Add Pl_Barnblitz To East Coast Payload Server Rotation

[Nano 7,892]

Please consider it!

Thanks,

~Pro

[pockets 1,841]

While we're making suggestions... Is there any way to have a few more servers with payload race? I know it's not the most popular among players, but I need more Hightower in my life.

[Nano 7,892]

How dare you hijack my thread!

J/K I need moar hightower too

[Willerms 1,794]

I LOVE PAYLOAD. Srs, easy targets are on the cart

[Nano 7,892]

So, just because I'm kind of persistent.

According to tf2 stats, pl_barnblitz is the 15th most liked map in the game, and comes in as being twice as popular as hoodoo_final. If the only resistance on your part was that it might not be popular enough, maybe now you'd be willing to reconsider?

http://tf2stats.net/map_list/

To be fair to pockets, Hightower comes in at #11 as well.

In a perfect world we'd drop hoodoo final (which isn't bad, but isn't great) and add hightower and barnblitz!

Thanks for considering!

[Mana 3,867]

It will probably get added. And hightower is not a PL map, but rather PLR. So maybe we'll get a PLR server.

[Nano 7,892]

It will probably get added. And hightower is not a PL map, but rather PLR. So maybe we'll get a PLR server.

This brightened up my day way more than it should have since this is just a video game.

[Zaythi 157]

While you are working on adding the map. Any chance they could rotate through all of them now? Instead of time based or vote based to change, just rotate each map after 2 rounds. 1 round on blue team, 1 round on red team, then swap to the next map. Never sticking on a map more than twice. While I would love to see the new maps and stay on them a while, this would bring a good change to the servers. Never getting used to a server or never letting it get old.

[Mana 3,867]

While you are working on adding the map. Any chance they could rotate through all of them now? Instead of time based or vote based to change, just rotate each map after 2 rounds. 1 round on blue team, 1 round on red team, then swap to the next map. Never sticking on a map more than twice. While I would love to see the new maps and stay on them a while, this would bring a good change to the servers. Never getting used to a server or never letting it get old.

Map changes make people leave. It would be the most ideal to do them as little as possible (extend is the first option due to this). This is also the reason why rotation servers are always far less popular than 24/7 single map servers.

Changing after 2 rounds is a pretty bad idea and would make it really hard to fill up the servers.

[Barbaro 466]

Didn't you use to have a server running Hightower? PLR is quite fun, I remember playing it on a Lotus server...

[Nano 7,892]

Because I'm a nerd my calendar reminder just told me to follow up on this .

(don't judge me)

[IceSage 58]

I'd most likely play on a Playload Race dedicated server if one was created. It's my 2nd favorite official game mode. Currently I have to go to No-Heroes for my Payload Race experience. Their servers are cool and all, but sometimes I want to join a map that doesn't have 30 mp3s downloading to play after all my dominations.

[pockets 1,841]

I think the time limit on the map rotation is perfect the way it is. However, I don't see any reason not to add a little more variety to the pl map list. Barnblitz and Thunder Mountain are both very popular maps. I know when I want to play a particular map that lotus doesn't provide I go to the internet servers and type in pl_bar or pl_th.

I'm sure plenty of others do the same, and it would be nice to have some lotus servers listed. Thus bringing in new players.

[Mana 3,867]

I think the time limit on the map rotation is perfect the way it is. However, I don't see any reason not to add a little more variety to the pl map list. Barnblitz and Thunder Mountain are both very popular maps. I know when I want to play a particular map that lotus doesn't provide I go to the internet servers and type in pl_bar or pl_th.

I'm sure plenty of others do the same, and it would be nice to have some lotus servers listed. Thus bringing in new players.

Barnblitz is not a very popular map. Far from it. At primetime right now there's a whole 6 full servers with it out of around 4000 total.

Nevertheless all payload maps have been added to the rotation.

Now is a good time to show us that variety is infact good for the server.

[Nano 7,892]

<3.

I hope the metrics at least add a few new ones!

EDIT: So far so good!

Barnblitz was essentially full for over an hours worth of play when I just logged on.

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