The Elders' House of Pain

Server Forum => Team Fortress 2 Pub (72.5.152.147) => Topic started by: Luggage on February 22, 2010, 09:11:32 AM

Title: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Luggage on February 22, 2010, 09:11:32 AM
Has been a long time since we played it.

May be a good change of pace if we added it with a short time limit and only 2 rounds total per rotation...
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: SConforti on February 22, 2010, 11:14:34 AM
I'd be more interested in populating the server.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: crazydog on February 22, 2010, 03:09:45 PM
I'm with Scon.
If fastlane will help populate the server, I'm for it, but if we're gonna have a max of 8 people in the server the entire night...
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Giant Flying Head on February 22, 2010, 04:00:06 PM
Fastlane is BAD for populating the server! Any of the "in-line" CP maps are. Maps that get people to join are PL maps! Switching to Goldrush almost always gets enough people to join the server.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Taso on February 22, 2010, 05:51:18 PM
Nah
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: SConforti on February 22, 2010, 06:23:43 PM
Where has everyone gone?

Luggage, if the server populates we can change to fastlane.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Luggage on February 22, 2010, 06:35:45 PM
sounds good
will be on tonight...hope to see you guys there...
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: SConforti on February 23, 2010, 04:35:16 AM
I was on until 9 and nobody was on.  Cream came on and we played refuge for a while then I went to bed due to boredom
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Giant Flying Head on February 23, 2010, 05:08:51 AM
We need Smurfette back. She single handedly brings the people in.....
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: crazydog on February 23, 2010, 09:08:28 AM
It filled up last night, but only for 1 map (dustbowl). After that, the king of the hill map REALLY emptied the server.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: SConforti on February 23, 2010, 01:39:15 PM
What time were you on?
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: crazydog on February 23, 2010, 02:25:50 PM
From what people told me, about half an hour to an hour after you left, for a couple of hours.

Can someone remind me why we got rid of rtv or map votes? From my experience playing on and running fame servers, people largely favor being able to vote for a map to play, rather than being forced to play in a specific sequence.

Even just adding a map vote at the end of each map, and not having rtv or nominations, would moat likely improve the server population.

(please excuse spelling. Types on iPhone.)
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Mustard on February 23, 2010, 03:32:55 PM
We got rid of it a few months ago cause what kept happening is we kept having to play the same maps over and over again as new people rotated onto the server and voted. So maybe we just played Hoodoo two maps ago, well the people who just got into the server don't know that so they pick Hoodoo and we're back to it. It gets annoying.

RTV would be nice though.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: crazydog on February 23, 2010, 03:45:02 PM
Well then whoever set it up didn't know what they were doing completely. Sourcemod supports blocking a certain number of previous maps from being in the vote, or from being nominated.

I think 1) Enabling map end votes 2) Blocking the previous 5 maps played, 3) Enabling RTV and 4) Enabling nominations would be a good thing to do. If the only complaint was maps repeating, we can increase the amount of blocked maps.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Giant Flying Head on February 23, 2010, 04:50:47 PM
Well then whoever set it up didn't know what they were doing completely. Sourcemod supports blocking a certain number of previous maps from being in the vote, or from being nominated.

I think 1) Enabling map end votes 2) Blocking the previous 5 maps played, 3) Enabling RTV and 4) Enabling nominations would be a good thing to do. If the only complaint was maps repeating, we can increase the amount of blocked maps.
I second this idea. I don't mind changing the map for people but RTV is always an easier way to find out what exactly everyone wants to play. People seem more open to RTVing then saying what they want to an admin.
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: Luggage on February 23, 2010, 04:52:02 PM
this is a great idea; I'll put up a vote
Title: Re: Any interest in adding Fastlane to the rotation?
Post by: crazydog on February 23, 2010, 05:08:36 PM
Off Topic:
TF2 server has been updated to the update from 40 minutes ago.;