Suggestions to Fill The Server - Ideas from the front lines

Bazer_Punk · January 27, 2012, 10:30:13 PM

City and other close combat maps seems to be the thing, the big open maps almost emptied the server

Tutonic · February 06, 2012, 09:41:16 PM

I popped on for a quick game tonight.

Seine Crossing - Fab.

Metro - Oh dear. Who chose this? Dreadful map, it emptied the server.

Gone_Away · February 06, 2012, 09:50:50 PM

Quote from: Tutonic;343763Metro - Oh dear. Who chose this? Dreadful map, it emptied the server.

Are you serious?? Metro is the map that fills the server up in most cases.. Nice to see you again....

Sparko · February 06, 2012, 09:55:19 PM

We seemed to get a lot of people join on Friday when metro was on, its a good map but can get a little hectic, but its the fun hectic :boxing:

DannagE · February 06, 2012, 09:58:59 PM

Got to admit, metro has been one of the best maps recently on the server. Really enjoyable

Snokio · February 06, 2012, 10:27:47 PM

Is it possible to add a few more maps to the rotation please, as good as some of the maps are, they start to tire fairly quickly and second time

Tutonic · February 07, 2012, 09:00:47 AM

Quote from: Ninja_Freak;343765Are you serious?? Metro is the map that fills the server up in most cases.. Nice to see you again....

On Rush it's tolerable, but on Conquest it quickly turns into a hellish chokepoint spam fest. I do not enjoy

And yes, it totally emptied the server last night.

Chaosphere · February 07, 2012, 05:02:13 PM

Quote from: Snokio;343772Is it possible to add a few more maps to the rotation please, as good as some of the maps are, they start to tire fairly quickly and second time

Couldn't agree more!

More city maps, even if that just means different versions of the current maps! For example, we played a small conquest on Seine Crossing yesterday, and it worked really well! Played very differently to the larger version, was good.

Also, lord knows we don't want to mess up the preset again, but is it possible to remove the killcam and stay 'normal'? Just a thought...

TwoBad · February 07, 2012, 07:17:22 PM

Quote from: Tutonic;343797And yes, it totally emptied the server last night.

To be fair, quite a few dMw players left when this map was about to start but that was due to the time, not because of the map. This map IS one of the best to seed a server.

Quote from: Chaosphere;343838More city maps, even if that just means different versions of the current maps! For example, we played a small conquest on Seine Crossing yesterday, and it worked really well! Played very differently to the larger version, was good.

Yep, as it was requested i put Seine Crossing Conquest Small on. However, we only had 10 or so players on at the time so it worked but i think (could be wrong) this is a max 32 player map so it could cause an issue if it was made permanent(?).

The current map rotation is:

Operation Metro (Round one)
Seine Crossing (Round one)
Grand Bazaar (Round one)
Teheran Highway
Operation Metro (Round two)
Seine Crossing (Round two)
Grand Bazaar (Round two)
Operation Firestorm
Kharg Island
Caspian Border

What other "City" maps would you like? Remember we had decided to steer away from the DLC maps for the time being in an effort to fill the server more often.

Chaosphere · February 08, 2012, 02:38:50 PM

The small Canals worked really well last night I thought.

If we're adding maps into the server, shouldn't we change the name from metro/seine/bazaar to something just mentioning 'City Maps'?

Also, just an observation, plenty of very busy servers have an increased ticket count and 1 player starts, mentioned in their names... something to consider?