I am really confused. How did this player prevent someone else from filling the opening on your team? He left the match so someone else could fill the spot. The next person in the queue gets the open spot. Obviously the queue was empty and nobody else was in the queue to fill your spot. The match making program isn't smart. It only takes the person who waited the longest.

What incentive is there for me to play rated matches?

I couldn't find anything in the patch notes but it seems like I am getting fewer defender medals. I tend to be the responsible type and will help the team by defending a node. I just got out of a Novare Coast and only earned 4 medals for guarding the node. The enemy never came to my node so I didn't get a chance to fight. I just sat there guarding. 4 medals doesn't seem like much of an incentive to do the boring job other players don't like doing. P.S. one stealthy checked out the node but ran away once I started trying to follow him around. Never got the chance to engage him in combat.

Would players with bad ratings be brought back up to the mid point if they sat out? What's the point of having a good or bad rating? Do you get something for a high or low rating?

10K is the current max for affection.

Got lucky last week and loaded into a WZ in progress. Was still in the starting area waiting for the force field to drop when the game ended. We won. I had zero of everything but finished my daily with that win. Normally it is very frustrating to not even get any Comms but this one time I benefited.

never mind, found my answer

Today in my first War Zone match I was a replacement player after the 2nd round of Voidstar had already started. We ended up winning so thank you to whomever quit because I got my first win of the day in your spot.

If I spend 2.5 hours playing in your open world battle.....what do I earn for this time?

Nice necro

If you want me to queue for ranked you need to make ranked fun for me. Right now I have more fun doing other things. An excellent idea would be to match my team against a team of "similar" skill level / gear. If you get five goals and then refuse to score so you can kill us over and over....... If you three cap us and then gather right outside our spawn point to kill us over and over...... If you open the final door but refuse to click the computer so you can kill us over and over.....

What's areana? Sorry, forgot to add "What advantages/disadvantages does areana have over the current format?"

When you start the game there are usually two speeders and both take you to the middle landing platform. When you take one of the side nodes another speeder is added to the respawn area which will take you directly to the side node. Look for a speeder way at the far end of the respawn area (on the side you want to fly to). If you take both side nodes two speeders will be added, one on each side of the respawn area.

You are aware of the Developer posts announcing they have banned a bunch of people and are working on stopping the hacks? They do exist. I don't know how much they are actually used but people have been banned for using them....

If you hover your cursor over your medals there is informational text which says you need 3 medals to earn warzone rewards. From experience this appears to be incorrect and you only need one medal to get rewards. As a side note you only need to complete the warzone to get credit for the daily, no medals needed.