Game balancing

[ImperialSun]

It would hurt the game if you could just pick your team based on your map. As someone said above, boring mirror matches is one thing. Another issue is that then everyone will congregate to the accepted best team on a map and that will hamper innovation for other teams on said map. Sometimes the "best" is just what people use the most because it is already considered the "best". What I mean is, say thing A is considered better than thing B at completing task C. In reality, thing B can actually accomplish task C more efficiently. However, far more people use thing A because it is thought to be better. As a result, the use of thing A to complete task C has more chances to become optimized than the use of thing B. Then, even if thing B has a higher potential threshold than thing A, it is never realized because everyone just keeps using thing A, the accepted best, not the real best.

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Instead of just throwing in the towel and saying, "Scallywags are clearly OP on this map and Adorables are clearly OP on that map so we should be able to choose which to play on which map", shouldn't we be addressing the real issue? That the maps aren't balanced? I'd say we do two things:

~ attempt to fix the imbalanced maps
~ challenge ourselves to overcome perceived imbalances

If given time the second isn't possible, then we revert to the first. Continue this cycle, rinse and repeat. The game is boring if we just take the easy way out all the time instead of challenging ourselves to overcome hardships. Mobi reaper rush is one example. When people realized Adorables were wrecking on Reaper, OML could have immediately said, "oh no! Let's change the map". That would have been a shame. It's more interesting to have thought-provoking discussion on how to counter the rush then just nerf it immediately from a map change or allow all players to just play Adorables on Reaper. What fun is that? Yay, AvA every game on Reaper!