Alliance Unionized Strike Theory: BG Queue Ghosting

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I’m being hypothetical here with a crazy thought. Lets say there is a really big Horde PvP community that ends up with a long queue. Lets say there is a number of Alliance that don’t like the faction imbalance and have instant queue times. Lets also say that this number of Alliance wanted some petty revenge for that time you killed them on their way to BRD.

Horde group 1 joins the queue. The Alliance group joins the queue, gets a queue pop with Horde group 1. Horde group 2 joins the queue, waits. Horde group 3 joins, waits. Horde group 4… Horde group 5…

Then something happens. Alliance group 1 doesn’t accept the join. The BG doesn’t have enough people and counts down that it is closing. Horde group 1 gets forced to the back of the queue line.

The Alliance group 1 queues again. Horde group 2 gets queue pop. Alliance group 1 refuses. Horde group 2 gets same result as Horde group 1.

Alliance group 1 queues again. Horde group 3 gets queue pop. Alliance group 1 refuses. Count down happens, but this time a 2nd Alliance group gets enough players. They don’t get sent to the back.

But what would happen if this Alliance group 1 did that the whole time? What would happen if there were several groups of Alliance doing this? Would the Horde would get fast queues lower than 10 minutes, but games filled with ghost players, only to get sent to the back of the line? I don’t remember a deserter buff being applied to people who don’t accept queue pops. I wonder if anybody would try to attempt such a thing out of spite. You need to queue inside major cities in Classic too, so I wonder how boring it would be to need to keep re-accepting queues in a major city, leashed to the BG queue NPCs.

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You are talkings about a level of organization alliances just don’t have.

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This, this is funny happy Thanksgiving

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It might only take 20 to 40 people if BG matches last 30 mins to an hour per. I’ve seen multiboxers with that many characters.

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Cross realm bg’s. Im sure there are more than enough alliance players wanting active bg’s to outweigh the 10 alliance players not accepting a q.

BG2 = filled instantly.
BG3 = filled instantly.
BG1 reques = filled instantly.
Alliance still afk at the battle masters sperging at how they are sticking it to the horde.

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Alliance cannot even coordinate rolling the same faction and you expect them to do that? Well good luck to you sir

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Nah, I don’t expect them. It is just a theory.

This will probably be the case, but if I recall a battleground closes in minutes after not enough people join. Legit players could be in BGs for over 30 minutes a match. A ghoster wouldn’t nearly take up as much time. I hope that what you say is the case. It would actually help resolve the speculated queue dodger problem I once heard about, if that ends up being a thing.

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If you don’t accept the queue don’t you get the deserter debuff?

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or you know, the obvious. It takes horde 8 hours to do 8 bg’s and only takes us 2 hours thus we gear up faster then take our gear and start cleansing zones.

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you know, there’s some PvP server where alliance outnumber horde.

earthfury and heartseeker for instance.

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no.

you only compete against your own faction to rank up.

unless you mean the 1 or 2 epic item you can get at exhalted… in which case, 2 more epic won’t do you much good in the 20v5 fight you routinely encounter (or with BWL gear comming out soon-ish).

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