Please consider something to the effect of player skill when balancing. It's currently completely demoralizing to play against a server that wipes the floor with us. I am talking our EBG keep is a t3 for the bad guys. They spawn camp on multiple BLs and my server just stops playing the game for the week until we get a new matchup. And no, the tier system today isn't enough since at some point, we end up matched against that one server... I feel alliances will only exasperate the situation since you get the elites easily teaming up and pushing everyone else away from the game. Anyways, playing something else for a week is one thing but I Can't imagine coming back to the game if I have to quit for 2 months while we wait for a new "link".
What are you doing about queues? Too often friends have to wait literally hours before they can get through a 30 man queue to play with us. If commander disconnects on reset night when you have 30-50 queue on every map, then that's gg for the night and we all log off. If you don't log in on the right class, again you can't switch because of the queue. If you don't click the button fast enough on reset night, you have you wait 2 hours... Worst of all is when no one is on any of the boarder lands but you have a queue of 130 for EBG. Seriously I have screenshots...
