From Remmy's Thread - The Decline Of BA Players?

[knorke]

well at least its DSD now and not speedmetal anymore
for me i found the best games are on the [fi] FFA BA host at the moment.
best games as in factoring in fun, waiting time, skill level, interesstingness, lack of fail. just some smaller maps for 3 to 5 players need to be added to the rotation then i would play this all the time maybe.

if i join a 1v1 i can be sure to either play a veteran who will kick my ass without blinking who is afk since hours, or a total noob who tries to rush tech t2makes no lab at all or someone who wants to 1v1 something gaytastic like surpreme islands

fixed.

finding players for 1v1 takes too long.
dsd starts in moderate time but is lame blabla
i would like to play 2v2 on maps like small divide again but people are always like wait for 4v4 blabladfdfb v

for the first games new players join something with many players because its "easier" and afterwards people still play those games because you get to play with hundreds of units at once. For longtime players thats not new anymore but for an Warcraft 3 player its a nice change and impressive.
Thats the reason why 8v8 is popular.

did you look at the online gaming of other rts?
even starcraft is 50% fa$te$t po$$ible map - all your miners can mine that mineral, some towerdefense or big game hunters. Other 40% is Lost Temples and 10% different maps.
C&C Generals is/was like 15min no rush, money maps and some people who try to rush then disconnect if it they fail.
Maybe Starcraft 2 is different as they have this really big hype with esport, wow and stuff.

I also saw the way SD (spring downloader interfaced lobby comed up)
its a nice idea, but a bit far from an actual lobby, more of a downloader with some fast matching for casual random games, its a great idea but requires a lot more people, if a player clicks to play nota and only finds himself stuck for an hour waiting hell leave.

i use SD atm and you can join battles like in other lobbies by clicking on them in the battle list. i never used the match making. only stupid thing is no map selection list, must use !map and to (un)ready you must set the min player thing to 0 (ready) or 99 (unready)