The AoE2 Map System is Cool, but Could be Better

I really like the rotating mappool and voting system in AoE2 but feel it can be a bit better. Made this video to discuss the issue a bit, please let me know what you guys think could better suit the game as well!

This video was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires, © Microsoft Corporation.

[HuMoDz]

You mentioned that the alphabetical order isn't a problem, but honestly I'd love if it was randomized as well

[Cat-lyn]

I enjoy these types of videos along with the vods

[mattiee_nl]

One of the biggest things I think they should modify is the start ELO for new players. I have been playing this game for a month now and I keep getting castle dropped by some sweat at 1000 elo. When u keep losing, it really discourages lower skilled players (like me) to play ranked, thus not finding people their own level. A starting ELO at around 600/700 should be way better

[AlphaSquadZero]

Making it a STV system could also help with people voting for the maps they like even if they don't think it will win.

[farsnaaser]

i like how the devs listen and let us vote on the maps we want to play however, sometimes you will see from dev's picks are Black Forest and in the votes you will find some maps that so close to it like amazon tunnel. as well as nomad sometimes the dev's pick is nomad then you will find in the votes land nomad and african clearing which are both nomad maps and ppl most likely to vote for these maps rather than voting for new maps. i would love to see new maps in the pool but most of the time ppl pick 2nomad maps and 2 arena maps or something similiar my idea to fix this is to make separate vote for nomad's maps and BFs maps which will open slots for unpopular maps.

[danielkirk]

They can also randomize the order, they do this in some elections to remove any "just choose the top thing" bias

[the_Nameless_One]

Loved the quote from "The Dark Knight".

[zahin_awosaf]

I think, we need more bans, I mainly play 4v4 tg and we can only have one ban but in every map pool usually there are atleast 2 maps that I don't wanna play. and this similar for other players as well, we get a weird map and one the players resigns early. And also something Viper said in the latest GL interview with Masmorra is that there should be 15-20 maps in the map pool and give a lot of bans, this way players will be able to play what they wanna play

[Parko]

100% agree, would love to see this change

[LuisRoballoYo]

Yeah, the interface could be changed. But I do love the variety it has brought to the maple pool

[davidmazur]

Hi, does anyone please know how map favoring works?
1) What happens if one player's favored is banned, does the other's get selected? Or a random other map?
2) What happens when there's two different favored maps? Will the game pick between them 50/50? Or a random other map?
3) How does this all work in team games where everyone could have a different map favored?
Thanks!

[thesprtdragon]

I think you could reduce the number of troll voters who pick unpopular maps by requiring you to have played at least a certain number of ranked games within the last map rotation to be allowed to vote. That way you don't get voters who just play unranked or solo play and just want to troll the ranked players.

Also, I think the biggest problem with the voting system is the maps that you can vote for. It happened a couple of times where there were literally not even 3 maps in the poll that I wanted to vote for. Also maps like megarandom or black forest aren't really good maps for 1v1 competitive play, imo .

[Catcrumbs]

All good suggestions. Showing the results before the vote is over is just so obviously a stupid move. Ideally, they would present all options without scrolling, the order would be randomised and the vote would allow players to vote for as many options as they wish.

[normanstorm]

I believe, for us "older" players that are happy with the civs that we got, not wanting to buy new dlc, being able to play against players with these dlc would be fair. However, it is not implemented by the devs although i have all the updates, therefor i am not able to play on an competitive level, which makes me sad.

CA with Total Warhammer has no such issues and it works just fine with me having for example the warden and the paunch dlc and me friend doesnt and we can play multiplayer without this unnecessary paywall for a game we both own.

[adhdbuddy]

It would be cool if the percentage showed how often a map gets picked or how often it’s played when in the current pool

[seraph]

I'd rather see all the maps without scrolling and no percentage.

[connormako]

I'm just quitting every time its not arabia or runestones