wtf the countdown's 30 seconds now? I didn't see the point in the 10 second countdown when you can't cancel or leave or anything. I can't believe it still doesn't cancel the game when people leave during countdown as well...

Holy_AT

Austria978 Posts

July 30 2010 10:29 GMT

#22

I welcome the autostart option. In the beta the host was often afk, very often in xvx games and you couldnt play.

You joined and left a room and always ended up in the same where the host wouldnt start.
It blocked the whole game.

Now if you are going to go afk, simply dont join the *queue* ...

Its better this way.

But what I would like is:

letting the game load for all players and then initiate a countdown of 3 or 5 secs and not start imediatly after the loading screen.

when people disconnect and you are alone in the queue simply log out during the countdown and right in. So you have no problem.

Koof

United States66 Posts

July 30 2010 10:43 GMT

#23

On July 30 2010 17:10 bakedace wrote:
Yes this is very annoying... If your trying to play with a friend, and you join the game as the last spot (happens a lot) you have to leave and ruin the game.

I think this is the point of the party system. I'm not sure if it will solve this issue, but it's worth a shot.

Kurumi

Poland6130 Posts

July 30 2010 10:54 GMT

#24

On July 30 2010 19:43 Koof wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think this is the point of the party system. I'm not sure if it will solve this issue, but it's worth a shot.

Yeah,I am supposed to do something all around because bunch of employees can't do good UMS hosting system,great idea.

KobraKay

Portugal4269 Posts

July 30 2010 11:04 GMT

#25

Dont join as party solve this? Thats one of the reasons its there

unless my memory is broken and you cant do this but I think you can

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

July 30 2010 11:20 GMT

#26

The only reason why there is the auto start is because whenever you join a map, it throws you into available rooms for that map. Often times the room has an afk host or whatever.
The Better solution imho, is to allow people to avoid the games with AFK hosts, or to host their own games or choose from a selection of rooms of a certain game.

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

July 30 2010 11:22 GMT

#27

On July 30 2010 14:33 FC.Strike wrote:
Because there's auto joining, sometimes hosts would AFK and people wouldn't be able to play any games because they'd just rejoin the AFK host room.

This is a great change if they want to keep the current system in place.

This... my friend said this almost exactly to me about a week ago

Holy_AT

Austria978 Posts

July 30 2010 11:24 GMT

#28

On July 30 2010 19:43 Koof wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think this is the point of the party system. I'm not sure if it will solve this issue, but it's worth a shot.

Ähm ... why join a new game when you want to play with a friend ?
Just create a new one *with create game, not join game !!*, invite your friend or play in a group and then click on *make public* or whatever the english client says to fill the empty spot with random players.
I see no problem in that.

teh_longinator

Canada725 Posts

July 30 2010 12:03 GMT

#29

I like the auto-start. I haven't had to deal with the massive amounts of AFK hosts that I had to in Brood War

Luperts

Sweden28 Posts

July 30 2010 12:28 GMT

#30

My problem with this is the fact that when I'm creating a game for practice, say a 1v1 on steppes of war, and I want to practice my ZvZ or something like that. Then if I open to public the game will auto-start when the first player joins. Often times the player is the wrong race, and often not near my skill level. I've more or less switched over to only playing practice games with practice-partners, but if they're all offline this is still a problem.

I just wished they'd put in a custom games list where you can name your own game and start when you want to start, this system makes no sense to me.

Off-topic: The system also sucks because any map that's not on the first page is impossible to get filled with players, so all the fun and intresting ums and unique maps are unbearable to play.

57005

6 Posts

July 30 2010 12:32 GMT

#31

Solving this issue would be so easy, as it has been done with WC3 Host Bots:

1. Autostart Countdown if map is full
2. Stop Countdown if a player leaves

AFK Hosts wouldn't be a problem anymore, locking into games you don't want to play would be no problem either, and countdown leaver (actually they have to leave the complete game as of now not only your map) wouldn't be a problem either.

i don't understand how blizzard can be so short sighted

FecalFrown

215 Posts

July 30 2010 12:43 GMT

#32

On July 30 2010 15:48 Sokalo wrote:
Suprising anyone is bothered by this. I thought it was one of the new features they got right. It's eliminated the god-awful waiting that used to plague public games.

If they were going with a manual start the 30 second timer would be a bad addition. But now that games get going fast it's probably for the better.

What are you talking about? If you are going to autolock everyone in there, then why have a countdown timer at all? You're giving people 30 seconds to do.... what? "Get Ready?"

Piski

Finland3461 Posts

July 30 2010 12:49 GMT

#33

Sometimes when you join a game, the other player disconnects but the countdown still starts so I end up waiting 30 sec for a 1v0 game. It's freakin' annoying.

DeCoup

Australia1933 Posts

July 30 2010 14:26 GMT

#34

I love auto countdown. AFK hosts is terrible in many games.
I do think it's silly that the countdown does not stop if some1 leaves, and it's annoying that since there is no exit button you have to actually log off then on to get out of the game.

Snowfield

1289 Posts

July 30 2010 16:44 GMT

#35

Since all games are played via a server, this is done to reduce server pressure by people making games and filling up cache.

But i think its done slightly wrong.

PanzerDragoon

United States822 Posts

July 30 2010 17:10 GMT

#36

Only thing I don't like is that if you want to switch around teams you can't.

Alejandrisha

United States6565 Posts

July 30 2010 17:11 GMT

#37

If the 30 second countdown is really an issue for you, I suggest you sprint laps around your house every time you join a game. Then sit down when the counter is down to 5 seconds. Fixed. And if when you return your opponent has left, who cares! It's just a 5 second counter, join a new one :p

Disastorm

United States922 Posts

July 30 2010 17:13 GMT

#38

This fixes basically absolutely nothing. Just makes it more annoying. People can still afk host and then when the game starts they will just be afk in the game thereby having the same problem as if they were an afk host.

When people misclick and the game autostarts they have no choice but to leave after the game already started and that makes it more annoying for both the host and the player.

imyzhang

Canada809 Posts

July 30 2010 17:15 GMT

#39

i think it's a good feature, but wish that it was more like 10-15 seconds instead of 30 -__-

a176

Canada6688 Posts

July 30 2010 17:40 GMT

#40

How the hell does autostart fix anything? If the host is afk in lobby, they'll still be afk in game.

Why is blizzard so adamant on completely removing any slice of user control from this game? It makes no sense at all. Are they even bothering to test their play systems with people anymore?