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Thread: The queue for AT is too damn high!12 May 2015, 20:40 PM That would introduce fragmentation to the automatch pool, which means longer wait times and less balanced matchups in general for everyone, especially people who don't opt for faster games at the expense of balanced matches. And honestly, no regular player is going to opt into getting destroyed by someone far better than them, which is what an option like this would essentially be. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The queue for AT is too damn high!12 May 2015, 19:29 PM But that still negatively affects other players by making it more likely that they experience an imbalanced matchup. Scaling is already in place to expand your pool of potential matches as your queue time increases. Accelerating that scaling artificially would screw up the balance of equal matches vs. queue times that's built into the algorithm. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The queue for AT is too damn high!12 May 2015, 19:09 PM Because if you say "I don't care, match me with anyone", you're potentially screwing over a less-skilled person who may have found a more balanced matchup in the time it would have taken for the algorithm to expand your player pool enough to get matched with him anyways. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The queue for AT is too damn high!12 May 2015, 18:58 PM That post doesn't make sense though, because it's completely contradictory and it's ignorant of the challenges associated with matchmaking algorithms. First of all, it says "the majority of CoH players don't play CoH for the competition" and follows it up with "getting instantly owned is the opposite of fun". Which is it? Competing is simply the act of trying to beat someone else in an activity. If you don't care about competition, by definition you don't care about winning or losing. Except the post says people do care about it because people don't like losing. Which means people are competing. Make up your mind. It's also incredibly unrealistic. Sure, you could put hard limits on skill gaps, but that means the very real possibility that players at extreme ends of the skill spectrum (very good and very bad) may not find games even after multiple hours of searching. That's unacceptable. Equally unacceptable is matching players regardless of skill level, because while it drastically reduces wait times, it also reduces match quality. The correct solution is somewhere in between. Some system that balances finding even matches with limiting players to reasonable queue times. If only Relic implemented a system like that... Wait a minute... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic, the Community, and the NDA10 May 2015, 21:28 PM It's sad that their solution is giving out a single password for forum access. It's really not hard to link forum accounts to Steam accounts. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Original factions: too much locked behind commanders8 May 2015, 19:16 PM Sure, except adding basic stuff like that won't seriously improve the diversity of the factions. They're not bland because you can't build sandbags or tank traps. The problem is far deeper than that. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Original factions: too much locked behind commanders8 May 2015, 18:40 PM Common sense and the power of observation? Also the fact that back in October 2013, after they had released their first batch of DLC commanders, they were planning on releasing 4 commanders per month. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Original factions: too much locked behind commanders8 May 2015, 18:02 PM This was a conscious design decision made to push commanders. Undoing it would require serious redesign work, which is extremely unlikely to happen. The blandness of CoH2 factions without commanders is its biggest design issue, and one that Relic hasn't seemed too keen on addressing, as doing so would undermine their entire business model. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic, the Community, and the NDA7 May 2015, 13:11 PM You can't control the opinion of the masses. If people think the NDA is stupid, you're going to hear about it, and no appeal to "honour" is going to change that. If people thought this NDA was totally reasonable, there wouldn't be any problems. This is more of this Relic-guided "it's the community's fault, not ours" mentality that shows up time and again, from that toxic community members post by Noun to shit like this. It just doesn't make any sense how far some people go to deflect blame around here. When Valve announced their paid mods plan for Skyrim, I thought it was a great initiative, and I didn't understand the incredible backlash they received for it. But you know what? My opinion of something isn't the be-all-end-all, and the majority made it abundantly clear that they disagreed with me, and Valve acted on that majority opinion. It's not about what is "right", or "moral", or "honourable", it's about what the majority of people perceive. If the majority of people think the NDA is bullshit, appealing to "honour" is just wasting your time. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Its official!!! Napalm joins in the Relic Defense Force6 May 2015, 23:35 PM Narcissism is a hell of a drug. In: Lobby