Map suggestions....

[SACK]Coppatop · Registered User Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 12

as much as I love playing here, playing the same 6 maps over and over again gets boring. The usual rotation seems to go Avalanche -- Strum -- Flash -- Saints -- Northbound -- Kalt -- Avalanche.... with the occaisonal charlie or anzio thrown in there.

How about when the map voting occours, sometimes make the choices all less popular maps, ex viscenia, chemlie, forest, Railroad etc.

Or maybe throw in some custom maps like frenzy or something. Any thoughts on this?

Replica · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Map suggestions....

[SACK]Coppatop · Registered User Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 12

any chance of a custom maps night or server?

Replica · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

a night might be a possibility but it woudl have to be set up and have the server ops OK. as far as a custom map server if i recall the one we had got next to no traffic untill it was announced it was gonna be removed. so the chances of that seem to be kinda low.
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LJ · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

A custom map night once every 1 or 2 weeks would be great. A list of 4 or 5 maps to get ahead of time would ideal along with advance advertisement on here as well as the servers.

Just depends on having someone that is both willing and able to do it.

sandbag · Registered User Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 26

NSArmsLab does something like this for its regular forum goers and supporters... they call it captains night, but same principle... i think that would be neet... have it at a reasonable time so that people can attend but also maintain sociability (aka going out with the peoples)like 8pm est or so on a saturday or sunday would work probably for the majority of the people who would show up... and tell us if new maps will be used so we can get them ahead of time... i'd be down for that... unless im out with mah peoples =p
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SilverOne · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

Thank you Replica

Its very hard to change what is working well for our servers guys, the point is to have them full as much as possible, to keep the players happy and we hope they will visit The Ville at some point. We do read every suggestion and comment and do what we can to make the players happy.

The way our servers are currently set up is working very well. TV4's configuration has been the same since DoD went to steam. It has been one of the top servers in the world for a very long time. It's one of those things... do we mess with it?

We made tv7 the same and tv4. It just works.

TV5 has a set rotation that can change. We set it up like the old TV1 before it went source for those who loved that rotation. TV1 was also one of the top servers. So we know the rotation works.

So you know, our voting system remembers the last 5 maps played so they dont show up in the voting right away. This gives the 2 servers the variety it needs. I know many want to see some of the other maps. But we believe if the majority want to play a certain map... so be it.

To be honest, in my opinion if the players want to play the same maps over and over then it should happen. The voting system won't allow it though. We also get many posts to remove maps, like forest, glider, etc. I usually give the same answer as above.

Sorry.. its not going to happen at this time. If most want to play forest.. have fun.

Its very hard to please everyone. That is why we have 3 different servers.

Custom maps? Well.. we have had bad results every time. Not to say it will never happen. I have thought about it. Popping one on tv4 and let it come up in the voting to see what happens. Maybe someday we will.

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Greebo · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

A thought re: custom maps.
One reason they are so unpopular is the time it takes to download them. I remember at a clan meet I went to we discussed this and someone mentioned that it's better to have a system where the map is downloaded from a location that is not the same as the server (so maybe this website?) - that way the downloads can be faster. Maybe worth looking into.
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IamtehsuX · Registered User Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 7

Ugh..Forest....worst....map...ever... #Beer

The one map that i havent seen much of at all in the past 4-5 days, heh, would be Kalt....God, i love that map..

Malanthros · Registered User Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 454

One suggestion I'd like to make is that when the mapvote is nearing, or even while it's happening, type out in all talk the name of the map you want. Or say to both teams prior "Let's pick a map that we usually don't" or something along those lines.

Lots of the villuns will oblige, especially since many of us know who you are coppa, and it works for most regulars. I know I'd vote for the map, unless I absolutely DESPISED it.

And I'd like to say, Charlie is beginning to rub off on me. But ONLY as the allies, and ONLY when the allied snipers are doing a good job picking snipers and mgs off.
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Stevo · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

[SACK]Coppatop · Registered User Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 12

What maps are currently in the vote cycle? Any chance you can add railroad? That's a real fun one that I havent seen on the list.

merf · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

Canadian Rifle · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

yea everyone loved the TV1 and the rotation but putting custom maps in might sound fun but also, jsut like the regular maps, the new custom maps might clear the server jsut like charlie and forest, donner, etc. Like some people might like the custom maps and some might not so ya! thats my 2 cents!!! but it is a good idea to maybe have liek a custom night or sumthin once a week or sumthin, becuz like u guys said it would change ti up!!!

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