GAC join/rejoin

An alternative idea is to add a confirmation button. "Are you SURE you want to join?" with the consequences of joining.

We already have confirmation buttons when we use zetas, omicrons, relic at 5 & above and join hard conquest. What's one more?

Yea this is definitely a pain and a long-standing gripe of mine. I agree now the reason for not changing it due to MM no longer seems applicable. This would be a HUGE QOL improvement, especially now that crystal income is so heavily tied to GAC success. I just increased QGJ relic two levels and didnt realize I had already joined GAC

"Sendor_Mylas;c-2324946" wrote:
So, in this new system when is the next opportunity if a player misses the sign-up? 21 days?

7 days same as it always has been.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324782" wrote:
When the devs answered this before, they pointed out that the matchmaking in GAC is much more processor intensive, so some of it is done during the signup window.

TW matchmaking (which is flawed) is matching vastly less participants than GAC, so the matchmaking can happen much faster.

And before a tedious forum exchange ensues, yes, I too wish the leave / rejoin functionality existed in GAC.

But that was related to the old matchmaking. My understanding of the new one is they simply take all players with the same skill point and put them into groups of eight. So basically you can predict already who you are likely going to be tossed into the same bracket with even before joining. Of course, if some players don't join, the match up will be altered/shifted, but bottom-line is the new matchmaking (or the absence of it) makes the reasoning implementing a re-join button being a complex undertaking rather obsolete.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324795" wrote:
Don’t like the font. Hard pass.

LOL - Make your own then!
If I like it, I'll use it instead going forward.

This company made $1 billion+ dollars I’m sure they can figure out how to implement this.

"Antario;c-2324787" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324782" wrote:
When the devs answered this before, they pointed out that the matchmaking in GAC is much more processor intensive, so some of it is done during the signup window.

TW matchmaking (which is flawed) is matching vastly less participants than GAC, so the matchmaking can happen much faster.

And before a tedious forum exchange ensues, yes, I too wish the leave / rejoin functionality existed in GAC.

But that was related to the old matchmaking. My understanding of the new one is they simply take all players with the same skill point and put them into groups of eight. So basically you can predict already who you are likely going to be tossed into the same bracket with even before joining. Of course, if some players don't join, the match up will be altered/shifted, but bottom-line is the new matchmaking (or the absence of it) makes the reasoning implementing a re-join button being a complex undertaking rather obsolete.

I’ve never really bought this answer anyway…

How can it start matchmaking without knowing everyone who will be a part of that matchmaking?

If 90% of players waited until the last hour to join GAV, what would happen? Would there be a 24 hour delay for the matchmaking algorithm to run?

"kello_511;c-2324843" wrote:

"Antario;c-2324787" wrote:

"DarjeloSalas;c-2324782" wrote:
When the devs answered this before, they pointed out that the matchmaking in GAC is much more processor intensive, so some of it is done during the signup window.

TW matchmaking (which is flawed) is matching vastly less participants than GAC, so the matchmaking can happen much faster.

And before a tedious forum exchange ensues, yes, I too wish the leave / rejoin functionality existed in GAC.

But that was related to the old matchmaking. My understanding of the new one is they simply take all players with the same skill point and put them into groups of eight. So basically you can predict already who you are likely going to be tossed into the same bracket with even before joining. Of course, if some players don't join, the match up will be altered/shifted, but bottom-line is the new matchmaking (or the absence of it) makes the reasoning implementing a re-join button being a complex undertaking rather obsolete.

I’ve never really bought this answer anyway…

How can it start matchmaking without knowing everyone who will be a part of that matchmaking?

If 90% of players waited until the last hour to join GAV, what would happen? Would there be a 24 hour delay for the matchmaking algorithm to run?

GAC, not GAV.
But I dare not try to fix my typo or I’ll be blacklisted from the forums as a bot.

I never really bought the excuse before the change but now it makes little sense not to have the ability to leave/rejoin now. I pretty much know exactly which eight I am going to be matched with since the leader board tells me this even before the matchmaking happens.

My list of opponents is in the exact same order as they are on the leaderboard so I doubt that any sort of matchmaking was performed before the GAC lock happened.

So, in this new system when is the next opportunity if a player misses the sign-up? 21 days?