this way.

According to the patch notes, that's exactly how it works. Admittedly, I have not tested it myself.

I don't think I'll use it much for TFs, but I sure hope it becomes more usable for iTrials. I hate sitting in the queue not being able to do much..

Now I can be running some tips missions or farming something while I wait for an iTrial.

Edit: I said I don't think I'll use it much for TFs, but I still like the idea of it being available to use for that purpose.

As long as it doesn't tell me how many others are waiting for a certain TF/SF, trial what have you this thing is gonna be useless like it is for the trials. Good idea poor execution.

I'd like to see the LFG queue succeed, but the problem is that you can't see into it. You don't know how many people are queued for what things, and what ATs those people are.

There's a functional problem with the queue as it is: the trial will kick off shortly after the minimum number of players having queued themselves. If the league doesn't have the oomph to succeed (not enough players, not enough T3-4 powers like Barrier, not enough characters with level shifts), it'll be a waste of everyone's time. The trial will start, everyone will look at what they've got and then they'll all bail. This already happens with Death from Below -- many people bail as soon as they see there's only five or six people queued.

I'd like to see the queue interface beefed up so that it's more like the Find Team window, in that you could see the names and ATs of all the other players looking for trials. I think a pre-queued state is also required to make it work more like a hand-built trial. But that'll be a big project.

For the time being, however, I think two minor changes would help greatly: eliminating the requirement for all members of a league to be in the same zone for the trial to start, and make the LFG channel a global chat channel that everyone can converse on.

This would provide an easy way for people interested in trials to find each other, organize and get started without having to all be in the same zone, which typically wastes five minutes most every time a trial is done, with people alting and what-not.