I make a point to just press the hotkey again which goes back to regular mode. Takes a bit to get use to, but does work.

Because there is a trade off to requiring higher quality, which is that you will be sitting in the queue for a very, very, long time. This is exacerbated by FAF having a pretty small player base, so the algorithm has to be pretty forgiving in terms of game quality so that any matches can happen at all. Generally the more players are in queue the higher you should expect the game quality to be. As @NoOneCares said, there is also the fact that if your rating has high deviation (I.e. you are new) then the maximum possible quality you could get even against someone with exactly the same rating as you tends to be very low (as low as ≈40% for brand new players).

I don't think you want to kill build orders though. People have a hard enough time figuring out how to play the game already when they can just use the same generic build order on almost every map. It's so bad that the majority of the playerbase just plays the same map with the same predefined roles and build orders over and over.

Do you know what wait time the algorithms of other games use? No, they don't show you the timer. So here's my suggestion, just replace the wave countdown with a continously increasing counter,that way everyone's happy.

@jip said in Engineer Always-reclaim: You're asking me to: Take a share of my time to implement your feature. Take a share of my future time to maintain your feature. It's not mine. I was considering how it might be helpful for lower skill players and providing some pros and cons on their behalf. Just read my first post: @corvathranoob said in Engineer Always-reclaim: So I don't really have an opinion whether it's a good idea to do this or not, but don't think it matters much anyway because it is pretty easy to attack move some engies instead so this gives very little advantage or help to noobs anyway. @jip said in Engineer Always-reclaim: Your response is insulting. @rezy-noob said in Engineer Always-reclaim: watch your language,@CorvathraNoob I think it is more insulting to be trolled when you're trying to contribute to the conversation and bring up points of view that other people may not have considered, than anything I said. I know English is not everyone's first language here, so I will clarify what I said. I did NOT say Jip was stupid. I said I DIDN'T think he was because we both clearly knew the proposed change would save more than two clicks a game. So, since he was NOT stupid, he must have been trolling. I chose my words very carefully to show how egregious his derisive and contemptuous response to my argument was. I would say "please read my words more carefully next time," but the point is moot because I won't be contributing any more thoughts because I'm done with being trolled and insulted.