Originally Posted by
snake
no, the time will be minimal as it's prioritize to match you up with players with the oldest timestamp within your ELO range,
if nobody in your ELO range, the range is increased, and checked again, and again untill you find an opponent
Then we get complaints of noob farming. If your ELO is 1680 and there is only one other player matchmaking at ELO 1600.
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Originally Posted by
SmallBowl
The problem I could see happening is the wait being too long and therefore, after the first month of hype about matchmaking, people lose interest in both that match and the matchmaking system,with the small community we have its likely wait times will be long and therefore the matchmaking system could lose its backing when its already a thing and end up being removed
Pretty much what happened with the old matchmaking system. Players waited 30 seconds or so, if they never got any match they didn't try matchmaking again.
Last edited by hampa; Aug 6, 2015 at 12:04 PM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump