[GP] Increase to 12 Players

[darth emperor]

Yay! This suggestion is now five years old!

So if has passed 5 years old, now he is not 12, the suggestion is 17.

[2dimes]

What about 9 player games?

I would be happy if this was availably only on the "12 player map".

It has been sugested it would it take a bunch of coding to do.


Concise description:

• add a couple more options to the max # of players allowed

Specifics:

• I'd like to see 12 and it works with all the current game types, 12 singles, 6 doubles teams, 4 triples teams, 3 quad teams.
• increments would be fine.
• 9
• 10
• send me money
• Here's 12 distinct colours with different letters for "add color codes"
  red r
  green g
  blue b
  yellow y
  pink p
  cyan c
  orange o
  slate s
  maroon m
  lime l
  violet v
  drab d

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

You can do more than two team triples and quad games.
Might make some cool tourneys also.

[Gillipig]

(in thick austrian accent) Do it! Do it Nauw!

[Eddygp]

I like the idea of 3 vs 3 vs 3

Now that you say it, even a 4vs4vs4 (with 12 players) would be possible. This would certainly be interesting.

[2dimes]

Concise description:

• Up the max number of players to 26 so we can have 13 member team games!!

Specifics:

• I'd like to see 26 player game types.
• send me money
• Here's the current colours. red green blue yellow pink cyan orange slate
• I added 18 more for 26 distinct colours I'm almost happy with, each begins with a different letter for "add color codes"
  a auburn
  b blue
  c cyan
  d drab
  e emerald
  f flax
  g green
  h heliotrope
  i ivory
  j jonquil
  k khaki
  l lemon
  m maroon
  n neon
  o orange
  p pink
  q quartz
  r red
  s slate
  t teal
  u umber
  v violet
  w wine
  x xanadu
  y yellow
  z zaffre

I had to cheat quartz as it was too close to slate, shades of grey I guess. The colour I used was Timberwolf.

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

Allow more team options than two team triples and quad games.
Might make some cool tourneys also.

IT SHOULD ONLY BE AVAIBLE AS AN OPOTION IN SOME MAPS...

Could this be possible as an option on World 2.0 as a 26 player singles game?

[tbayjosh]

I just wanted to bump this
I am interested in seeing this go forward

[patrickaa317]

I really think this is the shot in the arm this site needs, it would re-vitalize old blood and keep new blood join too. Might see some old veterans re-up if this was in place.

Even if it is a map by map rollout where only things like Clandemonium, World 2.1, Hive, etc that are available at go launch, then slowly update the other ones where it makes sense to have 12 players. Obviously the Feudals, Doodle Earth, Das Schloss just wouldn't work with 12 players.

This would also give the foundry more of a drive to create bigger maps and 2.0 versions of maps like Das Schloss.

[chapcrap]

This would also give the foundry more of a drive to create bigger maps and 2.0 versions of maps like Das Schloss.

You just blew my mind...

[ender516]

Bigger maps aren't happening because it is difficult to cram more territories in the current map image dimensions. Super-sized maps were tried for a while, but there seems to be a moratorium on them. Apparently a lot of people still play on small screens, be they old monitors or new handheld devices.

[tbayjosh]

If this happened I would be so happy lol

Than the next suggestion would be to have team assassin and team terminator games.
Think how fun that would be 4 trips teams on First Nations am assassin game or even 3 quads

Haveing 12 players opens up the doors for so many new options !!

[IcePack]

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=194061&view=unread#unread

Anyone interested in being a part of discussion of color codes, should make themselves known in the announcement thread.

[ViperOverLord]

Red (R)
Blue (B)
Yellow (Y)
Green (G)
Cyan (C)
Pink (P)
Orange (O)
Silver (S)
Mustard (M)
Lime Green (L)
Violet (V)
Earth (E)

The suggestions are helpful, but I know I would never be able to tell the difference between green and lime green.

That's why you'd use the color code function and/or avoid 12 player games. Still, I think the green and lime green do not contrast enough. But, I would have to believe 12 acceptable colors could be found.

[ViperOverLord]

Bigger maps aren't happening because it is difficult to cram more territories in the current map image dimensions. Super-sized maps were tried for a while, but there seems to be a moratorium on them. Apparently a lot of people still play on small screens, be they old monitors or new handheld devices.

Props for using the word 'moratorium.'

[Dukasaur]

I really think this is the shot in the arm this site needs, it would re-vitalize old blood and keep new blood join too. Might see some old veterans re-up if this was in place.

Even if it is a map by map rollout where only things like Clandemonium, World 2.1, Hive, etc that are available at go launch, then slowly update the other ones where it makes sense to have 12 players. Obviously the Feudals, Doodle Earth, Das Schloss just wouldn't work with 12 players.

This would also give the foundry more of a drive to create bigger maps and 2.0 versions of maps like Das Schloss.

There's too many big maps already. Any map that won't fit on one screen is more work than play.

[Kaiser_Tottenham]

I would like increase to 10..

5v5 would be vice nice game, specially for some large maps.

[Metsfanmax]

IMPLEMENTED

[-=- Tanarri -=-]

IMPLEMENTED

Let me be the first to say yay!

I don't know which owner started the increase to 12 players, but I have to say with all of the recent updates I find the change in ownership encouraging

[clangfield]

IMPLEMENTED

Let me be the first to say yay!

I don't know which owner started the increase to 12 players, but I have to say with all of the recent updates I find the change in ownership encouraging

Can someone publish a definitive list of what the colours actually are, and how they relate to the letters? I'm struggling with the 4 new ones.

Thanks

[2dimes]

Maroon?

[AndyDufresne]

It'd be interesting to see if you increased color codes to allow 2 letter prefixes, how much of a detriment that would have on maps. I assume some maps couldn't handle it for spacing reasons, but then you could use pi and pu for pink and purple, and so on for colors that have the same initial letter. If only!


--Andy

[Gilligan]

It'd be interesting to see if you increased color codes to allow 2 letter prefixes, how much of a detriment that would have on maps. I assume some maps couldn't handle it for spacing reasons, but then you could use pi and pu for pink and purple, and so on for colors that have the same initial letter. If only!


--Andy

I would think that that is as simple as adding 1 letter. One map that comes to mind to be an issue would be City Mogul. Having triple digits on that map (which is quite easy) would make any army count 5 digits long (a bit too much)

Edit: take a look

[patrickaa317]

Since it didn''t make the cut of this release, is their currently a thread in the suggestions forum for 5v5 and 6v6 games? Quints and Sexts.

[greenoaks]

Since it didn''t make the cut of this release, is their currently a thread in the suggestions forum for 5v5 and 6v6 games? Quints and Sexts.

blake has said that is being worked on

[2dimes]

Well this is pretty rocking, I'm excited to try it out when I start playing again in the fall!

[patrickaa317]

Since it didn''t make the cut of this release, is their currently a thread in the suggestions forum for 5v5 and 6v6 games? Quints and Sexts.

blake has said that is being worked on

I saw that but thought maybe an official thread would be nice. Then it can even be slid over to Implemented at some point.