Yes.

But make sure you can specify WHO on your friends list.

that is a a very good way to solve the problem of course if you will play vs another friends team

as for the part where you can choose with wich freinds you get matched simply make a tick box in your frinds display, you want to play with them so all of you tick the option to play with eachother  and voila

I like the friends idea, BUT, can you do something where people using the friends match option will be more likely to play against others also using the friends option?  Otherwise you'll still get legions of people crying that premades are stomping pugs again.

Also, I want to play with my real life friends when I can, I only have a few games a night to play, will I be able to play ranked games with them or is there "just a chance" I'd be able to play with them using this?  If there is only a chance I still wouldn't want to use it

Lastly, what if I have 5 or 6 friends online and use the checkbox join method, who will get on my team?  Or will I have to uncheck all of them except 2 to make sure I get them?

This method has a lot of explaining to do as to exactly how it would work IMO.

Same boat here.

Last night me and my m8 were playing, games not filling, and I began to talk with him about the forum stuff (I'm more addicted, read everything and all, he doesn’t). Than he tells me, "well, I will do something else than, and tell Gersa (A friend we invited to the game, and would buy the game this week with another friend of his) to not buy right now."

I'm still here, but just waiting for the next patch, that’s what looks like at least.

The problem that me and my m8 find with this game. (just for reference, we think ourselves as pro players)

Well, yes, bugs r annoying, but not the main issue. Big issue is an item that completely brings unpleasant game play experience e.g. Horn of Battle, and its there for some time not being fixed, put a aura the size as the first lvl batswarm, that would solve the problem.

Pathfiding is hell annoying, but I think that’s hard to fix, but it has to be fixed.

Now, the real issue, and other have pointing out already. Without competitive scene the game will die.

I really don't understand why a great number of players on this game doesn’t have friends they play often enough to be called a premade. I honestly don't understand.

Ppl are asking for the game to be like this (Scenario 1):

John Doe gets home from work, gets a beer, seat at his computer, plays a game with a bunch of strangers, win or lose, no1 talks nothing during the game (because there is no pro do say "hey thats wrong, try this instead), and repeat this everyday.

Ppl are asking for the game NOT to be like this (scenario 2):

John Doe gets home from work, gets a beer, seat at his computer, open his friend list, finds out that there r 3 of his friends online. Than he sands a msg with his IP address and get them on vent, play the game, talk about the day, talk about woman’s, tell how bad the economy is and all, relax, win or lose and go to bed.

Scenario number 2 is something WRONG, by the community standards of this game, off course they r a premade, they will get better by each night, and they will be friends. They will like to play with each other. And one day one of them will say "hey, we r rank 500, lets bring our game faces on, think some builds, would be cool to be top-100". Whats wrong with scenario number 2? I really don't know, really don't. Some1 with no friends on this game, please explain it to me in a simple manner why scenario number 1 is better than number 2.

Scenario 1 will hold its ground until John Doe without friends finds a new game to play that looks fun, more than DG. He wont have friends to hold him with DG, and he is gone, wont look back to DG.

Scenario 2 will hold Mr. Doe for quite some time, he will have friends playing this game that will say “awww man, don’t go, the game is this and that, we r good together and all…”, he will, as well, want to improve in the ladder. But the game has to offer this possibility for him.

Now, next patch looks like this:

Ppl with friends on this game, well, #$%¨&* you, go play with strangers if u want rank. This game is for casual players ONLY, not only that, casual and strangers players only (Scenario 1).

That’s no good at all.

What we suggest as improvement you (frogboy), said its not a possibility. Team Matchmaking, and that would improve the game, and the community alike.

I really don’t know why scenario 1 is better than 2, some1, really, explain to me.

Sorry for my English, I’m a Brazilian that has to wait 20mins for a game because my ping is 280. And I still play this game, still…

If it's ranked that would seem like a very bad idea, mainly because you could ensure you never face a challenge and get easy wins.

One of the only good things I liked about HoN which I hope that at some point DG can implement is the game filtering system. They have so many options like skill tier, no leavers, random only, ping, etc.

This is the only part of the game where it outshines DG (the rest of the game is crap IMHO).

Anything that could make demigod:

1 - start games faster

2 - make games more stable (filtering people with low upstream who can't handle 4v4), low sim speed

Would OWN. I find myself waiting 30 minutes to fill a game in europe in what is supposed to be RUSH HOUR. More Americans purchased this game than Europeans and that shows. But I cba to play with americans until they learn that ping 250-280ms is reasonable and that I'm not from "Mexico on a dialup modem". /whine

Dear Frogboy,

All those people who you say are just lurking and idling and perhaps only playing single player should be given incentive to start playing online. Helping these people filter "noob only" games and so forth before they get spanked by more experience players will ownnnnnnn.

Yet the stats will be even more meaningless that way unless there was a differentiating types of matches stat (which comes back to the whole parallel ladder. Why does a win from random players vs random players count as much than a group of friends playing a group of friends? I could care less about stats, but that logic didn't make sense to me.

Yes yes yes yes. You need to make those games bigger though. Up to 5v5.

I also don't kinda want to play the other game options like fortress, domination etc. Conquest is the way this game is meant to be played.

That's a damn good idea.  I bought the original Witcher (after a couple of patches) and thoroughly enjoyed it.  However, I was greatly impressed when the developer released the Enhanced version as a separate stand-alone version--and allowed the buyers of the original game to download the "enhanced" elements for free.  It was both a straight-up admission that the original release had not been perfect (e.g., long load times, overused models, and other issues) and a display of developer commitment to the product and the consumer base.  I suppose sales of the stand-alone enhanced edition helped to pay for the free enhancements offered to the original buyers.  It just made a certain sort of sense as both a business move and a public-relations gesture.

While Transitive makes good suggestions for a special edition, I would recommend the following: 4 new demigods (including the two free ones already promised), 2-4 new maps, robust modding tools, replay/clan support, GREATLY improved AI, and some semblance of a single-player campaign (even a very short one would do).  The game would again retail for $40-50, but people who already own the original could download the enhancements for free through Impulse. 

Frogboy, would this make any sense based on the business model and contractual obligations that exist between SD and GPG (not to mention projected profitability)? 

Is there any real good reason to keep pantheon?

ie does anyone actually care about Light v Dark? The only thing I see is that it limits you to which DG u can play for the duration of a Pantheon.

It should just be:

1v1 ranked

Team ranked

Random team ranked (ie pantheon without the light v dark).

If you say that it's easy to link people up into teams from your friends list, this should be EASY!

(unless of course, the difficulty is keeping a track of 3 ladders)

It'd be interesting to know what is easy to do and what is not.

Kokujin speaks for me too.

In fact I'm not waiting anymore.

Just the fact that this kinda of casual players % stuff was my reason...

DG.... "I dont love you anymore" LoL 

I cant imagine myself playing this game in a team that doesnt have my friends. Kokujin that we start to play everything together than Eskendale, Pacov, Madthinker, Shade or at well against some very cool teams like the team with Zyvrict and Foster_21 I just wont.