Change TWDD/TWJD timer to 3 mins

[Best]

This is ridiculous.. Imagine how much time we wasted in 20 years waiting between rounds on teams to !ready when they have 5 players in..

Let’s take this into consideration and reduce the timer from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.. A lot of us don’t enjoy waiting that long.. This isn’t TWBD, 3 minutes seems reasonable to get the guys you need to add/borrow and adjust lineups..

Tired of waiting on white owl and ravage smoke 6 cigarettes in 5 minutes

[kado]

Wait on Ravage all you want… the amount of games I’ve had to cancel from round 1 forfeits with that man adding…. JHHEEEEZ ban ravage, not amnesti WOOOO!

[saiyan]

Best is my boy but he and FU Inc have wasted 200 hours of my life texting eachother between rounds. That said, I am glad he now sees the errors in his ways and is pushing for a change. Proud of you brother.

1 min should be enough.

[Cape]

oh look another thread about moving the game along.
I have to agree. 2 min max

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[Jessup]

This is going to cause more problems than it fixes if implemented imo. Borrows are really hard to find when you have 10-20 speccers afk constantly in either twdd or twjd. The percentage of games with full squad lines are at an all time low and the amount of people sitting in spec afk or np is at an all time high. To navigate this issue can take a lot of time often. This will probably increase forfeits and compound frustrations even more.

Just to play devil's advocate

[Cape]

If the match dies , it dies

Avg JD lasts 10 mins, you cant have a 6 min wait to play a 10 min match..

[kado]

If the match dies , it dies

Avg JD lasts 10 mins, you cant have a 6 min wait to play a 10 min match..

bruh you play like 1 jd a year.. you can wait LOL

[RageRitual]

Borrows are really hard to find when you have 10-20 speccers afk constantly in either twdd or twjd.

I have been saying this forever, glad to see someone else noticing the same problem. We should do a combination of dealing with the AFK's AND lowering the timer to !ready. If we deal with the AFK's first it will go a lot smoother lowering the timer.

Quite often I see teams trying to get TWD started up seeing 30 people in a TWD arena, only to find they are all AFK and have to waste the entire clock trying to find people to borrow, and then still have to forfeit, all because people are too lazy to ?go afk.

[Zeebu]

let the first round run as normal. jessup is right that it sometimes takes a bit to get borrows situated.

in between rounds, as long as all the same players are still in the arena, knock a couple minutes off the timer.

seems perfectly reasonable to me

[Rab]

that makes more sense imo

[Vehicle]

I have been saying this forever, glad to see someone else noticing the same problem. We should do a combination of dealing with the AFK's AND lowering the timer to !ready. If we deal with the AFK's first it will go a lot smoother lowering the timer.

Quite often I see teams trying to get TWD started up seeing 30 people in a TWD arena, only to find they are all AFK and have to waste the entire clock trying to find people to borrow, and then still have to forfeit, all because people are too lazy to ?go afk.

There was talk in the past of forcing people who idle in tw(x)d arena's onto a separate freq, effectively putting them on a !notplaying list. IIRC it was shelved because some people linger and scroll back through spec chat. But it's a solution if you're looking for one.

I also like zeebu's idea of more time for the first round than the second and third. That guy has had a lot of good idea's recently.

[RageRitual]

let the first round run as normal. jessup is right that it sometimes takes a bit to get borrows situated.

in between rounds, as long as all the same players are still in the arena, knock a couple minutes off the timer.

seems perfectly reasonable to me

Zeebu probably on to something here, I would suggest shortening the timer for rounds after 1st regardless of people being in the arena or not, it is usually only 1 change needed if any so 2 minutes should be more than enough time.

We do still need to figure out something for the AFK's.