for X nation, and you insist on playing it, you can’t get a match?
I thought you could just do a mirror match like put ru on both teams, why let people wait this long bro
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That’s exactly what happened at top tier ARB a few years ago. Both teams were 90% USA with 1-2 vehicles of other nations included.
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Imo, new players should be assigned to less popular nations and forced to play em until they reach rank 3. This way, the minor nations will get fewer skilled players, and the major nations will get more skilled players until it eventually USA, USSR, and Germany are no longer dominating matches.
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I’ve found just hitting cancel, and then hitting the battle button, sometimes jumps the queue and you can get in. Otherwise the other option is play a different BR/nation, or expand your server options?
Reseach and SL bonus (10, 20% ?) to the 3-4 less played nation. “Boom”, problem drastically reduced.
It will after 5 minutes but until then it will try to form battles withig certain rules and will also add other servers into the rotation you don’t have selected to get a battle first. Full mic battles are last resort for mm.
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Ironically enough, it’s because of stuff like this. Every match would be a mirror match up when one nation is strong
I get you, but if I would start up new and would be forced to play Italy, I would probably quit very quickly. I don’t think that is a good solution.
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Honestly, fs they just exclude Italy, Japan, and Israel (obviously) from the starting nations, then I think that would solve almost all the issues.
Hmm, yeah maybe
But I still would not also like to start with UK or something like that
That’s exactly why I think this would be a good change. Britain doesn’t get much attention from Gajin because it’s played by A) a small portion of players and B) highly skilled players that make it look good. If we started funneling newer players into minor nations, then those nations would receive more attention from Gajin.
Full mixed battles are an absolute pain in the rear end mate.
Also I’ve no idea why his queue time is so long, I’ve been rotating between EU, and NA with 10.7 USSR and getting almost insta queue pops for GRB.
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Sounds like a good way to increase the number of single premium ODLers when they just buy a rank 3+ premium in the TT whey actually want to play.
If Gaijin put some effort into those nations people might actually play them willingly.
Forcing people to play smaller nations may well have the opposite effect when they leave at the earliest opportunity to play the nations they actually want, resulting is those small nations having really bad player retention and Gaijin deciding that the are even more unpopular then they thought and paying LESS attention to them.
New players don’t care how much effort is put into a nation, they just see USA, Germany, and Russia and immediately choose em for their historical significance knowing nothing else abt WT.
Reading comprehension: 0
What you actually think Gaijin will lock them out of buying premiums? Or that they can’t buy a pack of the steam store and add it to their account before they even log in to be assigned a Nation?
Italian low tiers aren’t bad actually, apart from few vehicles (Csaba, M11/39, L3/33CC though they are for the memes), quite enjoyable I would say.
I would say both, other nations will never overshadow big 3 of course, but Gaijin is in a great position to tell people about these nations and their vehicles, by nation-related events, addition of new content to them, videos about them, discounts and special offerings (almost like those anime packs, but which vice versa came only to big 3 nations).
Would also help if Gaijin looked at statistics with consideration of how many players touch the vehicle and the level of these players.
PS funny enough I came to the game in 2013 and my first nation became Japan, weird reasoning here, but I’m from the Far East of Russia, where Japanese cars are most popular and I thought that their planes should be cool as well, at the moment I probably only heard about Zero. I was playing only arcade mode and Japanese planes appeared to be quite hard to play there, I started to try other nations, mostly played Soviet stuff (because it’s “very patriotic” to play your nation in computer game lol + with SU planes I had much better results), but after some time I found Italian planes, “God what weird camos they had, they are almost like Ferrari” - from my childhood mind memories, I kinda loved Italian theme at the time, but mostly late medieval/renesance period, didn’t know a single Italian WW2 tech, and I enjoyed these planes a lot, even Sparviero bombers which were joy to fly in the past, iirc MC.202 is still my most played plane in the German TT. And that led me to creating custom Italian TTs, forums and active support of Italian stuff in the game, plus now I’m trying to spade every Italian vehicles, not trying to overcome something, I really enjoy the process and my greatest motivation is always just a visual look of the vehicle. I also play other nations, but not at the same degree.
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I did switch around, still takes a long ass time though, but I prefer not to select NA because the ping is 250-300, I’ve learned that I will keep running into situations where we both shoot at the same time but the server received his input first. Bummer
I’ve played everything else and it’s quick, average <10 seconds. Only ussr is slow
Either a huge crowd of USSR admirers suddenly appeared from nowhere, or this game has serious balance problems at rank VII.
I assure you: give any minor nation an overpowering setup, 3-4 tanks + air — and it will have exactly the same queues for battle.
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