Ranked daily/weeklies

If you think the Ranked daily/weekly should advance for losing, you are a casual and are not the target audience of Ranked PvP. Stop crying and go back to your mindless Regs.

Cash, you know I never been a dev apologist, but recently, even though I an still agitated at some stuff, Alex has had more interaction with the forum crowd than anyone outside of Rob. At a minimum, I can say they have put their cards on the table. At least now, players know that they have a proverbial "pulse". PvP is on life support, but at least the channels are open in a public arena. This is a fairly big change compared to where we were a year ago when they removed 8v8 and just dropped the Mic..

I know we have lived on a hope and prayer the last two years, and its hard to ask for more time, but let's give it one more whirl.

Alex,
I'm not starting a petition or anything, but if you want to decrease Ranked Que times, look at the reasons why players left in the first place and fix them. I am sure everyone here would agree most of those actions are 100% doable. See how things go and continue to fix the mote long term issues like bolster/PvP gear, and ranked restrictions.

To do now:
Add 8v8 for team and solo ranked.
Add epic rewards as described in the stick based on some performance metrics.
Continually update rewards as to not be "stale".
Reduce ranked comms cost on consumables.
See what happens...

Rancor mount should be the only evidence you need. You didn't get it if you didn't win.

It doesn't appear you read what I wrote at all.

We don't need to fill the queue with players who don't want to do ranked simply to get a daily done or to get comms. We need to incentivise those who are already doing ranked to do it more often and attempt to attract more players that want to do ranked by showing it can be competitive and fun.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.. whoa.. whoa.. whoa... whoa... whoa... whoa ... There are "ranked" dailies/weeklies?!! Really?!

If so ... well sh-*, I've been missing out. Then again, I play ranked arenas for 3 reasons: to win, for the fun of bashing up other players, and for slightly better gear -- in that order. I don't take unranked WZs seriously anymore; b'cos, that is a gear-grind casual romper-room glomp-smash mosh pit of chaos. But when I do, I do it for the lulz.

Ranked, on the other hand ... the few times it does pop, I find that the quality of the players is decent. For example: I've been in a match where we were duking it out for a good 20 minutes at least this one time -- for just the 1st round. We won that match in the end, but wow that was a good match up.

I do enjoy Solo Ranked Arenas staying at 4v4. It's easier to get into, and it's simple stupid fun to just beat the sh-* out of the other team's players. No goals, no objectives, easy to understand who to focus, and pre-round strats in order to win. Don't need VOIP, don't need a guild (but they can/do help). Solo Ranked Arenas are great where they are!

However, I would like to see the Grouped Ranked be 8v8 Warzones! Definitely! There should be more variety at ranked, and - hell - if the PVEers can get a 16-man DP HM group going, it should be doable to get some PvP guild groups going too. Maybe, they just need to make it a limited-time window of opportunity. Like a UFC Fight Night, so as to help organize the groups. Like, on certain days/nights of the week - and between such-and-such hours - Ranked Warzones become open to ranked competitors! And with it, more (or better) rewards for joining up and winning (more coms, a chance at a rare drop, something good) -- so as to incentivize the initiative to get guilded groups running. Cuz, in Ranked WZs the rules of engagement keep changing as the match progresses, and you need to have VOIP and good communications going, plus have a well-rounded out team comp in order to do well and win. Think of it as along the same lines as running a core ops group -- just PvP-style. Well, that's just what I think anyways.

So, if BW isn't going to (or can't) get X-Server Ranked matches going, then they really ought to look at getting 8v8 WZs back into Grouped Ranked. Keep Solo Ranked where it is, but definitely 8v8 grouped is the way to go. In the end, it would serve to eventually increase more participation as more players get comfortable learning within their guilds, and then have the confidence to join up in Solo Ranked too.

i'm sorry but people in this thread greatly overestimate the amount of skill needed to win in solo ranked. I played a ton of games over easter as a dps sage, which i practiced for about 2 days before, and i won my fair share of games. And i'm a 35 years old banker. If you have proper gear and are somewhat competent, you will win games in ranked.

If you have no idea how to play your class or can't be arsed to get augments, grenades, medpacs you shouldn't be in ranked in the first place. Nobody whitout a disability is incapable of getting good enough for ranked, if you are not now then play 200 practice games in regular and you'll become good enough.

People who currently queue for ranked games have their reasons and don't need further incentives. It's growing the population of ranked participation that you need. More players means more competition. Incentives need to lure more participation.

Give people a reason to queue and you'll see the queue times decrease and the skill of competition increase.

And have the Rancor mount increased the amount of players playing ranked? Surely some yes, but enough to make ranked pop regulary on the low-populated servers? Not in my experience. If I'm wrong, then why are Bio implementing ranked dailies/weeklies to increase the amount of players?

Don't get me wrong, in an ideal world I'd rather just have ranked for the most skilled pvp'ers, just as (current) nightmare modes are the "game-mode" for hardcore pve'ers. I enjoy both, but as it is on my server, save for spending most of saturday afternoon/evening que'ing to get my fill, I don't have any other realistic options to get to play ranked. So yes, choosing between the "pride" of having ranked for the best of the best only, and actually playing ranked, I'd choose actually playing it (regulary). And while "Cross-server ques" would be an ideal solution for the problem, we'll all just have to deal with the fact that is isn't comming (anytime soon atleast)

Yes massively. It nearly doubled the total number of overall players with a rating in a few weeks.

Again.. that's the point. Something as simple as a mount effectively decreased Que times in half during primetime, but what about now?

Well, they effectively "remove" the incentive and que times increase. I wonder why?

You can't be that naive to think rank needs any of this for increased participation. Ranked need stuff that is "worth it", and dailies are not worth it for anyone in the bolster system. It won't change a damn thang...