Game Lobbies
The current way of joining games is great: only for death-match and team death-match though. Elimination, Capture the Flag, Capture the Spawn Points, and tournament matches are hindered however by the current "insta-join" method of joining a game,. Imagine how many people would have to join at the same time, or how many games it would take to get a good game of elimination with a fair amount of people going with the current method of joining games. It might take dozens of 1 vs 1 elimination matches before enough people joined and actually stayed for the game mode to be fun. That is one of the many reasons I am proposing what I am calling a "Game Lobby" to not replace, but compliment inset join.
Many other games already have this. For some games like Real Time Strategy games it is required that every player join the game at the same time so 1 player doesn't have his base and army built up before someone else joins. That would be totally unfair to the joining player as they would have to start from scratch and take time to orient themselves in the environment and prepare for battle while the other player would be fully prepared. The same principle applies to elimination and other game modes. You don't want 1 player to have 200 health and armour and full ammunition before anyone else joins. It would be totally unfair to the person just joining. Its not like death match or team death match where one can respawn and get another crack at their enemies, in elimination once you are killed you are out of the game till the round ends. The persons advantage would be lost of course when the next game starts, but some people are almost guaranteed to leave and create another game and repeat their cheap little tactic.
Likewise imagine someone finding a good camping spot before any other players had joined an elimination match. They could wait for the first person to join and pop them one in the head with a sniper rifle. Not fair at all!
The game lobby could be created by any person on the server they were using. To create a game lobby there could be a button to do so next to the Create a New Game button. When creating a game lobby a player would first be prompted to name the game lobby and assign a password if the lobby was private. Then they would be brought into a game settings menu that was more complex than offered for creating a game. When the creator is in this menu other players can start to join and chat on the game lobbies private chat channel. They could talk to the creator about what settings they would like and to each other.
The options a lobby creator would have would include choosing which map, the splat, time and player limit, and game mode just like as in a normal game,. However there would be extra options, The creator could make a game "playlist" of different game settings so that when one game ends after the XP is calculated the players could be brought to a new game with different settings like game mode and map! The players who joined after the creator made the lobby could press a ready button to give the creator an idea of who was ready to play or not. Players could add their own game to the playlist if the creator allowed them that power. If the game lobby was private the creator could kick players. Players could be invited but not kicked in public lobbies.
Game lobbies would allow more game modes to be possible and tourneys.
Thanks
CSW
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WTFunk commented
Awesome idea! I was gonna suggest this, then I saw this so I didn't bother to anymore.
Oh, and I want the Capture the Spawn Points mode :)
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nods2008 commented
i think also if they make a random game mode so the player wants to play in the most fulled sky garden game in the best server he haves so cmune transfers him to the game or he can go and search for a specified game if he wants to play a 1 v 1 or a clan war yeah that would be great
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nods2008 commented
yeah i like it but why did you put 2 votes lol its your idea
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Carlos Spicy Weine commented
Ahh this idea isnt very popular as most dont understand how vital it is. Please keep voting for it guys so CMUNE can see it! Thanks
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Carlos Spicy Weine commented
Yes you can join the game lobby at any time throughout a match, just like a normal game. You also can join before the game actually starts, which is the main point.
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skylersspace commented
Agreed, however, can you still switch teams or, can players come in when someone who was playing leaves
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Leeness commented
AGREED on everything you said!! I can see this will be ALOT of work for CMUNE.. But it's worth it!! Just so elimination and other game modes take so long to start. I'm sure CMUNE can come up with something :)
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Carlos Spicy Weine commented
Thanks. It is essential for CTF and Elimination matches
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monthlyducks commented
That would be awesome! We could have a pre-minigame while people join, and it could show in a corner who has joined and how many spots left.