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[Sifright]

A poll to gather information about how people would like map selection to work


Explanation: Warcraft 3 method only allows you to deselect a few maps. so you couldn't use this to just play one map all the time.

[Khobai]

I would rather just see a lobby system where you choose the map when creating the game.

[Sifright]

Khobai, on 21 February 2013 - 03:32 AM, said:

I would rather just see a lobby system where you choose the map when creating the game.

did you misvote then? there is an option which semi represents your choice.

[Kain]

I miss the option: "Both"

- Randomizing (with map selecting, which maps to include)
- Single Map Selecting

[PoLaR]

I was thinking It would be cool to have the option of voting for two different maps before the match begins by voting.. but I suppose this wouldn't be very fair considering premades would have the majority of the votes :| Still, It would be nice to vote against River City Night every now and then.

[Sifright]

Kain, on 21 February 2013 - 03:41 AM, said:

I miss the option: "Both"

- Randomizing (with map selecting, which maps to include)
- Single Map Selecting

ultimately if you are able to choose a single map the other option becomes superfluous, it could be included as a side thing by pgi but being able to choose a single map supersedes the other option.

[Megacromulent]

Sifright, on 21 February 2013 - 03:51 AM, said:

ultimately if you are able to choose a single map the other option becomes superfluous, it could be included as a side thing by pgi but being able to choose a single map supersedes the other option.

I think he meant something like this in the game lobby:

Choose game: [Random] [Select Map]

[Sifright]

bump

[Shismar]

I would imagine a system where you have to select at least three or four maps out of the current eight (?) might work rather well. Out of those it would be random.

Of course some maps would get rather little play time. That is better imo than forcing players to play every map as it comes up randomly and where some folks simply disconnect. Which I think is unfair towards the other players and never do this.

Problem might be how to integrate this with the matchmaker as it could make it much more difficult to find enough players. The algorithm could first select a random map for the first player in the queue which is part of his set. Then only use players who also have this map in their selection and check if they fit (Elo, weight class, magic mumbo jumbo number). Popular maps would have rather closely matched teams whereas unpopular ones may have some serious spread.

For now I am happy with the random maps. I'd just like to see Alpine one day.

[Whompity]

There's another reason NOT to be able to pick your map:

It's not fair to everyone else.

What I mean by that, is... if you build a splattercat and only enable maps that favour that build, your K/D and W/L stats are going to artificially inflate because you are always playing on the most advantageous playing field for your build.

[Voridan Atreides]

I don't know. It would be nice if I didn't have to play Frozen City and River City all day. A system where we choose maps would complicate things though.

Edited by Voridan Atreides, 21 February 2013 - 12:34 PM.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Until community warfare is introduced in some form or fashion, as much as I HATE RCN and as often as I'm horribly tricked into playing high heat builds on Caustic, I voted random.

CW will replace random mappage potentially, in influencing people on how they do their builds and reduce min-max builds to the pilots ballsy and capable enough or merely ballsy (and an easy kill) pilots so that there's some diversity to tactics and matches imo. Until then, since we're still basically beta testing fight mechanics, let the randomness of maps do that for the health of the game.

[xMEPHISTOx]

Maps when pugging should be random but there should be a 'training' room as it were, so that teams can train on maps and when a new map comes out you can go check it out without having to wait several matches hoping to get the new one.
But surely in time they will get to it. I think I read somewhere at sometime that a 'training' room was in the works however there was no timeline on when it would be added.
But would be nice.