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Dominican Republic23 Posts
How StarCraft 2 Battle.Net will be perfect.
Here are some topics that I made for StarCraft 2 battle.net to be a great place to have fun and to play in a competitive way.
1. Clan Making
This is a eSport game and the gamers who play SCII in high have sponsors team… Honestly Blizzard don’t pay attention on that cause they don’t include that options in this battle.net.. “Why?” “This is something difficult?” “WC3 have this option… why you guys can’t put it in SCII”… I Remember when I was playing WC3 in battle.net there’s a channel for good players called “Clan GGL” that and you can practice with guys, searching for 2vs2 players or team players or look for someone to enter your clan that essence is over in SCII Battle.net… they should reconsider that and put it back again… we maybe going to meet in Team Liquid clan channel and do the same thing.
What we do is the follow:
We just have one name change… and we need to use it cause we enter in a good clan but what happened if I’m not interesting anymore in stay in that "good" clan or i receive other offers?... cause after I change my name there’s no way to change it again.. that’s not intelligent. Maybe Blizzard will respond.. “this is your nickname no your clan and tag nickname”… but there’s another way to show that I'm in a clan?
Solution:
If Battle.Net put this available I mean the clan creation it can be useless the name changer cause usually people change it cause of the tag of the clan.
![[image loading]](http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4437/bnetchatwar3.jpg)
2. Real Channels
SC2 Battle.net Channels is like private chats with tons of people… it doesn’t look like a real channel… a real channel is what it is in Brood War or WarCraft 3… you cannot even kick or ban someone in your channel… if someone get the name of your channel they can get in and talk whatever they want… we don’t have control in our own channels.
What we need in our channels?
• Big panel channel , like WC3 and SC:BW Style
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/FrozenArbiter/SC2/USA1_resized.png)
![[image loading]](http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/data/530/medium/bnet-chat-war3.jpg)
We can use the welcome to SC2 Pannel for that, why not?
![[image loading]](http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2194/bigpannel.jpg)
• Control on our channel
We need “op” or “admin” or “bots” so we can keep our room under control.
• Voice chat in channels
SC2 have in options something called “voice” I don’t know if you guys see it… I don’t know if you guys try it before but I test that with a friend and it didn’t work… so… voice chat in channels? Sounds ridiculous but at the same time this is something fun and this is something innovative… we can type and we can talk also that’s fun… we use external software to do that “Ventrilo or TeamSpeak” but it will be fun if inside of Battle.net channels exist an option to chat with people in the chat room, what u think?
3. Diary Battle.Net tournament and Clan Wars sponsored by Blizzard inside Battle.net
About the tournaments
Some people use this game for play for fun and others for competitive, tournaments inside battle.net is something so competitive and great… in WC3 Battle.net u can see automated tournaments every single day… we can see 1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3 and 4vs4 tournaments believe it or not that’s makes you play more and stay more in battle.net… cause is feeling great being part of those tournaments to test your skill.
I often see fellow looking for web sites tournaments to test their skill… it can be grateful see that options inside battle.net
For people who don’t play Warcraft 3… that thing work as follow:
They put an announcement and the hour of the tournament in the top of the panel , when the time of the tournament comes they enable a search button to play with others players in the tournament qualify. The qualify is open for like 2 or 3 hours so can play whatever games you want. After that the thing make a bracket automatic in the battle.net website and you can see if you are qualify or not depends on the record that you got in those two hours of play, after that if you get qualify they put u in a bracket against opponents who qualify like you and in the battle.net panel you see witch guy u have to play and the guy click in “search” and you click in “search” and then you play against him and so on..
You can image something like that in SCII? It will be fun fellas.
About the Clan Wars
Now image that you can have an automatic Clan Wars in the Battle.net.. it will be fun too.. we can see our record profile and others but we can’t see the record history of our entire clan.. so this is going to be fun and it will be controlled cause u cannot make new accounts for play in others clan cause blizzard do a good job in just let it people make one account.
4. Multiplayer Replays Watching
Why the heck they cut this thing off? This was very good, also this increase the community to play better and to teach others… that’s a very good idea made in SC:BW I want to hear the logic explanation of why they removed this option… it is so grateful when you show your games for someone and they give you advice for your mistakes or they telling you how good you are… that’s feel great.
5. Custom games options
What need custom games?
1st If im going to play a lot of games with the same guy in custom... a great options will be the follow:
• Rematch option after the game: That will be load the game again in the same map with the same races
• Change map and rematch: That will allow you to choose a new map with the same races
• Change map, races and rematch: That will allow you to choose a new map and a new race and load the game with the changes.
After we play a game in custom what we do now is create the game, invite the guy in the same map for play the same thing… it will be amazing if we had a rematch bottom that we can click on it and play again without doing those things all over again.
To be continue…
Comments please t.t
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Hey, really good post. I think you could also add, let us make custom games with titles so if i want to play a Protoss diamond player on tal darim, i can make a game with the title, "w2pdaimPRO" or something; and you will know what map anyways cause it'll show on the side bar or something.
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I agree with some stuff here. Chat channel thing and the replay thing.
I disagree with the clan thing thouh. Having it the way it is now enables one to only put a tag in their name if they are serious about it. If everyone could add a Tag there would be alot of FakeClaning and there would be tons of smurf-clans.
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A lot of awesome things in here. I think more ladder options could be added too. I would love to add the ability to regame, bo3, or something else for the ladder as long as the options are voluntary.
It could be something as simple as an option in the menu called extend series and you vote on what exactly you wish to do (regame,bo3, ect). It could be pretty simple with options for same or different map, same or different race, ect.
You would probably need some kind of limit though to prevent point abuse.
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1st If im going to play a lot of games with the same guy in custom... a great options will be the follow:
• Rematch option after the game: That will be load the game again in the same map with the same races
• Change map and rematch: That will allow you to choose a new map with the same races
• Change map, races and rematch: That will allow you to choose a new map and a new race and load the game with the changes.
This would be great, maybe it could be a toggled option in the party settings? (think changing loot mechanics in WoW)
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I would love to have more statistics too. Things like Win Ratio vs X // Map win percentage // ...
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one of your images is broken.. and I feel like it's the image that defines your post lol
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Agree with the team/clan issue. It ia getting on my nerves that older games of blizzard has most of the things we want (online replay viewing with friends, teams, etc) and dont even try to implement the things the community wants.
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Agreed!
Also would like to see:
- Unranked auto matchmaking.
- A better custom games interface so lesser known high quality games are actually played. (Right now if it's not on the first 2 pages, no one will ever join).
- Detailed winrates statistics.
- Tournement/Live streams embeded into bnet.
- In your face promotions of tournament and streams.
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On July 18 2011 14:54 Dakk wrote:
I agree with some stuff here. Chat channel thing and the replay thing.
I disagree with the clan thing thouh. Having it the way it is now enables one to only put a tag in their name if they are serious about it. If everyone could add a Tag there would be alot of FakeClaning and there would be tons of smurf-clans.
Well I am not sure on whether it is good or not. I know that in some game (I think it is HoN), as long as you have like 5 friends and they all accepted to set up a clan, then the clan is formed.
I personally find that quite amusing because everyone is trying to make a name for their clan.
I am sure blizzard can do something similar too
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I'd like all these options. Clan smurfing isn't a concern for me.
In Counterstrike, where you could change your name in 3 seconds with a console command, I formed a clan with my school friends because, well, you just put a tag before your name.
Soon we made a website. Soon we were playing clan wars with others. Soon were competing in local LAN tournaments and recruiting.
We would never have taken it seriously enough to form a clan in the first place if it was like SC2.
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Rematch thing is brilliant. I guess blizzard is to busy with other things to even consider changing the scheme of Battle.Net with HoTS and what not. Would be great if they just hired a bunch of programers to attend to the issue. 
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
Awesome ideas but it actually depresses me that blizzard will most likely never EVER implement any one of these.
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Oh, there are so many ways to improove the battle.net two ui in sc2.
Watching replays together.
Party with up to 16 players or more and being able to join custom maps made for less people than you have in your party.
Better chat channels indeed.
Clan tags, just simply limited to 6-10 keys and if you want it in front of or after your name.
Invisible log in, so you can play while appearing to be offline.
A lot of improovement on the custom games, i wont go into specifics.
More statistics, win ratio on different maps, match ups etc.
And more without clustering it that could be tweaked and made a bit better.
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statistics yes. clan making yes. interface changes? hell no. i like the interface. its not the same as broodwar or warcraft 3 but then again the game isn't called broodwar or warcraft 3 
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I thought the features outlined in this post would be obvious to blizzard. I don't know why they didn't add these things to Starcraft 2.
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as a veteran WC3 FT player, i really do miss having clan tags and chat channels with clan people as admins...
battle.net 2.0, while some features are really shiny and nice, don't compare to WC3 battle.net at all..
sadly, i don't think this will change unless they put someone with a little more common sense in charge of design and implementation...
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Man when I look at that amazing list of features in the OP I get the same feeling I feel when I see a really hot celebrity on TV. That feeling of "I want that sooo bad, but somehow I feel I will never get it". I really hope Blizzard doesn't let us down on this.
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Those were obvious implementations discussed since Beta, but thanks for actually putting details and effort into it. They all seem equally important. Multiplayer replay watching would help coaches and casters, as well as being able to show your friends your replays without going through the hassle of sending a file to them. Clan system would be incredible and help organize teams as well as promote competition (if they decide to add clan wars with like certain KOTH maps).
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Yes BNET 0.2 is terrible and everyone knows there are infinite ways it can be improved. Blizzard has made some efforts with the chat channels but for bigger changers its probably too difficult to redesign without disrupting the existing service. I can only hope they fix it with HOTS but I wouldn't count on it.
I sure hope the lead designer lost his job, because the product he put out was pretty but functionally inferior to BW's BNET, a 13 year old service.
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