New Maps

[DrkEagle 15]

I know the policy on adding maps that aren't Valve approved. The sucky thing is that most of the 'new' maps lately minus a few have all been custom maps that were made by map makers and Valve finally officially approved them. It's a shame that Valve hasn't taken a handful of custom maps out there and not made them official. Sometimes when I get bored I'll just public server search and check out different maps that I've never played. Sometimes, you come across a pretty cool one. Anyway, here are a few TFC remade maps into TF2.

Crossover

Epicenter

Casbah

The nice thing about these 3 is they are all CTF. Since most of the current CTF maps suck (opinion) they usually tend to kill the server when they come up: ctf_well, ctf_sawmill, ctf_xxx they could ~possibly~ be a nice addition. I remember these maps being some of my favorites too in TFC. I'm not looking for a OMG YES ADD THEM NOW TO EVERY SERVER kind of response, but something other than "no" would be cool.

It might also be a nice bump for Lotus too. I'm not sure how many other servers/communities are running these maps, but to have a big one like Lotus run them could potentially bring in some more people curious to check them out, and hopefully stay playing here. I wonder if Lotus were to possibly pick them up, us as a community testing them, maybe we could get the original map makers to fix anything we come across.

In my old TF2 community before I came here, FatGamer (that closed in late 2008) when I was invited to join the Admin team, I came up with the idea of a TFC Map Remake night on one of the servers. We only had 3 servers but we did it on a Friday night and it got a very positive response. Avanti actually got the most positive response even though it wasn't all TF2'd out. For those not familiar with TFC, Avanti was cool because it was a flag advancement attack/defent map. Red defended while the blu team advanced a flag to the capture points. Once a flag reached a CP, you move onto the next one. Here's Avantiville, someone taking their own spin on it and making it all TF2 like.

I know these maps probably have bugs, like most maps, even ones that Valve makes and releases themselves, but I think it would be a cool think for the hardcore community followers to somehow try these out on a (one, single) server and see how they go. Whatever happened to the 24/7 Manor server? I'm not looking for a custom only Lotus server, but to throw and test some of these out would be pretty cool. Anyway, I know it might be a long shot for Lotus, but, what the hell, you never know!

[DrkEagle 15]

Kinda bummed no one else has chimed in, positive or negative. Anyways, another cool map, Warpath from TFC, has been remade by a few people and it seems this guy here has done a really nice job: http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=293 There's a bunch of 24/7 Warpath servers out there. Be cool if Lotus test added it to a server.

Ive updated Warpath to Warpath2. I used two 24/7 Warpath communities to do the playtesting for this version and its been a 2 month process. Its a good version.