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[DarthHias]

Mister Blastman, on 30 November 2015 - 11:02 AM, said:

I love the minigame.

Embrace the minigame sisters and brothers! Behold its magnificence!

[Bishop Steiner]

Mystere, on 30 November 2015 - 11:54 AM, said:

Just like elections, when the 1% are the ones actually in control.

well, totally random political elections would at least be entertaining......

[pwnface]

Bishop Steiner, on 30 November 2015 - 11:15 AM, said:

Sorry, but "vote for what you want" doesn't work. We had that, and those who wanted map variety, or *gasp* to play conquest, were out of luck. Because anything that takes more thought than "murderbalL" is too hard for most people.

We didn't have multipliers before and players could change their vote.

Please re-read my OP. I'm asking for votes to be locked after cast so that people can't game the system and multipliers will go to people who truly aren't getting the maps they want.

[Mister Blastman]

Mystere, on 30 November 2015 - 11:54 AM, said:

Just like elections, when the 1% are the ones actually in control.

I exercised my power last night with my 12x multiplier. Forced Forest Colony was awesome! It was even Conquest, too. I could smell the tears everywhere.

[Sandpit]

Prosperity Park, on 30 November 2015 - 11:54 AM, said:

Keep the vote, make it blind.

That way people feel like they still have influence, but there would be no way to exploit the stacking mechanism since you can't simply vote for the underdog.

What exactly does "exploiting the stacking mechanism" mean?

Seriously.
"exploiting" this system equates to being able to pick one map you enjoy playing every several games. Can you explain to me how that's an exploit?

[DAYLEET]

I don't think a blind vote would change a lot if anything but it should still be a blind vote. Only because it's mostly a system to vote for the next popular thing if you dont like the winning one rather than the one you want. Snowball effect.

Maybe a true blind and no switching would bring us back to the first iteration like Bishop said but what can i say, it's not a good system. It's flawed, no one plays a game to get told they should be part of an exclusive plurality to enjoy it. It's just PGI ways of taking the mm responsibilities that everyone got mad about every now and then into the players hand "hey it's not our fault now, it's you guys" yeah really nice. I liked it better to get mad at a software than the people i share the game with.

Every time i played this event i went for what i wanted to play, only a few times i changed my mind to boot out another selection i didnt want. yet i still got multiplier pretty high before i win, 4x 8x 9x 10x.

In other games where there is map voting, we see the same thing. Except people quit and go on another server. People can't do that here. Then we couple that with a matchmaker inherent gap because Americas Army ways of enforcing roles and class was too simple and rewarded those who deserved it. We would rather have 50% of the population queue as heavy class all the time and then ***** that waiting time is long.

[Porcorosso101]

Mini game is fine - ive played mordor just once and im quite happy!

Looks like large maps r not so popular.....im sure PGI knows the stats

[TamCoan]

I got my multiplier up to 12x and stopped clicking. Now it's just like the old random where I don't do anything and see what loads. :-)

Honestly unless it's a match where I really, REALLY don't want to see that map, I could care less.

[Triordinant]

The whole mode voting thing ended MWO for me. I don't have a lot of time to spare as it is, but if I can't be guaranteed I'll be playing only the game mode I want then the little time I have is being wasted. I haven't patched the game since map/mode voting was announced and I won't until it's removed. Good thing there are so many other games to play now so in that sense the timing wasn't so bad.

[Revis Volek]

#YourVoteMatters

[jss78]

Death Proof, on 30 November 2015 - 10:42 AM, said:

I was surprised that it wasn't a blind vote from the beginning. Players really do not need to see how others are voting. Vote for what you want and see how the cards land.

I'll admit to drawing some r*tarded pleasure from the minigame. But truth be told, I cannot think of a single reason why it shouldn't be blind. I think the voting is fine as such, but I agree, make it blind.

Sometimes you get really silly things when people try to game the system. Especially when you try to "save" your vote, and put your x5 on Terra Therma at the last second to make it x6. Well, that works -- UNLESS there's a another person out there thinking the exact same thing. I've seen this a few times, a huge influx of votes to the most-hated map during the last second, actually making it win the vote.

Edited by jss78, 30 November 2015 - 01:28 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

pwnface, on 30 November 2015 - 11:59 AM, said:

We didn't have multipliers before and players could change their vote.

Please re-read my OP. I'm asking for votes to be locked after cast so that people can't game the system and multipliers will go to people who truly aren't getting the maps they want.

blind voting would work just as well. I'm not against either, but I have clicked the wrong one before by accident, too, and being able to change it is nice. That's why I would prefer a blind vote.

[JC Daxion]

Suko, on 30 November 2015 - 11:01 AM, said:

It's not a big deal and it's not dramatically affecting gameplay. Before voting was a thing I got Caustic Valley 4 times in a row. You'll never have it perfect and exactly the way you want it. Seriously people, just deal with it.

And now.... sense, I have only played 2 conquest matches, and Have yet to drop on terra.... Must have played 50+ matches.. To me that is total BS

I hate the voting all together,,I'm not getting better matches, like was stated for the reason it was done.. All that's happened is i play skirmish 95% of the time, on basically 3 or 4 maps.. How voting was thought to be a good idea is completely beyond me..
If you want to play a specific map, Go make a private match.. Its really quite simple.

[totgeboren]

I managed to get my map multiplier up to 6x, gonna see how far I can go.

[wolf74]

Make it so you can only pick 3 times total and what ever your 3rd one your stuck with like it or not.

[Steel Dragoon]

I felt like a down vote should have been implemented. Don't like the current map? Veto it. 13+ votes and the MM selects another map at random. No voting for the second map.

And we should always be able to select the match type.

[Deathlike]

I'll admit it's a fun mini-game, but it is massive trolling when you can see the casted votes (even when it isn't the exact # - the % is sufficient).

You don't go into elections knowing that your next to last vote is meaningless. In this case, you can benefit from picking the one you're not going to get. This is just as bad.

DarthRevis, on 30 November 2015 - 01:07 PM, said:

#YourVoteMatters

You forgot the old classic...

#rockthevote

Edited by Deathlike, 30 November 2015 - 02:01 PM.

[Saint Scarlett Johan]

I'm usually tabbed out unless I have a Star of the group. Then I like the minigame so I can get a stack of 5x or 6x have our group switch to all AC20 mediums then pick Therma Conquest.

[Karmen Baric]

Keep the vote exactly as it is, the maps have been much more varied with this method, i really like it and hope it stays !!

[Homeskilit]

I stopped voting after I got my multipliers to lucky numbers.