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fon|sl4y3r wrote:

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Dear fellow soldiers,
after a servercrash yesterday evening when the server was pretty populated, our new mapcycle came along with the restart. Sharqui is the first map in it.

Around half an hour waiting for players. Guess what.... Nothing.

I´ve talked to Dancer via ingame chat an decided to switch  back the "good" old Karkand. Server got around 16 player after two minutes.

So, atm, Karkand is the starting map, follwed by Oman, Sharqui and the other suggestions in the mapcycle.

Just let me know if you are not happy with this.

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Well Slayer i am not too happy about changing the first map back to karkand and the second to oman. The whole point of the descussion about the map cycle was so we could leave it be for about a week or two and see if it works.
Ok if the server crashes and doesnt re-populate, then we can change it back to karkand for the first map just to get some poeple on it. But I am truely getting fed up with playing karkand now because of these server crashes!

also why put Oman in there?

Last edited by theDude5B (2006-08-03 01:36:08)

I will change it around 12:00!!! Lets wait and see!

fon|sl4y3r wrote:

EDIT: Zatar Wetlands

ooo you are going to get some responses for that! i am happy to play it though because like i have said, i dont get to play it either and with teamwork it should be fun.

Last edited by theDude5B (2006-08-03 02:23:16)

i like Karkland but I am getting sick of it abit. Maybe because im a fly boy. But with all the server crashes, we always end up back their without getting to the end of the map cycle.  Dalian Plan fills a server quickly.  I love Dagan oil fields too.

great. let's see how people like it. We'll meet again after the weekend.

I have a dream...

PLANE ONLY MAPS FTW!

Zatar Wetlands + Sharqi (1x) out pleeeeaaaase ....
I am getting a heart attack on those maps.
We played yesterday Zatar and it's one of the most boring maps imo.
And pls check the rotation. One has to wait several maps till he (me) gets a two seated plane.

bmb|danCer wrote:

Zatar Wetlands + Sharqi (1x) out pleeeeaaaase ....
I am getting a heart attack on those maps.
We played yesterday Zatar and it's one of the most boring maps imo.
And pls check the rotation. One has to wait several maps till he (me) gets a two seated plane.

ohh c'mon leave Sharqi in it I like it !

okay, i spent 45 minutes alone on sharqi today getting the game started.  then s3nf and k30 joined up and we got the thing started.

anyways, Sharqi is a terrible map to start with!!!!!!  And this isn't just because its not as popular as Karkand.  The problem is that with a small number of people the map is incredibly unbalanced in the favor of MEC:

1) its impossible to defend 6 flags with 6-8 people.
2) MEC chopper can rape the crap out of the tv station leaving absolutely no chance to do anything there.  Also, USMC cannot return the favor cause MEC chopper spawns at uncap...how lame is that!?
3) MEC has extra APC

Usually these points don't make a huge difference on a half full sever but when you got 10-16 players playing it is god awful.  by the time the server fills up its already game over!!! 

my two cents,
soup fly

Last edited by superfly_cox (2006-08-09 12:40:31)

Nooo, I want my oman 2nd i loved it when it was Karkand and then oman their completly differant but i love them both.

superfly_cox wrote:

okay, i spent 45 minutes alone on sharqi today getting the game started.  then s3nf and k30 joined up and we got the thing started.

anyways, Sharqi is a terrible map to start with!!!!!!

Absolutely right, I tried to start a game yesterday and the day before yesterday in the afternoon, but I was not able to motivate someone to stay longer than lets say 20 minutes, the only one who did not leave after a while was Senf. I sometimes felt like an entertainer, making zombies and starting car-races (which were not very successful because of a teamkilling chopper)

In my opinion, Karkand is the best and only map to start the server. I know, some are getting bored by Karkand, but I think the situation is the following:
- Karkand is still the most popular map
- Sharqi seems to be a popular map, but superfly said why its not a good starting map
- other popular maps seem to be Mashtuur or Oman.
But when I want to play Mashtuur, all Mashtuur servers are either full or totally empty. Conclusion => similar to the situation at the moment. Oman? Well, it will be a race for the flags when there are only a few players on that large map, and not finding enemies at the field will result in baseraping.

I'm not the one to decide that, but I would set Karkand as starting map as it was before, just to make it easier to get the game started. Maybe it could be changed to Jalalabad when the patch is out, but now I believe that the given circumstances force us to either play Karkand (which I definitely prefer) or to have to wait for a long time before the server becomes crowded.

Last edited by Mike<Eagle23> (2006-08-09 13:38:52)

theDude5B wrote:

yep i have to agree with you Mr Cox.

I was one of the ones who wanted Karkand not to be the starting map because i was getting sick of playing it. But now after a week of the map changes, i feel that while the server is crashing all the time, we should maybe swap karkand and sharqui over.

So i think

Karkand
Dalian Plant
Mashtuur
Daquing
Sharqi
Oman
Songhua
Wake
Sharqi
Dragon Valley
Kubra
Mashtuur
Clean Sweep
Zatar Wetlands

Yupp - and drop the second Sharqi .....

or switch the second Sharqi and Kubra?

[edit]wtf, it's just 9!! why am I awake?? *goes back to sleep*

Last edited by kmjnhb (2006-08-10 00:06:54)