Battleground player count

[Arianea]

horde always has 1 more player than alliance in bg's, after many games looking closely at player counts, I noticed that:
-even player count: horde will join within 20sec max
-ally joins, player count becomes even, within 20sec horde will join
-horde leaves, within 20sec new horde will join

Possible causes to this obvious unbalance:
-server auto-balances games and allows 1 horde extra and horde has more players in queue, but I have seen games where it is 5v6 and then a horde joins and it becomes 5v7 (this reason is unfair for alliance)
-insane randomness (very unlikely)
-devs hate alliance and make bot player join when the game becomes fair ( )

Please tell me what you think of this, and play a battleground and look at the player count if you don't believe this

[rookee]

I can not say i have ever payed attention to what causes it, but i can say that i see 11 person teams in about 1 out of every 6 WSGs i play in. actually saw a 12 person team a couple times

[Imbaslap]

it takes 1 person from each side to be in a BG queue to count as a slot.

10 slots in WSG for example.

the reason you see 5v6 or 5v7 horde means that 7 alliance and 7 horde are queued, but only 5 alliance are inside the BG. players have 2 minutes to accept the battleground queue. 5v6 or 5v7 means that those players that did not join the battleground still means they are in the Queue outside. they have 2minutes to take it or they will be removed from the queue and the next following alliance player will get the queue invite for 2mins.

the system gets messed up and gives more than 1 or 2 players over the maximum player count of the BG 10v12 for example due to someone or some players being in a group or raid to queue into the battleground.
This offsets the above part and can bug out the queuing system, resulting in more than the maximum players.
the really only way to fix it is implement a checksum for the queuing system and have no more than 10 players actively in the BG queue portion of that battleground, as well as checking the individual active battlegrounds themselves. Pretty much, they would have to make an algorithm for it so group queues and raid queues count correctly into the queue system and wont force 5 players ina group queue to join a wsg with 6 or 7 players already in it, exceeding the player capacity.

[Gira]

Yeah always....

[Arise]

It is very simple. It means there are more hordes than alliance in the queue.

If it was the other way around, the numbers would also be the other way around.

[Zygoth]

^^^