Itās that time for you to weigh in on the maps you want to see in the next 1v1 Ranked Map Pool! Here are FOUR of the SEVEN (total) maps that will be showing up in the next map pool update:
MAP 1
MAP 2
MAP 3
MAP 4
ARABIA
ARENA
MIGRATION
SERENGETI
Now itās your turn to vote for the THREE (3) maps that youād like to see join the pool. Of the options below, the three that receive the most votes by Sunday will be added to the map pool on December 01!
VOTING ENDS:2020-11-29T20:00:00Z
NEW MAP ROTATION: December 01!
COMMUNITY VOTE: 1v1 RMR
Vote for your 3 favorite maps! Donāt forget to click the āVote now!ā button at the bottom of the post once youāve locked in your choices.
Really? First Nile Delta, now Migration. I donāt get it.
Yes, those can be fun maps for unranked Teamgames. But in 1v1 ranked? I see most people banning itā¦
Never before, I have had difficulties finding three maps at all that are reasonable to vote for in 1v1. Not a great fan of the map selection, this timeā¦ Where are the āstandardā maps?
that is simply absurd, canāt think of a single RTS that uses as many maps as AoE2 has that would use them all in ranked.
as for this - given the general love of Arabia, having a ladder rank for each map would be a gigantic waste of time. we already have maps that see sub 1% playrate, and adding more maps would shrink that further.
Arabia has gone all the way up to 64% of all games played (all skill levels), and is up to nearly 80% of all 1650+ games played. thats up from 60% and 75% just after KotD3.
Elo for each map doesnt make sense. One could use elo for map categories (water map, nomad start, hybrid map, closed map, open map) as long as the inital elo on those maps is determined by your other maps. But what do you do with new players then? If someone is playing all maps and getting steadily better at the game what happens then? Either he progresses super slowly, or he starts to dislike some maps, banning them and having an elo of 1000 on water maps, but gets up to 1400 or even higher on open land maps. Now what happens if he goes back to playing water maps? he needs around 20 consecutive wins or so to get up to 1400.
Sure, this could be solved several ways:
Elo of maps that are not played for either a month, or in your past 50 games (arbatrary numbers picked) get adjusted to either your highest, or your average 1v1 elo.
Win streaks generate more elo per won game.
But it has many ways to cause problems and I dont think the current elo system works too bad.
It probably does not take more than 5 consecutive losses for me to get to an elo where I feel players being significantly worse than my top elo, and that is usually enough time to get used to a new strategy/map and I can start climbing again.
VOTING ENDS: 2020-11-29T20:00:00Z
Bogland
Gold Rush
Hill Fort
Mediterranean
MegaRandom
Mountain Ridge
Oasis
Rivers
Socotra
