- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: praisemacs
I dont agree with you about having a lobby. While I understand where your coming from, Age of Empires is a totally different game. Check out every other online first person shooter, they all are join at any time. If it wasnt, by the end of most games their would be little or no people left. Also it would be a pain to get Peeps to join. With AoE you dont need 16 peeps, only 8 or less. By the time 16 peeps would join a game, most who joined first would have been waiting for a long time.
As to switching teams, I often switch teams to be on the same team as my friend. Even though some peeps are just plain cheap as you said, that is an issue for the server admin to take care of.
Even with the current system the people have joined first have been waiting a long time before 16 people join a match. Getting together 16 people in a lobby that are willing to stay for an entire match is not hard, by any means. Not to mention that not all (I bet half) of the games played have 8 or less people.
In the lobby system there is no reason to switch teams. As you are forming a game you can set up to be on the same team as your friends, thus, there is no real reason to be able to switch in the middle of a game. It's just as easy to restart the match and would save a lot of hassle.
I have played Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942 and Unreal tourney. All good games but no where near the fun of Halo 1 for Xbox with Gamespys Arcade which used the lobby format. Your statement leads me to believe that you have never played it this way. Simply put it is just more fun.
[Edited on 4/26/2004 1:32:40 PM]