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by danjiro » 06 Oct 2017 20:38
by icycalm » 08 Oct 2017 20:18
by recoil » 08 Oct 2017 23:23
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 01:15
Gitaxian wrote:That FFA was over 30 minutes in
The rest was just Diskraip cleaning up
Gitaxian wrote:The length of the game itself isn't how you should be measuring
What you should look at is the total playtime
10 players all playing for 30 minutes
Is more playtime than 2 players playing for an hour
Spawn wars has a worse playtime per player than large team games, since so many players get eliminated immediately
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 01:29
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 02:36
Gitax wrote:It was obvious that they wouldn't team up
Just as it was obvious Diskraip was in a winning position
Gitax wrote:Second, you did manage to solve the problem of lag in a 20+ player FFA
By killing off half the players right away
Thus making it a significantly smaller FFA
Gitax wrote:As I said, it makes more sense to measure by total playtime (edited)
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 02:51
Gitaxian wrote:They want big armies
They just want to figure out how big they can make them before the server crashes
And convert that to an optimized lobby setup
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 08:22
Gitaxian wrote:Icy, I'm not saying you need to sacrifice player count
I'm saying players who aren't actually playing don't count
icycalm wrote:Let me also reiterate that if we get more than 20 players, we will turn on spawn anywhere, and the first part of the game will be more or less pure comm-boxing, so if you don't like comm-boxing, it would be best if you didn't join, to avoid disappointment. The best way for you to think of the event, so that you won't be disappointed by it, is as a COMM-BOXING EVENT, with proper FFA play happening ONLY for the SURVIVORS of the comm-boxing. Interestingly, that's exactly what happens in Battle Royale fiction too: there are usually a bunch of deaths right at the start, followed by a slowing of tempo, with the occasional death here and there, and then another big bunch of deaths right at the end, so the event (whose name was Robo's brilliant idea) should live up to its namesake.
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 19:29
Marshii wrote:Get a grip on reality. Why would we want PA events to fail? Deluded.
by icycalm » 11 Oct 2017 19:35