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Improve Lobby Timer
Dementio:
Currently the lobby timer starts when 2 people are on each ship, which is 50%, which means 50% full of AI, and it is in no way guaranteed that within 5 minutes the lobby will be full and ready before the new lobby timer force starts the match.
As it is now, the timer feels too short, because it starts too soon and does not add enough time when new crewmembers join, if it adds any time at all.
Suggestion to improve on this:
- Remove the lobby timer entirely. If matchmaking works as it should then there should not be a problem getting the lobby full and thus started sooner then the pre 1.3.8 lobbies.
- Start the lobby timer later. For example, when 3 people are on each ship or the entire lobby is full.
- Add more time for each person that joins the lobby, unless they join as a spectater, which would delay the lobby timer for no reason.
"Lobby Timer" is not to be confused with the "Match Start Timer", which starts only when enough captains have readied up.
Hoja Lateralus:
+1, any of those three should be good enough
sparklerfish:
I like the remove the timer completely option. But anything to improve it would help.
sparklerfish:
I'm starting to wonder what the point of the lobby timer is. Whether there are 200 or 20 seconds remaining, you still get people hollering "READY UP!!!!!!" These people will not be happy until there is no such thing as a lobby and you click "play" and are instantly on a ship with whatever loadout you happen to have. The lobby timer is pointless. Either you have enough time to set up or you don't. If you want enough time to set up, you shouldn't have a timer. If you want to start instantly, play a different goddamn game.
It drives me CRAZY that this change has proven almost entirely useless and often makes lobbies take longer because captains will leave because they don't have adequate time to set up.
Lobbies of Icarus has evolved into Waiting for a Captain Simulator 2014 because nobody wants to fly an unprepared boat.
Nietzsche's Mustache:
--- Quote from: sparklerfish on November 13, 2014, 04:23:07 pm ---I'm starting to wonder what the point of the lobby timer is. Whether there are 200 or 20 seconds remaining, you still get people hollering "READY UP!!!!!!" These people will not be happy until there is no such thing as a lobby and you click "play" and are instantly on a ship with whatever loadout you happen to have. The lobby timer is pointless. Either you have enough time to set up or you don't. If you want enough time to set up, you shouldn't have a timer. If you want to start instantly, play a different goddamn game.
It drives me CRAZY that this change has proven almost entirely useless and often makes lobbies take longer because captains will leave because they don't have adequate time to set up.
Lobbies of Icarus has evolved into Waiting for a Captain Simulator 2014 because nobody wants to fly an unprepared boat.
--- End quote ---
quoted for truth
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