No one to play, time for scheduled playtimes?

[Belutima]

Lately I have found it harder and harder to find people to play with, especially with people my own level (I'm Rookie level).
Not only that having went trough the comment section of Indrid Casts youtube channel, I found a particular comment saying that.
The person tried to play Elite mod but couldn't find anyone to play with, and when he did he was rofl stumped every single time. And thus he decided to keep playing vanilla dawn of war and just to keep watching the replay vods.

This concerned me heavily.
So my suggestion was to make an international timestamps on when people could expect to find other people to play and also some tips on how to name the game they are hosting.



This is the the Timezones with 0 being GMT time and how many hours time difference there is. Some of my suggested Time points new people could go online to find matches for people living in europe and the East Coast of America.
would be.
18:00 GMT
20:00 GMT
22:00 GMT
00:00 GMT
02:00 GMT

Or use EST or any other timezone to make it easier for people who don't know what GMT is.

For people who already are playing Elite mod for a long time this probably wouldn't be of much use.
But for people who are testing it for the first time it is very important to know when to come online to find people to play. Otherwise they might think this mod is dead or hardly alive.

So perhaps on the Steam page or somewhere for the public to see even the site, we could put a general time on when people could come online to find other players.
But these can of course be changed depending on what people say in this forum.

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And as for how people use the names of their hosted game it's 3v3 or 1v1 or 2v2 all the time.
We could put a guideline on saying, use Beginner, intermediate, Veteran or All.

for example:
"3v3 all", "1v1 Veteran", 3v3 Beginner" or even "3v3 no main practice" for people who want to test out other factions.


Because I have seen on streams, not naming names, and experienced all to well when suddenly people or I get kicked out because they played bad, because they were Beginner or Intermediate and not Veteran where the host lost because he just joined a random server.
Or myself joining a 2v2 and I lost to 2 people who hosted it, because my teammate bailed out because they were better then us. Or even the one time my team mate didn't bail, his Teammate bailed out because we were being beaten every single time and it became to easy, I assume.

And we should also put a line on the steam page or site that states not to be afraid to host a game.
Because it would be much easier and with the guidelines and new people not being afraid of being curb stumped.


I just want the entry level to be very low and easy for newcomers, because it's always scary to try something new and when you, can't find games, get curbed stomped every single time, get kicked out, only seem to play against veterans.

Well you know where I'm getting.



So hope someone agrees with this, or make suggestion and perhaps put it on the main site or the steam page. Please post here to give this issue some attention.

[Batpimp]

hey belu,

I see you have put much thought and effort into this. Few things for you to consider and im not sure you know.

1. Join the steam chat group.
2. Join the beginner chat group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DoW2_Elite_Beginners

3. expect to almost always play someone more experienced. The reasons for this are varied but I can say with almost certainty that 50-70% of the current, consistently-online players base are decent to pro players. I would say 30% ish are new. They do exist I many times during the week see players advertising new, newish, beginner games.

I live PST. I have been coming online after work at 5pm and I consistently see about 2-3 games up of varying types. Not to mention the private NON viewable games that are also happening. I hope to see you online brotha and add me on steam friends list (check my profile or anyone elses profile if they added it) and ill play a friendly team or 1v1 game with ya to keep you motivated and teach you what I can.

[Atlas]

I would second all those suggestions. The key is to get a friends list of Warhammer players going that you can invite at will to fill up games. Can't tell you how many times spamming invites has gotten games running for me.

[Rataxas]

I would second all those suggestions. The key is to get a firends list of Warhammer players going that you can invite at will to fill up games. can't tell you how many times spamming invites has gotten games running for me.

Act this is the best option , true is " veterans " usally play togiether. I do play usally every day around 20:00 oclock(time zone +1) public games mostly 1v1 and 2v2 with friends. So i think it can be hard for someone from USA to play with us cause there can be diff. even like 5-6hours.




I think there is more skilled players in Elite Mod than in Retail. So what you can act only do is get better play more 1v1 , practice etc.

[Raffa]

Friends list is the key. I have about 70 friends, most of whom are regular players, and very rarely can't get a 2v2 going although without a friends list it would be a nightmare finding games, let alone of individual skill level.

Chat with Elite beginners, play together and add them as friends so you can invite them when you want games. This guarantees that you will get players of vaguely equal skill level, which means better games, which means more fun for everyone. You will also improve together by playing regularly, so you will improve together and still get competitive games, just at a higher level as you skill up.

Best is to have a friends list and a regular ally. This 2v2 tourney has been the perfect excuse for people to start playing often with a partner and this drastically reduces search times for games, especially when you ask to taken on a fellow 2v2 pair who also enjoy playing together.

When I'm online it's usually for some hours between 11:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT, and must say I rarely have to wait more than 10 or so minutes to set up usually an hour or more's worth of games with people.

[Stoned_elf]

Also look on the Elite group profile page in discussions and you will find a similar topic with i believe a few hundred posts of ppl saying things like
"newbie game up"
"i am new add me to you f list" etcetc

so post there, add ppl off there and voila you have a flist and assuming a bunch of them are in similar time zone to you and play regularly you problem is solved.

[appiah4]

Is it really impossible to make DOW2 matchmaking work with the Elite Mod?

[Rataxas]

Is it really impossible to make DOW2 matchmaking work with the Elite Mod?

it is but it's not so easy , I assume it's time consuming and need a lot of work.