A better ranked lobby - Alt F4 fix

[Leshanni]

@SwaggyOP

Personally I’d like to have 0% of my time wasted when I try to play a game, don’t you?

I do not consider it a waste of my time. I consider playing maps that are not my preference to be a fair system of getting more people to play the maps they want more of the time, which is a good thing.

@SwaggyOP

Why do you think it’s not reasonable to have a player allowed to pick his map 100% of the time if he wants to,

I think it’s reasonable on a auto matchmaking system.

@SwaggyOP

it has always been the historical way to play the game pre-DE,

I believe that the historical way to play was via ranked lobbies and not auto matchmaking. I have no issue with their being ranked lobbies where you can pick your map 100% of the time.

I made my own thread with more of my thoughts, rather than hijack this thread anymore.

Community Growth and Changes (map pools/ranked ladder)

Ok this is a hot topic and I’m in multiple threads discussing it. But here’s my take, and it’s meant to raise points and discuss the situation. The community who kept aoe2 going only played via ranked lobbies - no auto matchmaking. Huge thank you to all those players and community organisers They got to pick their games exactly how they wanted (Arabia only/ arena clowns/ nomad/ Fatslob!) Because the community did such a good job of keeping itself alive, it ended up getting more attention fro…