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fixing single-lobby TAW

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USrankdngrnoodl
11 hours ago
I played a similarly-sized game that didn't have problems seeding multiple lobbies. I think the way it achieved that was capping the spectator count for a game that was full on players. So, people wanting to play wouldn't be able to spectate and would have to join a new lobby. Just a thought
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USrankdngrnoodl
11 hours ago
To clarify here, anyone could join as spectator or player until the total number of participants reached the regular cap (let's say 32), then had an additional 2 spaces for spectator-only participants
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USrankPLT_skigear
7 hours ago
Yeah playing other smaller playerbase games they often just have servers that get full so you play the other servers. Even if you sort of degrade the idea of having a single room to hang out in thats probably a good thing to prevent one-room culture. I think after waiting a bit after the room shrink experiment this could be another thing to try.

To be honest though maybe the problem is that all the time spent on trying to mess with the lobby system and advocating for modifications and complaining about modifications isn't being spent on promoting the game lol
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DErankBrackman
111 minutes ago
There is a thread with more refined versions of this idea.
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Another solution is to prevent joining a running room if you are neither going to spectate nor play the running game. Then your best chance to get in a game is to go to another room. Do you know any non-Spring RTS where people can join a running game room neither to spectate it nor to play in it, but to wait for the game to end to start another one? This doesn't make any sense! If they want to play, force them to go to a free waiting room to play. When a game starts, merge its waiting list players to that other waiting room. And when a teams game ends, merge all their players into that waiting room. Then, players do not miss a chance to join the next big game by being in that waiting room.
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GBrankmr0neoncat
74 minutes ago
Banning spectators would just cause the issue of people coming to the game and then resigning instantly
The thing we should learn as a society from just spectating what is going on around us is that increasing regulations only stifles competition and does not help. A more fair even playing field could be kept by allowing spectators.
We need to stop coming up with all these insane and loopy ideas. What next remove shield bot to make TAW more usable?
In conclusion all these changes are actually harming the main lobbies in my opinion as i remember weekends where TAW consistently had 50+ players on a saturday night and some weekend's now there isn't even a queue to begin with.
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