Maps at "FFD Public" server

[Shone 42]

Agree with KS-OldCity, but i think that server shouldn't have more than 30 maps. 

[CaramelTaart 2]

it's maybe not the right topic for my comment but here it goes:

I hate when admins switch maps just because they hate it. wait 15 min and return, don't switch it because you can.

Edited May 26, 2016 by CaramelTaart

[kimoomik 66]

34 minutes ago, CaramelTaart said:

it's maybe not the right topic for my comment but here it goes:

I hate when admins switch maps just because they hate it. wait 15 min and return, don't switch it because you can.

i totally agree with that in other case we dont need the mapvote...

[Thomas 312]

1 hour ago, CaramelTaart said:

I hate when admins switch maps just because they hate it. wait 15 min and return, don't switch it because you can.

This is very inconvenient indeed. I will be addressing this internally.

[ZEE.WONK 133]

Reported this yesterday, It's not OK!
Had to play italy (again) so left cuz of it... Shame there is no ability to cancel the seted map xO

[kimoomik 66]

i thought u can play it only after 8 maps again? or an admin set again italy?

[CaramelTaart 2]

i think admin can set it again, 

[kimoomik 66]

yes he can, but that says not that it was played on the same server before
people switched alot between ffd and sg the last days cause of packetloss

[ZEE.WONK 133]

Admins can set it again, And it was at FFD server.

[CaramelTaart 2]

it's always on FFD...

[sp33dCore 16]

w/e the vote limit it, its awfull...

from time to time ur forced to play afwull maps,

 

i say its removed asap lmao.

[kimoomik 66]

still 12 guysvoted, looks so that people dont care about this or they cant handle this thing idk

[CaramelTaart 2]

 i think they can't handle it

[joeycracknl 50]

I think that the TOST Mapvote greatly limits the ammount of maps one can have before it becomes too much. You cant even scroll down the list, and you cant set priority different for different types of maps.

I been testing out some Map Vote mutators from UT99, its possible to disable the TOST Mapvote completely and load up a different, better map vote system.
So far i found 2 that work good, MapVoteUL and MapVoteLA.
Example of how nice map voting we could have:

MapVoteLA v1.1 (This one even works on 640x480 and 800x600+)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6eENJfjixsNTnBnSW1rNUpZRG8

MapVoteLA v2.2 (This only works on resolution larger then 1024x768+)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6eENJfjixsNQW8tbno1SXJGcWs

[kimoomik 66]

this mapvote sucks, espacilly when u have alot of maps like on ffd

[joeycracknl 50]

I find the TOST mapvote so annoying that you cant scroll, before you found the map you wanted to vote, the vote is allready over

edit:
And you can for example put Fall/Fun maps in a list, so that TO-FallFallFall only has priority of 0.5, this way you can still have those maps in server list, but dont have that example 007-Stack gets played 10x a day, as it would need more votes then other maps.

Edited June 21, 2016 by joeycracknl

[kimoomik 66]

then u have the problem that people will leave, when 10 guys vote a map and 6 other for an other and then it change to the map with 6 votes ure pissed on

[Peterie 93]

You would still have too much maps. Agree with kimo, lowering the priority will only make people angry. However, that system does look promising.

[joeycracknl 50]

Ok yea havent thought about vote priority potentially agrevating people.

But its kinda the same as people voting mid-game with higher priority then end game votes, this i beleave has lead to a Map winning with less votes, dunno about if it was on FFD Server.

For me the nicest things are ability to categorize maps on types, giving better indication where the map is, instead one giant massive list.

Also you can actually scroll with the side scrollbar, rather then clicking on it and then jumping over maps

[Peterie 93]

16 hours ago, joeycracknl said:

For me the nicest things are ability to categorize maps on types, giving better indication where the map is, instead one giant massive list.

Also you can actually scroll with the side scrollbar, rather then clicking on it and then jumping over maps

I like this part

[joeycracknl 50]

Here made a small example/concept video yesterday to preview it a bit better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cy50_aUSp0

Atleast if i was hosting a TO server, id definetly choose either of these map voter over the TOST one.
If you play on UT99 servers you notice how much more varied the played map pool is thanks to these.
 

[Thomas 312]

Looks very nice indeed.

We can implement this when the map vote results are in. If you guys could help me to make a categorized list of the maps that will remain after applying the map cleanup

[Peterie 93]

I'll put the link here again. I've heard some people still want to vote . Also Fadi voted today.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oCNHQRAEkB3SfP3sVyQb64FG2fQZO0OLbSxNBylp72k/edit?usp=sharing

[Thomas 312]

Why don't you go ahead and post it as an announcement, it will receive a lot more attention that way.

One thing to note though: because they are shown on the frontpage, I tend to try to make them a bit more visually appealing (nobody likes an ugly frontpage ), I'm not sure if there's anything like an image in this case to help with that, but at least a clean looking link will make it look more inviting

[joeycracknl 50]

I thought there be over 250 Maps in the FFD Server, this is the complete map list? It "only" 128 Maps
Imo this proves since the lack of Scrolling in the TOST Map Vote makes it hard to get a good overview, and vote properly.

There seems to be one ''main'' choice to be made if servers want to use MapVoteUL
- 4 Columns Vote Screen that works on resolutions 640x480 and up
- 8 Columns Vote Screen that works on resolutions 1024x768 and up

I still plan to test some other MapVote Mutators: MapVoteLA, MapVoteX and CacusMapVote
(Even found a vote script that is a NexGen plugin)

But yea you could order map on the Style of map (Official, Mappacks, Fun&Fall, DE+MSG etc)
Or you could order them alphabetical. I guess it depends on the amount and type of maps the server uses.