I don't even look at the ratings. Ranked q is just the Arena q. Unfortunately there are only a handful of players that q up, so it doesn't pop most hours of the day and when it does its the same 2-3 teams just mixed up. You can't get an accurate rating if you're not averaging your skill across a large sample size of players. A lot of non-pvp players are afraid of getting destroyed or just don't think the rewards are good enough. I also hear a lot of complaints about toxicity, but I never read what the randoms are typing anyway. Best way to resolve this is Unranked Arenas. The unranked q pops all the time and it seems like a diverse mix of players. That would make it harder to win trade and there would be less incentive to do so. I know your post is about rating, but this is something I've been trying to push more ahead of the new update.

Exactly, its a weekend. We need more players to get interested. Almost every guild you see is RP/PVE only.

I think that Unranked Arenas could be very popular with lower skill players. I'm sitting here on my 1-6 Marauder with my ~800 rating friend and we've been waiting for the solo q to pop for over an hour starting at 7:00pm on a Friday. The PVP community is shrinking because new and low skill players, as well as non-pvpers are reluctant to q up for ranked matches. Those who do play ranked are the same few players over and over again, who ironically complain nonstop about win traders and yet still quote leaderboard rankings. The Group Challenge Skirmishes are fun; especially for 2v2 and 3v3, but its hard to convince players to play without getting some sort of reward. Sometimes I can get an unranked Arena, but I'm sure the q prioritizes Warzones. I think more players would be interested in ranked if they could consistently practice arenas. Also, an arena q where I could q up with an undersized group and fill up to a 4v4 would be great. Unranked matches would have almost no incentives for players to trade wins, and with a higher population, it would be almost impossible. The whole point of this is to entice more players to try out PVP, arenas are extremely fun and you have more agency over the outcome than in a typical 8v8 warzone. Please consider adding an Unranked Arena Queue.

3rd Huttball arena coming up but no Voidstar 2. Come on man.

This post is incredible. I would like to see all of your ideas incorporated in one way or another. Particularly the healing boss. That could make a group dynamic of 2H 2T and 4D a little unbalanced, but they could work out the numbers some way. I know that my commando could have a reason to use the medical probes despite speccing gunnery.

I was about to mention this, glad its not just me. Hopefully its just a glitch that can be fixed. I hope it doesn't have to do with Dark vs. Light, they're the last one's i need.