When a player goes AFK, replace him with a bot. Almost every game I have played, has at least one AFK Player in it.
Having AI take over for AFK Players would greatly increase my enjoyment on this game.
Also -- If the Queue time is over 6 minutes, fill in the left-over spots with AI. I've been currently sitting in queue for 30 minutes.
If the Queue time is 10+ Minutes, I would normally just log out, but I'm multitasking so I don't mind waiting in Queue.
But, I would think most players would exit the game if they saw 10+ minutes Queue Time. If you launched the game with AI after 6 minutes of waiting in queue, then at least I could still play. (AI don't really ruin games I don't think)
Example: 5 players log in and join the queue, Queue time says 10+ minutes, 2 of the players exit the game and will play later. 4 more players log in and join the queue. see the 10+ minute queue time. 2 log out. (there are now 6 people in queue, when you could have had a 9 players in queue if they knew they would be able to play a game, but due to long queue times you are losing players)
If instead: 5 players log in, see 6 minute queue time, if more players log in, it will match them against players. But, if those 8 players do not queue by 6 minutes, it will fill in the remaining slots with AI Bots. This way you don't force everyone to log out simply because you don't have 8 players online.
(You currently have what I call the "minimum required players issue" Where because you do not have the minimum required players, players who log in, log out again, which makes it nearly impossible to reach the minimum required players unless you can give them a reason to stay online. Even when there aren't the minimum required players)