- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Achronos
You're not looking very hard if you didn't see any problems with clans and Halo 2.
As for leaderboards, who is at the top is irrelevant information. What matters is how you are doing against your peers (i.e., your friend list... that's way more interesting).
The problems that i heard kids(only kids on these forums) complaining about was Cheaters, High skilled clans matching low skilled clans, length to find a match and population problems. 1) Cheaters are in every single playlist, get over it, stop associating Clanmatch(including Majors and minors) with cheaters, TS is the most cheated playlist so start crying about Slayer. 2) If you suck, you suck, we cant change that. Who cares if good teams go in and face bad teams. It keesp the Clanmatch usage % rolling so hey, if you suck and cant take getting your a** handed to you a few times, go play GoW or Team Training(but watch out tho, i hear those elites in TT can be vicious) 3) It didnt take long to find games. My clans were, for the most part, always pretty high and it didnt take long to find games. Early on it did because not many clans advance as quickly as others but the wait is no longer than waiting for a TS game at a high level too. 4) if the population was dwindling how is that Clanmatch's fault? If people stop playing, they stop playing, could be for any reason. But if the playlist is still active, just not as active as the other playlists, i would still keep it. If it keeps the fans happy, why not? Because there are so many peoplw ho want the Clanmatch for Halo3 simply because it was a great playlist(got to be ranked as a TEAM against other TEAMS), many people want the playlist back just becausethey have never been able to appreciate the playlist. You have tons of new players who would('ve) like(d) to be able to play a clan playlist but didnt start playing h2 until it was too late. IMO, the only problems that Brungie would need to fix for Clanmatch to be fully functional, is maybe a setting to allow only certain players to be able to play Clanmatch, maybe an "On/Off" setting so clans cannot be deranked, causing most clans to create the same clan over and cause the problem where the good kids play the bad teams. Also, i think maybe a setting so that say from level 1-30, you cannot play certain clans over and over again or a certain amount of times in a row, to avoid boosting. That doesnt seem too hard does it? even if those 2 things cannot be done, i still think the playlist would be functional. But hopefully Bungie could implement the playlist before its too late, i mean before the first wave of people start quitting. If Bungie had Major Clanmatch and Minor Clanmatch out on September 25th, it might take a while (so teams can practice and make strats for the new maps and gametypes) but the 2 playlist would flourish, probably be in the top most played playlists.
Also, for the Leaderboards, who's opinion was it that its better to see your stats against your friends? you could do that on Bungie.net already. I liked the Leaderboards because it added competition to the game and made it more intense and fun. I made examples in my earlier posts about how fun it was competing against your own teamates or against rival clans to see who could be higher than the other. seeing how many times you've killed your friend "CrazyBob98676435" is not very fun. Searching Big Team Battle, against another team and matching them every once in a while, trying to get higher levels, is fun, it brings more intensity to the game.
But even if Bungie says "Screw Cr3asy Kong, NO Clanmatches or Leaderboards", i still think clans should be in h3. They serve as friends list(w/o Clanmatch) but they also help give credit to your team. So when people see someone, they can see who is on their team and so on. I dont know, maybe the guys at bungie never really looked thru the Lb, but i did, and it was fun looking at the stats from the top 10 or so clans, seeing who wa son each team, seeing which players were consistent, and then seeing those same players on their respected playlist leaderboards. It was like tracking you favorite baseball or football team's stats, except if you were n XiT Woundz fan, you looked at their games and saw how they played, or if you were a GTy fan, you could see who was in the clan, what other BTB teams they got to play, who else is on the LB so you could learn about new teams that were top 10, but were still good. it was fun
[Edited on 08.19.2007 11:56 AM PDT]