2010-08-06, 20:17:54
Okay so, the most pressing problem ruining battle tanks today is that the game is influenced far more by the actions of noobs than players with skill. Players that feed and lack even a basic sense of gameplay (when to defend, when to run, etc.) completely ruin the game by giving the opposing team tons of money and experience. For example, if you have a game with 10 players, 9 of which are skilled and 1 of which is noob and feeds, the noob is BY FAR, the most important indicator for who will win (whoever is playing against him). This needs to change ASAP and I have 4 solutions:
Solution #1:
Modify the league beta stats so that you can keep track of a player's score independent of leaving (right now, whenever you are counted as leaving a game, be it bad internet, server split, w/e, you instantly drop like 200+ positions). This score, whether you post it or not, is what we can refer to as your "skill score" (just W:L weighted against other player's scores). Use the "skill score" as the primary metric for balancing teams during the player shuffle. Right now, even in league beta (not just qualify) at least 1 out of every 2 games is ruined b/c of an imbalance of feeders. 1 or 2 feeders are enough, esp if the other team has none. It doesn't matter if they leave 20+ minutes in, because the damage has been done.
Solution #2:
Implement a player swap like dota has for balancing purposes.
Solution #3:
Fix votekick asap - this is an essential mechanism that needs to be more flexible than the precondition of afk.
Solution #4 (Most important solution):
PENALIZE PLAYERS FOR DYING. If you die, you should lose money, unless you are an exploder or if the majority of your weapons are explosion packs. There's no better way to make players accountable for their actions than to reward skill and punish noobery. If you die, you should lose money, plain and simple. The amount could be something like 25-50% of your bounty.
Please stop ruining this map, it's steadily been going downhill.
Thank you,
-x
Solution #1:
Modify the league beta stats so that you can keep track of a player's score independent of leaving (right now, whenever you are counted as leaving a game, be it bad internet, server split, w/e, you instantly drop like 200+ positions). This score, whether you post it or not, is what we can refer to as your "skill score" (just W:L weighted against other player's scores). Use the "skill score" as the primary metric for balancing teams during the player shuffle. Right now, even in league beta (not just qualify) at least 1 out of every 2 games is ruined b/c of an imbalance of feeders. 1 or 2 feeders are enough, esp if the other team has none. It doesn't matter if they leave 20+ minutes in, because the damage has been done.
Solution #2:
Implement a player swap like dota has for balancing purposes.
Solution #3:
Fix votekick asap - this is an essential mechanism that needs to be more flexible than the precondition of afk.
Solution #4 (Most important solution):
PENALIZE PLAYERS FOR DYING. If you die, you should lose money, unless you are an exploder or if the majority of your weapons are explosion packs. There's no better way to make players accountable for their actions than to reward skill and punish noobery. If you die, you should lose money, plain and simple. The amount could be something like 25-50% of your bounty.
Please stop ruining this map, it's steadily been going downhill.
Thank you,
-x