yea but hes not saying play with pubs. Like once you are ready to go just close slots u dont want people joining randomly and go instantly once you are ready to go

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

July 23 2011 20:06 GMT

#102

Awesome popularity system you have there Blizzard.....

Rodrigo(scdebates)

Canada154 Posts

July 24 2011 00:04 GMT

#103

On July 24 2011 04:49 Frozenhelfire wrote:

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It helps people find maps. You may have a map you like playing privately with friends that you or a friend found by chance. Helping it get to the top of the list will naturally make more public games available. Part of the reason some games are only played privately is because trying to wait for a public one to fill is a waste of time. If enough people do this hopefully said map would get high enough on the list to start filling public games, so that you can play it even if your friends aren't around. If you would only play it with friends then it wouldn't change much from your perspective. However, it gives the map maker more incentive to improve and make the game better for you and your friends.

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Chicane

United States7875 Posts

July 24 2011 00:10 GMT

#104

Pathetic design... but thanks for the information. They should fix it.

Edit: It takes so much energy to not rage in every thread related to Bnet 2.0. How... was it designed... by people who would consider themselves professionals. Surely professionals would use common sense (not only referring to this topic).

decaf

Austria1797 Posts

July 24 2011 00:17 GMT

#105

Good to know.

Rodrigo(scdebates)

Canada154 Posts

July 24 2011 01:53 GMT

#106

On July 24 2011 09:10 Chicane wrote:
Pathetic design... but thanks for the information. They should fix it.

They might eventually. However, there's been a year and it wasn't fixed yet. Meanwhile, we keep pressing the "open to public" button.

However, I know that not all the SC2 players will read this thread. If there was a way to talk to everyone...

Eluadyl

Turkey364 Posts

July 24 2011 08:25 GMT

#107

Good to know, I'll start informing friends.

Hypatio

549 Posts

July 24 2011 08:34 GMT

#108

The popularity system has already destroyed the map making community. Clicking the make public box will not fix it.

Fishgle

United States2174 Posts

July 24 2011 08:38 GMT

#109

This is also a main reason why sc2:bw is not on the popular list, i believe; though many people play it, creating it in private is necessary in order to set it to hardcore mode. thanks for the info OP, and good luck with your new map!

Eldrythan

18 Posts

July 24 2011 09:42 GMT

#110

This needs to be known to more people.

Skaya

United States126 Posts

July 24 2011 09:44 GMT

#111

thanks never even thought of this before. keep this thread alive!

han_han

United States205 Posts

July 24 2011 10:45 GMT

#112

I had no idea, OP. I will do this from now on. Thank you for informing us, I had no idea! I swear, if I knew, I would have been doing this from the start.

Sorry =(

Kokujin

United States456 Posts

July 24 2011 10:53 GMT

#113

All hail Rodrigo, lord of the custom games.
check out his incarnations:
Nexus Word Wars! (recommended)
ICJug maps!
Banana Cheaters!
Nexus Hindrance Wars!

Rodrigo(scdebates)

Canada154 Posts

July 25 2011 01:21 GMT

#114

On July 24 2011 19:53 Kokujin wrote:
All hail Rodrigo, lord of the custom games.
check out his incarnations:
Nexus Word Wars! (recommended)
ICJug maps!
Banana Cheaters!
Nexus Hindrance Wars!

Don't make me shy. lol.
I added this message on icjug asking people to open to public, but it's not going to help much. Some people are still thinking that "open to public" = let strangers come in.

Some other mappers are also warning people on the loading screen, too.

Thrax

Canada1755 Posts

July 25 2011 01:24 GMT

#115

Very interesting - this should almost be considered a bug IMO. Why would it not count because it was private? The map was still used. Hopefully Blizzard does the smart thing and fixes this. I bet it wouldn't even require a client-side patch.

Baeras

United States140 Posts

July 25 2011 01:40 GMT

#116

great post good idea

Najda

United States3765 Posts

July 25 2011 03:29 GMT

#117

I was always wondering why icjug maps were less popular then the crappy 1v1 obs maps. I guess this explains it haha.

Rodrigo(scdebates)

Canada154 Posts

July 27 2011 19:52 GMT

#118

On July 25 2011 12:29 Najda wrote:
I was always wondering why icjug maps were less popular then the crappy 1v1 obs maps. I guess this explains it haha.

Not only that, but also the fact that people would rather play a lower quality map that fills the lobby fast than stay hours waiting to find people to play a better map. Once iCJug gets popular, it will never leave the top.

Bluerain

United States348 Posts

July 27 2011 20:05 GMT

#119

wow no wonder.....

fds

Slovenia258 Posts

July 27 2011 20:32 GMT

#120

As it seems majority doesn't understand the current system.

Blizzard marks maps popular if you have a high chance to join into random public custom map.

Many posters here think that map is popular if there are many matches on that map.

Popularity is clearly defined different for Blizzard than "community". I guess Blizzard's remark "popularity" is not the best one.
Marking map public and then launching map is just destroying Blizzard's system.

I guess there should be 2 tabs instead of "popularity": 1=chance to join & 2=most played.