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MP menu request

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:35 am
by TheGrayMouser
Hello, can we get open MP challenge system be a little more open to diversity?

Sometimes I feel a medium battle in certain eras or armies is too small but large armies often times are way to big, so I thought I'd set up a medium large battle w custom points of 1600 each (an open battle)

There was even enough room in the comment area to state 1600 points per army.
The program, somewhat accusatorily told me that such a custom match was only for private matches, like I was trying pull something nefarious.. :)

Can MP be tweeked to allow the normal "ratio" of two armies for a custom point matches (be it for open attack etc) as it does for for small medium large and very large matches? Or, even better, as long as the opponent knows WHAT is custom, why cant ANY such a match be an open challenge? When one hovers over open challengers in the open games lobby, there is a significantly large data pop up area that appears could hold all that info...

Re: MP menu request

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:08 am
by rbodleyscott
TheGrayMouser wrote:Or, even better, as long as the opponent knows WHAT is custom, why cant ANY such a match be an open challenge? When one hovers over open challengers in the open games lobby, there is a significantly large data pop up area that appears could hold all that info...
This was advised by Slitherine on the basis of past experience with MP games. It was to avoid the unwary picking up unbalanced games. I will mention it to them.

In the meantime you could include the password in a message saying free for all, or suchlike. Although I appreciate not many people will probably get as far as reading that as the challenge will have the "private" icon.

Re: MP menu request

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 6:02 pm
by TheGrayMouser
rbodleyscott wrote:
TheGrayMouser wrote:Or, even better, as long as the opponent knows WHAT is custom, why cant ANY such a match be an open challenge? When one hovers over open challengers in the open games lobby, there is a significantly large data pop up area that appears could hold all that info...
This was advised by Slitherine on the basis of past experience with MP games. It was to avoid the unwary picking up unbalanced games. I will mention it to them.

In the meantime you could include the password in a message saying free for all, or suchlike. Although I appreciate not many people will probably get as far as reading that as the challenge will have the "private" icon.
Hehe, I get it but we must assume fans of the Pike and Shot era are of a higher caliber than the average gamer :) Good suggestion btw, I'll give it a try.