Posted 27 April 2020 - 10:23 AM

EDIT:

Hey MechWarriors,A follow-up to this post: https://mwomercs.com...ue-update-2020/ Starting Tuesday, April 28/2020 we are going to start a 4 week test on the live servers. This test is going to help us monitor the game's public queues and the overall effects of combining solo and group queues.This is not just a simple combination of queues and seeing what happens, as we've taken steps to help address both internal and community concerns over that type of implementation. It's important to keep the teams as balanced as possible and to have games kick off in a relatively quick manner.How the combined public queue will work:- All matches will remain 12v12.- Max group size will be restricted to 4 players. All group sizes of 2,3 and 4 are valid group sizes.- When the Match Maker builds a 12-player team, it will ensure that there is no more than4 player group or as close as possible (2 player + 2 player for example) per team and all remaining slots will be filled with solo players.What we expect:- Playing with a smaller group of friends will be much easier to accomplish.- Matches should kick off drastically faster than previously.- Matches will become more competitive.What we are monitoring:- Match Maker ability to maintain even team building.- Tonnage restrictions for groups. (note: we can adjust these dynamically/real time)- Group composition and any release valves that may kick in to make games kick off.At the end of the 4-week test, we will either leave it as is, or if there are major issues we do have the ability to roll the change back. Why 4-weeks? We want to collect as much telemetry as possible to determine queue behavior. With a reduced population sample, this takes longer than usual as we need to monitor activity as close to the norm as possible. If things are going drastically off course, we can revert sooner if needed.We hope that you jump in the queue to experience the change first hand and have matches kick off in a much more reasonable amount of time.My bad, no tonnage info for you... here it is as it currently sits (current values for groups as it has been for a while):2-player groups: Min Tonnage 40, Max Tonnage 2003-player groups: Min Tonnage 80, Max Tonnage 2554-player groups: Min Tonnage 120, Max Tonnage 280Again, these numbers can be adjusted on the fly with no down time. If you have suggestions on some tonnage numbers, post them and we can try them out.

Edited by Paul Inouye, 27 April 2020 - 03:40 PM.

Adding tonnage settings as of right now.