3 new small mods inc Game Templates

[AlexHerbert]

1 hour ago, ffm2 said:

Really nice ideas! Player notes also, good idea, so one could mark if some players always lag when you host. Or if they don't share your kind of humor or so.

In favor of always mainland: The thing is one could play each day some completely different sport, one day basketball, next day tennis. But when you stick to one you (and your team) can explore more nuanced gameplay. And it's already hard enough to find 8 players that can play mainland circle. I would be more in favor of leaving biome random + no shared vision but that's unpopular and I can play without. And with some limited time, to get a gg in mainland is good enough instead of exploring different maps.

Although I started the game just playing one map after the other in single player until I joined the lobby.

That's exactly why there aren't more players, to have more people then more options.

But a handful of people convinced the community that repeating the same map over and over again is what makes someone "pro," and that it somehow creates more complex games, or "just Mainland is balanced" which is simply not true.

They created the myth that "playing Mainland makes you OP, while playing other maps makes you a nub."

Being Pro is to know what to do in most situations, not just 1.

I've seen 1800–1900 rated players unable to do nothing when taken out of their usual Mainland Circle Placement Temperate. If anything, that suggests that other maps can be just as complex, or even more complex, because they require adaptation, creativity, and cleverness/ingenuity/resourcefulness instead of repeating the same patterns every game.

What many people still don't realize the loop they repeat, that they're essentially replaying the same match over and over until everyone gets tired of it. Eventually, arguments start, insults and someone ends banned/reported.

Interestingly, the players who regularly play different maps and experiment with different settings don't seem to have the same reputation for public arguments, lobby insults, forum fights, or bans. At least from what I've observed, most of that drama comes from the circles that insist on playing the exact same setup over and over. 

Edited 35 minutes ago by AlexHerbert
GG.