Dustbowl Rush

[Jing 0]

First time posting here but Ive been on the lotus servers for awhile now. Been rocking the 24/7 dustbowl servers. Dont want to sound like Im complaining but theres only one thing that really bothers me on the server. Its the heavies and or medic rush's. Basically you get one of three things. A huge amount of heavies, a bunch of heavy/medics (like 4 or more) or 4 or more simultanious ubers. And with the respawn timers set to as they are, most times by the time you respawn the whole other team is at the second cap already taking it. Its worse when both teams are doing it to eachother. The other night I just kept getting swapped back and forth between teams because the auto balance was going haywire. I dunno what a fix would be its your servers so Im not gonna demand you change anything but its something to look into cause other people do what I do. Simple quit the server and go play somewhere else for the rest of the night.

[Bombz 31]

I wouldn't be opposed to class limits, but that probably turns away as many people as it does appease.

As for heavy rushes with medics, that's usually down to team work. Most often teams that specifically all go heavy/medic are the teams that communicate and work together well. I'm not sure. I do think that the heavy/medic combo is a combo that requires the other team to play a certain way to counter, or you'll lose. But I don't think lowering respawn time is the answer. That's what I love about lotus in comparison to how no heroes was. It was terribly hard to capture 3rd stage sometimes. Defense would respawn in 10 seconds. It's still hard even with default timers if the teams are balanced.

[Krash 1,040]

Just do a votescramble, seperate those people. Unless they're donors then you're shit outta luck.

[Jing 0]

Well like I said auto scramble doesnt change anything, cause people get sick of losing so they start these rushes so they can always win. Like I said it was just a suggestion to look into it. Im no stranger to just picking up and moving to a different server like Nemu's Stomping Ground. Its just that Ive grown fond of Lotus since leaving No Heroes, and it just seems when these rush's start its playing more to the respawn timer than a teams joint effort. Cause lets be honest when you rush in with three uber'd heavy medics its incredible difficult to defend against. Granted yes you can say that too is a teams joint effort but it when it gets repetitive (on both teams) it seems more like class abuse. But if no one wants to look into it then oh well I'll keep doing what I do, no biggie. Its just a game after all. I just thought I would suggest looking into it to help improve the gameplay on the server.

[Bombz 31]

Well like I said auto scramble doesnt change anything, cause people get sick of losing so they start these rushes so they can always win. Like I said it was just a suggestion to look into it. Im no stranger to just picking up and moving to a different server like Nemu's Stomping Ground. Its just that Ive grown fond of Lotus since leaving No Heroes, and it just seems when these rush's start its playing more to the respawn timer than a teams joint effort. Cause lets be honest when you rush in with three uber'd heavy medics its incredible difficult to defend against. Granted yes you can say that too is a teams joint effort but it when it gets repetitive (on both teams) it seems more like class abuse. But if no one wants to look into it then oh well I'll keep doing what I do, no biggie. Its just a game after all. I just thought I would suggest looking into it to help improve the gameplay on the server.

Yeah I agree with the scrambling part. The scrambles don't really work well. Donators are typically pretty good players of the map/gamemode of the server they've donated to so to exclude them in balancing usually means that the better players are the ones immune from it. Class rushes can be fun so in that respect it'd kind of suck for class limits, I don't know. I think the stacking thing does exist to some extent though. What I do is just play offense, because I find defense boring. I started doing that as of a week or so ago. It hurts the stats but I don't care. Defense is just boring. There are some players though, who like to swap to 3rd stage defense and further stack it. Kinda getting a bit OT I guess.

Only thing I wish I had to lotus chicago was a better ping and an admin team would be nice, but other than that it's pretty cool.