AV preamdes and the Blizzard End User License Agreement

[Bewarê-frostmane]

@Mando-dragonfang

The best solution is faction specific queues to get onto the server. This would drasticly reduce horde bg queue times, make open world pvp more balanced

It really wouldn’t.
https://ironforge.pro/servers/?filter=true&server=eu https://ironforge.pro/servers/?filter=true&server=ru https://ironforge.pro/servers/?filter=true&server=us are all showing a somewhat even split, give or take a few percentages here and there, overall. (Of course there are servers with horrible splits, but when you take all players together of all servers then it shows a somewhat even split which is what’s relevant in this case.)
https://wowclassicpopulation.com/ https://wowclassicpopulation.com/overview same here.

So it’s not that “faction queues” are going to change anything in particular in the BG queues, and the wpvp situation depends entirely on the server. And also not when BGs are just one big massive pool either (Russians are on the side though as only enemies, but they still affect queue times).

The fundamental difference is the desire to pvp, which is not identical in every single player. The queue times actually shows that Alliance have a higher average of people not wanting to PvP at all.

So faction queues wouldn’t affect the real difference.

@Bewarê-frostmane

Well, premade formations and frequency of them falls under non-randomized occurrences , which can be filtered out via algorithms.
It’d impact queue times for everyone though.

Basically the probability of, let’s say, 30 people, to get into the same AV over, and over, and over, and over again in a short period of time or in a row, is next to impossible with these large matchmaking pools. Which means it’s caused by manipulation. It’s like how they detect cheaters in casinos.
The probability of only 2 people randomly ending up in the same team over and over and over again is more likely, so the improbability increases with more people that’s being matched up like that, relative to the size of the matchmaking pool.

There’s no need to ban anyone for it, they just need to input a probability metric.

Either that or just allow all players to queue as a full raid so we can get some proper realm wars going. Bempri has been suggesting something ok as well, which is to only let full premades queue for a BG, which is actually an ok social design as well as an ok matchmaking design. It’d remove the random element from team creations and limit it only to enemies, kind of like arenas in burning crusade when arena teams were still a thing. (I really miss those teams…)

^ THIS would deal with the issue entirely though. Either one of the options.

For example, the ones counting cards are spotted by casinos through betting patterns. Because to count cards leads to such a highly improbable pattern that the only logical conclusion can be that it’s due to manipulation. Sound familiar? It should.