Posted on 04 August 2016 - 09:08 PM

Back in Season 12, I appreciated the fact that I was able to duel the people the same skill level as me, while also not having the pressure of it being a ranked match. In Season 13, you are unable to do this because of the multiple lobbies that you are in. Now some may say, "Why don't you just go queue in unranked?"

1. Unranked isn't good practice because most people that play it aren't good (no offense)

2. Bringing back ONE global chat will allow players of the same skill level duel eachother.

3. Without global chat the chats are like crickets and it's pretty boring tbh…

Last edited on 04 August 2016 - 09:09 PM by Vaxd

https://www.badlion.net/forum/thread/129730

The Chat

The chat for the old style of ArenaPvP servers was having 1000 players on a single server sharing a cross chat system. This created a very populated environment but had some drawbacks such as people spamming for /duel requests. /duel was meant to be a tool to play against your friend, not a way to get around limitations we had put into place for how many matches a free player can do a day.

The Good

There is nothing good about the current way chat works. It was never finished completely and as a result we have nothing but improvements lined up for it.

The Bad And How We Are Fixing It

1. There is no cross-server communication via /msg or /r. This is a huge issue since you can’t talk to your friends now on other servers.
2. There is no way to find other players to join up to play on team game modes on Badlion’s Arena server at the moment (such as 2v2/3v3 ladders). Nor is there the opportunity for players to recruit players to join a party event such as Party FFA or Party Fight.
3. The Arena Lobbies are really quiet now. There are about 50-100 players per Arena Lobby at the moment and as a result there is not much communication between them. You can’t just log on and have a random conversation with someone like you used to be able to.
4. When you are in a match you are on a random server now with your team against another team. The communication methods for talking with your team and your enemies is very little to non-existent at the moment.
5. Party Chat doesn’t exist anymore. Another uncompleted feature that needs some love and attention.

#1 is already being built as I write this post. Hopefully will be done by today.

#2 and #3 we think we will resolve by setting up some chat servers for the different regions. By default it will try to populate one chat server with as many people as possible and then when it hit’s some threshold (let’s say 500 players) it will start populating another chat server. Players will be able to change chat servers if there are slots still available (Donator+ ranks and higher will probably bypass this limitation).

#4 and #5 will be resolved by re-creating the concept of party chat. We will also have a “match chat” created which you are put into by default unless you have opted for party chat. You will then be able to communicate with the people in your match directly such as your opponents without seeing other people on the server talking. It will be more of a closed environment.

Posted on 05 August 2016 - 06:35 AM

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