Hey Shyam,
Great post, thank you for explaining your position. These are some really interesting changes and from FTP's point of view, it's smart, creative, and generally going in the right direction.
Have you guys talked about treating HU in a similar fashion to the new 6max changes?
For example, having an HU option where players are randomly matched up, giving
everyone a fair chance to be matched with anyone, including fish on fish action.
If the choices are between having no HU system and having an extreme form of it, would you guys be open to the latter?
Call it the FTP Arena. I suggest these conditions:
- Match Everyone randomly
- Keep the "Add table button" so those who want to play more tables can
- Should either player leave, they get a 30 minute, 1 hour, or 2 hour timer before they can sit HU again
I think with just these three conditions, you have a game that is constantly generating
A) Revenue
B) Action
C) no down time. In this extreme form, there really is no table sitting. You're either playing HU or you're not playing at all, and I much prefer to have this than to not play at all
As a result, a nice lobby effect that will be unique to only you guys and no one else is whenever anyone hits the HU button, they will get action, they will almost never get matched up w/someone who times out because he was too lazy to shut down his client.
Note: If you guys are really worried about losing new players because of HU, then market this revenue generating genre as a prestigious arena where gladiators do battle. New players can't play for the first month or unless they express interest in playing in an email
Last edited by Syous; 07-28-2015 at 09:17 AM.
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