"Solo" Que

#11 - Feb. 28, 2013, 1:27 p.m.

Ratings were reset with the patch, when we split the ratings for 3 round and 1 round tournaments. So as people play more games they’ll start to settle again.

#16 - Feb. 28, 2013, 2:01 p.m.

The point is to have competitive matches. If you are so good that you beat every other solo group. Then yeah you should have at least a reasonable shot at beating the lower tier premades.

#20 - Feb. 28, 2013, 2:16 p.m.

We of course understand that solo players would prefer a separate queue from premade teams, and it isn’t off the table as a future improvement. The trade off here, besides the extra development time, is that high rated solo queuers would get a better experience (never facing premades), at the expense of all team queuers getting a worse experience (longer queue times)

#26 - Feb. 28, 2013, 2:36 p.m.

Defektive.7283:

Tyler, who could I reach out to in regards to Warrior changes?

Specifically utilities and builds that are not feasible in today’s PvP environment.

Ex. Banners.

The best thing is probably just to post in the warrior forums. Though for Banners specifically, we are already working to improve them.

#38 - Feb. 28, 2013, 3:08 p.m.

Oni.5429:

You have two separate tourny ques at this moment. One for 3 round and one for 1 round. In a blog post you guys said that they had separate matchmaking. Paid tournaments previously demonstrated that you guys have the ’’feature’’ in place to force someone to be 5 premade players to que in to the match. You also now have a ‘’join solo’’ button.

If you piece these pieces together you get:

1.Make one tournament que ‘’join solo’’ only, 1 round
2. Make the other que ‘’submit roster’’ with 5 only , 1 round

LE VOILA!
It’s okay, we can scrap the idea of duoq for now. Put that in your ’’soon’’ basket. You can do the same for the random map generator, just keep rotating maps manually the way you guys do every 2 days or something.

There. That is the solution that will allow solo players to play the game without getting stomped by teams.

So in this suggestion, people would only play as a team of 5 or by themselves. That would mean effectively disabling tournaments for people who want to play tournaments with a friend. Or two friends, or three friends, but don’t have a full team. I can’t imagine that would go over very well either.

#83 - Feb. 28, 2013, 9:43 p.m.

I just wanted to pop in once more and let you guys know that we are still watching this thread and evaluating our options. There is some good discussion here, and I do actually agree with the general consensus.