Ahoy Sea Dogs!
The talk in The Sea Dogs tavern lately has been that you are experiencing longer than expected matchmaking times. I wanted to take some time to assure you that we are looking at these issues, and to explain what the known issues are – as well as potential ways to overcome them.
1. When your crewmates quit in the tavern, you can wait a long time to find new ones
-When you select an Open Crew and begin matchmaking, we look for other players who are also searching for a Crew Mate and match you together, then join you to a tavern together.
-This has the unintended side-effect that if you are already in a tavern and then your crewmate quits, you now have an open slot but all the potential crewmates coming in will be matched with others who have pressed the Set Sail button too, rather than joining your crew
-If you are in an open crew, in the tavern, and you have no crewmates, we suggest quitting and re-joining a game as a temporary work-around for this issue
We are going to change this so that we prioritise matching you into crews that are already in the tavern.
2. When crews quit after a contest, you can wait a long time to find new ones
-After you have completed a contest, some players will naturally leave at this point. We merge partially filled taverns together when you see the “For all time previous deeds now recorded” text to create full taverns.
-However, if players leave after this text, we don’t currently have the ability to merge taverns again at this point.
-If too many crews leave your tavern and you have been waiting for a while, we suggest quitting and re-joining a game as a temporary work-around for this issue
We are going to change this so that we can merge partially filled taverns together after the “For all time previous deeds now recorded” text when necessary
Thank you for your ongoing support and feedback for The Arena!
See you in the Arena!
Shelley “Pressgang” Preston
Lead Designer