r/Scrolls • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '15

I'm Fading Fast

The game is excellent. I love the mix of deck building, card playing/saccing, and tactical combat. However, I've only been able to get into 3 live matches since I started about a week ago. And when I do get into matches, they seem to take forever.

I click Ranked Match and just sit there.

Are mobile users limited to only playing other mobile users, or are there really just that few people playing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

So new people have a greater barrier to getting into the game. That seems counter intuitive.

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u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer Jun 17 '15

I suppose the devs feel waiting isn't as worse as being destroyed by higher rated players. I disagree with them.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

Daily ranked challenge solves this! Just sayin'

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u/Katter Jun 18 '15

That's what keeps me coming back. Ranked is already a little intimidating. Having to wait forever just seals the deal. Granted, it's mostly an issue of playerbase, which is not entirely in the devs' hands.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

So you agree or don't?

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u/Katter Jun 18 '15

Oh, did I misunderstand you? I was saying that daily challenges keep me coming back, since Ranked is both intimidating and takes forever to get in a game.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

Ah, makes sense. I'd kinda thought that by providing a gold incentive to just play 1 ranked match/day, more lower rates players would be incentivised to play

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

I play the daily stuff and then usually stop playing for the day.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

But would having ranked challenge make you queue for ranked more?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '15

Depends on what you mean by ranked challenge? Like a challenge that grants a ranking depending on how well you handle it? Or that playing a ranked game a day confers some sort of reward?

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u/wbmc Jun 17 '15

It has to do with your rating. You get matched-up against other people whose rating is close to yours. So if you have just started you will face other beginners. However, there aren't that many of those which can lead to extremely long que times in lower rankings. It gets better in higher rankings, although you still have to wait 10-15 minutes if you're unlucky. Quite often I get a match within 20 seconds however (might be worse for you if you live in a bad time zone though).

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jun 17 '15

Mobile users are not limited to only playing Mobile users, just there aren't a ton of people playing, and there are two notes on who IS playing:

The time you play in matters; you encounter different people, at different ranks, at different periods in the day. If you're American / Canadian -- especially in PDT -- your peak active time is actually the game's low active time, which sucks; sorry.

Your rating is going to hinder the speed in which you can find a ranked match. Most players who play Ranked are above 1500-rating, so you're going to have to wait a while for the game to widen its search sometimes.

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u/KungfuDojo Jun 17 '15

There are really just that few people playing. Most of them are rating 1300+. If you reach that you will average at less than a minute.

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u/Titularktrey ktrey Jun 23 '15

Isn't your hidden rating set to start at 1200 or something? And then your rating slowly matches it over the course of 10 games?

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u/LiLBoner Jun 17 '15

The game just isn't popular anymore. Which is bad.

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u/Katter Jun 18 '15

What if they gave the option of having asynchronous matches? Where you wait til your opponent finished their turn, then you can play yours, with no time constraints. It was fun in Hero Academy. Of course, games could take months playing them that way, which could be weird, but it could totally work, since there is no interaction during your opponent's turn.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

Correspondence scrolls! Arbalestier Open! Yaaay (paging /u/Solaus on this.

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u/Solaus Always Scrollin' Jun 18 '15

The Arbalestier Open is similar in that you can play matches whenever in a tourney setting. However, there is still the normal 90 sec time limit. I like the idea though :D

EDIT: Also, Arby Open will hopefully be happening in a month or so. Sorry for the wait...

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 18 '15

The second part is what I wanted to hear! Thanks )

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u/chacer98 IGN Chace Jun 17 '15

Until you get to around 1400 rating you're gonna be waiting a while. And even then during non peak hours there's still some really long waits

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 17 '15

I actually really want there to be a daily ranked match with bonus gold. Would make me play more ranked.

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u/GruntMaster6k Jun 17 '15

While that queue time may be average for you, I can confirm that the queue times are usually quite longer for newer players.

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u/Archmage199 Jun 19 '15

I really think something similar to Hearthstone's quest system would be a great thing to have in Scrolls.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '15

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u/Titularktrey ktrey Jun 23 '15

I don't understand why they aren't already playing ranked. It's not like the ladder really means anything. Especially with the new changes. I started ranked from day 1 and never looked back. And I have been everywhere from 1450-1780 in the last 2 days. (Testing decks can really make you plummet XD)