Req: Simple ladder to revive PA a little

The game seems kinda dead right now. No-one is actually playing. Basically I just want the absolute simplest of ladders added.

Change automatch to 'Ranked match'.

Add the most simplest of ladders which you gain/lose points for ranked matches. Nothing complicated.

I'm sure it must be trivial to add a simple table with points and just encourage people to start playing again - everyone loves epeen points!

I dont care about points, but I simply want to be able to play games against even matched opponents (or atleast some attempt at that).
Right now there is no official community platform an the in-game browser doesnt tell whether the plan is a small ffa or interplanetary on scale 8 planets. UT did this right in `99, supcom had a horribly bloated, hilariously localized by google-translate and slow buggy **** client that atleast had the necessary features to chat and arrange games and a ranked system.
For a game that will depend on the community and mouth-to-mouth advertising to carry it anywhere this state is horrible (even worse than all the beta issues).

I agree. It would be very helpful to be able to easily find other players of my skill level to play.

I don't think a ladder is going to help bring the community back when all we are really waiting for is new content to mess around with. Though of course a ladder would never hurt.

Actually the content I am waiting the most for is a ladder. Having a "click here to play a decent 1v1 now" Button is just soooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

that and finally some good servers to play on. The last 10 games I had were nothing but crashfest galore for some reason.

I'm quite surprised they have left it so long like this.
Maybe the most of them are watching the score get recorded or on holiday.

Sorry, double post.

Yeah they are working on the music a bit so either a big build is coming or they went out for pizza

So chances are, the only thing that gets implemented next week is better quality audio? And a review on a pizza place.

I dont think the game generally is THAT unstable. I can play the games I play. Yes there are some issues, but once a game with a balanced map is running not much stops it.

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Also I doubt that the whole uber office participates in the making the score. Pretty sure most of them are working as much as they can on PA.

Maybe not for you, but from what I've been reading over the forums the past week, I'd say the servers and client IS that unstable for most.

I only just got mine playable a couple days ago and even then i get crashes still.

I think it depends on the settings people play. Try 1v1 on ~750 planets. It's more stable than ever before.

The performance is better yes, but stability? I'd say its a big fat no man. Plenty of people have had a plethora of problems keeping a game running, on the simplest of settings.

That's probably because people are more likely to post about a bad experience than a good one. I tend to have crash-free games most of the time (most default solar systems and 3-7 players work well for me).

Hey im throwing up suggestions but my experience has been pretty bad on my end in terms of trying to find a good game. Either way are opinions are polarized because some people are doing dandy as wildflowers and some are bracing the pits of laghell to find a game. The game itself is pretty bland so a new update should in theory bring people back into ubers motherly arms.

Right, And there's more people recording crashes than finishing a full game, how else are you going to judge it.
And all it takes is a couple minutes to see how many threads have been started up in the last couple days to a week to say the game has lost a LOT of players and the most likely reason is that it has been unplayable for them, crashes and what not.

As long as the games launch is better then the new sim city game, I think we can all call it a resounding success.

the thing is currently units (appart from fireflies and orbital radar) do't target the commander. maybe this is a priority?

made my day