Slitherine

There is a limitation when creating a custom skirmish. If you enter a custom value for "Player Points" or "Enemy Points" you are required to make the match private with a password. Why??

As a workaround you can explain what the password is in the comments field, but still the match shows up as private and is a lot less likely to be viewed by potential opponents...

welcome to the forum, sorry about your issue but that is by design

Is the reason for this design decision known? As far as I'm concerned it makes the multiplay aspect of this game not as fun as it could be.

unless a developer comments on it, i'm sorry i also have no idea or reasons, but they do read the posts, so hopefully one will reply

If you create an asymmetric game it is assumed that (a) there is a reason for it and (b) your opponent is aware and has agreed to it. Having open games with mismatched forces makes it too easy for noobs to grab a game to try things out and get a non-optimal experience.

Cheers

Pip

Thanks for replying, Pip.

Actually I was not trying to create an asymmetric game. I just wanted to create an even game but with a higher army point value than the presets allow. Is there some other way to accomplish that with a regular public skirmish? For example I was trying to create a skirmish with 6,000 points for each side.

The limitations are hooked into the skirmish logic, so unfortunately not. Though the same caveats apply really - no new player is going to have much fun in a massive 6000 point game as their first try

Cheers

Pip

there is a good chance, that we will get higher pre-sets than 3200 points / very large. the game is not crashing anymore with higher point sizes and the random army lists works well with 5000+ point games.