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You cant have 2 matchmakings if there are barely any players. How is that not logical?



This screenshots says enough. 3:00PM : 30players in total in the world. 2 on MatchMaking. It's summer... It's holiday... No school...

I invite you to reply : "It will be better when the holidays are over and players will come back." That gives me the oppertunity to post a new screenshot

HYPE wrote:pls stop the drama, its not THAT worse

30 players globally is no drama? I kindly disagree and appreciate your positivity.

Have a nice day all

novationx wrote:

HYPE wrote:pls stop the drama, its not THAT worse

30 players globally is no drama? I kindly disagree and appreciate your positivity.

32 Players in Europe* ;D

At the moment there are 48 x) Yey

Don't forget that Shootmania consists not only of Elite.

Together with the other Titles there should be around 100-150 Players. But thats still a very bad amount of players.

HubbleSM wrote:Don't forget that Shootmania consists not only of Elite.

Together with the other Titles there should be around 100-150 Players. But thats still a very bad amount of players.

This number is indeed accurate. Even now at 17:00 :/
But I was talking about Elite because its a Team MatchMaking ( for Elite? ). Anyways sorry to go negative and off-topic again. But without players we really cant have 2 seperate Matchmakings. One day there could be a team-matchmaking and then I'll be the first to play there with my team

Sorry for off-topic but I feel that it might be appropriate because of the dramatic atmosphere here:

I have to agree with novationx twice, Hype. Shootmania's position is indeed very crucial and I also kindly appreciate your positivity. The situation of Maniaplanet - especially Shootmania - between the updates is becoming worse and worse. I am also very upset about the current situation. And I still cannot imagine that SM needs to wait approximately 4-8 months more before there is any sign of an update (if 2016 is the year of SM then it doesn't necessarily mean that the update is going to be releaased in january. Therefore the additional 4 months). Shootmania needs an update now to bring back the players. Not in the future, it needs it right now. But showing one's anger to convince Nadeo to change anything might not be the best idea either. They can't do anyting now since it's the turn of Trackmania now. It's frustrating but it's unfortunately the truth. Their hands are tied.

The only thing that we - the players - can currently do now is to keep & increase the activity by holding competitions, projects, creating new content like titlepacks/objects, giving suggestions in the forum etc. And this is why I love Hype and his team for organizing the smurfs cups. A friend told me via skype that he played the royal cup for the first time and he is still amazed how intense and funny it was. I also love the paragon team for holding the thousands of competitions and generally their effort since it is undoubtedly loads of work. I love domi & xrayjay's for frequently astonishing me with their awesome stuff that they always create. I love dreammy for his insane forum activity who is daily posting great suggestions & feedback. And all the other guys which I did not mention: Thanks for keeping the activity

#DramaticToneOff
Have fun playing

Thank you very much for your nice words, Soprah
If there are ppl who have FUN at the cup, we enjoy doing the cup aswell

And btw: I also appreciate your activaty in the forum dreammy. Keep it up

Zeraxex wrote:It should be balenced by other statistics, like K/D, Wins or whatever. I think this would help at least a bit.

this would just make it worse.

Representative ranking systems are out there and are used successfully in other games, nadeo just needs to implement them:

true skill:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/pro ... tails.aspx

glicko-2:
http://www.glicko.net/glicko/glicko2.pdf

elo rating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

I think a competitive ranking system would drive people to play better/more serious and give an accurate ranking of the best players. The current LP/echelon system is just bullshit and no one gives a damn while playing mm.

But yeah thats a secondary problem, nadeo should address the key issues like the outdated textures /s

Proper MM is the only chance this game has. Increase penalties, but let people reconnect after discon. Revamp ranking system to something real. Maybe let people 'flag' others in lobby if they don't wanna play with them at all. Byebye Spanitards (yeh it's just one guy). Low player counts are not a problem at all, as long as the ones that are on are passionate enough about it.
I will come back in winter, hoping for some fixes til then, maybe join a team finally.

Why cant NADEO make an official statement about MatchMaking or SM in general? Clearly a lot of people are unhappy about how it is now.
You told us to wait to 2016 and that's it? We can absolutely expect nothing these coming months ... and that's that? Nobody will reply, communicate properly, try to fix the most important bugs or just try to REASSURE some players of your playerbase?
Your strategy to save the game = Do ---NOTHING--- , Give no hope, nothing to look forward, absolutely nothing.
We just need to wait 1 bazillion years while we crash & get penalties 24/7. With 20y of experience under your belt that is your strategy to save this game? Nobody at the office had a better idea to make this "waiting time" a bit more fun for the players? Just completely ignore this game for 1y+???

What are you currently doing to keep this small playerbase intact?
You always promised more players, but you're doing the opposite... Players are leaving and mainly because of MM...
Fix it please


And I appreciate your words too, soprah & HYPE . The smurfcups are really helping the community so continue doing that.