Map of the month

[eclyps]

What map would you guys like to see in the rotation for the next month?

[The Untalented Mr. Stewar]

All about the vertigo. :-)

[saucey]

Verti-fucking-go
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/19118

[Liquid Caravan]

scoutzknivez is sucha great break from hosties and bombs.

[baller]

scoutknives sucks specially when we go and there are like 30 ppl playin "/....but still its a break from the bombs and hosties but last few times we played scoutknives the server lost a few players cuz of the map

[Merc]

de_cpl_fire

love that map

[Torrin]

Do assination maps still work? Man, there were some good ones.

[ONE]

bah! it's been a LONG time since i've played cpl fire and mill...i so wanted it on the rotation :( fock vertigo...ppl'll just bitch bout the awping...trust me

[Dr. Acula]

So why haven't we played any of these maps yet?

[CIN]

So why haven't we played any of these maps yet?

cause its always on dust dust2 office or italy

[eclyps]

adding vertigo now

[Ser1al]

de_cpl_mill or de_contra

Very fun maps. =]

[baller]

cause its always on dust dust2 office or italy

i agree with CIN we play to much on this maps...every time a different map comes up in a vote it never wins if dust2 or the other most played maps come up

[Sryden..,.]

Could we do something to prevent these oddball maps from being voted in between say, 2 a.m. and noon? Those are the servers slowest hours when a map like vertigo will completely destroy any population still left on. I'm not totally adverse to these maps, just don't like seeing the server slow down for them.

[ONE]

reasons why dust2, office, italy, and such maps are played so much on our server (pretty much any normal server) is b/c it's to help populate the server and keep it populated. it's a known fact that a lot of ppl when they get back from work/school and check for games will jump onto a server based on a few factors
1) latency/ping time (the lower the better)
2) rate of the server (who plays on 33 tick on purpose?)
3) and finally, the map
most ppl after a long day of work/school would rather jump onto a server that is playing one of those "overplayed" maps or know that it has a chance of being played in a relatively short period of time. I for 1 will not go onto maps that play 24/7 cpl fire/mill (unless i wanted to practice that map) nor would i join a server that's playing knifing maps. Not to say those servers don't have good maps in rotation but i just wouldn't log onto them. Also, most are maps get chose by vote and not by admin intervention. So what does this mean? The general census on the server prefer to play those maps more often. I'm sure if we didn't do map voting and kept to a straight rotation lots of ppl would leave our server. Bottom line, it's nice to have different maps to chose from every now and then but those "overplayed" maps are one of the key factors of keeping server alive and populated. This fact will not change and on most "normal" servers will be the same.

[eclyps]

reasons why dust2, office, italy, and such maps are played so much on our server (pretty much any normal server) is b/c it's to help populate the server and keep it populated. it's a known fact that a lot of ppl when they get back from work/school and check for games will jump onto a server based on a few factors
1) latency/ping time (the lower the better)
2) rate of the server (who plays on 33 tick on purpose?)
3) and finally, the map
most ppl after a long day of work/school would rather jump onto a server that is playing one of those "overplayed" maps or know that it has a chance of being played in a relatively short period of time. I for 1 will not go onto maps that play 24/7 cpl fire/mill (unless i wanted to practice that map) nor would i join a server that's playing knifing maps. Not to say those servers don't have good maps in rotation but i just wouldn't log onto them. Also, most are maps get chose by vote and not by admin intervention. So what does this mean? The general census on the server prefer to play those maps more often. I'm sure if we didn't do map voting and kept to a straight rotation lots of ppl would leave our server. Bottom line, it's nice to have different maps to chose from every now and then but those "overplayed" maps are one of the key factors of keeping server alive and populated. This fact will not change and on most "normal" servers will be the same.
well put. All of these maps are voted on by the players. If the players didn't want to play them, they simply wouldn't pick them.

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and Sryden, I'm not sure of a way to prevent the custom maps from appearing during the late night, but I'll look into it.

Anyone care to comment on the new map that has been added? Is it getting many votes in game? Is it played very often?

[saucey]

Could we do something to prevent these oddball maps from being voted in between say, 2 a.m. and noon? Those are the servers slowest hours when a map like vertigo will completely destroy any population still left on. I'm not totally adverse to these maps, just don't like seeing the server slow down for them.

sryden's always a deal breaker

[mosiah]

Check out the top rated maps on the right hand side, maybe we could check one or two of those out see if they're play worthy

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maptypes/26

[saucey]

Check out the top rated maps on the right hand side, maybe we could check one or two of those out see if they're play worthy

http://www.fpsbanana.com/maptypes/26

i like a good deal of them, and would love to have some, however:

1. most of them are over 10mb, meaning the downloads would take forever
2. some maps (ie, de_corpse) are huge and have TONS of details, making even good computers get <30 fps (unplayable for me)
3. thematrix_11 is just fucking weird
4. de_wanda is fucking AMAZING but also suffers from the fps thing, except if you put r_3dsky to 0 it runs a lot better.

however, dam_facility_fixed, lost2, alps, and tropic_enhanced are really, really fun.

personally though, we should have losttemple on the server normally, not even for map of month, same with cpl_mill. most people have these maps already, and they aren't huge downloads, and are well balanced. losttemple, cpl_mill, and cpl_fire are made by the same people. their other map is also really fun, nightfever.

but then again, based on the fact that most servers, including stompfest, seem to rotate around the same 3 maps, most people don't welcome a custom map because they aren't used to it. =\ i love custom maps and hate most of the stock maps because the game gets old after a while.

[ONE]

i've not heard many bad things bout vertigo, on the contrary i've heard lots of ppl like it b/c they like the map, it's a good change, or just b/c they like playing all maps other than dust2, office, aztec, itally, basically ur "overplayed" maps.


personally though, we should have losttemple on the server normally, not even for map of month, same with cpl_mill. most people have these maps already, and they aren't huge downloads, and are well balanced.

we have these maps on the server... u just have to vote for them. i was thinking of abusing my powers one day and setting map to losttemple/mill/fire once but i refrained from such actions. maybe someday...


based on the fact that most servers, including stompfest, seem to rotate around the same 3 maps, most people don't welcome a custom map because they aren't used to it. =\ i love custom maps and hate most of the stock maps because the game gets old after a while.

this will be unaviodable due to the fact that our maps aren't on rotation but by voting and that we have RTV and votemap. it is a bit sad sometimes really that some of these other maps (cpl mill/fire, losttemple) don't get played but since it's on the server it dont' mean it'll never get played... hopefully someday.

[ONE]

bah messsd up my earlier post :(

here's the fix:

Anyone care to comment on the new map that has been added? Is it getting many votes in game? Is it played very often?

i've not heard many bad things bout vertigo, on the contrary i've heard lots of ppl like it b/c they like the map, it's a good change, or just b/c they like playing all maps other than dust2, office, aztec, itally, basically ur "overplayed" maps.

[saucey]

damn i didn't know all those maps were on the server. nice, i'm gonna have to force a rtv sometime to get them.

and vertigo_pro is awesome. it just sucks there is no minimap made for it. but i guess the minimap would be too confusing since the entire map is two floors stacked on top of each other.