Really Blizz?
Who enjoys playing the same map 3 times in a row!?
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Depending on the map, I do.
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If you are on a new account, the game will tend to favor cursed hollow for most of your early games. This is by design.
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Nope not a new account, same account since the beginning. Also it was warhead junction 3 times in a damn row!
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If it’s Haunted Mines (Which is disabled atm), Towers of Doom and Braxis Holdout, then me.
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In which server do you play?
This shouldn’t happen on the EU and the NA server.
I don’t mind it any more than I mind the game giving me 3 two lane maps in a row when I’m trying to practice Vikings in QM.
Or getting 3 maps good for Aba in a row. Or really any combo of 3 maps.
This idea is also not viable because, well. It just is a way to completely mess up the queue times.
This would double to triple the queue times, and greatly reduce the quality of matches. The former is a guess, the later is a fact.
It would only be viable to do this in versus AI.
There is nothing in the matchmaker to “protect” you from getting the same map and over.
The only map related “setting” it has to my knowledge is related to new players and cursed hollow.
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With a decent amount of players, the maps get rotated and you don’t play the same map over and over again
you still have an approx 0.0004% chance to get the same map three times in a row.
That sounds like a small number, but if 10K non-ranked games are played daily, it should happen 4 times a day.
In ranked, you have a 0.0013% chance to get the same map three times in a row. So it would happen 13 times a day with 10K games.
The amount of total players doesn’t change the odds of getting the same map repeated times–unless there are players who fall into the “cursed hollow” side of things.
Even with 4 maps in a row, with 10K games a day, it should happen to “.3” a person. Or rather, if 10K games are played outside of ranked, about every 3 days, one person should get the same map 4 times in a row.
Err, It just struck me that I didn’t keep good track of the decimal places properly when doing the percentages, so I might be off by two magnitudes in how often these events occur… but it doesn’t change the fact that there being more players has nothing to do with your odds of getting the same map multiple times in a row.
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True… People often think of improbable events such as 1:10 000 as “never going to happen to me”.
But once you gain enough years under your belt in HotS, it will happen to you sooner or later. Or if not three times, then at least two.
Even the 3x same map anomaly will happen to you at least once in a lifetime the higher your total game count gets.
Same map 4x in a row is getting into the really, really unlikely territory, but it’s possible too. Anything above that is so statistically unlikely it’s irrelevant (yes, 5-6x can theoretically happen, but it probably wont… To anyone, anywhere, ever)
[This is all discounting the forced Cursed Hollow games imposed on newbies or returnees]
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Same, if it’s not Blackheart’s Bay, I’m all good with that. I once disliked WHJ almost as much, but the sewers improved it somewhat.
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This is maybe an unpopular opinion but I wish Cursed Hollow also had those sewers, they could easily replace the two watch towers with them. Would make the map more fun to travel.
I mean if they can replace a Boss pit with one. Why not a watch tower.
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And this is why in those games I wish there was an ff option
Give me Infernal, Tomb, Dragon Shire or Cursed Hollow and you can put it as many times in a row as you wish. I’d consider huge upgrade to the game if I didn’t need to play the poo poo maps which are majority of maps.
And now imagine to have only one map available at any time like other Moba’s…
Once agan im out of likes so here is one for you 
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They should let us trade likes on the forum! JK
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All in favor of auto-donating half your likes to Minky, uh. Well, don’t use them at all?
Or maybe everyone needs to run out of likes every day! Make them raise the like limit for everyone (after which we all stop but Minky)?
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Guess its just the life of a BW avatar. Giving likes left and right and ends up having nothing left in the end. Ah well. In 2 hours i can like people again.
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