Im not sure if we need this but ill pretend we do.
It all comes back to csgo for me. One of the last updates to csgo was adding a request players have been asking for all of csgo. "Scrimmage Mode"
In short its a non-competitive mode that you queue for like normal ranked play.
in long https://youtu.be/3eTEFLUhF-Y?t=53
What I see related here is how Scrimmage allows players to try out new maps without the fear of deranking. People can try out new strategies on a more casual game mode. This could be added to Ni but rather than "deranking" its well a wipe.
Now for how maps are grouped Im, not sure however what I would do is put it on rotation so we dont get bored of doing the same 3 or whatever maps on rag. Every upgrade realise the rag maps go too hard than hard --> normal than normal --> rag. Maybe that too much work for Kip and others but you get the idea.
Like I said I'm not sure how you pick maps but what you could do is this.
Get the community to do a blind vote on maps that way a list can be formed of the favourite map to not so popular.
This way
group 1 for maps will be 1st 4th 7th ...
group 2 for maps will be 2nd 5th 8th ...
group 3 for maps will be 3rd 6th 9th ...
I would be against rag always having the "best" maps as nothing will change fast as new maps or old how do they qualify for such criteria?
Maybe a change like this will encourage map makes to focus on the less popular maps?
It all comes back to csgo for me. One of the last updates to csgo was adding a request players have been asking for all of csgo. "Scrimmage Mode"
In short its a non-competitive mode that you queue for like normal ranked play.
in long https://youtu.be/3eTEFLUhF-Y?t=53
What I see related here is how Scrimmage allows players to try out new maps without the fear of deranking. People can try out new strategies on a more casual game mode. This could be added to Ni but rather than "deranking" its well a wipe.
Now for how maps are grouped Im, not sure however what I would do is put it on rotation so we dont get bored of doing the same 3 or whatever maps on rag. Every upgrade realise the rag maps go too hard than hard --> normal than normal --> rag. Maybe that too much work for Kip and others but you get the idea.
Like I said I'm not sure how you pick maps but what you could do is this.
Get the community to do a blind vote on maps that way a list can be formed of the favourite map to not so popular.
This way
group 1 for maps will be 1st 4th 7th ...
group 2 for maps will be 2nd 5th 8th ...
group 3 for maps will be 3rd 6th 9th ...
I would be against rag always having the "best" maps as nothing will change fast as new maps or old how do they qualify for such criteria?
Maybe a change like this will encourage map makes to focus on the less popular maps?