SG ZE: Cooldown on nominations and RTV maps

[MidNight_Ace]

Hello this is MidNight_Ace, and I play ZE on the SG server.

 

I would like to suggest to add a cooldown on RTVing maps per map. What I am saying is that we should add a certain time (about 3-5 minutes) before we can RTV the map. The reason to that is because we get on different maps, but sometimes people RTV without even playing the map. Today we rotated through 10 maps in less than 30 minutes. That is approximately 3 minutes per map. I do understand some maps like ZM are short, but other maps like mist, wanderers, 666crazy, and other maps needs to be played for a while until we get to the boss fights and fun parts of the map. It is dumb to choose to play tryhard maps and RTV the map immediately in the first 2 minutes.

 

Also in addition you can also add a cooldown on nominating maps. Therefore people who join the server quicker than others don’t nominate maps we shouldn’t play, and everyone gets to nominate their map they want to play.

 

I would say add at least 300 second cooldown before nominating and RTVing maps.

 

Thanks.

[nesquik]

There's already one. But its like 60 seconds so theres no point. Just extend it I guess. I think the cooldown only exists if you rtv'd to the map you are rtving right now.

[MidNight_Ace]

There's already one. But its like 60 seconds so theres no point. Just extend it I guess. I think the cooldown only exists if you rtv'd to the map you are rtving right now.

 

Yeah I don’t think there is one after map change. Do you mean the rtv after picking don’t change on the rtved map?

[nesquik]

Yeah I don’t think there is one after map change. Do you mean the rtv after picking don’t change on the rtved map?

 

No, I mean you rtv'd lets say surf facility, then you switch to voodoo cus the server sucks, and then for the first 30-60ish seconds you cant rtv.

[MidNight_Ace]

No, I mean you rtv'd lets say surf facility, then you switch to voodoo cus the server sucks, and then for the first 30-60ish seconds you cant rtv.

 

Wow I didn’t know that :o, but that’s definitely still way too short. Extending the cooldown is a good idea.

[Cept For Her]

I upped the initial RTV time when you first load in a map from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. If this still seems to be an issue then let us know and I'll increase the time a bit more. As for the nominations cooldown, that isnt as simple to fix but its something we'll be discussing/looking into

[Divine]

I think that there shouldn't be cooldowns because people have different opinions on maps. But also, many people aren't spaming rtv in chat,

 

I meant period at the end

[diryathing]

I think that there shouldn't be cooldowns because people have different opinions on maps. But also, many people aren't spaming rtv in chat,

 

The problem is more of "making a rash decision" and "judging a book by its cover". The change here is more like "please give the map a chance" before you immediately rtv and if you still want to rtv after 2 minutes then no one will stop you because you had enough time to consider the map.

[Cept For Her]

Going to mark this completed seeing as we increased the rtv timeout, and have a larger cap on map timeouts, which should increase variety. Most likely there will be a feedback thread in the ze section soon about map variety. If map nominations still seem to be an issue with constant nominations of the same map or nominating maps that will kill the server at that time we can look into a solution such as changing the maps difficulty, or adding a nomination timeout