The load times for arena matches are extremely long for the sloop and galleon. I've had matches take 20+ minutes to start many, many times. It happens due to the lobbies not filling up and sometimes even if they are full it still won't start. The easy way to fix this is to just add like a 5 minute start timer. If the game isn't full within 5 minutes of the first player loading into the server the game starts with however many people are currently in that server. Who cares if it leads to people playing solo which is mostly their fault for using open crew. Most of the time those players back out immediately which leads to maybe 2-3 crews left, 4 if lucky. It can allow easy wins if solo crews back out which Rare might see as a problem. However, I know that myself and probably many others would rather get an easy win than having to wait 20+ minutes for a game to start. The match starting times make it extremely frustrating to just play arena. Please fix this Rare.
Arena Wait Times Still to Long
Give it six minutes, to round out to that even 30. I'd say 10, but the match itself is 24, so that's probably not going to go well. Something needs to be done to converge servers which are partially filled, the merging system would do great for that if it was to be active.
When we were waitin today for duo sloop to fill up, somehow a player joined alone that had closed crew on. As it was impossible for him to get assigned another player, we were stuck at 9/10.
The game does not allow you to start solo, but sometimes it happens (i guess when the second player leaves) and the game just refuses to start for every one...
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