Let the User determent if wait time is acceptable.
Dynamic gueue times frustrates & demoralizes and become total useless.
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Let the User determent if wait time is acceptable.
Dynamic gueue times frustrates & demoralizes and become total useless.
The reason that it is dynamic is because it is dependent on users online getting off to open up slots.
The reason why is it not quite exact is because of Premium (Donated) Users who cut the queue.
Donors skipping the queue are one of the factors, but it's not exclusively because of them by any means. There's a reason the window says Estimated time. It's just that, an estimation, based on the average time it has been taking for a spot to open. If a lot of people log out, the time reduces faster; if a long time passes without anyone leaving, it increases.
You just have to think about it a little to understand how an exact time is impossible: a new spot opening depends on someone logging off or crashing/lagging out. Five hundreds new spots depend on that happening five hundred times. The game, the server or us... none is able to predict the exact moment it will happen once. If we were able to predict it for hundreds or thousands of people, we'd be winning the lottery every single time instead.
In short, we can not predict the future therefore this suggestion can not even be considered a valid suggestion.
Maybe a bit off topic. But are the population numbers actually real? or are they a bit added so it looks like there are actually 12k people playing so its more attractive for people to come and play and also donate. It would be good marketing. Was just wondering :)
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