100% this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Gaijin player bot in a match past maybe 10-20 minutes in, especially during peak times.
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I absolutely back this up with the addition of a more customizable matchmaker. While we should have the presets (such as the ones Gaijin has already implemented), we should also be able to select which nations are available on which team. Matchmaking is such a pain, especially as of late, and especially at higher tiers. Most of the EC8 and EC9 matches are Zombers that slip through the banhammer cracks.
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yes
good argument
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yes that’s proof that people are sitting in the hangar and that these people want to play Sim.
but no one wants to wait in the lobby and stare at the server list.
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…it hurts to see that.
@Schindibee Please show this screenshot to the other Gaijin employees. Don’t do it for me but for the other people here.
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I’ll certainly try to raise awareness of this, as I always do if it comes to Sim EC related topics.
It is certainly a very much restricting method that we have here, and personally believe that this game mode could be made more appealing and thus more frequently played, if such things are addressed and improved.
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Genuinely appreciative of this response. Hopefully Gaijin realizes how much of a potential goldmine they’re sitting on with Sim.
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that would be good. it would boost the morale of the sim players. also that of the camel
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Hey, so I thought I’d share my two cents on this.
There is currently already a system in place for creating an AI game. What I mean is, you disable player-made lobbies in the queue settings for EC and queue. If there is at least one other player in queue and no player-made lobby available, the game will then create a 1v1 lobby full of AI that replaces with players as the lobby fills.
These AI are extremely aggressive dogfighters and not easy enemies to kill especially at high BR. They can already be extremely dangerous. They’re not sitting ducks in most cases and they aren’t really easy to farm for points.
All we’re really asking, from my perspective, is for Gaijin to move the system in place for empty queue matches to player-made lobbies below, say, 5 players per team.
I am sorry to necro, but it has been 2 years and we haven’t seen any developments on this that I’m aware of. Air Sim/EC is an incredibly big market to tap in on, especially in lieu of a major simulation competitor having a lot of drama and kind of starting to go belly-up.
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