Server 2 map rotation discussion and suggestions

[Elmo147]

Im gonna have a rant.....

Playin tonite on the server, got 30 people in on Jabal with Duen Dong next..

Next map loads and its been changed to Operation Marlin 64p layer..

Server dies to 19 people when a skirmish map and a 2km map were skipped.. i thought we had logic and map lists for a reason..

If players want it changed, and not allowed it, ahy should it be changed without a mapvote?

/rant

[sabre19]

Yeah didn't quite understand that one myself, next map seemed ideal for the numbers.

[mo0nbuggy1]

Get rid of jabal and Dong

[sabre19]

Even though Marlin did turn into a pretty good round thanks to some overseas numbers.

[Bahlye]

Sorry for the unannounced change.. but

"Marlin did turn into a pretty good round thanks to some overseas numbers."

Doubt that would have been the case if it had been left on Dien Duong.
And at that time of the night you usually lose a few on map change regardless of whats next.


There was a method in my madness

[Usavish_Rabbit]

can we put those 2 winter maps on rotation? just crave for some new maps. and Any1 know when new version or new map pack are gonna release? hmm seems not in the current schedule.

[1GeKKo3]

Can you please try and add this rotation for tomorrow night....if possible....cheers

just leave gaza as the seed map, rather than al basarah like last week.


maplist.append gaza|gpm_cq|inf
maplist.append asad_khal|gpm_cq|inf
maplist.append operation_marlin|gpm _cq|inf
maplist.append karbala|gpm_insurgen cy|inf

[1GeKKo3]

will the map list in my previous post be up for tomorrow night by any chance?

[Noddy]

8 Ball says "Outlook good"

[1GeKKo3]

Originally Posted by Noddy

8 Ball says "Outlook good"

sweeeeeet....cheers guys!

[1GeKKo3]

not sure exactly how it works....but is my list from last week still in the rotation that can be switched to easily? if so, is it possible to get gaza up first?

[EvilRooter]

Gaza shuffled to first up in rotation on Server #2.

Gekko, what was your maplist from last week and was it for #1 or #2?

[1GeKKo3]

Originally Posted by 1GeKKo3

Can you please try and add this rotation for tomorrow night....if possible....cheers

just leave gaza as the seed map, rather than al basarah like last week.


maplist.append gaza|gpm_cq|inf
maplist.append asad_khal|gpm_cq|inf
maplist.append operation_marlin|gpm _cq|inf
maplist.append karbala|gpm_insurgen cy|inf

this is it rooter...on server 2. It maybe that you have got to that maplist.

thanks for switching it for me on short notice...hope to see you in there

[EvilRooter]

Gekko,

Got it, but not 100% I have the right layers for you.

maplist.append gaza gpm_cq 16
maplist.append asad_khal gpm_cq 16
maplist.append operation_marlin gpm _cq 64
maplist.append karbala gpm_insurgency 16

[1GeKKo3]

all good. thanks again for sorting it out.

[1GeKKo3]

maplist.append fallujah_west|gpm_in surgency|inf
maplist.append asad_khal|gpm_cq|alt
maplist.append assault_on_mestia|gp m_cq|inf
maplist.append silent_eagle|gpm_cq| std

new maplist for wednesday night....was trying to add a vietnam map too, but they don't appear on the all maps list in the first post of this thread...cheers

[Saltbush]

I might be out of line here - given I'm not sure which maps cause mass abandonment by players, but it seems we play a very small subset of the overall available maps - most nights it's Fallujah West, Al Basrah, and Jabal. This is backed by the Gametracker stats.

There are dozens of other maps - any chance of upping the level of variety? I'm conscious that the job of managing rotation is a painful one, and appreciate the admins' efforts, regardless.

[Pudgeinabowl]

It's because seeding the server is a long, slow and painful process, and so we tend to play on the maps that bring in the most people (who's going to join a 5player Burning Sands game?). If on the occasion we hit a large enough player count to play on the larger maps, we're already in a match, restarting/random map changes tend to lose players, so we're stuck playing whatever map came up, and then after that round it's normally bed time for a quite a few players, and we have to head back to the smaller maps.

[Saltbush]

Understood Pudge, but we could use skirmish versions of some of the lesser used maps yes? EG Quinling? Not that I'm enamoured with skirmish.

[Noddy]

I agree with Saltbush that small rotations are not good as they limit the choices available restricting the admins to be responsive to the playerbase.

Large rotations with a mixture of maps and layers combined with !mapvote / admin discretion is the best approach imo.

Additionally I think vietnam should be avoided until it's part of the core build - have seen it kill the server too many times due to people not having the mod.