Possible way to shorten Queue times.
We've been hearing it everywhere. Queue times are too huge and its aggravating the community. I find the queue times good as it gives me time to draw in between games but as we've seen on the boards its been a huge issue. So In this post I will say why i think the queue times are ridiculously high and an idea to shorten them.
Why do I think they're large? Simple, lack of supports in the game. Support is a role very few people enjoy. (I love supporting, its fun to me.) Since the game looks for the first two roles it will generally ignore the rest of the community who didn't select support or fill and thus increase the times. So the game spends time looking for a person with support or the dreaded fill selected, which is why if you queue with those, BOOM, your in a game almost instantly. So is the future plan to make support more fun or better? No. Because people want to be the hero so let them but this is where my actual idea comes into place.
The fix. When i started playing my teacher/mentor/friend/memer, who will not be named, talked of learning multiple champions in multiple roles because in ranked you weren't guaranteed your role like you are now. You had to have the luck of the draw and get your carry position or hope you can at least "fill" the role you get. This was common place and accepted. So the idea would be to go back to that system. I'm not saying kill the select a role feature though, I'm saying a new system. The system would be preference. I prefer this role over this role and so forth until you have all 5 roles selected. You can put in the game launch screen or setting wherever but you'd pick the order of roles you'd like to play. So in an example mine would look like this,
1 Jungle 2 Mid 3 Top 4 Support 5 ADC
this way the game would try to get me jungle, if it cant it move to mid and so far and so forth. It would try to arrange it so that the average of the 5 players would be as close to 1 as possible. Now i know in most situations support will be last and mid will be first. That's fine players need to understand they have to play the roles and not ignore it to be good at the game. I also understand there will be people who complain I'm always 'X' role, but that's also common. This system will at least lower queue times and keep the roles select feature.
In conclusion, Changing the select two feature to a preference feature should lower queue times enough to not wait 10+ minutes to join a game.
Thank you all for your time. -Cod