On a late Saturday afternoon, trying to get the server populated, why knowingly insert the Midway map (not in rotation) which cranks up little interest or action, then after that...let the rotation continue with the equally slow Iwo Jima modded map (another non-action packed map)?
I set Midway yesterday after while we played Aberdeen yesterday, since we were out of rotation why not stay out of it for a little bit. Yes, there weren't as many players as I hoped there to be, but it's a change of the same old same old maps we play everyday. If we don't go out of rotation we get negative comments and if we do we get them as well... We hardly ever play Midway as much as some of us (including me) would like to, then we get to play it once every 2-4 weeks and we get complaints. Sometimes we just wanna play something different, be it Midway, Aberdeen, Guadal, Bulge etc. Ofcourse we would like to have a full server, or at least 40+ most of the time; Midway might run slower with 20ish players but at least we can play it. We already have some ideas on how to get some more action in Midway.
Maybe insert the Midway map when it's crowded already, but why knowingly insert such a map (ships, planes, subs, landing craft, sea flags, torpedo boats) when trying to grow the server population that day? It didn't. Along with the lack of action in the next map (modded Iwo Jima)...the server was down to 8 vs. 8 in no time.
We had about 25-30 players when Midway was set. I set Bocage after Midway, because it was my bedtime and I guess at the time there was no other admin to skip Iwo after Bocage.
Is there a Saturday rotation or something? Replace Midway with Gazala. At least you spawn in Gazala without waiting for a ship to spawn in Midway. This past Saturday afternoon was brutal. The spawning ships on Midway got taken out of action repeatedly within mere minutes, by 3 pilots over and over again...for 40 minutes. Needless to say, it was baaaad! Haha.
No, saturdays have the same rotation as mondays through fridays. I thought of Gazala, but I usually don't like to set it if we're not over 30 players. Midway started of okay though, I wasn't too happy either with the one sides shipspawn being raped by mostly naval vessels =/
Modded Iwo Jima is a map that soooo needs taking out of the regular rotation, for awhile.
I'll ask for Iwo not to be in rotation coming week.
There needs to be more mods attending,
Please elaborate what you mean with that.
or at least, some @players who can change the freaking map when the server resets.
The @nickplayers. Whatever happened to that concept? Weren't they supposed to be trustees or something? Given just enough power to move a map forward after a reset?
I'll settle for a 3rd warning point and more @players.
I believe you mean the ®Regs. They were never able to do anything like kicking/banning or setting maps, they used to help to educate players and as the explaination explains they were/are ambassadors on Moon. The Reg thing kinda died off in the years, with the game dieing and people moving on.
