Is It Possible That The Addition Of Koth/ctf Is Detrimental To Stock Servers

[ghandi! 0]

Generally I, as well as other people have a distaste for CTF/KotH maps on the stock servers. When ctf_turbine or ctf_sawmill comes up, people usually wait their 10 minutes until they can RTV it, only to have some other donor votemap to KoTH nucleus, which puts us right back to ctf_sawmill after a 10 minute waiting period for rtv-ing out of nucleus. The solution? Take them out, and put them on a seperate server. People will still go to a 24/7 stock ctf server if it has the Lotus banner on it. Also, a 32+ people on a Koth map is way too much. The maps were made from a small arena based map, only for 14-16 people max, I can see maybe viaduct being the only one as the exception. Take it into consideration. I'm sure a few other people on the forums agree with me as well as a few other Lotus members.

[+Henry Spencer 117]

Sorry bro, a Stock rotation is not going to change.

[Spartan_0214 18]

True, Henry. However, atm we do not have KOTH maps on Stocks servers. I don't know if/when they're going to be put back on there. And BTW, the Stock Maps regulars normally keep the maps on pl_Badwater, cp_Steel, cp_Dustbowl, pl_Goldrush, and ctf_Turbine. We tolerate some maps, but others, such as cp_Egypt and pl_Hoodoo (pl_Pipeline is pretty much a non-issue since practically no-one votes to it and if it's next in the rotation a mapvote elsewhere gets started), either see people leaving or get mapvotted away from. CTF_Sawmill is soon to become another map in the latter category.

[+Henry Spencer 117]

What? Unless Mana removed them like... today, I played KoTH Sawmill last night with Miyari on Stock 2.

[Spartan_0214 18]

There's a very good chance that KOTH will make it into the Stock Maps servers because it comes with the default mapcycle (which is what we have used for the stock servers since the begging). I removed them for now however since I'm not at home and I can't see how those maps play out.

Might just set all KOTH maps to use a 20 minute map cycle and go back to using Valve's default mapcycle.

You sure you weren't playing ctf_Sawmill? Or maybe Mana removed KOTH maps from just Stocks 1...

EDIT: Linky

Edited August 19, 2009 by Spartan_0214

[+Henry Spencer 117]

Wasn't there an update on the 17th? That would've added them back into the mapcycle with the update.

[Spartan_0214 18]

Probably. Didn't think the updates would affect the rotation tho.

[+Henry Spencer 117]

I could've sworn the servers update themselves to look like the master server, so yeah, anything removed would automatically add itself back in. Since Mana deleted the maps on the 15th and the update dropped on the 17th, they should be back in all rotations. You might wanna check Stock 1; you may not be seeing it because nobody wants to go there when you're playing.

[Spartan_0214 18]

\Wonders if there's an option to have a server update its map rotation or not.