PlayerJuggler disabled

I laughed pretty hard at that picture.

I approve of this change -nod-

The poll is here ..



just for the reference and to showoff new forum feature :-)

Well, firstly, if a game has 9ppl and it's a 4v4 game, then anyone who has activated "find me a game" gets moved out if a game can be found. 9th player stays in if no game can be found among other ppl who have clicked "find me a game", do send a warning in this case.

Only one gets moved out (random among equal considerations, but elo matching will often favour one), the rest keep their game.
Exceptions:
9 ppl is odd and thus 1, 3 or 5 ppl (if so many have clicked "find a game") could be moved out to leave an even number behind. (note that 7 cannot be moved since that would turn it into 1v1)
Prefer to move as little ppl as possible. Movement should be disfavoured over game preferences.

If none have clicked "find a game", send a periodic warning in the chat that they have too many ppl and can't start. Let the players work out who should click "find a game" or maybe someone will spec.


Obviously, if someone sits in a small teams room without clicking "find a game", don't move him. But do move other people into that room if a small team game can be made with him.
If multiple unmovable people in separate small teams exist at equal considerations, then pick one randomly. (elo match will often favour one set over others)

Well, at least it built me a few FFAs before it went down, so hard to get FFAs going otherwise.

Good riddance!

If a reduced juggler with a propper "Play now" button is added I would still want small teamgame handling. Maybe the small teamgame host should autosplit players if it reaches a size of 9.

True, Licho, that you currently can actively look for other rooms, e.g. when your room os too full, but to my experience having to do one click or several is sometimes what makes the big difference.

I would like to have the 'find me game' button, but moreover I also would like to see the other rooms in parallel to the chat in the room. With the current option i can either see the chat of the room I am in on the full screen or see the other rooms with only 5 (or so lines) of the chat, which is to little to follow the chat (for me).

How aboout the following: Always display 4-5 rooms which are looking for player (based on the number of players in relative to the goal (1 person in 1v1, 2-3 persons in small teams...). This way all you need to do is hover over the rooms to see who is in (which I consider important) and have to do only one click if you want to change...perhaps with a 'find ma game' buttoen right next to it, if I am undecided, that would be the 'perfect' solution for me.

Can the current display in the lobby be actually changed to that kind of view already?

I have no idea on how much effort this would be to implement. And I also have no idea, if others might also would like this approach?

The system never was for "finding" games.. it was for finding partners to make games!

We dont need "find a game" button.
Anything even less ambitious than juggler is imo waste of effort.

The "find me a game" button only works when there are enough ppl to form games from those who have clicked it. So, I suppose the problem stems from not having enough players.