Game request

by **Donelladan** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:22 am

Does anyone know about this ?? http://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=startrequest
Or is using it ?

It looks interesting. I just found out about it. Looks like it even work...
No idea about how many people actually use this system to create their game.

by **owenshooter** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:38 am

like most new things on CC, i have no idea about and have heard zip about it... sigh...-Jésus noir

by **Donelladan** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:47 am

I just tried using it, didn't specify any map, only that I wanted a 6 players escalating sunny no trench game.
Since 5 people had already made the same request the game was created immediately.
15387016

One would notice that this Game Request is more than 1 month old since the 2nd player, hartwood72603 didn't log into CC since the 30 may.
This also shows that there is probably very few persons using the request system since something as popular as a "standard escalating 6 players sunny game" took more than 1 month to start.

I have questions. ( and since the Q and A part of the forum has been deleted, I'll ask them here...)

Game Requests will NOT help you:

Choose your opponents (though you can invite players to queue the same request from the Game requests Tab)
Play team games
Play polymorphic or speed games
Control certain game options not specified below such as Round Length and Initial Troops

1)Why not speed games? This game request feature would be awesome for speed games !
I actually think we should get rid of the usual join a game for speed and replace it by game request exclusively.
I have many times seen 2 exact same settings for a speed game in the waiting game page. People just wanted to farm and didn't want to play against another experienced player I assume...

2)How does the request system work with foe? Are they automatically excluded or not at all?

3)

Game Requests are the quickest way to get a game going. Submitting a Game Request does not create a game, but instead queues a request for a type of game. These queued requests appear on your Requests Tab until enough requests are queued, whereupon the game is started. Game Requests will match to both other Game Requests and existing waiting games.

Well so it is written Game Requests will match to both other Game Requests and existing waiting games.

This is probably not working.
There is currently 211 waiting game matching the settings I choose for this one Game 15387016

EDIT : ( tried to put a link from the game finder but doesn't work, no idea how to do it).

But still, obviously, the 5 other players having the same request than me didn't automatically joined one of those 211 waiting games.

by **degaston** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:55 am

It's kind of similar to a Game Matchmaker suggestion I made a while back.

I've used it and it worked pretty well. Much better than browsing through pages of mostly empty games, picking a game to join and hoping that it doesn't take months to fill up. It would work much better if more people knew about it and used it.

by **Donelladan** on Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:59 am

Well so it is written Game Requests will match to both other Game Requests and existing waiting games.

This is probably not working.
There is currently 211 waiting game matching the settings I choose for this one Game 15387016

EDIT : ( tried to put a link from the game finder but doesn't work, no idea how to do it).

But still, obviously, the 5 other players having the same request than me didn't automatically joined of of those 211 waiting games.

Just considered smthg. So I quote myself.
Maybe this Game 15387016 was on the waiting game list and not on the game request, therefore it would means that it's working very well.

Sry for assuming the game request didn't work well !

EDIT : Just tried, indeed it work very well. If there is a waiting game with 1 spot free it will automatically make you join this waiting game that match the request you made.
But if there is more than one empty spot it won't join.