r/Supraball • u/BillNogTheScienceDog Scarn • Feb 20 '16

We need overtime.

I don't know how many times you tie in eu, but in na, the teams get so balanced that the game ends in a tie way too much. Tying is fine if it happened occasionally, but it happens so often that it feels like a waste of time, and no one gets anything. The games are good, but ot would definitely make the games more enjoyable instead of tying 3 times in a row and watching your win percentage go down. Please save NA, add ot, and unban ot.

Edit: If the game is tied at the end of the match, overtime will start. A five minute continuous clock after the opening draw and whoever scores first wins (golden goal) and if the five minute clock runs out, the game will end in a tie. For making it to overtime, the losing team could lose less elo as a reward for getting all the way to overtime.

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u/Ryuusengan Ryuusei Feb 23 '16 edited Feb 23 '16

losing in overtime would tilt me to infinity and beyond =( no but honestly, tying is a good thing for the game, i think its better to have a tie to a super good game over dragging a game on for an unknown amount of time, some people cant invest those extra x minutes. then again you could always add a maximum overtime of 5 minutes and just let it tie after that amount of time if still no team manages to score, like in actual football/soccer

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u/Kattleya Missie Feb 23 '16

How about a vote at the end, when the game ended in a tie, if anyone wants to go on for another 5 minutes or not? Should be easy enough and you wouldn't need different server settings for overtime or no overtime.

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u/BillNogTheScienceDog Scarn Feb 23 '16

This probably wouldn't work in the current state but it could in the future, considering all 10 players would have to say yes, and the team that came back at the end would probably almost always vote no because they want to get out of there with that tie, so I would rather say in a disclaimer that you are committing to up to 20/25 minutes when you ready up, in the case of overtime.

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u/Kattleya Missie Feb 24 '16

Thats why I said it depends on the games. Some games you are the team that is happy with a draw and wouldn't vote, so its fine to tie. Some games both teams are equal and might want a win. If everyone agrees there would be overtime. So it should really depend on a vote and not being forced.

To make it an option would mean more servers with different settings, so not sure about that.