waiting for players....

I've had this happen very frequently since Spunky. Sitting in a lobby with 10 or 11 players but it's stuck "waiting for players". On occasion I just have to give up and go play another game because after waiting 5 minutes for something to happen I'll back out of the lobby only to be thrown back into the same lobby repeatedly or another lobby with the same issue. The first time this happened there were 11 players and 10 of us had even readied up but the match still wouldn't start.

I have experienced this. My interpretation is that the game now makes sure groups stay together. The game therefore waits for more players to balance the numbers of the teams. Just guess work mind you.

That's my theory too, but if it's the case it really blows get a party of 6 in the lobby and you have to wait around forever to stomped. Even if we say that the party is a sacred institution that must never be involuntarily disbanded (which I'll disagree with when it means not letting the other 5 players in the lobby play the damn game) at least let the partied players be able to ready up to indicate they're okay with playing against each other instead of waiting around.

That's actually a pretty good idea. I don't know about the ready up thing, not like it works now anyways, but some kind of option to enable you to allow splitting the party for that game or until the room fills up.

As it is now without a party it takes 6 players to start a match. With a party it takes an equal amount of players for the match to start, which may take awhile.

Yeah the fact it just keeps connecting you to the host is so annoying. Frankly the entire lobby system in MNC is awful.