Forest Colony 31
Frozen City 31
Caustic Valley 70
River City 48
Forest Colony Snow 44
Frozen City Night 35
River City Night 39
Alpine Peaks 88
Tourmaline Desert 83
Canyon Network 90
Terra Therma 69
Crimson Strait 87
HPG Manifold 79
The Mining Collective 11
I get Alpine, Crimson and Canyon more than any map and far more than the original maps. It seems to skew in favor of the larger maps in the pool. The problem is we have so very few maps, that this leads to such frequent repetition of an even smaller subset of maps that it really makes the game feel barren. I get really rather sick of seeing certain maps every time I launch (funnily enough I've gotten Canyon more often than Mining, since it's release, despite mining supposedly being weighted higher).
The solution to such a situation seems simple enough, and I've been imploring PGI to implement it since Closed Beta.. give us bloody map selection. I don't need a hidden dice deciding to stick me in canyon 9 times in a row, if I want to play canyon all night I can choose to do so. I am actually capable of deciding what I want to play, as is every other player. This is an unnecessary measure of automation that only servers to irritate your players when they get forced to drop in maps they don't enjoy playing, and annoys them further when the RNG chokes and spits out the same map 10 matches in a row.
The only possible downside to map selection is that certain maps may become less played. An issue easily solved by giving maps with low queue numbers reward bonuses, just give a multiplier for cbills and/or exp on a map that needs players. If a map is so undesirable to play on that such bonuses don't even encourage it's use, I'd argue the problem lies with the map itself and is something the devs need to look at.
The other night a mate of mine decided to do some drops, having not played the game before. We actually discussed several things but the most pertinent here was, after about an hour he asked me how many maps were in the game, when I told him it was eleven or so with some minor variants he said he was surprised and would have guessed around five and asked if he was missing an option to see the rest of them.
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Edited by Quxudica, 27 September 2014 - 04:02 AM.