I am certain that I am not alone in this feeling. Personally, I hate all the fortress maps because they rely on gameplay that I don't find stimulating. I know other people like them, but I have hated them from the beginning and all I want is the ability to not play them without spending twenty precious minutes doing nothing. Anyone else have these problems with another game mode or an answer on how to solve this one?
The Skirmishes, as people already pointed out, are your best bet, though you'll still find yourself being placed in Tugs of War, that are just as stupid, if not more. We really need a in-depth matchmaker filter that allows you to choose which maps and against which factions you want to be queued for. I've suggested it before, but people said i should stop crying and git gud to own everywhere because apparently playing EC is job and not a hobby.
Yeah, I also suggested a table showing ongoing games, that would tell you factions, how many on each side, how many guilders, how many minutes remaining. You could then choose to que at one or more of these, or at a new map, or pve, or the standard matchmaker. But I think they have a dream to do all this from the garrison. Not sure how.
The way how they tried to "fix" broken maps is just proof how serious they are taking their job. Also even when fixed maps need some random objeectives system to make missions more attractive to be not repeating same mission again and again. But I stopped to have any exceptations now. From release they are acting like didn`t care.
I have spent upwards of ten minutes waiting for a skirmish. And I haven't been able to play PVE since launch as anything but LSM (my least favorite faction).
