- rubattle.neT - eurobattle.net - baltikum - a Georgian server... - an American one... - Mambu - w3.europebattle /
- Indogamers (maybe soon)
2- Map changes
- Removed unpopular maps (Garden of War, Flood Plains, Battleground, Thunder Lake) - All maps start with 4 players - Rotation is : Market, Sanctuary, Deathrose, Silverpine, Northshire, Twilight Ruins, Deadlock, Gold Rush
3- Other changes
- kicking ping limit set to 270 from 230 - removed CGArena official maps in rotation, so it does not compete with ffarena bot for visibility on bnet
(I like this topic better because it talks about progresses, and we are doing some!).
GOOD NEWS
1- With more servers, more activity!
When it will get to something decent, I will set back the big maps to 6 players before starting.
2- Negociations with the owners of the Russian FFA bot
Having only one bot is better than two. We discussed with their two Melee bots admins along with Yosh and Ponty. Not going into details but they want to work together, one admin named Dan used to play on playffa so he knows what we could do together.
3- We could start a ladder if the system actually worked
Yosh has access to the database to we could reset the ladder and make seasons anytime.
To be solved
1- System does not work yet Bot gives the winner to.... the first who leaves? Yeah it's seems that way and it makes no sense.
2- No access to the ftp Yosh and apparently Keno, nobody ever had access to the ftp. It creates several issues * cant have nice statistics website with map images and such
* cant have the game name automatically posted on front pages of website
* cant have the game result actually appearing in game results pages. The ladder still records the result, but does not show the outcome of the game.
3- No access garena yet Because lunaghost must set it up.
No worries I think, if lunaghost really cant help, plan B is to use the russian bot already existing instead and connect it to the realms it cannot touch so far. We would need to negociate a full access to it though to run successful seasons.
Keeping you posted as soon as anything relevant happens!
update : Yosh has no access to the ftp, potentially due to the messy Keno/Yosh transition (but i do not know), will try to get it from lunaghost if they agree to consider me as a legitimate partner which is more than doubtful.
Yosh really wants a working ladder so garena hosting is planned. I contacted Iccup for hosting there as well. I managed to create an account but could not get a bot to log on.
Good job ugri, I knew you could make things turn again.
Further studies for you, and if you want my help just say, Ive been playing on the russian bot, 95% of the gamers there are Garena.
Why russian bot > ffarena: Stats are perfectly recorded ( even records heros killed vs deaths) Names are completely anonymous ( in ffarena you say some commands and a list of players comes) Even though russian bot has a super confusing name it gets more people and the games fill very fast. I think it comes from Garena, because those channels have very few other games.
Edit: If a game doesn't start in 10 minutes its rehosted another map ( This is the dealbreaker, if a12 map isnt filling, it just rehosts another and another till it finds one that fills.
it is very helpful as again, i cannot join a game on both bots. All these can be fixed or done, except for the hero death counting thing. I'm actually looking for help and for players reporting issues with the bot, playing on it!
I compared a little further ffarena and onlinegamez.ru
Ladder games per day
ffarena ~15-20 onlinegamez.ru ~30-35
Connections
ffarena : just updated, added rubattle.net, eurobattle.net and some others. Only real bonus is having w3arena.
onlinegamez.ru : links the whole russian community ( Russian garena rooms, rubattle.net, an active server I dont know yet Iccup, eurobattle.net)
I think the cleverest solution would be to merge the two to have a real working and active ladder. Now I highly doubt that this is possible. It would be cool at least to talk to onlinegamez.ru admins and see what they think about it.
I will try to link Iccup as well if it is possible.
Garena is not free. As I just realized, playffa.net was banned from 4/5 garena rooms, despite payment. So i could try to link ffarena there and get banned anyway. I am not sure who handles those bans but maybe they only allow russian bots in their channels.
Those garena rooms are quite interesting since you have 800 players there at low hours, much more than on w3arena itself.
(ty Hudkraem)
Any Russian speakers who knows onlinegamez.ru admins?
All right just letting you know, I have been discussing with Yosh, Ponty and Seksi.
I am trying to upgrade ffarena this weekend, twitching it so it get closer to what playffa was in term of configuration. I will extend the number of realm connections as well as some other things. This is to try to increase activity.
2nd step will be to get deeper and make it possible to organize a working ladder. For that I will need more access so I will discuss with Yosh further.
Ultimately if all goes well, you could have a working ladder. I would not manage it, Ponty will. He will need some admins to help out, like I used to : you will figure this out!
I tried to transfer it. Myself I could not keep it up : time consuming, had a very bad internet (could not even join games most of the time) and my timezone made it hardcore to manage anything (I live in China now).
The lack of interest by the community became obvious to me when I stopped, most players here lost interest in the ladder (many newbs playing stupid, some felt unfairly teamed, some did not like it, some hackers would ruin games too etc...). When I stopped, most known players did not really like the bot, and chose to play private games from skype like it is done now.
I think the most representative rankings would be per winning percentage, not accounting sub games (I saw a lot of good players saying "I am subbing I do not want to make anybody lose") while playing at least 20 games.
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