LaQuandra

Yeah, but if the pool is garbage, match making is garbage. That isn't what you're understanding. The population right now isn't good enough for the larger districts. Everyone will want to be in the full district and will ignore the overflow one. They will spam rather than go in the "dead" district because 10 out of 50 looks much worse than 10 out of 35. Right now the key is to get people playing and the districts populated in general then we can suggest larger districts when we are guaranteed at least 2 FN and 2 WF for gold players.

Instant opp is not incredibly rare. So how exactly will the problem be solved if you up the faction size by 10 up to 50/50 if they are all low golds and silvers?

I think it's a bit overblown and sometimes people can be impatient. My threat is high, I've played with high threat players in full groups. Do we wait sometimes? Yes. Do we get diversified opp quickly sometimes? Yes. Do we keep getting the same groups sometimes? Yes. The issue is with match making, not the size of the server. Imagine you're gold 10 and the 30/30 server is full of other gold 10 players. You'd get diversified opp. The amount of players doesn't matter....the quality does for match making. Argue to relax match making more so higher threat players don't have to wait as long.

It seems like you're arguing for better match making, which I agree it can be better. There aren't enough "gold 10" types to give you a diversified amount of opposition regardless of server size. I am sure you'd be happy if you were in a 30/30 district and you played against 7 different 4 game groups of equal or similar skill. The size of the population won't necessarily improve the match matching algorithm because you're still at the mercy of the skill level of the 50/50, 60/60, 70/70, 80/80 people in the server. Right now the best bet is to create more overflow servers and get people playing the game again and easily able to join any district of their choice without having to queue spam. Relax the match making a bit and enjoy your match against the 2 golds and 4 silvers a little faster while a more skilled group becomes available.

But that can be corrected with better matchmaking. If a bunch of players join the 50/50 server you still might not get matches right away if they were low rank players. So having more options is better. If FN-2 is bad, you can move to FN-5, if that is bad, go to FN-8. Once population increases segregated skill level will be an option again. In the meantime bumping up the servers will just turn into a queue spamfest for the one full district and people reluctant to join a "dead" instance and then not playing.

Why? You can hold it in open conflict and it's just for fun. If someone is being a jerk there will be staff in the district and they can be kicked/temp banned or whatever. You want to involve the whole community, good and bad players. Players should be randomly selected if you sign up. A staff member plays with 3 other people and they versus other staff members with 3 other community members. Play for like 30 minutes or something while it is streamed and hosted.

Is there anyway we can get some community involvement actually play missions with you guys? When I played the game SOS (RIP poor game) they had a weekly show and the producers shared stuff (updates, etc), showed player submitted highlights, and then they played 3 community games. I am sure people would love to group with management and have the chance to play against you in game. I know it would go a long way for the community to know you're willing to play the game with us and experience everything we do. It would also be helpful for some players to have a chance to play against each other in a much more informal setting. Thanks for your consideration.

I am going to vote this suggestion down and here is why..... The current population (on NA at least) cannot handle it. Generally we have one financial and one waterfront. If you make the population smaller in each district it will create more overflow districts and people will be more likely to join those districts. If say Financial-2 is 50/50 and Financial-5 is 10/7, people will just spam FN-2 thinking the other district is dead. If they have to spam too much they might decide not to play, sit in social instead, or play fight club. If the district is smaller, say 35-35, 10/7 it might encourage people to fill it up. I say the more district options we have, the better. If anything, decrease it to 35-35 and give us more districts. Now....if the population on NA goes up to like 1500 or so, then I could see increasing the population as long as the servers can handle it.

Yeah, I was hoping they could do something bi-monthly or something. Developer chats on a stream, answers a few questions and talks about upcoming updates, and then a few developers group with random community members and do some missions in open conflict. Gives us a chance to play with and against the developers and have information be shared. Make it happen Little Orbit! Someone come up with a cool name for the show.

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I like it. Glad to see the new forums are up :)