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Posted on 15 January 2017 - 12:13 AM

Some suggestions/concerns I had regarding the upcoming Badlion Premium though the understanding is still clouded because there's not quite enough information released yet
1. Resource Packs
Weeks ago it was mentioned in Archy's stream that texture packs would have to be manually approved or something along those lines.
This would be inefficient, time consuming, and with everybody changing two textures and calling a pack their own, the backup on that would be unthinkable.
My idea regarding that would be some type of platform where all textures could be uploaded into the game whether it follows a similar style to the current method where it's dragged and dropped into the folder or textures are uploaded as a zip to a screening system/to the client.
"This won't work because people can x-ray" can be fixed by only allowing people to submit textures from folders like items, gui, particles, etc but NOT allow them to upload block textures. People can choose a set of blocks similar to what I believe is the intended method of choosing a pack from the badlion client, where someone can download blocks from something like Defscape or Sphax in varying resolutions. This allows for less backup if you're planning on manually approving packs, and you can manually approve custom blocks instead of that's something that staff are looking forward to do.
2. Arena
Read through the thread where the plans for games on the premium client were mentioned and noticed something that people either hadn't read or weren't talking about how the thread says that there's literally only going to be 1 kit for 2 weeks and the #1 gets a prize.
Not sure why this was thought to be a good idea, from my P.O.V. there's a couple things I see potentially not working.
For one of the kits in the rotation to be soup, where at any given time on current badlion there's 0-2 matches of soup going on compared to 50-100+ matches of build going on. 1v1 is going to be dead during rotations of kits like soup and uhc where people would only truly be competing and the scene would be more competitive during seasons of debuff (also not particularly favored) and build. The other problem I see with this is the prize at the end of the seasons. From past experience competing for global, everyone wants to be #1, but being top 3 , top 5, etc come with some sort of recognition. Whether it's money as a prize or bonus subscription or other items of value on premium (ex. cosmetics as well) should probably be provided to at LEAST the top 3 assuming it's money or redeemable items like 2 months of premium in whatever tiers could be decided.

HOWEVER.
With both of these ideas in mind, neither of these are released because the premium client hasn't been released. There also hasn't been much direct information regarding either of these, being resource packs and arena, released yet. With the premium beta release being 2 days away, some answers are going to come or be figured out. I don't see any of the administration believing that it would be practical to manually approve every pack someone wants added, or that they'd restrict the entirety of the 1v1 arena to one ladder for 2 weeks, though the prize part is somewhat reasonable.

Since apparently it wasn't understood last time I made a thread that these are suggestions and concerns from me and other competitive 1v1 players, these are my suggestions and concerns specifically to me because I haven't talked to many other players regarding either of these. And these are easily subject to change once I get a look at what the actual premium client looks like and how everything works.

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Posted on 15 January 2017 - 12:28 AM

Oh, these suggestions are more specifically towards administration. Speaking of the timeline as well, I don't expect the actual release to be set so soon after the beta is released. This isn't just a season to season change like the one season where 2 kits were added and I got gcheated in combo, even that had like 2 weeks of beta time. This is as close to a platform change as I see happening any time in the near future and while it seems like there was a lot of alpha testing, we've all seen how many problems arise with mass testing like the bug where the server would freeze because of 1 map or something a few seasons ago. Problems will arise and changes will be made and I think you're putting too much pressure on yourselves to meet a tight deadline when a movement as big as badlion premium is coming. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say you should keep the beta reasonably long and test a lot of different things to see how the community likes them rather than rushing the beta to check for light issues and make all the big changes when it's more official.

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