Quickplay Autohost Matchmaker

Right now there aren't enough players to allow playing small team games on the matchmaker. There have been numerous complaints that the teams room's 32 player limit is too liberal. Instead of limiting it, I would like to test the hypothesis that players are willing to play smaller, balanced team games if they were to present themselves.

As a solution, I propose a new feature for the matchmaker. Whenever a game ends on the teams autohost, all players are presented with a matchmaker pop-up, asking whether they'd be interested in a small teams game. All people who accepted will be put in the matchmaker with maximum search range. Games are created instantly without any further pop-ups. If a person declined or couldn't be put in a balanced MM game, they remain in the teams room as before.

The feature would only be active once a certain minimum number of players have joined the autohost. If you declined once, you won't be bothered again for the rest of the day. The Accept/Decline time falls right into the poll-free time described in the other thread, so you wouldn't miss out on any polls. Accepting and entering a match would take away the chance to talk about the last game though.

As in the other thread, what do you think about this? Would it disrupt your ZK play?

I support any change even remotely capable of making two teamgames happen at the same time instead of a single 16v16.

Senaven this is just my take on it. It's a little annoying but you can still play every game mode. Would you rather limit all hosts to a small number of players and possibly lose big teams players over it?

Fealthas already the case. Everybody who's not afk and hasn't declined before is offered a game. After all you're in a room to play, right?

This?


18% wanting to play nothing bigger than 2v2-4v4 is a sizeable part of the playerbase. Add some more for those who would still like to allow big battles but also play the samller ones. The matchmaker could also be used for bigger battles, but I first want to see enough players using it to get those small team battles..

It's good that something is done to try and gently push the community to play smaller team games, because:
- games more likely to be available at all times of day
- less performance issues
- more games running simultaneously, lower waiting times


Currently teams MM share the same "competitive" status and rank as 1v1 MM. Maybe more people would randomly join in if it were casual instead? I would.

Another aspect of this is the lack of incentive to hold ladder positions. There could be awards for holding a top-X position on the competitive ladder at the end of each month, and for N consecutive months.