Well, there is your problem Rodrigo... Your game exits after 30 seconds if not enough people are there, never allowing it to be bumped up. Shot yourself in the foot.
Good idea Rodrigo, I will host yours please host mine. Game name is WarBall
== WarBall ==
FOR EVERYONE::
I found out that after hosting, make the game public, and you must stay in the game for about 5 minutes, then quit and it will count as a "game played".
yea, thats it... just a little popularity boosting... right. How do you propose us non-DOTA creators do that with the current system? it's impossible..
I dont think that's it either zakariah.. I have hosted with a non-author account, had 2 people in the game and started 4 times after making the game public. It still shows only 1 game created in the last hour...
So I have been hearing that map popularity is based on the number of times the game has been made public. However, I have two seperate accounts. I have done a create game and then make public from both accounts, leave the games up for about 5 minutes, then a few minutes later checked the #of games created" and it still shows 1... How exactly does this mechanic work? There must be a way to fool the system somehow to show your map has more "popularity".
The custom game Join system is so rediculous. Why in the world would it show all games that do not even have a game up right now?? I love the new list where you dont get 90% DOTA, and I like the popularity rating.. but no one will ever get their maps played if the JOIN dialog has games that you cannot JOIN listed and relegates my game to the very bottom of the list with lonely old me sitting in the lobby alone pondering what I did to deserve such punishment.
I think it should only list games that are currently being hosted in the join game, and have sortable fields like popularity, newest games / versions, players per hour, usable categories (TD, survival, hero based, RPGs, other), time that the longest lobby has been waiting. Maybe even a rating system where people can rate the games after they play them??
As things stand now, the quality of maps at the top of the list will not increase much at all and frustration of Modders and custom gamers will rise very very quickly! Myself included.
Has anyone seen this issue addressed anywhere by a blue / blizzard?? Please direct me to it if you have.
So, I cannot get 8 people together to test my map WarBall.
Can I have as many as I can join WarBall at like 8:30pm Central time / 9:30 Eastern Time please!!!!
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If I have nothing else going on I will try and make it for you. Doubt it though
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Well, there is your problem Rodrigo... Your game exits after 30 seconds if not enough people are there, never allowing it to be bumped up. Shot yourself in the foot.
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Good idea Rodrigo, I will host yours please host mine. Game name is WarBall
== WarBall ==
FOR EVERYONE:: I found out that after hosting, make the game public, and you must stay in the game for about 5 minutes, then quit and it will count as a "game played".
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wait a second.. maybe you guys are right.. I have it showing 3 games played in last hour now. I think the below worked:
-Make game public -2 people in game (host +1) -start game -play for like 3 or 5 minutes
Now tomorrow I will try to host with just 1 person to see if that works..
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No, its definitely not number of games started. Or number of games started with 2 people..
What is the secret!!! =(
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hosted it for you for a few minutes, no one else joined. Sorry, the custom game create / join system really sucks.
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yea, thats it... just a little popularity boosting... right. How do you propose us non-DOTA creators do that with the current system? it's impossible..
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I dont think that's it either zakariah.. I have hosted with a non-author account, had 2 people in the game and started 4 times after making the game public. It still shows only 1 game created in the last hour...
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So I have been hearing that map popularity is based on the number of times the game has been made public. However, I have two seperate accounts. I have done a create game and then make public from both accounts, leave the games up for about 5 minutes, then a few minutes later checked the #of games created" and it still shows 1... How exactly does this mechanic work? There must be a way to fool the system somehow to show your map has more "popularity".
I wanna be one of the cool kids too..
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Agreed!!!! This must change!! Please go post on the Blizzard forums. I have not heard a word on this subject at all from Blizzard.
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I posted this on the SC2 beta suggestions forums: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25968839390&postId=259662830434&sid=5000#0
Everyone reading this should do the same!!
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The custom game Join system is so rediculous. Why in the world would it show all games that do not even have a game up right now?? I love the new list where you dont get 90% DOTA, and I like the popularity rating.. but no one will ever get their maps played if the JOIN dialog has games that you cannot JOIN listed and relegates my game to the very bottom of the list with lonely old me sitting in the lobby alone pondering what I did to deserve such punishment.
I think it should only list games that are currently being hosted in the join game, and have sortable fields like popularity, newest games / versions, players per hour, usable categories (TD, survival, hero based, RPGs, other), time that the longest lobby has been waiting. Maybe even a rating system where people can rate the games after they play them??
As things stand now, the quality of maps at the top of the list will not increase much at all and frustration of Modders and custom gamers will rise very very quickly! Myself included.
Has anyone seen this issue addressed anywhere by a blue / blizzard?? Please direct me to it if you have.
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So, I cannot get 8 people together to test my map WarBall. Can I have as many as I can join WarBall at like 8:30pm Central time / 9:30 Eastern Time please!!!!
Thanks!
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Thanks for this. easy and helpful.
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ooh some really nice suggestions! Territory penetration Too fast too deady Break the line I really like those!
I like bloodball too but I wanna get away from ball since everyone thought it was a dodgeball game.. And since there is actually no ball involved