Unnecessarily Long Wait Times

I think it should be as soon as it reaches a specified player count, probably around 60-80 maybe.

 

The number can change, my idea still stands.

 

It's really a matter of whether games with around 20 people with a wait timer of about 2 minutes or games with around 50 people and longer wait times are better. I personally don't really mind the wait time (as I get to do other things while I wait) but I can see where people are coming from with it being too long. Longer wait times looks good on paper but I think we should take into account that some people don't want to wait a long time to play a game of HG only to die right after the invincibility.

I'm just worried that 20 player games aren't going to be as fun as 50 player games, since those games usually don't go to the 10 minute mark due to the fact that there is usually a rampant hunter in those games. With the player counts now I feel like I can play an in-depth game somewhat like the 2012 days, as you only really need 50/60 players to make a good 25 minute game.

If there was the player base to support two minute wait timers I'd go for it, but I'm just not really sure whether games will be fun if there aren't enough people.

 

How long is it currently?

 

I think this is a problem if you don't enjoy both no-soup and soup. I personally play which ever variation of the game is available at the time, and I have no problem finding a game that'll make me wait perhaps 3-5 minutes, occasionally longer.

I do agree that the waiting times are quite high, but as you said yourself it's the player base that is letting it down.

 

Perhaps at 15 players the timer reduces to 2 min?

 

There are 6 HG servers in total , that said i think the long wait time needs to be maintained UNLESS there is a increase in the amount of servers/players in which case a 5 minute wait time can be afforded

 

That is a problem in itself. People don't want to wait 8 minutes for a game to start, so they don't play. You know there is a problem when you are waiting longer in the lobby than you are playing the game. It just doesn't make sense.

But in a way, Brawl has helped with that by providing some type of entertainment while we are waiting (ie: the PVP) but it does get boring.

What I would like to see is some more pre-game options. Parkour, Mini-Games (like we play minigames until the actual game starts), or what would be pretty cool is that you can go to another game until the game is starting, and then it would tp you back.

That in itself would be something that would be pretty cool. Basically, players could go in and chose their kits, and then open up a game menu and go do something else until the game started. They could go on build/creative, CTF, minecraft party, etc.

But I do agree the wait times should be reduced.

 

If the wait time is decreased, games will only have 20 or so players most of the times.
Currently I think it's fine how it is, if I see that a soup game isn't going to start for 10 or so minutes, I go into a No-Soup game and just hang out in there for a couple minutes, then I go back and get my strategy ready for the Soup game, this includes warming up, finding a good swamp, judging what kit to use, doing /random a couple times if I don't care.

I agree, it would be nice to lower it. But, it's not possible with the amount of players HG gets right now.

 

Perhaps something like a warning feature should be added, something along the lines of /warn (serverip).

Then, you should be able to go play other Brawl games and 30 seconds before the game starts it should give you a clickable link to join the game in the chat.

This would be a handy timing feature for people like me who lose track of time when playing, and it would also prevent the "I'm bored" factor of pre games as you can play other Brawl minigames.

Perhaps rather than /warn it can auto toggle this after you pick a kit?

 

I agree with you although it is just not possible to have servers start every few minutes with a total of 6 available . And i for one would be very surprised if it was proven that more players would join a 5minute wait time server than a 10 minute one .

 

One of the big reasons why I don't play HG as much is because of the wait times. Most of the time I die in 10 minutes or so. I look at the lobby's and see that I have to wait 15 minutes to play again. Sure I can do something during that time, but like everyone said I wait more than I play.
There aren't enough people to sustain low wait time, but 5+ is unreasonable. Like SoCool said most of the time people join during the 1 minute and the only reason why people would want to wait that long is to get the iron sword.

 

Atleast slim wait times down to 10 mins. Then people would actually join and wait, while the people who join 15 mins before game starts are just there to abuse the kill your friends to get iron sword glitch.