well we're already grouped together as a forum and in-game channel, having Scandinavia as a region grouping would be great.
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The idea was mainly Scandinavia + Finnland
Maybe the minor balkan countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Belarus, Slovakia) could go together, as they also got somewhat few active users
I'm not good with Geography, but I will ask around to try and get some input on this.
Maybe the minor balkan countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Belarus, Slovakia) could go together, as they also got somewhat few active users
I'm not good with Geography, but I will ask around to try and get some input on this.
I would prefer it to be just North Germanic countries, but to satisfy all on this, you should be able to pick any combination of countries you want to see, in the options maybe.BRBP wrote:
Please include Finland in your Scandinavian region ;___;
Because technically we do belong in it, and there's really not enough finnish scores to find any use of this system as it is now.
I guess I'm alone in all this =w=. Although I suppose it would be nice to go under US?
Edit: For Guam
Edit: For Guam
It's consistent with our #skandinavian channel in-game and our own Skandinavien sub-forum. We already know each other, you have your own language specific community.
but as I said, why not be able to pick whatever countries you want, at least just one country. I hope this feature wouldn't suggest to replace any country with multiple ones.
but as I said, why not be able to pick whatever countries you want, at least just one country. I hope this feature wouldn't suggest to replace any country with multiple ones.
Blast the WHOLE skandinavien with my amezen skillz 
I agree to grouping countries which have so few players the country rankings don't hit top 50s. This helps reduce the load of these lookups, actually. A lot. Plus it makes sense and makes it more competitive.
Topic Starter
No need to overreact, both of you. I agree with that Finland fits better in with Scandinavia than with Russia. I don't find the argument of consistency to be enough to leave them out of a feature like this. Both parts got the same issue after all, and you can't say that a tiny detail like this will actually matter.
I sure hope not.BRBP wrote:
I honestly don't know anymore, but I think replacing is a lot better.
What I mean with the consistency is that many of us are already friends with people from our neighbouring north Germanic country. Finnish ranks are just as relevant to many of us as Portuguese ones.
This shouldn't be defined by region, but let players pick which culture they belong to, which friends they are closest to, not force us to be with people we don't know or want to know. This "one country" ranking must not be replaced with multiple countries, that's a terrible idea. A nearby countries filter is a much better idea, but personally I think it would be best for all to have a Custom countries filter. I'm sure MillhioreF would want this as he lives in America but want to be back in Norway again with his friends.
I agree with theo with just having the North Germanic countries. And it's not only theo who wants it like that.
It's not that complicated really. We already have our Skandinavien sub-forum which includes the North Germanic countries.
It's not that complicated really. We already have our Skandinavien sub-forum which includes the North Germanic countries.
I agree with theowest. The point in giving us a country ranking is too compete with the people that we talk a lot with and that we have a lot in common with, like speaking almost the same language and such. That will be scandinavia on its own. And not so much the fins. (sorry lonely finnish people ;w; )
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Not really. For everyone to be satisfied I'd rather have an additional filter for "nearby countries", too. At least that's what the request is.BRBP wrote:
No, it's not. Why keep one country ranking that doesn't have enough scores to fill the top 50 for a map? That's what this thread is about.
I don't see a problem with that tbh, it's only a bigger problem on other game modes and for less played maps. It's great if you want to know if you have the best rank in your country, smaller lists are easier to keep a track of.
Now if these are really too small, I don't have a problem moving in with Norway and Denmark, but I would never want to see Finnish ranks. We don't share the same community or in-game chat. You guys have a lot more professional players that us and that would just ruin the chance for many of us to feel good. Your language is more related to the Estonian than our language, why not unite with them?
I'm just going to create my own feature request about picking your own countries to filter: t/124964/
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Now if these are really too small, I don't have a problem moving in with Norway and Denmark, but I would never want to see Finnish ranks. We don't share the same community or in-game chat. You guys have a lot more professional players that us and that would just ruin the chance for many of us to feel good. Your language is more related to the Estonian than our language, why not unite with them?
I'm just going to create my own feature request about picking your own countries to filter: t/124964/
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I agree!boat wrote:
Not really. For everyone to be satisfied I'd rather have an additional filter for "nearby countries", too. At least that's what the request is.BRBP wrote:
No, it's not. Why keep one country ranking that doesn't have enough scores to fill the top 50 for a map? That's what this thread is about.
Sure, but I'm sure it's a benefit for the Estonians. They've got to merge with some country too.BRBP wrote:
Anyway, estonia's a pretty pointless workaround to this (no offense), since they only have 1000 players with #6 being rank 6,5k. That wouldn't help at all. I'll wait and see what happens.
Haha I already see problems with some countries like Belgium (half as active as Sweden btw). West will tend to go with France while East will tend to go with the Netherlands 
Anyway that's a pretty good idea. It would also perhaps be nice to see player's country next to his name to avoid confusion on player's origin.
edit: typo
Anyway that's a pretty good idea. It would also perhaps be nice to see player's country next to his name to avoid confusion on player's origin.
edit: typo
Topic Starter
This argument is broken. Global toplists don't do this already?theowest wrote:
You guys have a lot more professional players that us and that would just ruin the chance for many of us to feel good.
That's what the "friends ranking" filter is for.31415926535897 wrote:
I agree with theowest. The point in giving us a country ranking is too compete with the people that we talk a lot with and that we have a lot in common with, like speaking almost the same language and such. That will be scandinavia on its own. And not so much the fins. (sorry lonely finnish people ;w; )
You guys have to get into your head that this is not a replacement of the separate "country ranking". Nearly all of the arguments you've provided as to why Finland should not be coupled with Scandinavia can essentially translate into a mere "because", despite that you will still be able to both filter by the people on your friendslist and in your own country alone.
That, or a small flag next to the player's name.BRBP wrote:
How well would it fit, or do mean similar to how people's avatars are shown in multi? Nice idea though.
unrelated to scandinavia but related to the request
benelux? or belgium+netherlands?
benelux? or belgium+netherlands?
Topic Starter
This is not the feature request I proposed.BRBP wrote:
I thought it was because of Peppy's comments on both "changing country to region" and "reducing the load on lookups".
I got them confused with your original post. mb.
Seemingly, #scandinavias massive ego can't handle any competition and they wish to keep your circlejerk the way it is, regardless of benefits.
I give up, can't be arsed with this. Unless anyone who cares comes up with a solution, lock and trash the thread, thanks.
I have no idea why they don't want finland in the list lol.
It's not that we dislike them or anything, it's just that it would make more sense if Scandinavian was Scandinavian even in that area (Yes, North Germanic languages)
The same way you wanted to merge Finland with Skandi instead of Russia (that you strongly disagreed with yourself) is not that of a valid reason either imo.
The same way you wanted to merge Finland with Skandi instead of Russia (that you strongly disagreed with yourself) is not that of a valid reason either imo.
Yes, my bad. Silly argument, sorry about that.boat wrote:
This argument is broken. Global toplists don't do this already?theowest wrote:
You guys have a lot more professional players that us and that would just ruin the chance for many of us to feel good.
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The reason for my request is because people in countries may have a different opinion on which countries they want to see (in case of merged country situation). You will be registered in your own country, but can choose to view other countries, multiple even if there aren't enough ranks. That's basically what I am suggesting in my request.
I just wanted consistency, I personally think Finland doesn't go well together with our countries.
As boat stated, this request will not replace the current country filter, this spawned some much unnecessary discussion...
It's all up to peppy, it seems my topic has more support but this topic is more reasonable. We'll see what happens.
PeteX wrote:
If this happen, many of us would like to have Czech and Slovak country ranking together, it would also make sense since we already share the #czechoslovak channel
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That's why we #skandinavians wanted consistency. We share the same chat already, we always done that. We've been merged together for years (all the time). Why would we suddenly include a new foreign country?
^ old counter argument for BRBP why some of us don't want to be with Finland. but of course, you guys want to be with us. And since we can't have both: t/124964 to make everyone happy.
^ old counter argument for BRBP why some of us don't want to be with Finland. but of course, you guys want to be with us. And since we can't have both: t/124964 to make everyone happy.
If this happen, many of us would like to have Czech and Slovak country ranking together, it would also make sense since we already share the #czechoslovak channel
Definitively beneluxsilmarilen wrote:
unrelated to scandinavia but related to the request
benelux? or belgium+netherlands?
This, give us Czech and Slovak ranking together pleasePeteX wrote:
If this happen, many of us would like to have Czech and Slovak country ranking together, it would also make sense since we already share the #czechoslovak channel
So just have a Continent-based scoreboard?
North/South America, Europe, Asia and so on.
Pretty much like this list? http://www.worldatlas.com/cntycont.htm
It would make it a lot easier, and I'm sure the eastern countries like Japan/China/Korea would like to have a scoreboard where they can compare just themselves. I'd like the same for Canada/USA/Mexico since I have some people from america/mexico I play with
I do realize this is a bit off topic, but since its similar to the request, I'll post here anyways. Let me know what you guys think.
North/South America, Europe, Asia and so on.
Pretty much like this list? http://www.worldatlas.com/cntycont.htm
It would make it a lot easier, and I'm sure the eastern countries like Japan/China/Korea would like to have a scoreboard where they can compare just themselves. I'd like the same for Canada/USA/Mexico since I have some people from america/mexico I play with
I do realize this is a bit off topic, but since its similar to the request, I'll post here anyways. Let me know what you guys think.
Topic Starter
Issue with this is that it isn't the point of the already existing feature. The goal is competitiveness within smaller circles, and for that the scoreboards would have to be divided into something far smaller than for instance whole of Europe.Lanturn wrote:
So just have a Continent-based scoreboard?
Yeah no, this make even less sense.Dooms wrote:
Group by language? Make it where players can set their dominant language and just group by that? o_o.
Group by language? Make it where players can set their dominant language and just group by that? o_o.
-libili
Benelux I guess.silmarilen wrote:
unrelated to scandinavia but related to the request
benelux? or belgium+netherlands?
It wouldn't have to be a problem to add Luxembourg
Just in case: Argentina wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country. We get along with Brazil but we're too different and we don't get along with any other SA countries.
Topic Starter
Argentina should have enough players for this to not be required anyways.Metro wrote:
Just in case: Argentina wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country. We get along with Brazil but we're too different and we don't get along with any other SA countries.
Cool. Just wanted to make sure.boat wrote:
Argentina should have enough players for this to not be required anyways.Metro wrote:
Just in case: Argentina wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country. We get along with Brazil but we're too different and we don't get along with any other SA countries.
-libili wrote:
Just bind the countries with less playerss with one of the neighbourland.. that easy is it!
Germany has enoughdont wanna get compiled with other countries
That looks like the best solution to me.
I'd love for Ireland to be grouped with someone (though our only neighbour is Britain, but they have enough players to compete with (I hope))
For countries such as Poland, with a /lot/ of great active players, it would only do harm to group them with anyone.
So let's group us smallsies! : D
Can someone please sum up proposed mappings in a single post so I can act on this? Ignoring preferences, I'd like to see the largest groupings possible to allow for actual competitive rankings.
Topic Starter
Alright, I'm working on it.
Please refer to this thread to provide your inputs on this p/2438955
In the meantime I would like to know your personal opinion on grouping lesser countries with the major ones, rather than the small ones together but alone. If grouping a lesser one with a major makes sense then I assume that would be the ideal way to go on about it, but I would still like your opinion on the matter.
Thank you in advance.
Please refer to this thread to provide your inputs on this p/2438955
In the meantime I would like to know your personal opinion on grouping lesser countries with the major ones, rather than the small ones together but alone. If grouping a lesser one with a major makes sense then I assume that would be the ideal way to go on about it, but I would still like your opinion on the matter.
Thank you in advance.
Just in case: The Netherlands wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country except for Finland. We get along with Belgium but we're too different (they speak French/Flemming and are roman Catholics, whereas we speak Dutch and are Protestants) and we don't get along with any other EU countries except for Finland.
Topic Starter
If you can get people to vouch in on that then it will be noted down as a majorities opinion. Regardless of what country you supposedly get along with, if there is no ethnic correlation then chances are you will not get merged. Please try to keep to the thread in GD to keep this as clean and tidy as possible, as well to get more peoples views and opinions on it.laport wrote:
Just in case: The Netherlands wouldn't want to be grouped with any other country except for Finland. We get along with Belgium but we're too different (they speak French/Flemming and are roman Catholics, whereas we speak Dutch and are Protestants) and we don't get along with any other EU countries except for Finland.
What if I told you that some countries don't want to be grouped with others no matter how small they are..... I know right?, take a minute to process
Bump. I made a duplicate and therefore bumping
Bump Again.... xD