Realm: Netherwing BGs queing algorithmn in cross faction

[Hemoride]

Just got the idea, that it could be interesting , that the BG queue algorithmn would try to put the people into the faction team by trying to archive closer to equal Team gearscore ,...
so instead having

8x3500 gearscore + 2x2000 = 32000 gearscore in Horde
vs
8x2000 gearscore + 2x3500 = 23000 gearscore in Alliance

= 55000 gearscore alltogether,

it should switch people in teams to archive in both sides a gearscore closer to 27000,..

Something like that ,...I think that would be more interesting 

at least that should count for all people who solo qeue up ,...if it a team premade full 10 people, then doesnt matter,..but if its a mini premade (1 team 5 people queue up) then still it at least should try to even out the differences as much as possible 


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besiide that, after playing 4 hours and losing all(!) bgs in a row (no matter what faction) , I am pretty much sure that crossfaction algo is not good.....before you simply waited a couple hours until better / other players were doing bgs in your faction, now you must hope that the roll(!) doesnt send you in the losing team,....also it seems even more unorganized as permanently switching, people dont get a feeling for each other to function together 

All in all, cross faction bgs feel horrible to me , big loss in quality of matches while I dont feel that the queing time changed either to the better or worse,
its same, just a lot less fun 

 

 

Edited July 4 by Hemoride

[Tsu]

This is certainly something worth considering. I will see if we can do something about it for an upcoming fresh realm.

[Zeroskillz]

cross faction improved queue times when there actually are enough people in queue. balancing could get tricky because you need people of similar levels of gear quality and PvPness and possibly considering their BG history like number of games won, total games played, number of HK...there are lots of metrics to consider to balance the teams, but you need some top tier people and some bottom tier people for both sides to be able to balance it.  If you have 19 scrubs in greens and 1 full season 4 guy, how do you balance that?  Cross-faction definitely helps with that though because if there were 5 S4 horde guys and the alliance side was nothing but greenies, you would never find balance without cross-faction.  Even now without a special algorithm trying to balance based on gear or statistics, you have a chance that the good players might end up on your side, regardless of their actual faction.  I would love to see things better balanced so each game is a real good fight and not a one-sided slaughter.  I would also like to see it where when I queue with my friend we end up on the same team though.  Queued the other night in a party for WSG and he ended up horde and I was alliance.