Have they fixed starting positions in Skirmish mode?

[DrWookie]

My friends and I stopped playing the game around January because we hated how you couldn't choose where to start in the map based on the numeric positions (The most specific example is the host is ALWAYS starting in position 1 no matter what you do...therefore if one person always hosts he always fights from the same base and can't change it up)

This was an option to "fix" the starting locations but it didn't seem to work and people here said it was a bug or something. Have they fixed this? Do yo uhave the ability to choose where to start (So you can form teams on certain sides of the map instead of screwing things up).

I can't find anything in any of the patch notes but its not worth reinstalling to see if they did.

This was my originally post actually in february...it may explain what i'm talking about better:

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=57421

[CrossOrion]

as far as I know, teams always end up on the same side of the map, barring a glaring error on the part of the map maker. So...I'm not sure if I understand your beef with the game.

[DrWookie]

Teams do not, at least not when I last played.

What used to happen is the person in position 1 (The host always) started in position 1 on the map, then person in position 2 started in position 2.

THat was regardless of teams which made many situations where your teammate and you were on opposite sides of an enemy.

You couldn't "force" people to start in other places other which sucked because that made it so the host was always in the same place, and the teams always ended up in the same spots.

But I guess it sounds like they didn't fix it (Read my original post I give a link to, it explains it more as well as more knowledgeable people awknowledging it). Apparantly its a bug of a "feature" (A bad one if its a feature) that has been around since beta...so I didn't have high hopes.

[DoctorX]

What happens if you set Auto-teams with random starting positions? Do people start on their teams' sides in shuffled positions? I'd really like players to be able to change their starting locations, especially when organising team games with people know know each other and want to play as a team together - otherwise, you have to start dropping people just to sort them out. Its very clumsy. We tried using the named team approach, but no one's ever there...

[DrWookie]

That was exactly our problem Doctor...we all knew each other and we liked to mix up the games a lot....different start locations and what not.

I have by far the most ram so I would always host so I was always screwed because I would ALWAYS start in position one...got really boring.

EDIT: The other big negative was when you had say 4 people but you wanted to play a 6 person map...you couldn't hand pick the starting locations to make the map work with only 6.

That severely limited the map choices for smaller amounts of people (And espiecially with 3...with 3 on almost every map half the map isn't used by anyone...which is an okay game but gets wierd sometimes)

[dr2sheds]

Random start and specified teams, they will be grouped together - that is how we test maps on LAN.

regards,
sheds

[DrWookie]

Always in the same spot or grouped together in different areas of the map?

[Sajuur]

There have been no changes since the game came out to fixed/random starting positions as far as I know.

Fixed means fixed, it skips empty slots though.
Random means teams together at random positions. (Totally random in a FFA)

[CrossOrion]

If you set starting positions to random, then teams will always start together, or so I have experienced anyways.

It doesn't make much sense (semantics wise) but there you go.

[dr2sheds]

yep what they said

regards
sheds

[Road-kill]

This is one really annoying feature of the game, always starting in the same spot.


....yet in 'Fallen City' I've started in BOTH places before now in a skirmish game!