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On February 08 2012 02:35 darkcloud8282 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 02:16 Excalibur_Z wrote:On February 08 2012 02:04 darkcloud8282 wrote:
I don't understand the need to lock the ladders? Why not just set a date to switch over to the next season? It'll remove all this complication of having people complaining/wondering why they didn't get promoted etc. I don't disagree that ladder locks lead to a lot of confusion, but they do allow a period where bonus pool stops influencing the end-of-season division ranks. The lock is primarily a way to communicate to players "this is your assigned division, you're not going anywhere for a week, now how high can you get in this division before the next season starts?" The "problem" is a lot of people think that since they aren't going to be promoted they should stop playing. I think it would just be less complications for the general masses to have a set date where one season switches to the next and call it a day. And anyways, who really cares about their ranks in a division? Divisions aren't even comparable across the board so being Rank 1 in one division doesn't equate the same rank in another.
Because getting that shiny emblem is nice  Blizzard have done a lot of wrong stuff, but I sure like the emblems ^_^
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2 or 3 months, both is acceptable. I personally like the 2 month more!
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imo, too many bad maps for zerg at higher lvl atm. Gomtv has kinda balanced the maps. Hopefully blizz will do the same.
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On February 08 2012 03:40 Siggeh wrote:
imo, too many bad maps for zerg at higher lvl atm. Gomtv has kinda balanced the maps. Hopefully blizz will do the same.
Blizzard doesn't care about balance, they just try to please all the whiners in gold leagues and below so these people continue to support their game.
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On February 08 2012 03:22 -stOpSKY- wrote:
I hope they dont have the same GM issues for a third time in a row. Also I hope they add some new maps, I think metropolis, daybreak or ESV Cloud Kingdom would be cool to see.
I'd LOVE to see Cloud Kingdom in the ladder pool, that would be sick. soo sick. :D
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I swear, if they add another awful map like Arid Plateau I'm going to rip my hair out. There are too many bad maps to veto them all.
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On February 08 2012 04:24 VPFaith wrote:
Is Ladder locked now?
Should be.
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Metal and Arid need to go. I run out of vetos to keep the protoss gimped maps out that I can't ban stuff like 2 base caverns.
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So once again, no one knows the exact time in which the ladder will be/was locked for EU?
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On February 08 2012 03:03 Gator wrote:
anyone want to take the masters league pledge with me for season 6, I'm going to really try to make it!
I'm with you there ><. I've been getting matched against masters players for a couple weeks now and have been sitting top 8 in my diamond league fluctuating between 1-5 and I tried to go all out last night for the promo but ended up dropping about 50 points -.-. Season 6 IS THE SEASON! :D
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On February 08 2012 04:46 THM wrote:
So once again, no one knows the exact time in which the ladder will be/was locked for EU?
At least for couple of last seasons the max bonus pool has been the same for all? servers (at least same in EU & US). If this is being applied for s5 too, then a fairly accurate locking time can be calculated based on when the US server is locked / its' max bonus pool. Based on the SC2 client the bonus pool is still increasing in the US server (checked 30 minutes ago). This means the US ladder either is not yet locked or the client shows incorrect bonus pool.
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On February 08 2012 04:26 EMIYA wrote:
Metal and Arid need to go. I run out of vetos to keep the protoss gimped maps out that I can't ban stuff like 2 base caverns.
I agree but from a Terran perspective. TvZ is hard enough for me already, playing Metal was just insta loss after loss so I had to veto it. But I always find myself wishing I had 1 or 2 more vetoes because the maps are so bad ...
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On February 08 2012 04:26 darkcloud8282 wrote:Should be.
Is that why I have been on a 18 win streak while still remaining the number one diamond in my division? It didn't make sense to me because I was beating mid master guise.
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On February 08 2012 05:32 korona wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 04:46 THM wrote:
So once again, no one knows the exact time in which the ladder will be/was locked for EU? At least for couple of last seasons the max bonus pool has been the same for all? servers (at least same in EU & US). If this is being applied for s5 too, then a fairly accurate locking time can be calculated based on when the US server is locked / its' max bonus pool. Based on the SC2 client the bonus pool is still increasing in the US server (checked 30 minutes ago). This means the US ladder either is not yet locked or the client shows incorrect bonus pool.
Thank you very much good sir!
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On February 08 2012 06:11 THM wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 05:32 korona wrote:On February 08 2012 04:46 THM wrote:
So once again, no one knows the exact time in which the ladder will be/was locked for EU? At least for couple of last seasons the max bonus pool has been the same for all? servers (at least same in EU & US). If this is being applied for s5 too, then a fairly accurate locking time can be calculated based on when the US server is locked / its' max bonus pool. Based on the SC2 client the bonus pool is still increasing in the US server (checked 30 minutes ago). This means the US ladder either is not yet locked or the client shows incorrect bonus pool. Thank you very much good sir!
At 2:30 CET 2012-02-08 (Feb 7 5:30PM PST) Blizzard informed that US ladder was locked: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4434656/Season_5_Now_Locked-2_7_2012
The max bonus pools for US server are (1v1): master+ 637, diamond- 370. For EU server the master+ pool reaches 637 around 18:45 CET 2012-02-08 (with ~1 hour accuracy as I am not sure how accurate starting time I have logged for EU S5).
On the other hand by looking at the EU SC2 client the master+ pool is currently 630. So it takes between 13 to 15 hours to reach 637. This gives time frame from 17:45 CET to 19:45 CET.
(edit: added calculation based on info from EU SC2 client).
(edit 2: US SC2 client is still accumulating bonus points. masters+ pool now 638 while writing this. This probably throws the EU locking time calculation off)
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Why is bonus pool still accumulating??
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On February 08 2012 13:21 HenryZ wrote:
Why is bonus pool still accumulating??
Hmm. Indeed 1 more bonus point appeared in US master+ accounts (now 638 bonus pool). This potentially throws the EU locking time, that I calculated couple of posts back, off as we do not know if its a display bug or if US is not locked even if they claimed so.
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On February 08 2012 13:34 korona wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 13:21 HenryZ wrote:
Why is bonus pool still accumulating?? Hmm. Indeed 1 more bonus point appeared in US master+ accounts (now 638 bonus pool). This potentially throws the EU locking time, that I calculated couple of posts back, off as we do not know if its a display bug or if US is not locked even if they claimed so.
My inactive teammate got ~7 8 bonus pool today I think (I checked in the morning and now in the night). He was 176 last night a few hours before ladder locked (close to getting kicked out lol) and now hes 185. Weird, maybe this is related to blizz not fixing the ladder bug at the start of the season
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After the season 4 lock how long did it take Blizzard to announce the new maps that were being put in and the old maps that were being taken out?
Was it before or after the announcement of the season 4 lock?
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