Payload Changes

[Goyan-Tanuki]

As discussed at the Admin Roundtable, we the TF2 Leadership wanna know what the division thinks of doing to our Payload server to help increase it's popularity and use. Should we turn it into a 24/7 Upward, a 24/7 Badwater, or just remove unpopular maps? Just vote in the poll of what you would like to see in Payload.

We look forward to your feedback!

- TF2 Leadership

 

[Bryan]

On behalf of Idol, I vote for 2fort.

 

[Shiznoe]

I love my upward baby! But I may want to just remove un-popular maps

 

[Nether]

Badwater is dabes

 

[Wronskain]

Remove:

Nightfall
Pipeline
Barnblitz
Hoodoo

Those seem to be the maps that have a hard time staying filled

 

[IceGladiator]

Remove:

Nightfall
Pipeline
Barnblitz
Hoodoo

Those seem to be the maps that have a hard time staying filled

Exactly, 24/7 maps are awesome, however finding a great rotation that works is even better.

 

[DeeLuxxed]

Oh lord, I've been wanting a 24/7 Badwater forever! I absolutely LOVE that map. Wouldn't ever get off.

 

[VP :3]

Upward.

 

[Fistacles]

Dear god. Badwater. :O Badwater is amazing.

 

[spearf]

I would say remove unpopular maps for awhile and if it does not work we should do a 24/7 map but we should still try to give payload a chance

1) BarnBlitz
2) Nightfall

 

[Puke-N-Snot]

Enough already please ! You've already removed CP rotation 'cuz it wasn't hitting some magical #. We now have 5 24/7 isn't that enough?

Some of us desire some Map variation with out having to jump to a different server, changing Payload to another 24/7 would leave us just with the Valve Maps server.

 

[BooDDEAD]

Badwater would be cool, but not sure if the people who regular play Payload would like that.

 

[Super-Nova]

Remove the suggested maps like hoodoo and pipeline and barnblitz, or really anything PL, and then replace everything with HYDRO!!! Or just removed the suggested 3 maps from the lineup.

 

[Kazoo]

Enough already please ! You've already removed CP rotation 'cuz it wasn't hitting some magical #. We now have 5 24/7 isn't that enough?

Some of us desire some Map variation with out having to jump to a different server, changing Payload to another 24/7 would leave us just with the Valve Maps server.

It was discussed by the admins at the roundtable that Payload is not a popular server, regardless of its ranking. In fact, Valve Maps is lower than Payload, but most people would agree that it is harder to fill Payload.

I love rotation servers much more than 24/7 servers. I understand your want to keep the rotation server, but people have expressed interest in a 24/7 <insert payload map> server even before the roundtable.

Badwater would be cool, but not sure if the people who regular play Payload would like that.

If you know Payload regulars, let them know about this poll!

 

[Fluffy]

Badwater and Upward? So hard ti choose from.

 

[Jawneh]

Between Badwater and Upward the latter has kind of grown on me. So I went with Upward.


If there's a too close of a tie between then I'd go with a Badwater/Upward server any day.

 

[hEY]

Puke has a point. Having too many 24/7 servers sucks, and I'd much prefer we find a good rotation. So.. if we could whittle down the basic rotation so that it's always rotating to a standard popular map with all the other ones accessible only through rtv, that would be cool.

OR keep access to all the servers through rtv, but just allow us to nominate any map whenever, instead of forcing us to choose something else because it was "recently played". That way, if we just happen to fill upward, it won't prevent us from nominating badwater just because the rotation happened to pass through it earlier. Or whatever.

Maybe you need to do both. I support Wronskain's list, except maybe we should keep Barnblitz?, even though it hurts me to play on that map.

 

[Nether]

Snip

I agree with this when you have to many 24/7 server's there isn't as much variety on a whole maybe we should just make a better rotation than there currently is.

 

[Wize]

omg omg omg omg omg. Two of my favorite maps! @_@_@_@_@_@_@@

 

[Exegguru]

If Payload Rotation is converted into a 24/7 map server I would prefer Badwater over Upward.

If removing unpopular maps is considered then I would suggest removing the following:
Nightfall
Pipeline
BarnBlitz
Frontier
Hoodoo