Faction specific queues

[Holymary-fairbanks]

I stated:

@Holymary-fairbanks

Faction imbalance is not an obvious “problem” in and of itself, though it may be the cause or result of other things which may be considered problems .

Response:

@Dirtydancin-frostmourne

Faction balance is an obvious problem.

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I asked:

@Holymary-fairbanks

What problems are you intending to solve with faction based queues?

Would levels matter?

How about Honorable Kills?

should there be priority queues for those who are actively participating in WPVP, as opposed to someone who is going to log in on a level 3 bank/auction alt?

Would you have any way to measure the effects of such a queue such that you would be able to determine if it was helping to resolve any of the problems you have defined?

Among the servers currently available, do the problems you’ve defined consistently exist in more abundance on the more imbalanced servers, and tend to be non-existent on the more balanced ones?

Are the problems that you have determined to be directly or indirectly caused by faction imbalance also considered to be problems by others? Who? What sort of percentage of WoW players does that represent?

Of all of these problems, are any of them also problems on PVE servers?

To which, you answered:

@Dirtydancin-frostmourne

What part are you having trouble understanding?

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@Dirtydancin-frostmourne

I made it easy for you

Thank you. It’s nice of you to post some information regarding the ConsenusPlusAddon, which is used by the WoW Classic Realm Population site. The more people who use it, the more accurate our data can be.

That there exists an imbalance of factions on some servers is not in question. What is in question, other than obviously the questions I’ve clearly asked, and just quoted, thus asked twice, is whether efforts to balance server faction populations would resolve any problems.

In other words, are there any problems that are directly the result of imbalanced faction populations?

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Aside: How accurate is the population data we have?

From the Wowhead post linked above:

• the information present right now isn’t very representative
• this data is not complete and could use more contributions

@Holymary-fairbanks

Basically, it seems that for concensus data to be gathered, people need to install the addon, manually start data collection, and upload the results. As the process is relatively convoluted, one might expect this to not be an addon for everyone.

We also have https://ironforge.pro/servers?region=us&filter=true which is based on raid logs.

@Holymary-fairbanks

Currently, the data we have available, AFAIK, consists of data based on raid logs and data based on a consensus addon.

How accurate that data is is discussed in other threads, but still gives us the ability to make some reasonable assumptions.