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Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:30 am
When Matchmaking is used, the "Do you want to play against the AI?" question that pops up after one minute stops the Matchmaking from running even if you answer "No". This has a very serious effect on Matchmaking play. It makes it impossible for teams whose Team Value differs by more than about 150 to play against each other!
For example, yesterday evening a new player and a more experienced player (neither was me) were trying to get a ranked match going. They tried 5 times and couldn't get the game started. The new team was TV1000 and the old one TV1140. Every time the popup came up and stopped the MM from running and stopped them from playing.
This is very bad especially for new players. It is unnecessarily hard for them to get games when the more exprienced players are having problems using their existing teams. A large part of the attraction of Dungeonbowl is in developing your team. The popup is making it hard to use the developed teams. Surely it is not the intention of Cyanide to do that?
Dungeonbowl has a rule system in place to allow teams with different TV values to play together, the inducement money. It is an accepted part of the game. The popup question is killing a large part of the game. It absolutely should not do that!
The popup should be fixed as soon as it can. The question can still come up at one minute but it should not stop the Matchmaking algorithm from running (it can pause it, but if the player answers "No", it should continue from the same place it paused in, it should not restart from the beginning). It must be possible for teams with even a TV difference of 500 to play against each other, like it always was possible before the AI popup arrived.
By the way, the popup is still in French. It has not been fixed for two months now. It's very confusing to non-French speaking players (who are the majority of players).
For example, yesterday evening a new player and a more experienced player (neither was me) were trying to get a ranked match going. They tried 5 times and couldn't get the game started. The new team was TV1000 and the old one TV1140. Every time the popup came up and stopped the MM from running and stopped them from playing.
This is very bad especially for new players. It is unnecessarily hard for them to get games when the more exprienced players are having problems using their existing teams. A large part of the attraction of Dungeonbowl is in developing your team. The popup is making it hard to use the developed teams. Surely it is not the intention of Cyanide to do that?
Dungeonbowl has a rule system in place to allow teams with different TV values to play together, the inducement money. It is an accepted part of the game. The popup question is killing a large part of the game. It absolutely should not do that!
The popup should be fixed as soon as it can. The question can still come up at one minute but it should not stop the Matchmaking algorithm from running (it can pause it, but if the player answers "No", it should continue from the same place it paused in, it should not restart from the beginning). It must be possible for teams with even a TV difference of 500 to play against each other, like it always was possible before the AI popup arrived.
By the way, the popup is still in French. It has not been fixed for two months now. It's very confusing to non-French speaking players (who are the majority of players).
