Devs are trying to solve population problems with some lines of code, and this is a huge mistake, what are u planing to do when the minimum population are less than 300? How many changes they need to do with MM? What’s the next step? 50% of players and 50% of bots on a match? When they release the open space how many queues can choose a player? SC, Skirmish, PVE, and open world, and for each of them they are independent queues for lower and higher tiers. How many different queues are? 10? more?
For example with a 300 population where 250 players are on a match, u have 50 on a queue for 10 diferent queues, so how many bots u need to make queue less than 3 mins?
So in mi opinion they are spending to much time to solve low population issues on MM while they aren’t solving the big problem, incorporate new players to the game. I remember when they removed bots from games, when they limited the groups to 3, when they mix different pvp tiers, and now we are like at the beginning of 0.8 version with bots, unmixed tiers and 4 ,payers groups.
Other players only want to play FAST, in my case for example sometimes when i see more than 2 mins of queue i press Alt+F4 and switch to another game. In SC u can wait 10 mins or more to play 3-5 mins game.
Incentive the best week players with GC only makes good players stay, and the beginners, normal, and casual players leave because they need to grind a loot of hours to reach high tiers, and when they arrive to those levels they face with good mk4 pilots and most of them are discouraged to continue playing. (to be clear im not a casual player and i feel im not a bad pilot, and i have t5 ships with some mk4 stuff, so its not a cry)
And of course, we have a loot of unbalanced things, for example empire gunships + adaptive shield that increases their hull resistances to be minitanks when they have to run behind their engies, or the styx that is the best t3 tank with a healer plus .
Lag are another problem, how i can have lag spikes of 1000ms or more with those low population? (i don’t have wifii and in other games i have a max ping of 150-200) when we reach 3000 players i need a direct rj45 cable connection to the server or what?
Sorry about my poor english and my negative attitude, but they are REAL problems to solve.
