Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Community Events and Tournaments => Topic started by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 12:51:40 AM

Title: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 12:51:40 AM
LAST EDIT: May 16th,2011

Hello everyone!

Since there's an ever-increasing amount of people playing this mod, and I've already heard from several people that it's a pity nobody plays EF on ranked, I got the idea to organize an

Eastern Front Automatch Night!

For the uninformed: What is that?

We all go online at a certain time (lets say 12:00 GMT) and play auto matches against each other. Playing ranked with EF is possible, as long as everybody has got the newest EF version (atm: 1.31).

It's also possible to play all game modes (ranging from 1on1 to 4on4 random/AT).

What are auto matches?

Automatch are ranked games. You know, the games that start when you click on the huge "PLAY!" button at the top of the online screen...

Although there are no stats for soviets basic matches there is a leaderboard for the soviets in the official automatch statistics (just click on "statistics" at the top right on the main screen when you're online and choose faction "soviets". There are currently ~ 200 people listed with a total of like 200 games.

 

Who would like to participate? If there are enough people I'd try to organize a time and day for this. Please post in this thread if you would like to play on ranked.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-timestamp.htm (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-timestamp.htm)
this website shows your local time in GMT time through your computer clock!

The first automatch night will be on Thursday, May 19th, 2011,
starting at 4p.m. gmt.
Meet in chatroom "mods chat"


Good luck and have fun everybody :)
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on April 21, 2011, 01:07:03 AM
Good idea Id love to participate

Im on every night,we need to know everyones time zones otherwise "night" is kinda ambigous.

Im US eastern time! I play between ~10pm-5AM
some people play at different times we need to figure this out
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 01:21:46 AM
Good idea, I put a gmt timezone-translator in the original post.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on April 21, 2011, 01:49:46 AM
whoops Ok  :) thx missed that
So, my availability converted to GMT is:

2-9AM GMT
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on April 21, 2011, 05:08:18 AM
I've always wanted to do this and even suggested it before. However, night for the rest of the world is usually early morning for us here in Oz.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 07:36:55 AM
I've always wanted to do this and even suggested it before. However, night for the rest of the world is usually early morning for us here in Oz.
Then we build it around a time available for as many people as possible ;) It does not have to be an evening for everybody.

For example we could start at 16:00 GMT, which could be late morning for some, and for others it could be early evening
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on April 21, 2011, 09:21:05 AM
 ??? ??? ???
What do you mean by "ranked"?
Soviets don't get ranks for wins, right?
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on April 21, 2011, 09:24:10 AM
No Soviets dont have ranks. But there is a Soviet automatch leaderboard
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 10:11:03 AM
??? ??? ???
What do you mean by "ranked"?
Soviets don't get ranks for wins, right?

Automatch, ranked games. You know, the games that start when you click on the huge "PLAY!" button at the top of the online screen...

Edited main post.

No Soviets dont have ranks. But there is a Soviet automatch leaderboard
Exactly. It would actually be nice to redirect people from other forums to this thread so this gets broader attention.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on April 21, 2011, 11:34:02 AM
Automatch, ranked games. You know, the games that start when you click on the huge "PLAY!" button at the top of the online screen...
Yeah, I know what automatch is, I just don't play it all that often.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Killar on April 21, 2011, 12:04:01 PM
There was a huge 1vs1 event in the past, because the event was postet on gr.com.

Would be nice if that happens again when the new patch is out.
As i remember Devs wait for the new relic patch before they release a new EF patch for better balancing.

Best day to do it is either friday or sunday. Here is a link of what im talking about:

http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4160.0 (http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4160.0)

From that link:

Count down

The time for the tournament is 7 PM GMT, which (due to daylight savings time) is currently equivalent to 21:00 CET and 3 PM EST
.


Automatch day could be done at similar time.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on April 21, 2011, 12:51:50 PM
Can someone, please, show me some screenshot with that "soviet statistics", 'cause all I get, is my personal stats for four factions, that are absolutely irrelevant and meaningless to me, and to the particular cause ATM.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 21, 2011, 12:58:55 PM
There you go big boy
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Killar on April 21, 2011, 01:03:30 PM
i think these stats are veeeery old and from the release day
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on April 21, 2011, 01:07:34 PM
There you go big boy
Thanks, little brother
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on April 21, 2011, 03:21:59 PM
There was a huge 1vs1 event in the past, because the event was postet on gr.com.

Would be nice if that happens again when the new patch is out.
As i remember Devs wait for the new relic patch before they release a new EF patch for better balancing.

Best day to do it is either friday or sunday. Here is a link of what im talking about:

http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4160.0 (http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=4160.0)

From that link:

Count down

The time for the tournament is 7 PM GMT, which (due to daylight savings time) is currently equivalent to 21:00 CET and 3 PM EST
.


Automatch day could be done at similar time.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO! I had to wake up at 5am to play that tourney.

This wouldn't be a tourney anyway. Just a general timeslot where people play ranked games rather than basic match. Even if you don't personally care about ranks or the leaderboard, competitive stuff like this allows the mod to grow and attract more people.

The current leaderboard is from 1.0 where the SU was drastically OP. That's why they all have insane win:loss ratios. We need to correct it.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Killar on April 21, 2011, 04:30:45 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO! I had to wake up at 5am to play that tourney.

Just a general timeslot where people play ranked games rather than basic match.
i only remembered the timeframe of the tourney most people were pleased with :-[

What timeframe would you suppose?
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Cranialwizard on April 22, 2011, 02:01:04 AM
3pm Eastern is never good for me, I'd have to RUN home from school to catch that and miss work  ;)
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 22, 2011, 12:33:30 PM
3pm Eastern is never good for me, I'd have to RUN home from school to catch that and miss work  ;)
The Automatch "night" will last several hours. No need to hurry  8)
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Alexander 'ApeMen' J. on April 24, 2011, 04:19:25 AM
I would also take part.
Just tell me when and where :-P
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on April 30, 2011, 07:42:09 AM
So whats the final verdict on this automatch night? time, place?

If you havent posted here already you're not very active can we procede?
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on April 30, 2011, 01:16:38 PM
So whats the final verdict on this automatch night? time, place?

If you havent posted here already you're not very active can we procede?
WEll I don't have time this weekend, and next week I'm on vacation in munich. I proposed doing it on next weekend.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on April 30, 2011, 10:08:38 PM
Ok we'll wait for your return keep us posted
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Killar on May 02, 2011, 09:49:54 PM
automatching now!

comn!

Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Versedhorison on May 07, 2011, 04:13:54 AM
Automatching is the reason why I still play on vanillah CoH.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on May 07, 2011, 02:41:49 PM
Okay, I'm back! :)

I think it's best to organize several automatch nights during the next weeks.

So if you can't play on the first you can still play on the next. I imagine around 6-8 depending on how many people are willing to play.

The first one will be tomorrow, Sunday on May 8th, 2011, starting at 1 p.m. gmt. I think its best to make it "open end", so we'll play we don't want to anymore.
If you don't know what time 1 pm gmt is in your country use the gmt calculator on my first post.

Everybody is welcome! There's no must to play soviets, you can also play US or brits if you want to.

Good luck and have fun everybody :)

As a sidenote: I need a few players (~ 3 people) to test the 2on2 AT on bugs, I need some investigation on this since I think that there will be bugs when playing with soviets in there.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on May 08, 2011, 06:34:13 AM
I'll be up for 2v2s with my mate.

Why do you get a balancer tag and I don't?
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Blackbishop on May 08, 2011, 07:03:24 AM
I'll be up for 2v2s with my mate.

Why do you get a balancer tag and I don't?
Because you have the donor bag, do you want to have the Balancer one?

Done. Please check if you have access to Donors Board.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: SavageWorld on May 08, 2011, 01:54:07 PM
I am happy I dropped by the forum today  :)
I look forward to see some of you again after a long break.

Post Merge: May 08, 2011, 02:15:50 PM
Come online people
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on May 08, 2011, 09:10:59 PM


Why do you get a balancer tag and I don't?
I feel left out too! show me some luv :-*
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Blackbishop on May 08, 2011, 09:25:23 PM


Why do you get a balancer tag and I don't?
I feel left out too! show me some luv :-*
Done.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on May 08, 2011, 09:29:09 PM
When's the event? If it's within three hours from now, I'm in :)
Not that I'm any good anyway ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on May 08, 2011, 09:31:11 PM
1pm gmt? I think

anyway its mothers day here, and I wont be around in 3 hours, dinner with the mum sorry guys :(
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: IJoe on May 08, 2011, 09:36:54 PM
1pm gmt? I think

anyway its mothers day here, and I wont be around in 3 hours, dinner with the mum sorry guys :(
:(
By that time I'm going to go to sleep - don't want to miss tomorrow's Victory parade (9th of may is the official celebration day of the Victory over the scums of reich in RF).
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Seeme on May 09, 2011, 12:40:40 PM
No Balance for me?

Lol, JK Its alright, am doing a good job spamming anymore ;D
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on May 16, 2011, 12:33:51 AM
New date - Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Dzierzan on May 16, 2011, 02:31:59 PM
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New date - Thursday, May 19th, 2011

But not better make this automatch on friday, saturday or sunday? More people could play. Last time were few people (maybe 3-5 or 0).
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Killar on May 16, 2011, 02:58:19 PM
Would be nice if dev team would also participate esp. balancer. "Mods chat" should be meeting point.
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on May 16, 2011, 03:15:26 PM
Hey I was there last time. I was having such a bad night that I had to call it though...
Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: RedGuard on May 16, 2011, 08:41:38 PM
I'll play - the time is just a bit awkward for me. I'm the type that isnt on EF during the daytime, nights only :) but I'll make it a point to play

Title: Re: EF Automatch night?
Post by: Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S. on May 17, 2011, 11:20:54 PM
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New date - Thursday, May 19th, 2011

But not better make this automatch on friday, saturday or sunday? More people could play. Last time were few people (maybe 3-5 or 0).

well, they should be frequent on the weekends and on working days. No need to worry. The next one will be soon ;)

Would be nice if dev team would also participate esp. balancer. "Mods chat" should be meeting point.

Good idea. We should put in a chat channel. "Mods Chat" sounds good.