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Subject: My Customgames Search Feature
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Searching Custom Games
First you would choose a gametype for your playlist. Next you could select a sub-branch gametype like Slayer: Elimination or CTF: One Flag. You could also type in a search bar the specific name of the sub-branch gametype if it is a edited game type like Infection: Fat Kid. From there you would choose the game options making it more likely for you to find exactly what you're looking for. You could also just leave the sub-branch gametype name blank and search for just a game with the settings you specified. Then you select how many people in the game from 2 to *whatever number Bungie has for MP*, and choose the overall rank of the people you play with. Finally you can select the maps, type in the name of the maps, or select "any map" to play on. You can select up to and type up to 10 maps to search for. You could also toggle on / off search for good connection, and choose what language group you play with. When your search is complete a list of hosts will come up and you can choose which host to play with. You can change how many search results per page from 15 to down to 10 or up to 30. The search results that pop up will be from hosts who have open parties. There will be a number of the total population, and numbers showing how many are hosting and how many are searching.


Rating & Favorating Hosts
After playing with a host for a certain number of rounds you can rate that host on a scale of 1 to 5 stars based on how much you like that host and his games+maps. You can rate the hosts' overall games, and overall maps indivisualy. The top 10 rated hosts will appear on the right side of the search results pages. When you rate a host gametypes they will be rated for that gametype so you can rate hosts for different gametypes each time, but they will be rated for the major gametype. So you can't rate a host differently for sub-gametypes like Infection: Fat Kid and Infection: 4 Levels. They have to be completely different like Slayer and CTF. After 15 days in real time have past all hosts ratings will disappear and they will start with zero ratings again. You can also favorate up to 20 different hosts, and remove them at anytime you wish.



[Edited on 11.22.2009 3:05 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 2:05 PM PDT
Subject: Something to Test In Reach Beta?

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Great job breaking this down, lets hope that Bungie implements a Custom Games search like this.

And you are probably right, it is a feature that would need to be included in the beta test, lets hope they're ready.

[Edited on 11.22.2009 2:11 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 2:09 PM PDT
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The reason I would want this is because I noticed after a certain time people stop playing customgames, and I love CG. This would make it easier for people to find fun CG even after 12pm.

  • 11.22.2009 2:10 PM PDT

How about Public forge search?
Nahh, would ruin too many maps...
Hmm, maybe Bungie should add a machinima mode like U2

  • 11.22.2009 2:10 PM PDT

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what the hell? there is a thread that looks just like this one, I dont know which one you posted first though, but whatever ...

  • 11.22.2009 2:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nicke Sw3
what the hell? there is a thread that looks just like this one, I dont know which one you posted first though, but whatever ...

I think this one was posted first and then he remade it to add in the poll. Which means he should change one title to "Please Lock".

  • 11.22.2009 2:13 PM PDT

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The whole forge system (rating and downloading) has been incorporated onto Bnet, I think if they were to just make a Custom Games search it would be perfectly fine.

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Posted by: Nicke Sw3
what the hell? there is a thread that looks just like this one, I dont know which one you posted first though, but whatever ...


There is another one like this with a poll that I made first. Though some slight things are different about this one like there's no poll. I made this one because in practically 30 seconds I got 2 votes saying "This Wouldn't Work" and they didn't explain why which annoyed me a little. I asked the mods to lock that one.

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  • 11.22.2009 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Orange Blob
How about Public forge search?
Nahh, would ruin too many maps...
Hmm, maybe Bungie should add a machinima mode like U2


I didn't think about that, but it could work. I think I'll add that to my first post at sometime.

[Edited on 11.22.2009 2:18 PM PST]

  • 11.22.2009 2:18 PM PDT

poop

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Posted by: Nicke Sw3
what the hell? there is a thread that looks just like this one, I dont know which one you posted first though, but whatever ...


There is another one like this with a poll that I made first. Though some slight things are different about this one like there's no poll. I made this one because in practically 30 seconds I got 2 votes saying "This Wouldn't Work" and they didn't explain why which annoyed me a little.

yeah, its an awesome idea, but the original post was made a long time ago.
LINK: Custom game search feature

you have probaby seen it already, but in case you have'nt ...

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Posted by: Nicke Sw3
Posted by: UNSC Spartan360
Posted by: Nicke Sw3
what the hell? there is a thread that looks just like this one, I dont know which one you posted first though, but whatever ...


There is another one like this with a poll that I made first. Though some slight things are different about this one like there's no poll. I made this one because in practically 30 seconds I got 2 votes saying "This Wouldn't Work" and they didn't explain why which annoyed me a little.

yeah, its an awesome idea, but the original post was made a long time ago.
LINK: Custom game search feature

you have probaby seen it already, but in case you have'nt ...


Yeah, I've seen it. I thought I added a little more, but the original seems like a huge update to mine.

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Searching Custom Games
Customgames searching would work basically the same as matchmaking. First you would choose a gametype for your playlist. Then you could select a sub-branch gametype like Slayer: Elimination or CTF: One Flag. You could also type in a search bar the specific name of the sub-branch gametype if it is a edited game type like Infection: Fat Kid. When your search is complete a list of hosts will come up and you can choose which host to play with. You can change how many search results per page from 15 to down to 10 or up to 30. The search results that pop up will be from hosts who have open parties. There will be a number of the total customgames population, and numbers showing how many are hosting and how many are searching.


This annoyed me.

Name searched would often yield useless, because of the fact that there isn't just one gametype "Fat Kid" (or of any other name for that matter). The sub-branch search also wouldn't be totally useful, because there will be hundreds of gametypes that you might not like.

Here's how I believe it should work.

You can chose from a list of maps, from a list of gametypes, modify a few rules to any of the gametype as if you were actually making your own (you aren't, though) and then select 'Search'. By doing this, you are giving whatever server would be used to maintain the list of Custom Games a lot of criteria to search for in the current matches without presenting the user with a huge amount of options. The would pick multiple maps to ensure that they won't be given just one map, but also won't be presented of hundreds of different maps that no one likes. Same for the gametype.
When you change the rules for the custom gametype, you are changing the acceptable settings for all gametypes that are returned. If you change the Player Color property to Pink, you will only see a list of games where your player model is Pink. This way, people can avoid gametypes with rules that just irritate them. By default, every rule is set to Any, which would mean that any property is acceptable.

Also (as an ammendment to the second section) people should be required to vote on the game's end.

Great idea for an implementation in my opinion, however.

  • 11.22.2009 2:27 PM PDT
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Thank you for the suggestions. I have updated my first post alot. Tell me if you see any other issues or something that should be added.

  • 11.22.2009 2:57 PM PDT
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What do you guys think?

  • 11.22.2009 3:05 PM PDT

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  • 11.22.2009 3:33 PM PDT