GAC Join and Leave

"Mk2flip;c-2064377" wrote:
Unless I'm mistaken, and someone will probably correct me if I am, your roster locks as soon as GAC drops. Regardless of when you press JOIN.

Yep, you are mistaken. Your division is set when GAC launches.

Your roster locks when you press JOIN for each round for three matches.

I think the purpose of the join button is to leave out as many dead weights as possible, otherwise every account that makes it the threshold and then quits would be added. A leave button might be useful, but I’m sure there would be even more complications and technical difficulties with a join button and a leave button.

This has already been asked and answered numerous times. There are a few threads asking about this probably every week that GAC is active. From the last Dev Q&A:


The change was made because mods were not locking and people were able to swap mods during GAC rounds, effectively putting their best speed mods on all teams they used on offense. That was a much bigger problem than a few people not paying attention when they "join" the GAC and having to fight 3 rounds without an extra gear tier on 1 toon.

Before they implement this kind of button I wanna have a new matchmaking system.

"Vos_Landeck;c-2064799" wrote:
This has already been asked and answered numerous times. There are a few threads asking about this probably every week that GAC is active. From the last Dev Q&A:


The change was made because mods were not locking and people were able to swap mods during GAC rounds, effectively putting their best speed mods on all teams they used on offense. That was a much bigger problem than a few people not paying attention when they "join" the GAC and having to fight 3 rounds without an extra gear tier on 1 toon.

I don't think this is entirely right.... There were two issues I thought.

1) you could swap mods on offensive characters after roster lock via loadouts

2) the system would lock each roster individually when the cutoff time hit, meaning that one account would be locked "first" and one account would be locked "last". Apparently there was enough time elapsed between the first and last account that some people were swapping mods after lock, but the swapped mods were inadvertently captured.

They fixed the loadout issue first. Then some people were still having trouble with missing/poor mods on their teams, so they changed roster lock to the join button instead of a standard time for everyone (presumably to keep too many locks happening at once so mod swapping after lock wouldn't affect mods).

TW only has a leave button before the match making process. You aren't officially "signed up" until roster lock. You are "signed up" for GAC the first time you join. Then you have to opt-in each week if you want to participate, but you would still get some sort of reward for joining at the end of GAC. Perhaps there's an issue with translating the TW "leave" button (which has no constraints on roster or division) to GAC (where your division is set when you join and rewards are based on being "in" the GAC).

"Akenno;c-2064805" wrote:
Before they implement this kind of button I wanna have a new matchmaking system.

1) Wrong thread.
2) Wrong priority.

Join/Leave is obviously the ideal but if this can't be implemented easily, then they should just add a confirm button after you hit the join button.

"Are you sure you want to join the GAC?"

Then if you fat finger twice, thats on you. ;)

Just locked into gac with my mods in shambles testing for Kam mission. I thought I was still within the review period, apparently I was 15 minutes late. PLEASE, A CONFIRM BUTTON. "Your roster will be locked, are you sure you want to join? Y/N" seems to easy.

"Starslayer;c-2269803" wrote:
About that, just to be sure:

At the start of a round (so next one sunday night) : is my roster locked when I press the join button or when the round actually starts the next day (so monday evening)?

A definite answer would be nice.

Your roster locks at join (or very close - the snapshot may be an async task triggered by join)

Your league however is not locked. If you join and then claim feats which end up promoting you up a league before matchmaking ends then you will be matched at the higher league. I have tested this personally.