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[HRR Insanity]

Currently, it appears that the map selection weights all maps equally.

River City (night) - 12.5%
River City (day) - 12.5%
Frozen City - 12.5%
Frozen City (night) - 12.5%
Forest Colony - 12.5%
Forest Colony Snow - 12.5%
Caustic Valley - 12.5%
Alpine - 12.5%

As you can see, many maps are over-represented.

It would be better to weight maps based on the basic map type.

Please re-weight the maps as follows:

River City (night) - 5%
River City (day) - 15%
Frozen City - 10%
Frozen City (night) - 10%
Forest Colony - 10%
Forest Colony Snow - 10%
Caustic Valley - 20%
Alpine - 20%

Thus, we get a more regular rotation with fewer instances of poor visibility... but they still happen.

Also, please track the players 'last 5 maps' and try to select the map that the least # of people have played.

[White Panther]

Agreed. I now have to play regular frozen city 100% thermal because it hurts my eyes (too bright).

River city night, I would like to use night vision but the glare off the building from it also hurts my eyes. I wish night vision had less glare but because of the way it is I would like to be playing river city night alot less.

[wickwire]

/sign

[HRR Insanity]

I've been thinking about how to minimize map repeats...

I think if you implement a scoring system for map selection it would work.

16 people drop.

If they all add a 'point' to the maps they just previously played... then there will be a map with a low score. That map should be the one selected. Then, the next drop, that map would have a higher score. Over time, you'd likely end up playing a lot more balanced selection of maps, especially if you're in a group (which would therefore be seeing the same maps and would proportionally increase that maps 'down-weighting').

[Talrich]

I agree completely with both ideas in the original post. I think the proposed probabilities are spot on.

-Talrich