Shorter round times?

**DCBA-25** · 09-11-10, 03:02 AM

Just thought I'd make a thread about this. We were discussing it in game tonight. I don't know if this is something that's been brought up before, but a 3 minute round time seems rather long. People tonight were talking about how it should be lowered to 2 or 2:30.
What does everyone else think about it?
Sorry if this has been discussed before.

**Sundance** · 09-11-10, 04:23 AM

I'm a fan of the current time limit. To me, it's just a good mix of being short enough that I rarely feel like the game is just dragging on, and being long enough to allow slow plays to really test the patience of cts and, in general, be pretty effective.

2 minutes is way too short imo...Would put too much of an emphasis on just flat out rushing all the time. 2:30 might be ok though...But like I said, I'm still a fan of the current limit.

**Mr_Blonde_OPS** · 09-11-10, 04:29 AM

I think the current time is perfect. Like Sundance said if it was 2-230 there would be to much rushing tactics needed to play. Has there been any problems with the time on the servers? I've never heard any complaints.

**Guyver** · 09-11-10, 06:18 AM

I think it's fine as is.

**Fajita!** · 09-11-10, 01:06 PM

It's fine as is, but it could be so much better. It would not enforce more rushing tactics. It would just make slowplays that take 2 minutes to do nothing take 1 minute. No real difference.

2:30 would be great.

**~~HyperioN~~** · 09-11-10, 02:17 PM

A 2 minute round is closer to the 5v5 scrim type. I think 3-3:30 would be a good round time for our current 11v11 situation.

**flame** · 09-11-10, 02:45 PM

230 would shave a little time, most rounds it wouldnt come into play.

**DuDDy** · 09-11-10, 03:19 PM

I would be in favor of a shorter round time. If you think about when a full out rush to the bombsite is performed and executed the right way, the round lasts less than a minute to begin with. The only time the clock is a factor is on slow plays, in which case most teams sit around to the 220 or 2 minute mark, and rounds are done less than a minute later anyways. It really wouldnt affect the situation here that much anyways.

**idunn** · 09-11-10, 04:20 PM

I say change roundtime to 2:30, but increase freezetime to 15 seconds. There has been numerous times where a call is defaulted to a "slow play" because there wasn't enough time for a detailed call to be made. I remember when it was increased to 10 seconds, to see if it would help at all, and it did. But I think 15 would help even more.