Right, been away from RO for a while but played a few rounds of Kriegstadt yesterday and it felt great, really atmospheric and intense. I always loved these sort of maps, very ambitious, epic and a proper combined arms theme. I dunno... they just feel ALOT more realistic than your average sized map.
But my problem is while this map IS getting exposure and plenty of play time (and rightly so) others havent - Mainly im thinking of Myshkova River... i think i only ever got to play that map once and loved it. Its just not on any server and when it is there on a vote list people just vote for some kind of danzig or arad rehash.
So my idea is if theres anyone out there with a good server thats not getting the traffic, and wants to be a hero, why not set up a server for 24/7 custom maps that you vote for with a poll on these forums. Change the map week to week according to the poll and then you've got a place where everyone can properly test and play the chosen map. Im sure it would be good for the mappers.. cuz on a 24/7 server people actually get time to learn the map and can then give you better feedback than.. "played this map twice and russians won both times... therefore it's ****ing pap"
Also for people who really like the whole massive progressive map thing like me (im pretty sure the market is out there.. there seemes to be a core group of people i used to see regularly on kriegstadt) it gives us a place to give the map a good run with fellow skilled players... and we could even organise times on these forums where a big group could meet up and buss the map together.
TO start with, you could have a vote between Krieg, Gorlitz(another horribly underplayed awesome map), Myshkova, Elnya and more. (im sure other people could think of more maps of a similar scale). Also, the voting on the forum hopefully would eradicate some of the really bizzare choices made on vote servers.... cuz you got time to think about it...
So, come on someone.. get it done... (preferably a Euro... purely for selfish ping reasons
)
But my problem is while this map IS getting exposure and plenty of play time (and rightly so) others havent - Mainly im thinking of Myshkova River... i think i only ever got to play that map once and loved it. Its just not on any server and when it is there on a vote list people just vote for some kind of danzig or arad rehash.
So my idea is if theres anyone out there with a good server thats not getting the traffic, and wants to be a hero, why not set up a server for 24/7 custom maps that you vote for with a poll on these forums. Change the map week to week according to the poll and then you've got a place where everyone can properly test and play the chosen map. Im sure it would be good for the mappers.. cuz on a 24/7 server people actually get time to learn the map and can then give you better feedback than.. "played this map twice and russians won both times... therefore it's ****ing pap"
Also for people who really like the whole massive progressive map thing like me (im pretty sure the market is out there.. there seemes to be a core group of people i used to see regularly on kriegstadt) it gives us a place to give the map a good run with fellow skilled players... and we could even organise times on these forums where a big group could meet up and buss the map together.
TO start with, you could have a vote between Krieg, Gorlitz(another horribly underplayed awesome map), Myshkova, Elnya and more. (im sure other people could think of more maps of a similar scale). Also, the voting on the forum hopefully would eradicate some of the really bizzare choices made on vote servers.... cuz you got time to think about it...
So, come on someone.. get it done... (preferably a Euro... purely for selfish ping reasons
)
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