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Now I think that usually you don't want to capture the pole at last second because you might do a mistake in movement and would not have enough time to reach the pole after that, so you would start heading to the pole so that you will have 5-10 or more extra seconds when you appear near the pole. With that in mind, 30 seconds of action + 10 spare seconds makes 40 seconds for the time to do next capture, which sounds perfect to me.

I watched about 17 minutes of Zotac June monthly finals and saw that players were doing next captures usually within 30 seconds, when it took more time than it was because there was camping except only one situation when spending 53 seconds looked justified to me, but even then 40 seconds limit wouldn't hurt much.

I saw similar behavior when was spectating regular players in Joust.

So in vast majority of cases people themselves use only 30 out of 60 seconds unless they camp. Which means that 40 seconds to capture next pole will not limit meaningful gameplay except in occasions too rare to worry about, while it will be limiting camping all the time.

The problem is that you watched the best players who are often the fastest and most aggressively playing ones. If you watch newer players, you will see that they are mostly very slow and have more problems with their movement.

blablub wrote:The problem is that you watched the best players who are often the fastest and most aggressively playing ones. If you watch newer players, you will see that they are mostly very slow and have more problems with their movement.

I mentioned I watched regular players too. They spend similar times or camp.
I agree this might be a bit difficult for completely unexperienced players, but with a little practice this will not be a problem for them.

20 secs would be nice

45 seconds sounds ideal. Longer than 30, less than 60... smack bang in the middle really.

Thank you all for participating in this poll.
Thank you MattjA for messaging about this poll to participants of Joust ESL Series and applying pole capture time to 45 seconds for ESL matches.
I sent suggestion for 45 seconds of pole capture time limit to Zotac Cup also a few minutes ago.

Got the reply from Zotac Cup. They will not reduce the time because the poll has too few votes and they prefer standard settings that Nadeo provides to not confuse new players.

In the next update the default time for capturing the pole has been reduce to 45 seconds in the official script. But I don't know when it will be released.

Great! Thanks!