Please take badwater off

[Isnipe]

it's just bad...a lot of times half the room leaves when the goldrush server rotates to that map

 

[B-Wreck]

I like badwater... in small doses

 

[Isnipe]

lol i wouldn't mind it every once in a while either but it pops up to frequently on the server for my tastes

 

[koolaid]

this is one of those questions about adding a server and getting rid of it but its doing good actually yeah sometimes its empty but its full most of the time so just give it sometime

 

[B-Wreck]

I JUST joined the goldrush/badwater server... it had 31 people in it on Goldrush.. then it changed to badwater and it went to 14... then the defending team went from 7-5-2-0 and then it was empty

 

[Isnipe]

even i am cheating on the server since the server is empty most the time i end up playing on the OG because it doesnt go to badwater and is full most the time

 

[Anthemjack]

I liked Goldrush better, I don't tend to play it when it changes to badwater anyway, plus I never get on the servers at times.

 

[Bugen]

Wow, I did not realize badwater was on the goldrush server too now. They may both be payload maps but they play very differently and should be kept separate.

 

[Dare]

I prefer Goldrush too, only Badwater once in awhile. Maybe just vote on staying at Badwater? Or maybe like every five games it switches to Badwater.

 

[Vainiac]

I don't think badwater is having as much of a negative effect as you think based on the player stats
http://ego.hlstatsx.com/?game=tf
There was no real significant player decrease that didnt rebound when badwater came on.

Isn't the reason it was put on there in the first place was because goldrush was tanking?

and on a personal note, badwater isnt bad its much more balanced than goldrush has ever been

 

[Magic Toast]

I think voting within the server could do the trick. Switch to Badwater if players want to

 

[Shard]

Yeah I agree, voting would definately help. I really enjoy Goldrush, but I cannot stand Badwater.

 

[DarkElfa]

I think it would be a good idea as well to remove that map. It just doesn't have the playability that it should.

 

[Snuffleupagus]

I'm with Vainiac on this one. I'm not really seeing a definite trend from the data on the stats pages as far as people feeling Badwater is a bad map and deciding to leave. Sometimes when a game ends and the map changes people decide to take a break, or that they feel that particular moment would be a good stopping point or a time to switch to a different map type. I know I do that quite a bit. I'll play a payload round and then switch to a ctf/cp game depending on what's open. That said, I like Badwater quite a bit. It offers a payload game with different tactical options and without the bad bottlenecks that Goldrush suffers from. Basically, the stats are still looking decent for the server, and there could be a multitude of reasons why the server may seem to drop a bit during a map change, some of which are map independent. I'm sure we'll here from an O on this soon, which is probably where you should've aimed your complaint at to begin with.

 

[Badfish]

I loved Bawater when it first came out but nowadays a don't seem to play it much. I didn't even realize it was on the goldrush server. Think i might go play it for awhile now

 

[Isnipe]

well before when it was just goldrush the room was pretty much full everytime i joined. then when badwater came along it started to drop and i could get in right away. and now half the time the server is completely empty

 

[B-Wreck]

Badwater is easier to distinguish the really good players from the bad because it's considerably bigger... basically my meaning behind this is because a solid team can make alot of the other team leave thus emptying the server... Goldrush does require teamwork at certain points in the map, but since Badwater is so large I think the teamwork can be harder to come by sometimes. But all in all, I do like the map Badwater in small doses... I do prefer Goldrush over Badwater majority of the time.. but all in all Turbine > Both of them! Hoora!

 

[Snuffleupagus]

Since school is in full swing, it's to be expected that server populations during the day may be lower than they were during the summer. Besides that, individual server populations can swing up and down in the long term without any detrimental effect overall to the server. Give it some more time.

 

[Isnipe]

well that explains the empty half the time part because i forgot our district added a fall break and tagged two extra weeks to our school year