Poll on Kustom Kettle

[Godot]

the orange maps is the best server

no lag at all and fun as hell.



yeah and anzio is the worst standard map i forgot to mention that before

 

[SpetzNaz]

I have nothing against slipping a few stock maps into the KK rotation file, if that will help. What are thoughts on this option?

 

[Yoo-Hoo!{RD}]

I don't see the point of adding in some stock maps to the rotation, frankly. It's not like there aren't tons of servers out there already playing them constantly. Besides, custom maps and stock maps attract different crowds. Sure, having a stock map playing might lure in one of the casual players who is defiantly loyal to one or a few maps, but as soon as it switches over to a map he's never heard of or played on before, he'll just go to one of the other thousand stock maps servers.

I can't exactly picture it actually harming the server's attendance rate a great deal, but not much could at this point.

My best idea would be to simply refine the map list to fewer, higher quality maps. Let people build a rapport with a handful of top-notch maps rather than constantly cycling from random map to random map. It's a bit daunting to have a mapvote come up and there's pages and pages of map names you've never seen before. It was great when we just had the six CAMP2 maps on there. We just kept them around a bit too long.

But the problem is that tastes vary widely. Whereas some (myself included) prefer the deeper, more complex custom maps (Aura, Tunisia, Strasbourg), others prefer the Orange-like arcade maps (smallhill, Crash). Personally, when I just want to fight and not worry about tactics, I just head to the Orange server. That's what it's there for.

 

[Gunny]

DUST. that wopuld be the perfect 24/7 map. if anyone disagrees, then they are lying

 

[Blazing Heat]

Dust is on the rotation, or am I mistaken?

 

[Eire.32]

i think frist we need to see if eGO DOD is keeping the server then poll what map it should be if we are keeping the server,
Eire.32

 

[=(eG)=FooMasta-TR-]

what about 24/7 flash? im die hard with flash. nothing like it, its nice and small linear map, great to flag racing and mg's

 

[Godot]

if you wanna play 24/7 dust play counterstrike
nuff said

 

[mister blonde]

Dust seems pretty popular. Maybe you can make it a 24/7 dust map for a while to get it filled regularly, then turn it back into a rotation later.

 

[Rolling Stop]

Played on the kk server yesterday and today and a lot of the guys said they had never played the maps before (me included). The maps we played are beautiful tho. It was a nice change of pace from the usual maps I play. (Although STRAND is still like crack to me). If more people tried playing that server/those maps, I've got to believe they would be more popular. So a suggestion; if you said yes to the poll on keeping the server as is, play it more. It would be a real waste to see those custom maps go.

 

[Magnum X]

I'd say try making it 24/7 dust and see what happens.

 

[SpetzNaz]

Thanks for the input Rolling Stop... that's what I've been saying for months and months now. Over half our membership has never stepped foot in there, out of some sort of aversion to custom maps.

If people just tried them, they would realize they're not some amateur effort, and can be quite fun.

 

[Gunny]

lol, ya dust was already on it, sorry guys, i thought you meant the orange maps

 

[Godot]

maybe we can make orange_dust so we can make veryone happy