[Discus] Asto Craters Ban? Ban players on the craters?

[BLITZ_Molloy]

I think looking at what happened with TA Spring some degree of map curation should have been incorporated. Also 8 player limits probably isn't a terrible idea. If you've cultivated a noob community then not having them take over completely is very difficult.

I say do like Counter Strike or whatever. You can only get global ranking points on 'official' maps as chosen by the balance team.

[Little Miss Murder]

That's what Ladder is for.

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[H-master]

(Also, first post hooray)

I don't know if it's a good idea to ban maps like Astro and Gap. What I do know is that 90% of games being hosted are Astro or Gap.

The gameplay on these maps is terrible to my taste. I would be really happy if the playerbase would move to traditional maps. By traditional I mean in line with gpg and top pick maps. Banning current turtle maps will take away a lot of fun for people who do like turtle maps though. And they would just create a new one, once a map is banned.

I do think the turtle map players are missing out on what the game has to offer.
The problem is that there are too few players who like traditional maps. If the interest for these kind of maps is just as great as the interest for turtle maps I don't think anyone cares.

[RedX]

Do you think that if they were unranked players would be incentivized to play other maps?

[biass]

No? they're just discouraged from playing astro. There is no real incentive to playing other maps and if you're gonna tell me canis is a better map than gap you're probably stuck in some delusions of grandeur. This player demopgraphic is not going to make the jump to other maps without a real reason to do so, and if you cripple their experience without giving a said reason, they're just going to leave.