Java Temporary solution to fill battlezones lobbies faster

[Lightning McQueen]

Rotate Batllezones between squad and solo every half hour so that the lobbies at least get 75 players, just temporary until the game gets popular enough.

 

[c r i n g e]

w0t u mean

 

[Allkams]

Can be a good Idea, can be a bad idea. And for sure its more fun with a full match but rotate Battlezones between squad and solo will maybe end in if you are playing with a team you will be needed to wait until it has "rotated" to squads again?

 

[Chitter]

Yeah no. I dont want to wait for squads to be rotated back into cycle just to play. Bad idea

 

[CommunistCactus]

Yeah no. I dont want to wait for squads to be rotated back into cycle just to play. Bad idea

and I don't wanna play squads with just 16 players in one game

 

[Slainbyme__]

Or we can puts battlezone in 1.8....

 

[Lightning McQueen]

Can be a good Idea, can be a bad idea. And for sure its more fun with a full match but rotate Battlezones between squad and solo will maybe end in if you are playing with a team you will be needed to wait until it has "rotated" to squads again?

Yes. Rotations switch 15-30 mins so you wont wait that long.

Yeah no. I dont want to wait for squads to be rotated back into cycle just to play. Bad idea

There are 2 people playing solo and 12 on squads rn, only one person in the lobby.

 

[Allkams]

Yes. Rotations switch 15-30 mins so you wont wait that long.

There are 2 people playing solo and 12 on squads rn, only one person in the lobby.

Sounds great then!

 

[TheBrownster]

Or we can puts battlezone in 1.8....

There is basically no difference between battle zone in 1.9 and 1.8 since the only pvp combat you could possibly get into is with the pickaxe, and that isn’t even supposed to happen in most cases since you are likely to have guns. 1.8 would be a huge waste of time and would not really accomplish anything.

Rotate Batllezones between squad and solo every half hour so that the lobbies at least get 75 players, just temporary until the game gets popular enough.

Full disclaimer that I have not played in the past few days so I haven’t seen the empty lobbies myself or even played squads yet:
I don’t think this would be the best fix since people who want to play squads would join the solo rotation, then leave once the game is starting just so it rotated back to squads. Maybe if we did something like what was suggested for UHC on some thread: hold games every 2 hours or so and make a server wide announcement of it starting. That would call more players to join since it happens more rarely and would likely full up games pretty quick.

 

[Lightning McQueen]

There is basically no difference between battle zone in 1.9 and 1.8 since the only pvp combat you could possibly get into is with the pickaxe, and that isn’t even supposed to happen in most cases since you are likely to have guns. 1.8 would be a huge waste of time and would not really accomplish anything.


Full disclaimer that I have not played in the past few days so I haven’t seen the empty lobbies myself or even played squads yet:
I don’t think this would be the best fix since people who want to play squads would join the solo rotation, then leave once the game is starting just so it rotated back to squads. Maybe if we did something like what was suggested for UHC on some thread: hold games every 2 hours or so and make a server wide announcement of it starting. That would call more players to join since it happens more rarely and would likely full up games pretty quick.

They cant just leave because the game will be frozen in solo for 30 mins and them switch to teams. Just leaving wont make it rotate.

I like your proposed method a lot better though. I was just in a lobby with @SleepyLiv, the lobby got filled to 27 and then people left and 16 people were left.

 

[TheBrownster]

They cant just leave because the game will be frozen in solo for 30 mins and them switch to teams. Just leaving wont make it rotate.

I like your proposed method a lot better though. I was just in a lobby with @SleepyLiv, the lobby got filled to 27 and then people left and 16 people were left.

Oh, I had thought you meant it would rotate back and forth between solo and team, like once a solo game started, the next would be team, and vice versa.
I’m also thinking if maybe a voting thing to vote for either team or solo for everyone (would not publicly display votes in chat, would just tally them in vote thingy) so the players can decide. Majority wins. That way only one game is open, and the the players can decide if it’s team or solo.