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Thx!

I am so tired of every gawd damn server having the same old original maps in rotation,about 95% of all servers are exactly the same except for NAME and PING.

Server admins are screaming for players on their servers and cant understand why noone is joining THEIR server...
Well here is the answere: because your server is exactly like the rest of the damn servers..well maybe a bit different because you have prision map before presidio.. duuuuh.

WTF is up with this? i see talented mappers working their *** off to get some VERY good custom maps out there..do people playe them? HELL NO... why? because we have the original maps and they are soooo fun and i will never get bored of them.. uhuh not me..

I love custom maps and i hate when server admins are so afraid to add custom maps in rotation because they are scared that players are to lazy to download new maps in order to join,so they just picks another server instead.

Well since YOUR gawd damn server(that is costing you money)just stands there empty why dont you try and do something different with it?? what do u have to loose??

Here are some ideas that i think server admins should take a serious thought about.

1.Custom maps server ONLY.

2.Servers with themes: one week is only snow maps..next week is only jungle..another week is only urban maps.

3.Have a different game mode from map to map.

4.Have story maps(with some imagination): first map in order is...lets say a bank map because(pretend) that an orginasation have robbed a bank and next map will maybe be the airport or a subway because the robbers got away from the bank and are trying to leave the country..third map could be a mansion/underground facility where they managed to escape to... etc etc.


5.Go into your server ini files and change UNIFORMS to be suitable from map to map.

6.Have combat training maps ONLY.

7.Have one giant map only in rotation only with several game modes.

etc etc.. try and do something DIFFERENT with YOUR EMPTY server.

I am trying to setup a dedicated server(still some problems with router and bandwidth) but it aint going to well.and actually i dont think i need one..i could just borrow one from all the admins that have their servers standing empty...


Plz ppl..add your voice in here so that SERVER admins understand that ppl want to play custom maps.

Poll: could you consider any of the above ideas to be good on your favourite server/any damn server.






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Message Edited on 07/05/0312:10AM by MP5professional

[XyZspineZyX]

Thx!

I am so tired of every gawd damn server having the same old original maps in rotation,about 95% of all servers are exactly the same except for NAME and PING.

Server admins are screaming for players on their servers and cant understand why noone is joining THEIR server...
Well here is the answere: because your server is exactly like the rest of the damn servers..well maybe a bit different because you have prision map before presidio.. duuuuh.

WTF is up with this? i see talented mappers working their *** off to get some VERY good custom maps out there..do people playe them? HELL NO... why? because we have the original maps and they are soooo fun and i will never get bored of them.. uhuh not me..

I love custom maps and i hate when server admins are so afraid to add custom maps in rotation because they are scared that players are to lazy to download new maps in order to join,so they just picks another server instead.

Well since YOUR gawd damn server(that is costing you money)just stands there empty why dont you try and do something different with it?? what do u have to loose??

Here are some ideas that i think server admins should take a serious thought about.

1.Custom maps server ONLY.

2.Servers with themes: one week is only snow maps..next week is only jungle..another week is only urban maps.

3.Have a different game mode from map to map.

4.Have story maps(with some imagination): first map in order is...lets say a bank map because(pretend) that an orginasation have robbed a bank and next map will maybe be the airport or a subway because the robbers got away from the bank and are trying to leave the country..third map could be a mansion/underground facility where they managed to escape to... etc etc.


5.Go into your server ini files and change UNIFORMS to be suitable from map to map.

6.Have combat training maps ONLY.

7.Have one giant map only in rotation only with several game modes.

etc etc.. try and do something DIFFERENT with YOUR EMPTY server.

I am trying to setup a dedicated server(still some problems with router and bandwidth) but it aint going to well.and actually i dont think i need one..i could just borrow one from all the admins that have their servers standing empty...


Plz ppl..add your voice in here so that SERVER admins understand that ppl want to play custom maps.

Poll: could you consider any of the above ideas to be good on your favourite server/any damn server.






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Message Edited on 07/05/0312:10AM by MP5professional

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I agree 100 % with you. I have play'd all these maps to No end I want SOMETHING NEW !!

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yes. ubi should dedicate some servers for custom maps only too

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- 5.Go into your server ini files and change UNIFORMS
- to be suitable from map to map.

This is wrong...my bad...it is changable in MAP folder in the ini for every map..

If you want desert camo for red team and tan for green on lets say olsons estate map just open it up in maps folder and switch the "RainbowLightGreen" to the camo u want etc...

Hate to see desert camo guys running around on a snow map.. looks redicoulus.



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When The Platoon Map Contest II is over, you'll have plenty of new maps...

Don't worry.

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Equatis wrote:
- When The Platoon Map Contest II is over, you'll have
- plenty of new maps... that crash.
-
worry.





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The largest problem with placing custom maps on a server (and yes we did try it for a long time on 2 of the cinci highspeed servers) was related to the lack of display when downloading a map from the server. A lot of players just presumed that something had gone wrong in the connection and went to look elsewhere, thus leaving the servers empty for the majority of the time when the stock map cinci's were always completely full up.

Now with the addition of the download screen that comes up, I'm not sure it would have the same effect.

The other thing to consider is that some of these maps (namely Ziggy113's SriLanka day and night) are as large as 20+ megs. Some people just have no interest in waiting that long for a map to download and others who might be on 56k would have to be silly to let a server try to send that to them. More importantly, unless your server uses a highspeed http or ftp redirect like the cinci servers did you could end up waiting a LOOOONG time for a map that size to download since the server only allows you what bandwidth it can afford.

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You know what the bigger issue here is, speaking of MP and map variety...

It's what the community likes to play and that is one game mode and one game mode entirely: Team Death Match/Elimination/Surival.

This is what is driving the monotony of maps being played.

Meaning, there are other game modes out there -- objective game modes like Bomb, Hostage, Pilot and Co-Op... But no one plays those on a regular basis as much as TDM.

The reason this is relevant to this whole discussion is that a lot of these maps that are made don't really suit that style of play.

In fact, a good percentage of the maps coming out for MP are MORE geared toward Co-Op, Mission and objective games than just TDM (some of them are first and foremost SP maps converted to MP; the ones coming out now).

This is the real reason why there isn't a variety of maps to choose from... Because the "community" has deemed TDM the "game mode of choice" and that leaves really good maps in the dust because they don't accomodate that style of play or the author just doesn't put that game mode in.

Also, just like were were talking about on another thread... A lot of these maps are fantastic eye candy creations... But they play like crap because that is ALL they are: Fancy, realistic looking settings, but with no regard to MP computer gaming in mind as a result.