1v1 map pool

Then don't start matchmaking unless you know you have the time.

I don't think the majority of gamers mind different times. The most popular game at the minute lol can have 20 minute stomp games or up to an hour long epic games. It's good for stamina too.

Back to topic, I hope uber throws some new maps up today! Pretty please! Show us one of the fabled mirror maps

Colin that only creates a problem. Because there is 1 map that consumes all your time you can't play on the rest of them?

I definitely understand you Mot, but I wouldn't want to be limited to only ever playing ranked games in 20 minutes on small planets.

I understand its 2 extremes that seem to not go hand in hand here. 1 side we got big variety in gameplay because of maximum system variety wich may or may not consume a lot of time. On the other side its really nice to know that you can finish the game within a certain amount of time and not having to suicide yourself because it exceeds your available time. I also understand this might be difficult to fix, or maybe its not even fixable, but maybe there is something that can be done to find some middle ground.

So introduce a veto system that allows you to veto out a map or two. But yeah basically when you have a set amount of time available right now and want to play you just need to consider how high the risk is that the game might take longer or not. I'd never start a ranked game without at least 1h of free time for it.
I agree the game needs to be balanced to try and be somewhat within a certain limits of i.e "99% of the games end with 1h". Currently imho orbital balance is rather questionable in that regard. Apart from stupid orbital stalemates the game fulfills those 99% within an hour I think. Easily in fact.

Patch came out, i wonder what everyone thinks about the ranked maps, i haven't played 1v1s myself yet but its nice to know what your playing on.

The maps are crap but playable for 1v1's if you put 2 top players in a game it clearly shows how unbalanced they are. other wise not so much.

Yeah the maps are basically so bad I don't understand why they don't just copy the old pa stats mappool. Those were decent maps and copying them takes roughly a ctrl+c, ctrl+v

I don't understand why Uber haven't used some of the community made maps for their match-making system. PA Stats had/has a great pool of about 12 maps. A lot of time and effort has gone into them. Why not use them?

I've just played a few games back to back and I just don't get it. Two maps? And yes it is 'early days' but it just seems a bit silly to me. I'm not normally one for a grumble but I am a bit baffled about this! And the Duellist system, to me, isn't even balanced. I've played multiple games on it where one player has spawned with just two metal spots nearby and a long walk to the nearest cluster, and the other has spawned with about 6 metal nearby!

Please, Uber, use some of the PA Stats map pool/community made maps in general. It wouldn't take long to implement and would immeasurably improve the experience right now for us players. No doubt you are working on all sorts of cool stuff right now, more maps, symmetrical maps, better control with the system designer, etc. I'm looking forward to it all. But right now, this would be a simple step to take and it would improve things a lot.

I'd say because soon they're going to have symmetrical maps.

I hope so

they suck complete donkey

I played 5 rankeds and 4 of them were on the Zaphod System, where everytime my enemy and I spawned on the ice planet. So it was like a single planet match. I am a lucky bastard.

Even that iceplanet has a potential to give pretty questionable spawns. And it's tiny and has all metal in the spawn areas.

Yup, there are 2 good spawns, the others are terrible.

Every one of my six ranked matches were in the Zaphod System as well. Everyone always spawned on the ice planet. Since there are only two good spawns (with the line-o-mex spawn being the best) I would spawn and immediately know where the enemy was. Moar mapz plz.

I've played 14 games in ranked now (according to the replay client), and the two maps are fine but getting a bit old. The duellist system has a spawn that I've come to dread in particular, where most of your starting metal lies just outside your spawn, and almost always between your base and your opponent's.

Zaphod system isn't quite so bad (ice planet 1v1s are ok mostly), but balanced spawns for all the maps would be neat-o.