I suggested what I think it's best for the game, not for myself :)
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GFX47, maybe you could create some statistics for maps vs draws, ELO is not a good system if the chance of draw is too high and where you can reverse-engineer the opponent's AI when the map is too simple. This system was designed for chess, where ties are rare and if you google for "chess draw", you will see this system is not even used for chess tournaments.
"I like being able to pick my multiplayer maps"
Finally someone else disliking this.
For now at least we can skip the bad maps, but a lot of people are complaining about this, so we will be forced to play everything very soon, get your AI ready for painful matches at Circle of Death, hopefully you won't get many.
The only bit I disagree is with the random factor, in Alpha 4 we had to play too many matches to see which AI was better because we never knew if we won or lost out of luck.
"there is a random factor you can't predict - accuracy of a shot"
No, fortunately the randomness in the accuracy was removed in Alpha 5, the only randomness left is when 2 bots are fighting for the same resource.
Create a training AI with only "attack closest enemy" in any map, all bots will be destroyed every time. I just tried that with 9 Machine Guns in Circle of Death, draw.
The new maps are not suitable for the new classes, it's as simple as that.
They need to be bigger, the bases and spawn area need to be further away and the randomness with catching the resources should be fixed.
If you put the same AI to play against itself, it should always be a draw, try that to see what happens.
I couldn't agree more with Arekusandoru, the game is not that interesting anymore, there's practically no shooting, just rushing for resources.
Thanks!
Ambidextrous and Back to Back have the same problem, you just have to rush with the Shotgun bot to guarantee a draw.
In Ambidextrous you rush with 5 Shotguns bots to one of the resources and
in Back to Back you already have 3 resources in front of your base, even easier.
What do you think about removing them too? Or you could just add 1 resource in the middle of each map and keep all maps.
This is about: https://trello.com/c/a7o3PtjV/253-auto-defeat-when-player-doesn-t-commit-a-match-for-too-long
Maps that have an even number of resources are unbeatable, any 2 experienced players playing against each other knows that maps such as Interference will be a draw, you just get the Shotgun bot and get 1 resource, end of story.
Forcing random maps on everyone was already a bad idea imo, but they are at least skippable, so if you know how to play the game you don't have to lose 20+ points for low levels on these bad maps. I clearly remember that in Alpha 4 none of the top 20 players would ever create a match on Interference and now, with the Shotgun, this issue will be extended to Ambidextrous and Back to Back.
My suggestion is:
Change the maps to have an odd number of resources or let us choose which maps we want to play.