Where do we go from here....

[Shake N Bake]

I've had this question brewing in the back of my mind and wanted to hear what you guys think on this....


Where should we go with our servers? Should we go with the vanilla (regular maps like 2 fort and turbine), or maybe a flavor we haven't tasted yet? Maybe we should devote a server to just orange maps, or a Saxton Hale mod. Or maybe even prop hunt, what I'm trying to say is that Vanilla is good, I mean its how valve wanted us to play, but would TF2 be as fun if we didn't have all the user generated content? I wanna hear what people think on this. What would you like to see in one of our servers, Should we go with the contemporary or the outlandish. Should we stick to what we know or what we haven't tried.

My thought is maybe we should have a event to testing out maps like orange ones or maybe even just try MODS like prop hunt or Saxton Hale, or zombies. See where it goes if its bad hey we learned something, if its good we got a new event ether way we win our admins learn more about what is fun for our servers and breaths new experience into our servers thus bringing new people in.

Plus we get a chance to try and break the event server, and who doesn't wanna break stuff huh?

 

[HalfDeadMarine]

Personally I really enjoy just regular maps and matches. Its all the fun of hardcore gaming without the hardcore in it ^^

 

[Roker]

It sounds like a good idea in theory but these types of servers don't always work out, wacky game types are always fun but they don't tend to keep servers full. I know in the CSS division the zombie server eventually lost its popularity and had to be changed to something else.

Other than the fact it my be hard to fill I actually support this idea because the trade server isn't really fun to be on unless you're looking to trade something. eh

 

[ModusPwnens]

give it to css. We need more jail.

 

[Toxxin]

Most of those sound more like things that happen at events and such. I think its highly unlikely any mods like prop hunt etc will be a permanent addition to any server, only thing that may change is the type of map. BTW last I heard one of the latest updates broke the Saxton Hale mod.

 

[PhsX]

I enjoy the classic maps; but I wouldn't mind if eGO had a little more flavor in the servers: I do enjoy payload race games, as well as arena. While I realize arena is probably the least popular gametype, I still think having two 2Fort servers is unnecessary. I would not mind if one was replaced with Turbine/Payload Rotation.
On another note, I know the events server is listed as a trading server when not in use, but I've never seen anyone in it. Perhaps that server could return to being events and payload (or turbine, etc)?

 

[Kevimaster]

My thought is maybe we should have a event to testing out maps like orange ones or maybe even just try MODS like prop hunt or Saxton Hale, or zombies. See where it goes if its bad hey we learned something, if its good we got a new event ether way we win our admins learn more about what is fun for our servers and breaths new experience into our servers thus bringing new people in.

Plus we get a chance to try and break the event server, and who doesn't wanna break stuff huh?

Sounds like a good post for the dropbox!

Also, unfortunately there is a problem with testing out many of the mods. Last I checked (a week or two ago), Saxton Hale mod was broken by an update and wasn't working, may have been fixed, but even if it was the Saxton Hale mod actually contains content that is not eGO appropriate and we cannot remove so we will not be putting this mod on any of our servers. Prop Hunt requires a very large amount of server resources, its also not something you can simply turn on and off, every time we want to turn it on or off we would have to get a Division Leader or above to come in, shut down the server, manually enable the mod, and then restart the server with the mod turned on. At the end of the event they would have to come and do it all over again except in reverse. As for Zombie mod, thats one we will consider, I'm not sure its working with the recent updates though, I'll check on it.

As for actually changing any servers, Leadership does not currently have any plans to make any major changes to the servers. If you would like to request/suggest a server change, please direct your post to the dropbox, thanks!

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-Kevi