?go base limit

[ÆNIMA]

I'm tired of having 16+ people in spec waiting for the next game when those people could go off and play a game themselves. All attempts by anyone not an ER to start a game in base2 usually fail. Mainly because people aren't willing to go to base2.

I propose that there be some sort of speccer's limit in base (a limit that includes ERs).

I would suggest a limit of 30, but I don't like the idea of a fixed limit.

If the bot has the powers, I'd like the bot to set the limit to something around 25 while a game is in session. Anyone trying to enter the full arena will be directed to base2. That'll hopefully increase the numbers in base2...and the chances of a game starting is greater.

Also, DON'T GO AFK IN BASE.
Thoughts?

[Cumulonimbus]

I agree on the limit...thats if there are many people wanting to play. If you look at the twbd there are 17 squads that have actually played a twbd match and there are 16 places in twlb...

Maybe to resolve the many afkers in base there should be something like a !playing mode instead of a !notplaying.

[ÆNIMA]

I've mentioned the !playing thing before, not much feedback though.

[za gophar]

heres my thoughts. i think if people were not allowed in ?go base, either they wouldnt go to base2 at all, or they would go there and whoop it up, and within a week TW will have had too much basing and it will die.

[Stabwound]

I find that to be a perfectly horrible idea. No matter what, base2 is almost always a bad thing. Usually once everyone goes to base2, there is hardly anyone except the 16 people playing in base1. Then the same thing happens in base2, and when the game in base1 ends there usually isn't even enough people.

Also having a low limit like that is just stupid. Lots of people like myself like to go in to talk/idle or watch the game.

[Project]

I say we do away with the base arena period.

[Vehicle]

I think it's a dumb idea in my opinion. The more people watching, the more people introduced into base, which is the reason private basing went public.

Also, what happens when 25 newbs are in ?go base, and some good/halfway good player wants to play a base game? He is screwed because there are newbs sitting there who refuse to leave although they know damn well they will not get picked.

Generally when base2 is started, it's by the people who didn't get picked in ?go base. And if they suceed in getting enough to have an 8v8, the game usually sucks. Then, once the original base game ends, ?go base dies thanks to the lack of people. And once base2 ends, it also dies because the quality of the last game was so shitty. So by having 2 base games, base is in turn destroyed.

[Adman]

Bring back #secretbase!

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hmm

[Stabwound]

Mr. Gibberish: please realize that you don't have to spam a fucking thread if you want to check your newly update signiture. If you load one of your old posts and refresh it, it will use your new sig.

[T Mac-1]

Couldnt you just have combined both of those words to keep us from having to see that gay ass name twice?

[Jeansi]

Originally posted by ÆNIMA
I've mentioned the !playing thing before, not much feedback though.

[Lucon]

Yeah, it's a pretty bad idea to actually force the players in spectator mode to go to base2. What would be a good idea, however, would be for the bot to say, when it reaches a certain limit of spectators, "Tired of waiting? Type ?go base2" or something along those lines, just in case some of the people didn't know about it.

[geekbot]

It really takes more people than you think to have a base game. Because there are always 1-2 people who turn out to be too laggy or have to go. That's why basing games aren't usually started until there are more than 17.

When there are 16-18 in spec, its still hard to start base2 because 1-2 people are laggy, busy, or gtg. And 2-3 actually want to spec the base game, etc, and there are not enough left to play. So you really need like 18-20 in BOTH arenas to have 2 good games...which doesn't happen that often.

Also, IMO, waiting for caps to pick takes long enough...waiting for 16 people to !playing would probably never happen!