Have playing magician push you forward in the bunny queue. For every X number of points while playing magician you move further in bunny queue.
Advertise it so folks play magician more. Thereby balance!
#Bunny Queue Fix
rich cape
wind rain
for a public playtest, it wouldn't be a good idea, but maybe as a full release idea, that could work.
torpid lake
The problem is that's a bandaid solution. Its works in the short term, but it burns players out because they feel forced to play the side they dont want to just to play the side they do want too, and eventually might decide to just leave altogether since theyre not getting to play the side they actually want to.
Instead, devs should figure out why bunnies dont want to play magician, and try to make people want to play that side more, so not only are the queues balanced, but theyre filled with players who actually want to be in that role
radiant musk
The problem is that's a bandaid solution. Its works in the short term, but it bu...
I also think that this speaks to a. more fundamental issue. Magician is clearly overall less fun to the player base than bunny. Gotta figure out why and try to fix it at the root
torpid lake
Part of it too might also be because its an alpha though. The core gameplay loop is imperfect (hard to get crafting materials, no permanent meta progress), and even if it were better, no one know if meta progress/gears gained would make it to live.
So the only thing you can carry over is knowledge, and the knowledge ceiling and map knowledge barrier is much higher for bunnies, so theyre trying to get in more games in that role, adding to the disparity