Are you serious ? I saw that about 10 years ago...smoth wrote:
yeah, only 1 server.. with people playing...
And you know what ? In your example, there is no 8v8 game !!!
You are demonstrating what we tried to say !
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Are you serious ? I saw that about 10 years ago...smoth wrote:
yeah, only 1 server.. with people playing...
Saw what? DSD didn't exist in 2005, and I just checked, it was created sometime in 06...zalaad wrote:Are you serious ? I saw that about 10 years ago...smoth wrote:
yeah, only 1 server.. with people playing...
Why does it need to. Please complete your thoughts.zalaad wrote:And you know what ? In your example, there is no 8v8 game !!!
What precisely is that? your posts are not making a lot of sense.zalaad wrote:You are demonstrating what we tried to say !
When you don't like the message, shoot the messenger !NeOmega wrote: User was warned for this post. Felonies 1 & 2 - please try to be constructive. (Silentwings)
FTFY. Fwiw, that's what DOTA did.I don't know the exact reasons why this phenomena occurs, but it would definitely be an interesting thing to properly research and exploit
This is actually the case (AFAIC) : Map filtering (starting points + size) with max team size allowed.raaar wrote:...there are often rooms with less players, but no information about intent. What's the team size they are looking for? Are they waiting for something or someone? Are they almost ready to go?
In life exactly, not only on games.raaar wrote:people flocking to the same overcrowded room instead of joining other rooms is something that i see happening in all spring games.
No, for 3 most reasons :raaar wrote:maybe the human would join a 2v2 or even 1v1 room with 1 player left to start instead of the room with most players if he knew about it.
Well thanks to Bluestone, Dansan, Abma and Braindamage for their work for openBattle widget.raaar wrote:We could use improved status messages about game rooms, with target team size and number of players left to start.
No bothering again, but what about have a serious reflexion on spec limit to16 (-or less- it will be a nice effort from the excessive 128 value) + autolock running games then ?Jazcash wrote:...A healthy solution for BA that doesn't involve forcing server owners' hands would be to get a group of players to agree to not play DSD and to instead wait on another server that doesn't have the possibility of switching to DSD. This would only really work well if you got enough DSD usuals to agree to do this, which might be quite difficult. Eventually, at some point in time, the non-DSD group will be the server with the most players open, and people will choose to join this server over DSD as it has more chance of starting sooner, which is what most people look for (imo).
Just the hope this topic won't be lock to continue talking about it.Jazcash wrote:Would be interested to hear other people's ideas and thoughts to deal with this problem (and it is a problem) that doesn't include any hacky solutions like forcing servers to comply or banning DSD.
I always had the intention of returning to Spring when BAR got into full-swing with active hosts and regular players, but if it's just going to end up back on 8v8 DSD I'm really not sure I want to. It's driven so many active players away and will continue to do so, quite a shame.
Did pretty much this many times, and it works. The main problem was that I would have to start every day from scratch (because somewhere in 24h all servers are empty).Jazcash wrote:
A healthy solution for BA that doesn't involve forcing server owners' hands would be to get a group of players to agree to not play DSD and to instead wait on another server that doesn't have the possibility of switching to DSD. This would only really work well if you got enough DSD usuals to agree to do this, which might be quite difficult. Eventually, at some point in time, the non-DSD group will be the server with the most players open, and people will choose to join this server over DSD as it has more chance of starting sooner, which is what most people look for (imo).
We've already tried to setup small rooms, even with rules to discard playersFabriceFABS wrote:
Well, welcome back.
Keep playing DSD ? Not exatly >> Keep joining 8v8 instead with DSD map or not.
More games = more spec (possibilities), right ?
[*]Limit the maximum number of players in a game (should be really < 8v8),
I repeat what was already written here:FabriceFABS wrote: [*]Limit the maximum number of spectators (<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 128),
[*]And finally when joining a running game won't be possible,[/list]
Spring will go much much better, like some others RTS games ?
Hi,ShockWave wrote:Hi to everyone, as first post in the forum!
I need to write or my account will be purged again, and this is the perfect post!
We ? Who ? Where ? When ? How long ? What setup exatly ?ShockWave wrote:We've already tried to setup small rooms,
1) Yes, but not only,ShockWave wrote:even with rules to discard players
by their TS, too low or too high, was a fail for 2 reason:
1) small games are loved by clan
2) most of people refuses to play into a small team, specially low skilled players.
They feel themselve protected into a big team, and viceversa, in a large
team a noob won't cause an epic drama, like it would be in a small team.
128 spec limit is a really silly value. 10-12 specs are really enough.ShockWave wrote:I repeat what was already written here:
In the past there were spectators limits with these effects:
increase of clicks in the X icon in the top bar of springlobby, because
none likes to wait hours watching a list of rooms, ready to click to get
your only opportunity to join the game, when game ends and someone quits.
Why quitting-rejoining action ?ShockWave wrote:In the case of quit with running game, you couldn't rejoin the game.
So why aren't they filling other rooms? because most of them are just
afk or want to spectate only.
Well, years ago (I saw some players receiving) I suffered public insults, blaming from specs and also from players.ShockWave wrote:Spectating games and insulting players within spectators comments is funny, at least
you have a bit of amusement if you weren't lucky enough to get a place, and in that
meantime you can try to start another game, asking other spectators to join other rooms,
otherwise you are forced to wait idle into an empty room.