Top 5 Maps: Community Vote to hopefully get them come up more often in the map pools

[Danimal]

Hey all,

I just want to start by saying how much I appreciate the work TeamMuppet, Flo, and everyone involved put into running this server. In my view, it’s by far the best place to play ET.

Everything below is simply a suggestion from a regular player who enjoys the server and wants to contribute something constructive.

Over the past few months I’ve noticed that the map voting pool often includes a lot of new or lesser known maps, while the most popular ones only appear every fifteen or sixteen games. As i understand it, the server currently only allows the same maps to be played once a 15 map cycle is completed.  As a result, favourites like Erden and Delivery etc show up far less often than many players would like. This can be very frustrating... especially if you have an absolute favourite and miss it.

I understand the intention behind encouraging variety and giving new maps a chance... it keeps things fresh. At the same time, I think there might be room for a small adjustment that still respects that goal....  allow the most popular maps to appear slightly more frequently in the voting pool. 

These maps are popular for a reason... they are balanced, fun, and attract players. Allowing them to be voted on more frequently would make the rotation feel more satisfying for the majority of players, while still keeping space for new maps.

To help TM think about this, I’ve set up a community poll where each player can vote for their top five maps. The maps that receive the most support would be an indication to TM about which maps could, if they were so inclined, get special treatment. Meaning they could reappear sooner in the rotation, for example by reducing g_minMapAge for those maps only. 

I spoke briefly with Flo about my frustrations with the current config and he mentioned how difficult it is to please both sides. Some players want more new maps while others prefer the classics. This suggestion aims to give both groups a fairer system.

Please vote below for your top five maps. It will also be interesting to see if there are clear favourites.

Pick the 5 maps you enjoy the most. The poll contains all 32 maps currently on the server. You can vote for up to 5.

Vote here:

https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaMY0Gg3

Feel free to discuss your choices in the thread too. Thanks in advancce for taking part. The more votes we get, the more informed TM can be about what maps people actually want to play.  Hopefully, our friends at TM will consider allowing these maps to come up more often in the map pool selection. 

Cheers 

Danimal

Edited 6 hours ago by Danimal
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[Trinorae]

While I believe this is a good idea, I’m not convinced that it will still satisfy the “play new maps” criteria. If those maps are indeed so popular, chances are they will always be voted over the “new maps”. Nonetheless worth a try if technically feasible IMO! 

[Ande]

Thanks for feedback and improvement suggestion! 

Idea itself is understandable. But it should be way that it doesnt displace "new maps" too much. Then it also can become unfun with all same maps over again.

[meanmachine]

Voted Dany! Hope it will help somehow, however this topic is really confusing, the main problem is ppl don't want play new maps bcs they don't want to learn them.

Simply It is easier to play same maps all over again day by day (that is why i play less last months)

New maps that should stay in rotation like regular maps in my opinion are:

- Haemar

- Operation

- Dubrovnik

- Oasi

 

[Danimal]

hi @meanmachine, thanks for voting and providing the feedback on the post being confusing. Let's have another go... 

Right now the server has a system where a map can only appear again after fifteen other maps have been played.

This keeps things varied. It also means the most popular maps don't come up that often. If you miss your favourite map, you might not see it again for a quite a long time.

The purpose of this poll is simply to find out which maps the community enjoys the most. If there are clear favourites, TeamMuppet could choose to let those maps appear a little more often in the voting pool. Nothing drastic, just a small adjustment that would make the rotation feel better for most players while still keeping plenty of variety.

So the poll is here to show which maps people actually want to play more regularly.