The recent addition of the “favourite” function and regular mappool updates have been an improvement but this has come with some new problems.
Many games get decided before the game even starts
What do I mean with this? Well I am pretty good on water maps so I always favourite the water map in the mappol. Great what’s the problem? Well I don’t always get to play my map because sometimes my opponent bans it, so my Elo Rating is inflated compared to other players on Land maps and the opposite is true on water maps so the number of close games has gone down.
"Arabia only"
A lot of people have set Arabia or Arena as there home map witch is fine but I like to play a more diverse set of maps so I have 2 choices, ban Arabia and Arena or play 85% of my games on these maps.
Small number of maps in the Mappool
There used to be 9 maps now there are 7, I don’t know why but I hate it. The repetition of the favourite system doesn’t help here and sometimes there is multiple maps with very similar gameplay (Valley Arabia Cenotes for example) reducing variate even more.
Voting every 14 days is to much
I like having a changing mappool (especially when it is this small) but having to vote all the time gets people disinterested (at least it does for me) I would much rather have a bigger mappool and only vote once a month.
How can we fix these problems without introducing new problems for Arabia/Arena only players? Well here is my Idea A pool of Mappools (minus the bad image editing)
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This would give players that like to play 1 style of map more control over there maps while also increasing the available number of maps for people like me that like to play on a bigger set of maps. And this would allow for separate Elo systems for different kind of maps just like we have for DM and RM giving us more close games across all map types.
(also posted this on the official forum )
Many games get decided before the game even starts
What do I mean with this? Well I am pretty good on water maps so I always favourite the water map in the mappol. Great what’s the problem? Well I don’t always get to play my map because sometimes my opponent bans it, so my Elo Rating is inflated compared to other players on Land maps and the opposite is true on water maps so the number of close games has gone down.
"Arabia only"
A lot of people have set Arabia or Arena as there home map witch is fine but I like to play a more diverse set of maps so I have 2 choices, ban Arabia and Arena or play 85% of my games on these maps.
Small number of maps in the Mappool
There used to be 9 maps now there are 7, I don’t know why but I hate it. The repetition of the favourite system doesn’t help here and sometimes there is multiple maps with very similar gameplay (Valley Arabia Cenotes for example) reducing variate even more.
Voting every 14 days is to much
I like having a changing mappool (especially when it is this small) but having to vote all the time gets people disinterested (at least it does for me) I would much rather have a bigger mappool and only vote once a month.
How can we fix these problems without introducing new problems for Arabia/Arena only players? Well here is my Idea A pool of Mappools (minus the bad image editing)
bettermm1920×1080 829 KB
This would give players that like to play 1 style of map more control over there maps while also increasing the available number of maps for people like me that like to play on a bigger set of maps. And this would allow for separate Elo systems for different kind of maps just like we have for DM and RM giving us more close games across all map types.
(also posted this on the official forum )
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