@ yeahGO scaling draft timer

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Posted on Sept. 9, 2016, 1:05 p.m. by insertcleverid

Even though you now have skynet running the bots I still wanted to test why the scaling draft timer occasionally FEELS like it accelerates too fast. There have been several occasions I remember seeing the countdown clock and thinking 'those are not full seconds.' There have been plenty of times when I have been spending a few seconds on a pick only to suddenly experienced a flickering screen as the bots take over, rapid-fire auto-pick for me and kick me out of the draft. Often the draft crashes and there are several users complaining about the same thing.

I think this is what you showed us as the scaling draft timer yesterday. I timed 3 drafts today and it mostly matches what I recorded.
Pick 1: 50 sec
Pick 2-4: 45
Pick 5-7: 35
Pick 8: 30
Pick 9-10: 20
Pick 11-13: 15
Pick 14: 10

There were two weird anomalies. I actually had three packs where I noted Pick 7 was 30 sec and Pick 8 was 20 seconds, and that happened in 2 of the 3 drafts. Also, I did have one pick where I swear the seconds were ticking down WAY faster than normal. Maybe that's just an artifact of me having to scroll down the page quickly to see the timer after I make a pick?

But maybe there's an easy explanation. I think a lot of the bad experiences can be explained by the fact that you have P5-7 at 35 seconds, then P8 is 30 followed by P9 at only 20. That scaling is really severe compared to the rest of the changes if you look at it on a graph. You can smooth it out by changing it to:
P7-8: 30
P9-10: 25
P11: 20

This adds 35 seconds to the total timer but will probably feel a lot more natural.

Thanks for the chance to help

yeaGO says... #2

done

September 9, 2016 1:51 p.m.