If you can't fix Strand of the Ancients...

#0 - April 28, 2009, 8:38 p.m.

Can you at least make it so Horde gets to go first for the same amount of time as the Alliance has? The Alliance has enjoyed MONTHS of getting honor and marks virtually handed to them in this biased BG. How about some Equality?

Can you at least design the BG so that going on offense first isn't such a huge logistical advantage? At least this way if you can't fix the 'bug' preventing randomization of who gets to start on Offense, you can at least reduce its impact of who gets to enjoy this perk.

Can you do something? Anything at all?

How many patches have we gone through now and this BG is still broken?

Please. Do something.

Thank you.

Zarhym

#3 - April 28, 2009, 9:50 p.m.

The plan is to implement the virtual coin toss at the beginning of the match randomizing which faction starts on defense in an upcoming patch. This was originally slated for 3.1 but had to be pushed back. Other temporary fixes for the issue would take just as long to implement, if not result in the same issues caused by randomizing offense/defense that came about in Beta.

Zarhym

#9 - April 28, 2009, 10:05 p.m.

Q u o t e:
If Rnd() <0.5
StartHordeOffense();
else
StartAllianceOffense();

There I just fixed your code for you. How hard can it be to implement this?

If the answer isn't obvious:

Harder than that. :)

Zarhym

#25 - April 28, 2009, 10:19 p.m.

Q u o t e:

No. No, it's not.

When the coin toss was first implemented, it created issues due to the fact that one faction starts on moving platforms. There are more variables involved than you'd prefer to admit.

Zarhym

#44 - April 28, 2009, 10:40 p.m.

So anyway, we're working on a fix for this and hope to have it corrected in an upcoming patch. :)

Zarhym

#65 - April 28, 2009, 11:07 p.m.

Q u o t e:
But I still hate you Zarhym...

Noted.

Nethaera

#68 - April 28, 2009, 11:09 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Noted.

I noted it down as well just in case you forget.