Pantheon needs work.....

from Demigod Forums

I played two Panth games this evening (AU). Both were on Prison and both were Fortress.

That alone tells me there is still lots of work to be done on getting games set up correctly, there are plenty of map/winning condition combination's that i should not encounter the same one in successive games.

That's not he worse part though.....in the second game it was a 3v3 game....three human players for FoL and me and two AI on the darkside.....

With 4 players in the game why did this not go to a 2v2?

Rhetorical question i know but still needs asking....

Needless to say that game was ruined...and with two games on the same map and same winning condition my faith in being able to play Panth games suffered as well. With so few players playing panth in my time zones (there were no more than 5 waiting at any time i was on), poor game set up and matchmaking sure kills any chance of enjoying the pantheon as it is intended.

To the three guys i quit on....sorry, but i think you could understand that 3v1 was hardly going to be a fun game....i don't mind losing, provided at game start i have an even money chance. The outcome here was as assured as the sun rising....

To SD...Pantheon needs more work.......lots more work.

Fix it and they will come......

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

This is just me guessing but getting the same map and game type maybe because of the way they choose map and gametype it could just be a list of all the different combination that it rotates through whenever it creates a game so you luck out and one game later or earlier and your would of got something different.

 

The reason you got 3v1 and not 2v2 because it wasn't 4 players it was 3 light players and 1 darkness, it is not going to shove a light player over to your side to even it, but it sucks that it didn't wait for more.

 

and yeah with the numbers in our timeszone pantheon will not be all that enjoyable.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

The 2 AI players you got fixed with are probably the crazy bots that play 20+ hours a day, stats are visible for them on pantheon website, yet Stardock hasn't commented on wtf they are doing and why they haven't been banned yet, as far as I am aware. (Vorxther, Hitani, Nacer etc.)

It is entirely possible to get the same map+conditions twice, otherwise the system would not be truly random if it prevented it.

3v1 sucks, it's a problem going around at the moment that hasn't really been confirmed as such as a bug by Stardock.

There will always be a small amount of people in the queue because the matchmaking system is faster than a game, so people will mostly be in games.

So yeah, my advice, suck it up or avoid pantheon like the plague. I managed to get some good pantheon games in yesterday, but the amount of frustration when they are bad is not really worth it. Sounds like custom games are probably better until pantheon gets sorted out.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Hitani, Nacer etc.)
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Yup thats them.

I still think that two games running is too much for the exact same map and settings but yes you are right, i can always avoid panth instead of dealing with headaches.

I just felt the need to rant a little.....

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