@nine2 said in What I think about the timer in the Ladder/TMM?:
Now it has jumped from 6 to 2 without matching me. Is it showing "all people" not "people you can be matched with"? Seems like it should show a count of people in the queue that I can actually play against. Then if the queue is 1 then I know I am getting matched. The way it is now there can be a queue of 600 and I still won't get matched.
Yes, it shows you all people in the queue. Only when the timer reaches zero it will calculate which people in the queue can/should be matched with each other. So before the timer runs out, it doesnt really know if there will be a good match for you.
I think one of the reasons for this system is that it should achieve better matches with fewer people in queue at the cost of potentially longer wait times. Of course, if you are the only person in queue in your rating region, neither the new nor the old system will help you. But at least with the new system you see that you were not matched and you can infer from that that there there was no good match for you.