Hi,
Is anyone keep tracking of which maps are being played on Battle.net? Blizzard must have this information logged, and since our SC client loads the list of games, presumably there's an automatic method to capture this information.
I guess I want to find proof that SC custom map's diversity is near 0, i.e. people only host/play the same 4 maps, which to mean is a strong sign to move away from the community.
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I don't know that there is currently a way to survey the UMS landscape in the way you're looking for.
I would suggest hosting the maps you want to play and dealing with the lobby wait times as that seems to be the only way to improve the situation.
Through 3rd party programs or hacking you could... but the question is does anyone have programs that can log this? I guess not yet...
In the old original Starcraft BW back then I think there were programs that did just that... logging which maps were being played, and the players in it.
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Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
