Rejected Grant current formats unavailable on ladder any kind of automatic search queue, despite having an active list of player's rank or not.

[AkumaDark17]

Hello, this is for any coded format in the website that is currently only playable at "Challenge Only". How about bring the "Challenge Only" formats too on a system that lets the player automatically pair with another player instead of asking arround different rooms? This is mostly an issue when at certain points there are players willing to play the same format asking on different rooms and ends up being a missing opportunity for a match, this also includes very casual people who isnt willing to ask or even join chatrooms for the matter. And yes, regardless of this "casual" player profile there are people willing to take long queues of waiting due to not being that many active people at the same time while they do other activities. I have heard about "Multi-queue" feature linked to this idea to make people play other formats in the meantime, but for this suggestion? No, im not asking directly to multi-queue to be implemented (it would help tho) but im not making this thread to make developers to make that feature, simply the ability to potentially make players to auto search for others, even if the tier is not popular enough for being active on ladder, but still enough popular to be existing on the PS system as hidden. Make anything neccesary to make this suggestion feasable. The formats are not active / popular enough to bring brand new players? Add these formats on a brand new tab that suggest there are less playerbase, but still, players are gonna join into the queue and sooner or later (who knows, it doesn't always have to end up being long queues) get your auto-searched battle done. It could also be implemented the same way "Challenge" feature is done when battling for non-ladder formats, in this case, a popup disclaimer could be shown to display players that the selected format doesn't follow the same ranking rules than a ladder, "Ranked", battle. Speaking of which, the ranking system could simply not be integrated if Devs and Smogon team doesn't seems adequate enough for it.

Just please make a automatic-search system for these formats just like Ladder-Formats have with the necessary changes it needs for it to be feasible, we may not be majority but it doesn't have to be hard / confusing feature to be added .

 

[DaWoblefet]

What you're basically asking is for an unrated ladder for formats that do not currently have one. We won't do this for the same reason we don't just add a ladder for every format; we require ladders to maintain a certain level of activity. If a ladder can't meet minimum requirements of at least 1 game per hour, then it is clearly too inactive to reasonably find games. Your description of needing to ask in multiple rooms to find a battle illustrates this point exactly. You should instead be seeking out the community which plays the format you're interested in and asking for games there.