There’s been a script running on babel gathering some stats on how long maps are taking and how each team does.
So far we have 34 days of stats. That’s 987 map-rounds, 11137 points scored, and 49 unique maps.
All that said, Congrats Red team! You won 113 more games than Blue team! Maybe next time try joining the losing team?
Here’s a chart + table of each map’s time and the average time each map took. The average of ALL the maps is 50 minutes and 29 seconds. http://aloha.pk/files/aos/babel/stats.html
Of the maps that have been played more than 10 times, TowerDive, crossfire3, remus, and spitfire seem to be the most ‘fair’ (blue and red teams have won the map nearly equally), although it’ll take a lot more rounds to make any accurate judgement on whether they actually are ‘fair.’
Most notably, a game of tortuga took nearly 7 hours to complete with a final score of 10-1! Also the map ‘nine_eye_babel’ won shortest-map with 6 minutes and 26 seconds! That’s roughly 38 seconds per cap!
But hopefully we can use these stats to make educated decisions about the map rotation on babel.
To start off, the top 5 (average) longest maps are:
tortuga
alexandria
mazehills
binladencompoundv7
icecraft
I recommend maybe making a large elevated base for people to tower up from on the longer maps, so they balance out and don’t take as long or just making a mini-babel server with faster paced maps.
I don’t have all the maps memorized because I don’t care for babel that much since the maps are so long, so I definitely think the rating system would be a great idea. It would allow even the newbies to vote on the maps they like and don’t like.