An Important Announcement from Leadership

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All things are temporary, and we are playing a 7 year old video game that has continued to please. We should feel happy about that, not mourn the loss of a small part of it.
 
freshmeathead said:
All things are temporary, and we are playing a 7 year old video game that has continued to please. We should feel happy about that, not mourn the loss of a small part of it.
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Egypt was more than a small part of TF2 for those of us who called it home. It was a server in which gameplay was intense at full server capacity, and playful when less populated. We played against and with players we'd gotten so used to playing with that when they weren't on, TF2 was not as fun. I and some others would join Valve servers running Egypt when the eGO server was empty.

The map itself is unique. The map was created by a player much like us. Even the textures were custom-made. It doesn't take an artist to tell that Egypt is very detailed, containing cosmetic features, strategic bottlenecks and other gameplay-changing structures.

More important than anything, Egypt formed friendships. Regulars are infamous for even playing other games together while chatting through a TF2 teamspeak room. A lot of us that played on Egypt joined eGO because of it. I, for one stayed longer than intended because of Egypt.

I personally have no interest in finding a new server to call home. They've all really just melted into one big server that I lack interest in.

tl;dr - i aint happy bout nothin, egypt is life, egypt will always be life.
 
a baby squid said:
Egypt was more than a small part of TF2 for those of us who called it home. It was a server in which gameplay was intense at full server capacity, and playful when less populated. We played against and with players we'd gotten so used to playing with that when they weren't on, TF2 was not as fun. I and some others would join Valve servers running Egypt when the eGO server was empty.

The map itself is unique. The map was created by a player much like us. Even the textures were custom-made. It doesn't take an artist to tell that Egypt is very detailed, containing cosmetic features, strategic bottlenecks and other gameplay-changing structures.

More important than anything, Egypt formed friendships. Regulars are infamous for even playing other games together while chatting through a TF2 teamspeak room. A lot of us that played on Egypt joined eGO because of it. I, for one stayed longer than intended because of Egypt.

I personally have no interest in finding a new server to call home. They've all really just melted into one big server that I lack interest in.

tl;dr - i aint happy bout nothin, egypt is life, egypt will always be life.
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I don't disagree (with most of it). Heck, it is the only community map I have donated to. But, all this attachment is not healthy.

At the risk of starting a tangent that will get me banned, I have had some of my least enjoyable TF2 moments on this map as well. Getting rolled round after round is not fun and will leave a bad taste for a map too.
 
freshmeathead said:
I have had some of my least enjoyable TF2 moments on this map as well. Getting rolled round after round is not fun and will leave a bad taste for a map too.
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Shrug. We are derailing the topic here, but team imbalance happens everywhere. Heck, if one team refuses to build sentry guns, 2fort, the king of all stalemate maps, swiftly turns into a roll. Foundry is pretty susceptible to scout zerg rushes too.
 
I dunno, last year when we changed Egypt to Helltower it shot up in ranks. After we changed it back, the ranks remained so it stayed filled longer.

I feel like this is a good thing for Egypt, if you can put up with it for 3 weeks or so.
 
Mr. Monday said:
I dunno, last year when we changed Egypt to Helltower it shot up in ranks. After we changed it back, the ranks remained so it stayed filled longer.

I feel like this is a good thing for Egypt, if you can put up with it for 3 weeks or so.
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^This guy. Stop overreacting people, it's not like we're definitely losing Egypt forever.
 
I don't mind discussion or mourning for Egypt. I know what it's like to have your favorite server get the axe. (We have not said this is permanent yet).BTDT, don't want the t-shirt. Let's just be sure we keep it respectful and don't allow it to spiral into negativity or arguments. There's been far more than enough of that here over this topic and at the end of the day, it doesn't resolve anything.

That said, we don't know what will happen to the fate of Egypt after this. All I know for sure is that it completely tanked in the rankings, despite all of our best efforts, despite all the love the Egoptians have shown, despite server filling by the FFTF, The Summer of Sand and everything else we have tried, so maybe this will pull it back up and give our community something fun to do. My heart hurts for those who called Egypt home who are saddened over this but it's not personal at all.

The server went from monthly Highest 1353rd to Lowest 2564th and just keeps bleeding red. Despite months of trying to resuscitate it, the results are just not there. Holiday themed maps are always fun so we decided this would bring some life back into things for now, allow people to get their achievements and all that. Then, we'll work out what to do next when the time comes.

I do respect all of your feelings and this is not a decision I take lightly. The time has come, however, to at least try something else for awhile.

<3
 
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Mr. Monday said:
I dunno, last year when we changed Egypt to Helltower it shot up in ranks. After we changed it back, the ranks remained so it stayed filled longer.

I feel like this is a good thing for Egypt, if you can put up with it for 3 weeks or so.
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A concise version of what I was just saying. hehe
 
I love casting spells. Makes things interesting when I can jump to inaccessible locations as a Sniper or go invis as a pyro.

Further derail, it looks like there will be a special 2014 Halloween, which I assume we will run on Egypt or would we replace another map? If we plan on running two Helloween servers, can we consider a vote or rotation for the Egypt/Helltower server? I love Mann Manor.
 
If egypt is gone for good... I just hope we get an equal or better map to replace it.
 
Please enjoy the holiday spooks for now and Fear not! we will be sure to have something awesome to share in the coming weeks. Never say never as ghosts have been known to return in this place. As the saying goes...they always comeback, they always do. :D

Put your best cosmetics on and start taking screenshots. There may just be some exciting news coming from the EC team something along the lines of tricks and treats!
 
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