Long lobby times because no one titans

[narbtit]

No one wants to titan. Everyone is gleefully, stubbornly watching as the unfortunate schmuck to join titan slot leaves. But no one goes down, we just laugh inside because we're not the sucker to go titan. Yes this is what every builder is thinking as they quietly stay in their slot up above. It amazes me the stubbornness of people who will wait up to 1/2 hour just so they don't titan. And I sure as hell won't because they don't want to.

To fix:
1) Titan is randomly chosen every game. Everyone is builder, random (unfortunate) person goes titan.
2) Maybe our amazing titan just can't join the game? Rename game on the fly to it's current name + "Titan needed"
3) Make titan more imba. Although I think titan is quite strong right now.
4) +++ rewards somehow for going titan. This is how blizz fixed the low supply of tanks for dungeon queues. Do something like +1 donation point per game.

[Humik]

Well, ppl dont have balls to titan, thats why they are builders, randoming titan will cause many leavers...
+ Titan doesnt need to be stronger, if you know what to do, you're pretty good. :Z

[Faldt]

People just yell at me everytime I go titan QQ.
But for real i'm trying to play titan alot but same as the builders i'm growing kinda bored of them.

More titans = more people playing them.

[Burn]

Could be like Trolls and Elves where you can type -titan to "choose" to be titan, then randoms one of the players who typed -titan, else it randoms one. Could be a nice mode to experiment with.

-Burn

[Faldt]

I think that would be a really bad idea. Just as humik said, whoever gets titan will probably leave and then everyone else would leave and join ng. You can't really fix the fact that every year more and more people stop playing wc3.

We could still try something different, but i doubt that would fix the problem.

[Burn]

It'd be a new mode, possibly for inhouses and public beta test experiment. Normal mode would still be there.

-Burn

[ShadowZz]

The irony in this is the reason most people don't want to titan is because of the bullshit builders feel they need to say during games. If everyone forever shit talks bad titans then they will stop titaning and just never learn hense we have no titans :/ More of a community issue than a game issue @narbtit

[Haunt]

^
Agree 100%. Though builders trash talk other builders too.

[narbtit]

@shadowzz yeah I do my fair bit of trash talking it's part of the game

[Burn]

Trash talking is part of every single game. It's particularly evident in Island Defense due to safe players sitting on their ass doing nothing in bases or waiting for titan to leave mid.

Saying that, I occasionally play during Euro/Asian times and the community is better due to worse players in general and less players who have English as their first language. The downside of this is it's harder to beat a pub stomper and longer lobby fill times.

-Burn

[Ultrasonic]

Imo people should stay when they join in as titan or at least try it out <3 I aint pro at Island Defense i just play it as a time killer and its pretty fun and worth the wait, everyone titans and its really annoying when they rq :> they could just suicide or just say in advance theyre gonna leave and also people shouldnt be selfish on titaning thats all

[Merex]

Could be like Trolls and Elves where you can type -titan to "choose" to be titan, then randoms one of the players who typed -titan, else it randoms one.

+1
@Neco

[Siiteri]

Could be like Trolls and Elves where you can type -titan to "choose" to be titan, then randoms one of the players who typed -titan, else it randoms one. Could be a nice mode to experiment with.

-Burn

I think this every day

[Stealer]

I don't think you guys remember the days of swap mode.

like 60+% of the people that died left instantly.

[frippe9508]

People who dosn't understand why nobody wanna go titan listen up.

If somebody new plays titan they will get rushed early on and killed, builders are to greedy to help titan to learn the game or give the titan froff,exp or gc. They just wanna finish fast and go for next game.

When a titan kills a builder a minion spawns and that person leaves like almost every game so at the end u end up with 5 minions and gotta be good and micro them else they die and if they die hunters become so strong so its almost pointless to continue lategame if facing okay builders.

You get flamed upon if you die as titan, havent gotten enough exp for that time, or just letting builders farm gold for to long.

So why would you wanna go titan if you are not allowed to be noob at the game ? I dont know about you but people aren't born a pro at titan and they gotta learn and how can they learn the game if not playing the game? and how can they play the game if they get rushed upon by a demo or something else?

The facts are simple and obvious so dont say these facts are not true cause they are.

The problem is not that nobody wanna go titan, its the defenders/builders attitude and tolerance that creates this problem so i recommend implementing that mode with titan being chosen at random else you gotta change the defenders and they are stubborn.