5 minute wait timer at the start of each match needs reducing.
Signed.
Though it’s understandable for the first game (cause people need to finish stuff they were doing) it’s a complete waste of mostly 10 minutes the other 2 games.
Love to see some reduced waiting time aswell.
Agreed, wait time is too much. I’ll add again what I’ve suggested before for free tourneys:
Make a smart queue system where each round is separated into pools, and the teams that finish round 1, 2, or 3 at the times closest to each other will be paired for the next round. Thus eliminating the majority of wait time between matches and this could be streamlined further with a fast-queue system where if the option is selected, it will simply start the match with the first teams fully readied up (the downside is people wouldn’t be able to see who they’re facing before it started)
That, coupled with a 2 minute or at the very most 3 min timer I think that would make a lot of people happy.
I’ve done over 500 tournaments now and its just beyond tedious waiting 5 min all the time plus time between matches.
Agreed. I have some other things about tournament play that I would like to mention as well.
Also, there needs to be a reminder system for people to ready up. It is extremely frustrating when you run into a team (NOTE: this happens frequently) a team, most likely quick queue, of players half of which are there, skirmishing in the beginning but not readied up.
Example, if you load in, and you are the only one not readied, the game after 10 seconds should say “Calling attention to ready players.” Or, if every time someone readies up, it should say “Player 4 (4th one on list for example) is now ready” (of course, with a short global CD to prevent spamming. Maybe 10 seconds?)
It would speed up tournament play and get people into the good stuff A LOT faster. I want to fight and kill stuff, and advance or lose, not sit there and watch someone try to Legolas range you from the respawn area while everyone else is waiting for them.
I also know it’s nice to see Blue and Red team on the score board when you are about to begin a match, but I would honestly much rather see their team name. You only get to see the team names vs’ing each other for a brief second or two. I KNOW I am Red team based on the area and the clothes you are in. Where it would normally say “Red Team” and “Blue Team” make it say “Team X” above the player roster list the entire time.
LASTLY, let us retain our dyes that we are unlocking. You can get around dying everyone’s characters the same very easily by simply putting a red/blue icon above players heads. Some skins are auto dyed very poorly, for example, many skins on red team have a light red with a puke green color. What is that? If you have a skin combination that you like outside in the mists because you colored it well, let it show your original dyes.
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Agree, the amount of time I waste everyday cuz of that 5 minutes is ridiculous. It should be reduce to something like 2 or 3 minutes, IMO.
There have been a few posts on this in beta and release and no word at all from Trion. The amount of waiting in TPvP is ridiculous, especially when most of the waiting is to fight a disorganized pug in a blowout match.
i hate it, i’m always spamming map chat “ready up please” but there’s always that one person who still doesn’t know how to click ready. It should be 60 seconds max.
Please don’t talk with words such as “idiot pugs”, it makes me want to not take you or your posts seriously. It signifies that you are raging, and rage posts have no value. And it just isn’t needed in a post.
Any way, I feel like something should be done to the wait times as well. After the first round is completed, everyone is clearly active, so why wait another 5 minutes?
There was a pretty neat solution posted somewhere. Basically it states that for each person that readies, the timer drops 30 seconds. So if a full team readies up, the other team will have 2 minutes and 30 seconds to prepare.
Signed. Tired of wasting half my night on waiting. It also allows easy trolling. Silly.
If the person isn’t ready by the timer, they should get dropped and replaced. 5v4s are crappy regardless of which side of it you’re on.
Agree, everyone who signs up for tournament knows whats comming he can be expected to be ready when an invite comes, 5min is way too much especially considering the fact that if people are given the choice they will abuse it and not come in and ready up.
It’s not fun waiting… but it’s a user issue. If everyone hits ready there is no wait. There needs to be a little time to grab a drink or whatever. The issue is people don’t hit ready when they are ready, that’s what needs to be fixed. We need ANet to fix stupid people.
But it would be helped to have the default state be ready, and having 10-15 seconds to click not ready when you enter if you do actually need more time. There have been many times when people just forget to click ready, and even when they see ready up they sometimes don’t realize it is them.
I think the free tournaments should have very short timers (1-2 minutes) especially after the first round, because even if someone in your team comes late you aren’t really losing anything, other than potentially wasting your team’s time if you lose, which can be handled better within the team. Paid tourneys can be a bit longer (2-4 minutes) because the wait-time between matches will likely be less as the matches will be a bit close in skill level, especially with a ladder/ranking system.
signed, 5 min is just too much, if someone want to play, he should be there and not afk or doing something else… and for everything what is needed is 2 min enough
Yeah, I spend more time waiting than playing the game.
The five minutes is valuable time to configure a build based on your opponents and the map. I am all for the five minutes, but I come from GW1 where every tournament had a pretty decent amount of wait time between matches, and in those there wasn’t a ready up option. Once you begin to figure out hey, I can adjust my build or situation based on who I am against, you will start to value that time.
The five minutes is valuable time to configure a build based on your opponents and the map. I am all for the five minutes, but I come from GW1 where every tournament had a pretty decent amount of wait time between matches, and in those there wasn’t a ready up option. Once you begin to figure out hey, I can adjust my build or situation based on who I am against, you will start to value that time.
The fact is, this time is rarely used for these purposes. I would be fine with 5min pre match times if we were using a match making system, the fact that it is a tournament system means that 5min waits happening in other peoples matches affect you as well.
The five minutes is valuable time to configure a build based on your opponents and the map. I am all for the five minutes, but I come from GW1 where every tournament had a pretty decent amount of wait time between matches, and in those there wasn’t a ready up option. Once you begin to figure out hey, I can adjust my build or situation based on who I am against, you will start to value that time.
The fact is, this time is rarely used for these purposes. I would be fine with 5min pre match times if we were using a match making system, the fact that it is a tournament system means that 5min waits happening in other peoples matches affect you as well.
My team generally uses most of that time setting up. It would be a pity that people who haven’t grasped the most effective way to set up your team to cause us to lose that precious time. Their ignorance shouldn’t be my loss.
There have been a few posts on this in beta and release and no word at all from Trion. The amount of waiting in TPvP is ridiculous, especially when most of the waiting is to fight a disorganized pug in a blowout match.
Trion? :P
As to the topic at hand, the time is there to allow all the players time to enter if they are afk (tournaments do not always start immediately you know) and to discuss changes based on the enemy team composition.
Vayra – Elementalist
Forkrul Assail – Mesmer
I get the re-speccing bit. This doesn’t always happen, half the time someone is out fighting for fun and hasn’t hit ready.
My solution: Don’t let characters move until they hit the ready button. Re-speccing doesn’t need motion and not being able to move will quickly remind players to hit the ready button.
- Reduce wait timer to 2 mintues
- Lock in characters, weapon sets, traits when countdown STARTS
- Fix map related bugs
- Fix the reason why everyone wants 2 mesmers on Kyhlo -_-x
With 5 minutes I could zone in, change characters, kill a live combat dummy, restart my computer, load game, get into game with time to spare.
Yeah, the wait timer is what keeps me out of tournaments.
I do some here and there cause its also more adrenaline / incentive to win, but I’m having tons more fun in spvp as it is non stop fighting / map cycling.
They did a good job on the short queue time before u get into the tourney but then the wait timer is killing it.
@Vayra, The player shouldnt be AFK in the first place, since he just Queued up for a tournament. If you know youre going afk or have something to do, well, you simply dont Q.
Would like to know what Anet think about this topic?! 5minutes would be fine for paid tournaments, but for free one, where its mostly pugs and not much competition, that 5 minutes has to go down. Right now when I play tpvp, I actually wait more than I play and its kinda frustrating.
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Agreed, wait time is too much. I’ll add again what I’ve suggested before for free tourneys:
Make a smart queue system where each round is separated into pools, and the teams that finish round 1, 2, or 3 at the times closest to each other will be paired for the next round. Thus eliminating the majority of wait time between matches and this could be streamlined further with a fast-queue system where if the option is selected, it will simply start the match with the first teams fully readied up (the downside is people wouldn’t be able to see who they’re facing before it started)That, coupled with a 2 minute or at the very most 3 min timer I think that would make a lot of people happy.
I’ve done over 500 tournaments now and its just beyond tedious waiting 5 min all the time plus time between matches.
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……………..Whut? /headscratch
Make full respec templates (gear + runes + traits) – WE NEED THIS. And reduction of waiting time will be very pleasing for me and my team. Thanks.