Egypt Spawn times

[vudu]

Should we shorten the spawn time?

 

[Typhus]

I'd say its fine right now, considering its almost always full.

 

[Prisoner416]

The time needs to be shortened.

I'm a regular, and this is THE most common complaint I hear.

 

[Fluxion]

Voted 10 seconds.

 

[Porkchop1414]

I say keep it the same. The default time is the standard that Valve set for 24 person servers and it makes the game much more competitive. Egypt is my primary eGO server that I play on.

 

[ModusPwnens]

Changing my vote. Leave it be.

 

[vudu]

Feel free to tell the pubs about this poll We need as much input as possible.

 

[Kek15]

10 Seconds, they cap points way too fast. I only play egypt when theres like 8 people.

 

[Activate]

Please, if you don't play Egypt regularly, please do not vote to change it. I play a lot and most of the time its full and I hear no complaints about the spawn time. Everyone enjoys the server the way it is. If you were to change the spawn time, it would ruin the game play for those who enjoy it and play it regularly.

 

[Mike?]

I play in Egypt nearly every day. On occasion a pub will complain about the spawn time but it's not really a 'problem problem' so to speak. I would reduce the timer by five seconds or so and see how the game play is affected. Worst comes to worst, change it back.

 

[sprusr]

I think this needs down. I am a fairly regular Egyptian and all I want to do is play!!

I suppose there are some tactical things in this, but I'm not really the one for tactics

 

[Kamon]

I play in Egypt nearly every day. On occasion a pub will complain about the spawn time but it's not really a 'problem problem' so to speak. I would reduce the timer by five seconds or so and see how the game play is affected. Worst comes to worst, change it back.

This guy's got my vote. Completely agree here.

 

[eurocracy]

No, it would make red team so overpowered it ain't even funny.

 

[Believer]

I play in Egypt nearly every day. On occasion a pub will complain about the spawn time but it's not really a 'problem problem' so to speak. I would reduce the timer by five seconds or so and see how the game play is affected. Worst comes to worst, change it back.

Thus.

 

[JayFlip]

eGO Egypt is pretty much the only server I play on for TF2, and I'm there all the time... and although sometimes it's frustrating having an 18 second respawn (I think it's maxed at 18, never had over that), I've gotten used to it.

If it gets shortened, it's going to get very hard for BLU to win sometimes, even with (~2-10?) second respawn. Especially in Stage 2, if there's a sentry on the cliff. Leave it how it is. It's quite balanced.

(I voted shorten to 10 somehow, I meant to vote leave at default)

 

[shadows5631]

If it gets shortened, it's going to get very hard for BLU to win sometimes, even with (~2-10?) second respawn. Especially in Stage 2, if there's a sentry on the cliff. Leave it how it is. It's quite balanced.

Which is why BLU needs to use more strategy to actually earn the win.

The majority of the time BLU wins, if you look at the scoreboard you'll notice 90% of Red was dead and in the process of the unnecessarily long respawn times. A single uber on the last point would almost guarantee a win if they were good players.

I only play Egypt when the other servers are empty during the early mornings. I don't play any other time because of the respawns. I haven't been on lately, but before many pubs would complain just as much as I would. The most frustrating part about it is waiting the entire 18 seconds and finally respawning, then you notice 2 seconds after, you lose and die again because you didn't have much of an opportunity to defend.

 

[Mobilize]

I can't help but to disagree, whenever I play egypt (which is basically every day of tf2 since it's so easy to fill) it's never, how should I put it, unbalanced.

Yes, of course it gets unfair teams from time to time but overall it's probably the most balanced server we have.
I don't know if this is because of the long spawn times, but since all the other servers we have is short-spawn'd, it might actually be a point.

Plus, why do we get such a large playerbase? There's tons of egypt servers and yet they come to ours?
I mean, it might be the mature environment, or it could actually be the, yes, spawn times.

The thing is, if we change it to shorter, as mike suggested, we might loose the playerbase.
And we won't be able to get it back so easily. Egypt is still going strong, I see no need to fix what's not broken.

 

[ShinobiSli]

I play a LOT of Egypt, and respawn times is by far the biggest complaint I hear.

 

[DeltyTheDaggish]

I play in Egypt nearly every day. On occasion a pub will complain about the spawn time but it's not really a 'problem problem' so to speak. I would reduce the timer by five seconds or so and see how the game play is affected. Worst comes to worst, change it back.

I second this vote. Egypt is just about the only eGO server I play when I'm on, if I play on any eGO at all, which I try to. I will agree that in my play time on the Egypt server, I did feel the spawn time was too long.


I say change it up, post some lookouts, and if there are more complaints of being too short, rather than too long, it can always be reverted back to its original setting.

 

[ShinobiSli]

After reading and thinking, I'm revising my vote. I voted for 14 seconds, but it might be fine as is. I've played a lot of games where defense was pretty heavily turtled in, and respawn times were the only thing that gave blu a chance.