Arena Time Limits...
Posted: 07 Mar 2009, 01:24
This is something that I have noticed before, but tonight it really came to my attention.
Both my arena maps came up in a row. While I love seeing both my maps being played I feel like the time limits might be a problem.
Not only for possibly causing a dislike for my maps or arena in general but for player count on the servers so I thought it would be good to draw your attention to it and see if something can be done.
Most maps seem to play out by either a number of rounds (King of the train seems to never last longer than 10 minutes - 2 rounds). CP maps I'm not sure about, I think we got 3 rounds of Japan, then a sudden death round and map change. Japan played for awhile but the server numbers stayed high.
The player numbers started dropping through my maps. Possibly because some people don't like them, possibly because some people don't like arena, maybe alot of it was because it was getting late.
But I think most likely because the time limit was like 30+ minutes. I think most people including myself can suffer through 10-15 minutes of a map they don't like (or gameplay they don't like) if they know another map is coming up soon, but when they see that timer at 20+ minutes they decide to log off.
So I was wondering if maybe you guys can cap the time limit for arena at 15-20 minutes. Personally I think that's a pretty good time to play a small map, get used to it and have fun. But even I was getting bored towards the end of each of my maps.
Not sure if it's possible to add time limits like that server side, but I think in the long run it might be a good thing for the server.
Both my arena maps came up in a row. While I love seeing both my maps being played I feel like the time limits might be a problem.
Not only for possibly causing a dislike for my maps or arena in general but for player count on the servers so I thought it would be good to draw your attention to it and see if something can be done.
Most maps seem to play out by either a number of rounds (King of the train seems to never last longer than 10 minutes - 2 rounds). CP maps I'm not sure about, I think we got 3 rounds of Japan, then a sudden death round and map change. Japan played for awhile but the server numbers stayed high.
The player numbers started dropping through my maps. Possibly because some people don't like them, possibly because some people don't like arena, maybe alot of it was because it was getting late.
But I think most likely because the time limit was like 30+ minutes. I think most people including myself can suffer through 10-15 minutes of a map they don't like (or gameplay they don't like) if they know another map is coming up soon, but when they see that timer at 20+ minutes they decide to log off.
So I was wondering if maybe you guys can cap the time limit for arena at 15-20 minutes. Personally I think that's a pretty good time to play a small map, get used to it and have fun. But even I was getting bored towards the end of each of my maps.
Not sure if it's possible to add time limits like that server side, but I think in the long run it might be a good thing for the server.