Faster game starts

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Licho 13 years ago I would like to invite people into discussion how to make games start faster and easier. Atm people spend unreasonable ammount of time in lobby, or waiting for people to ready up etc.. Here are some ideas: http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/issues/detail?id=415&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/issues/detail?id=415&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago [url]http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/issues/detail?id=415&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary[/url] There? +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Copy & Paste works fine licho, stop spamming posts >:( +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago My Solution: Springie,1,2,3 2v2 - 6v6 Lobby with Manage locked on. 5min Interval between games, if enough players are available. After 5min, launch game. Map cycle for suggestable team game maps with a veto option to skip 1 map per interval. If teams uneven, include CAI on losing team. - Maps used are the Team Map Pack Springie4,5 1v1 Lobby. 3min interval between games, if no second player available, 2nd player slot is taken by CAI. Veto available for skipping 1 map per interval. - Maps used are in the 1v1 Map Pack Springie6 1-8 vs Chicken. 5min interval between games, Chicken Difficulty based upon average elo. Map cycle implimented with veto option again. - Maps used are in the Chicken Map Pack Springie7 FFA Lobby, 3-10 players. With 3min interval. Map available depends on number of players. Veto option to cycle between maps. - Maps used are in the FFA Map Pack All Maps used in cycles are included in a map pack that can be downloaded from the home page. New maps to added with later expansion would be included in a featured map pack. +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Reduce intervals of 5min to 2min, and 3min to 1min. With map packs available on the website home site, there will be no need for downloading between games. +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago That sounds relatively simple to do. But what about people not ready up ingame? I would still like to auto-force them after say 2 minutes ingame. +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Auto force yeah.. any non-ready players will automatically start center of their box and a !ring call would allarm if their unit is not moved within 30seconds of game start, that player is forfeit and that com becomes available to be taken, along with econ and plop. +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Autoforce after 1min when half of the players have arrived. Reduced to 30seconds if all players are ingame. +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Map Packs suggestions should be requested. +0 / -0
jiero 13 years ago Each factory give a free con and raider for 400 cost free.... +0 / -0
Jasper 13 years ago How about adding a map cycle. Right now, we end up playing the same 4 or 5 maps all the time. The map would also need to change based on team side. +0 / -0
Jasper 13 years ago team size +0 / -0
Eximius 13 years ago This sounds like you are robots designed to play games endlessly. Just sayin'.... +0 / -0
Loh[KoCN] 13 years ago Eximus, Zero-K is your life now. Send me your woman.. naked, and embrace this game forever. +0 / -0
Angellus 13 years ago Please no in-game ready state, my computer takes up to 2 minutes to load depending on the map loaded (large maps cost up to two minutes, smaller maps up to 1 minute) I could not play if that were to get trough. I would also like to see some of the springie servers adaptable as they are now. It has its charm the way it is now, the boss just needs veto-right to ready a player up, OR a !ring should make a pop up 'always on top' for the not-ready player, giving him a choise to ready up OR spectate/leave lobby. +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago It does not matter it takes long to load angellus, thats whole point of it .. if yo dont want to play you just spec ingame or quit and the rest plays :) Dont worry it will wait for map +0 / -0
Angellus 13 years ago So it will start the 60sec countdown once everyone is done loading? Won't that make people who crash on startup gamebreakers? +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago On the contrary, it will make them NOT game breakers.. You will setup teams ingame .. Meaning people who crash on load simply wont appear in the list and you can balance stuff without them +0 / -0
Angellus 13 years ago But then how will it be arranged that people with slower pc's can still participate? (You WILL get kicked/reported lost if you take more then 20 seconds loading already xD) Is a loading bar possible? (like C&C generals for example?) +0 / -0

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