online game / matchmaking

[Herr Ping]

Hi guys,
for some time something is weird with matchmaking queue. I own all expansions, but I cannot choose my expansions. With the different settings it's quite complicate to explain in detail, but mainly if I choose an unrated game I always get the base game. If I pick the settings to choose edition, there are an old option (base +3) frozen (and they are greyish underlayed). With some "tricks" I can change it, but I cannot reduce it below 4. Also, if I go in the queue, I agains play only with basic.
Other play options leads to a random sets with usually lots of the new cards.
Has anyone an idea what's happend here? Known bug? I alreade tried to re-install the game with no change.

Also I really would like to play matchmaking with 3 players. This seems not to implemented? Has anyone heard why?

[greysphere]

If you have Ranked selected (either directly or via the Any setting), and choose the Selected setting, you must have base +3 expansions selected.
If you force Unranked, this restriction relaxes.
If you have a specific scenario where you're not getting what you expect, post some screenshots and I can explain and/or see if there's a bug.

Re: 3+ player, adding more modes always bifurcates the matching pools which slows things down for everyone, so we wanted to make sure 2p is 'saturated' before adding another pool. It's pretty much there for unranked. Ranked is getting pretty close. Also it'd be nice to get replacement AI players for 3+ player in before as well.

[Herr Ping]

Hi greysphere, thanks for the answer.

I cannot upload any screenshots here, so I try to be precise:

settings: unranked, selected, chosed add-ons: base, intrigue, seaside, cornucopia. "Base" is greyish and can't deselected (I beleive that was possible weeks or months before). When I got a game, I always get only base cards. As this is not what I selected (and this specific selection isn't important), this usually leads to quit the game.

If I use the "2+, 3+..." option, I usually get the "wild spread" of a huge variety of add-ons, so it seems to me that 2+ is identical with "doesn't matter". Usually this is not what I want and leads to quit the game. It would be nice, if it would stated "max 2, max 3...", maybe both variants to choose. It's always good, when the player can decide by it's own how many different sets he plays. I

There is an Info-point in the settings with no effect. I guess, there are some infos hidden after clicking it (so I was not aware that there is a minimum add-ons for ranked games and did not expect this). If this (i) has no further meaning, from my point of view and should be removed.

I understand the plans with 3+ and hope the community will grow. In fact, the whole landing page with the sublevels seems - sorry - very clunky to me. Especially there seems a lot of redundant options - what's the Async enrollment in the matchmaking? Matchmaking seems to me the "quick online play" option, the async options seems to be the "lobby" (as usually I see there only complete or started games with off-line players), and complete don't understand the meaning off "private", as I would choose private games from the option --> my games --> new game --> choose my Dominion friends I want to play private with. Indeed I guess this section is huge for async games, as I would find there all games started from anywhere. Is the async-community that big? Whatever, I completle left the topic. Is there a better forum where I can post screen shots to show problems?

[Herr Ping]

short addition, as I again tried a quick unranked match: I can - in fact - only choose between only base or wild spread, wich leads the last days and weeks to very unsatisfiying much resigns. :(