It's funny, I went to bed after making 2 public games for my custom that autofilled to test out balancing. Woke up and my map is now 2nd on EU with like 1.5k games played in last hour, that's pretty crazy.
The real solution would be to have a counter thats sole purpose was to see how long a map remains on the front page. After reaching lets say, 10 days on the front page it puts the map into a Top Tier Map list and removes it from the ranked map list. If someone wants to play that map all they have to do is go to the top tier map list.
It's funny, I went to bed after making 2 public games for my custom that
autofilled to test out balancing. Woke up and my map is now 2nd on EU
with like 1.5k games played in last hour, that's pretty crazy.
I know, samething here! During the day of the popularity resets, my map, roundabout war, actually reached front page! I remembered after the first reset, my map actually got a few dozen games going. I came back later and noticed my map disappeared again due to another reset. I was going to just .. forget the map and move on to my next map idea. But I decided to finish the last few triggers for the map anyways..
I played 2 games solo vs the AI, logged off to fix the map. Played a 3rd game where someone actually joined! So me and the other played a game where again, I found stuffs to fix. I looked and noticed it had like 9 games played! That was joyous for me, to have so many games played. ;) Anyways, I logged off to fix the map. When I came back, it had like 30ish games played! And this time when I started a game, people actually joined! Wow, full game!
Anyways, due to the popularity reset, the 'show new games' list only had 2 pages and my game was on the 2nd page easy to see. I was checking the list every now and then, I saw the games played for my map rise steadily. 92 games, 100+, etc. It was like on page 4 or 5 of the popularity list not even having the bar filled.
Few hours later when I came back, wow, it had full bar! it was climbing the chart all day long, and today it had over 17k games played!!! I have to say, I was elated to see my map climbed to first place. ;) I'm actually scared to update my map now, afraid I might screw up a upload. Actually I did screw up an upload for a few minutes when I left some testing units on the map for player 1. Luckily, I realized the mistake right away.
my map got totally lucky that it appeared during the reset. It was released the day before and no one was playing. I played like 15 games total to bump the map to no avail. Only like 2 other people played it or something.. Can't believe my map reached so high. :p
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It's funny, I went to bed after making 2 public games for my custom that autofilled to test out balancing. Woke up and my map is now 2nd on EU with like 1.5k games played in last hour, that's pretty crazy.
The real solution would be to have a counter thats sole purpose was to see how long a map remains on the front page. After reaching lets say, 10 days on the front page it puts the map into a Top Tier Map list and removes it from the ranked map list. If someone wants to play that map all they have to do is go to the top tier map list.
I know, samething here! During the day of the popularity resets, my map, roundabout war, actually reached front page! I remembered after the first reset, my map actually got a few dozen games going. I came back later and noticed my map disappeared again due to another reset. I was going to just .. forget the map and move on to my next map idea. But I decided to finish the last few triggers for the map anyways..
I played 2 games solo vs the AI, logged off to fix the map. Played a 3rd game where someone actually joined! So me and the other played a game where again, I found stuffs to fix. I looked and noticed it had like 9 games played! That was joyous for me, to have so many games played. ;) Anyways, I logged off to fix the map. When I came back, it had like 30ish games played! And this time when I started a game, people actually joined! Wow, full game!
Anyways, due to the popularity reset, the 'show new games' list only had 2 pages and my game was on the 2nd page easy to see. I was checking the list every now and then, I saw the games played for my map rise steadily. 92 games, 100+, etc. It was like on page 4 or 5 of the popularity list not even having the bar filled.
Few hours later when I came back, wow, it had full bar! it was climbing the chart all day long, and today it had over 17k games played!!! I have to say, I was elated to see my map climbed to first place. ;) I'm actually scared to update my map now, afraid I might screw up a upload. Actually I did screw up an upload for a few minutes when I left some testing units on the map for player 1. Luckily, I realized the mistake right away.
my map got totally lucky that it appeared during the reset. It was released the day before and no one was playing. I played like 15 games total to bump the map to no avail. Only like 2 other people played it or something.. Can't believe my map reached so high. :p
How do you guys know how many times your map gets played?
@Catalisk:
Put your mouse over your maps popularity bar, and it tells you =D
Funny is the last reset helped my map greatly, I could do great tests and recieve extra feedback. But with this one, I'm back to 4th page.
This popularity system is so random... lol.