Active ladder upon beta release

It doesn't have to be perfect so glitches would of course be expected but IMO having the ladder active immediatly when the beta is released would be a good idea.

This would give a good way for teams to start analyzing teamwork aspects of the game thus helping to find any ballancing issues there. Also, there's nothing like serious competition to bring out bugs and exploits.

Doing this would allow for in depth team-oriented testing on an order that does not occur in pubs and not to such an extent in scrims.

This would, of course, probably require the ladder to be open for registration and teams forming before the release. If the beta just pops up it would be nice to be in a ready to jump situation so it can be up and going in a day or so.

Testing and ballancing are what the beta is for, this is one way to help achieve those goals.
Post edited by GIMPbeowulf at 2/27/2004 2:53:59 PM

will do
Post edited by Falhawk at 3/2/2004 4:05:13 PM

make it ready about a week or so after the beta is released. You know we will probably have to have 1-2 beta patches before it's even playable at a semi-comp level.

Once beta is over, clear ladder, reset, get ready for reatail. No way hold over beta standing to retail. I guess that is kinda a duh!

This implies that whole teams will be on beta already, when that will probably not be the case. You have to give some time to form teams with other beta testers.

its open beta... there will be plenty of teams there.
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this is all assuming that the beta incorperaties multiplayer and isn't just a taste of the single player.

What if beta had only one map?

Sounds like a great idea.

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Originally posted by: Tiberius Khan
this is all assuming that the beta incorperaties multiplayer and isn't just a taste of the single player.

I don't think that's an assumption. They have said they'll have an open beta for multi.

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Originally posted by: Valmor
What if beta had only one map?

i actually think they have said this. and if that's the case i guess we're going to be playing the fuck out of that map, or hoping that the mapping tools are released with the beta and that the mapping community will quickly generate some maps to flesh out a real rotation.

Since the ladder is just for beta i think it's fair for the admins to make decisions quickly, and just shove new maps into rotation etc, and we'll work from there.