Idea Reduce Game Sizes

I prefer larger games because it's harder to cap and it's more fun. Also you don't really need any HG servers considering it gets 0 players XD

 

This has stopped being funny sporty - try and be slightly mature (please).

@SoCool21 maybe make it 20x20? Since IMO 15x15 might feel a bit empty.

 

Tbh a poll would be helpful. Idk but I find bigger games much more fun and active. If the max player count per server is lowered slightly, it could help evenly distribute player count in two servers, making each game feel just as full and fun.

 

It's really not immature it's a fact. HG has been doing nothing but stay as a loss for brawl. It almost never has players and when it has enough for a large game it's usually just random events that occur once in a blue moon.

Anyways, despite larger games seeming more chaotic, it's a great way to practise and improve the game, especially if you attempt to play as offense, where it'll normally be something like a 10 man defense. Capturing past that feels like a pretty great achievement, making the game sizes smaller would kill the fun that is caused mainly by chaos.

 

Agreeing with both of those. I just found it funny how someone said that a games that gets 20-40x more players than another game should get less server space (war and HG).

I also like big games because of the reasons luka mentioned.

 

I'd like for game sizes to stay the same. Like Luka said, it feels like an achievement capping against a large defense.

 

My thoughts behind it are that people rush to try to fill in a server. You don't see people complaining that there are too many people on, then leaving. Because of this (and because there is no definitive way of knowing which would be better without trying it and no devs) I believe the general consensus of the ctf community will be for games to remain the same.

 

But if you also look at the map there, it's very defensive op. I don't think the issue with huge defences and being hard to cap against is the defence always, sometimes the maps flagroom makes a huge difference.

 

I've seen randoms cap against defenses like that and ones even bigger. Also, remember that bigger games result in more defense, but also result in more offense.

 

Great idea, we've found smaller games to be better competitively anyway. Only downside would be that every player now counts more, so if you get a troll it could mean a loss

 

From what I've seen, a fair amount of people in each CTF game aren't actually playing, they're just having fun chatting to other people in chat. I think decreasing the amount of players per game too much would discourage people from doing this, and this might result in quite an unfriendly community.
Take a look at HG, every game is competitive, taking time to chat if you're hunting/mining/during invincibility would result in a slight disadvantage to yourself, so not many people do so. As a result, new players feel quite unwelcome in HG, coz there really isn't anyone to talk to. Of course it wouldn't be so bad in CTF, but you get the idea

 

Usually we have 1 server full, and overfilled at some points, while 1-2 other server(s) are empty. Can we lower game size to get multiple games going, as they are, money is being wasted.

 

I agree, but cutting the server size in half or at least to 30v30 can still allow for people to chat and makes each player worth more which could persuade players to play more actively. Also there are tools like Discord for players to use to call to each other (if they have a mic that is)

 

Haha that's me on freeday.

Anyway, I agree with a bunch of people on this thread that it's a lot of fun to cap on large defense. But that's pretty difficult and smaller games like 15v15 or 20v20 are more balanced between the offense and defense sizes. You'll still get the rewarding satisfaction from a cap while dealing with less frustration. I also feel that larger games lead to less productivity. There'll be a lot more players chilling in a larger game because they feel they won't make that much of a difference, seeing how big the game is. Bigger games make player feel smaller and less useful, which leads to unproductivity. That isn't so bad, but it's boring for the objective players.

 

Was going to make a thread about this but this one is better, 100% agree with you.