More colours = better

Type someone's name, or half of it you're referring to someone in a game, don't rely on their colour

Also, where is black?

5x5 maps are vile. Nobody likes them except for a tiny insignificant minority. 99% of 5x5 map games only use a fraction of what the entire game has to offer. It's like asking your friend for a game of chess, but before you start the game, you take every single piece off the board except for the kings, 2 pawns each, and maybe a single knight each. Then you reduce the size of the board to just 12 squares and attempt to have a fun strategic, and interesting game.

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Setons is the perfect 4v4 map.

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@sprouto said in Unresponsive ACU late game:

Map size has little to do with it - the real issue draws in two aspects - unit count (which is directly responsible for the SIM slowing down) and traffic issues (unit collisions).

While a smaller map does reduce the memory requirement a bit, it has no impact beyond that. Unit count (and the complexity of those units) has long been recognized as the largest influence on performance, and memory consumption - and this 'unresponsiveness' that you're seeing is related to that.

It can impact players at different times, as it's really a measure of CPU 'saturation' - and if the problem is severe enough, it can impact multiplayer games for all players.

Unit collisions play a very big role in this - so anytime you have a situation with a large number of those (like clumps of engineers all crowding around a factory), or traffic jams caused by really tight and complex terrain, you're going to see a very big upswing in CPU activity - which manifests as 'unresponsiveness'.

Yes.

I've had my ACU not respond to a move command for up to 10 minutes once.

It's pretty bad and very frustrating.

@jip said in Unresponsive ACU late game:

This usually occurs on 40x40 or larger maps. The solution is to play 20x20 or smaller maps

I've never experienced this on the few 40x40 maps that I've played. It usually happens to me on 20x20 maps, specifically setons. It's also occurred on 10x10 maps too.

So small maps are not the solution.

For years now, I and many other players have encountered the bug where the game is late stage and there are lots of units on the field. The issue is that your ACU often becomes completely unresponsive to move orders. You can click once or twice and your acu just doesn't respond, doesn't budge. You can spam the move order one thousand times and still 0 response.

What is this? Can this issue ever be fixed?

This is very detrimental when trying to avoid your acu being sniped by units or a nuke for example, or just in general keeping your acu safe around the map.

@zlo said in This is how you get more people to play ladder:

@yew said in This is how you get more people to play ladder:

Run a poll on it, and implement some democracy to this open server. See what the players actually want. If >60% of players don't want 5x5 maps in ladder then ban them.

this can give quite surprising results, cause last time we had those polls most voted maps were balvery mountains (two maps) and other 5km maps were popular. and most people wanted small, simple maps.

I think current system with more maps and more complex maps as you get more rating is quite good

there are the odd few 5x5 maps that I don't mind, but the majority are depressing and make for dull uninteresting games

@xiaomao said in This is how you get more people to play ladder:

Ban 20x20 maps. They are horrible. 99.9342% of games take over 45minutes to finish. 100% of 20x20 maps are not fun. All the 20x20 maps are garbage and depressing. If you ban 20x20 maps from the ladder pool you will get more people playing it. 20x20 maps are anti-new players, they are anti-fun and anti-everything. Would you enjoy playing on a 200x200 chess board with 100 pawns and 1 king each, no, nobody would, in exactly the same way nobody likes 20x20 maps.

Please consider banning them from the pool, or at least drastically reducing them to 1, MAYBE 2 in the pool if they must stay. They are toxic maps.

I thought china had its own forum?

@ftxcommando said in This is how you get more people to play ladder:

Polls been done in the past, 20x20 is the least preferred of the 3 options.

incredible

Run a poll on it, and implement some democracy to this open server. See what the players actually want. If >60% of players don't want 5x5 maps in ladder then ban them.

Ban 5x5 maps. They are horrible. 99.9342% of games end <15mins. 100% of 5x5 maps are not fun. All the 5x5 maps are garbage and depressing. If you ban 5x5 maps from the ladder pool you will get more people playing it. 5x5 maps are anti-new players, they are anti-fun and anti-everything. Would you enjoy playing on a 3x3 chess board with 1 pawn and 1 king each, no, nobody would, in exactly the same way nobody likes 5x5 maps.

Please consider banning them from the pool, or at least drastically reducing them to 1, MAYBE 2 in the pool if they must stay. They are toxic maps.

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