I would have 2 options on the menu screen for the consoles. a 'join lobby' and 'join instant game'. if you cant be bothered waiting for a lobby to fill then obviously you would click on instant game. this option would be the same way that the game works now for the consoles where you join a game with bots and it fills up with humans as the game progresses through time.

the lobby however would need to have an option of being able to play the game even if the lobby is not full if its an 8 v 8 your wanting. but this could also be a problem if everybody selected start game if the lobby is only half full. and it would mean that the lobby option would be end up being like the way brink is now with half full games of human players.

so how would you work out how lobbys would work? would it be only play the game when lobby is full. which could be a lot of waiting about. and is this what people want to be doing with there time on brink just waiting about. i don't think so? the game doesn't have many players and i think lobbys only really work with very popular games and as we all know brink has a small following.

so how do we make a lobby system work with brink? i don't know but I'm interested in hearing what your solution to the problem could be.