Hi, I was wondering if you guys also thought maps like Goldrush, Badwater and Upwards are played way to much on the 2 All Maps servers. A payload map like those will almost always win in the vote, and that while people are complaining about the lack of players on the LZ Payload server. This might just be me being a whiny faggot about maps I don't like, but its really frustrating to see a constant Goldrush>Badwater>Upward rotation on the servers while the Payload server itself stays empty... And I want more Egypt
This kind of topic comes up every month or so. We offer everything in the vote, we can't help it that our players choose the payload maps. All you can do, is get your friends and other regulars convinced that they should vote something else.
But what use does a Payload server have then, and isn't it possible to increase the amount of time a map takes to become available in the vote again?
That's just the players choice. Lethal Zone offers all maps servers and a payload server. If people don't like playing on the payload server but still vote for payload maps on the all maps servers, then that's the players' choice and not LZ's fault. If it's not broken don't fix it, during daytime and early evening most servers are filled every night, so people are apparantly happy with the current mapvoting. It's like Killvion says, try to convince other players to vote for the maps you like. Not to be a dick or anything but the mapvoting isn't made for you to decide what map to play, there's about 20 other people who vote for the map they want to play too
Payload has the most popular maps, and is the most popular type of gamestyle in TF2 too. That is why.
I guess Payload maps will become the new 2fort then... I still wonder why a Payload server is necessary when at least one of the All Maps server always has payload game running. I'd say a CP server would make a lot more sense but people have opinions I guess. And encouraging player to vote for another map seems to have the opposite effect most of the time :?
If you would have been around longer, you would have know that we did several attempts. We had a Stock maps only server (So Dustbowl, Goldrush, Hydro, Gravelpit, Fastlane, Badlands etc) Nobody played on it. We had a CP only server. It never filled up We had a "Pro Server" (No crits and 5cp only). Even worse than the previous ones. I'm sure I'm forgetting more. Point it, we tried and it never worked. Feel free to donate a server to LZ and configure the mappool to your likings, but I don't think it would be useful to try again. Unless you can get an army of atleast 40 friends together that would play on the CP only server on a daily basis, like Ziano did for the Arena server.
OK, so to say it shortly: no way to stop Payload fever. Never mind then, but in my opinion, Payload maps are way to linear, boring and full of stack and steamroll. And people should try something different. But yeah, opinions :roll:
You're definitely not the only one in that. However the group that shares your opinion isn't large enough I'm afraid.
I tend to vote for badwater and upward but do not like goldrush. If gravelpit is in the vote thats my first choice. Thing is thought I've played way to much competatively lately so I just rage at a team not playing the Capmaps according to what I normally do. Also, maps like 5cpgorge can be removed, keep the original one. Koth Viaduct works, harvest doesn't. Well also have a tendency to drain server as dustbowl quickly fills up. I for one would LOVE more bazzilion. It is a map that has everything for everyone. If people could just realise that there are some pretty sweet maps to play out there. And yeah, increasing the time it takes for a map to come into the vote = problem solver. Then some of the others would at least stand a chance.
ahum, as their leader i want to point out... :badgrin: i agree will work something out on AM1 where i'm testing the new vote system
This night on AM2 We did plr_nightfall, Badlands, Steel, Well, Granary or somethign like that. No goldwater in sight.