[Poll] Enable map voting on weekdays

[Blue shark]

Hello everyone.

Some of you may have noticed that the map vote option has been enabled on weekdays for quite a few weeks now as a trial. The idea behind this change, aside from repeatedly being requested by some of the regular players, is to make it possible to better sustain the server population by providing a more customisable game experience for days which see lower activity.

We would like to ask you to cast your vote on whether you would like to keep this feature enabled or disable it again. You can of course, if you're so inclined, also provide your own opinion on the matter by leaving a post in this topic.

You may have noticed there are two yes options, one for enabling it from Monday to Thursday and one for enabling it from Monday to Friday. This is because Friday occasionally sees enough activity to have a go at the full map rotation and while it is not part of the core weekend it is somewhat weekend adjacent which is why it makes sense to offer a broader and more refined set of choices.

If a majority ends up voting in favour of this change, the map vote will still be disabled on the weekend as to provide a better chance of having a go at playing through all the maps, with the numbers to sustain such an undertaking. It would also be possible for admins to temporarily disable the map vote option if they felt the voting got too excessive.

If a majority decides to reject the proposed change, we will revert to completely disabling map voting again.

Please note that this poll only concerns itself with the map vote feature that comes with the game, the alternate method of having an admin collect the votes in the chat will remain available every day of the week, regardless of which way this poll goes.

Looking forward to all of your votes and hopefully some discussion around the topic.

 

[TKO_Flight447]

Can we vote to remove some modded maps all together instead?

 

[.BR.IRON MAN]

Come on, everyone! take the opportunity to vote. Don't let this poll close without your vote.

 

[TKO_Flight447]

Nobody is voting because this isn't a change people care about.

We want better map rotations, without the extreme amount of mods on once good vanilla maps. Almost every map now seems to be an air map. On normal weekend player count, there should be no modded Irving or Ia Drang maps. It kills what the essence of this server is being Allmaps. The fun and nostalgia is playing the original maps as they were designed, not a spam fest of random helos and jets added.

 

[HeiligWahrheit]

I disagree, people care. People were leaving on unpopular maps. So two changes have been made:
- Modded versions of unpopular maps, where players left the recent years (like Ia Drang/Irving)
- Map votes (Either by admins like it is now or by the map votes this poll refers to)

 

[Blue shark]

Nobody is voting because this isn't a change people care about.

We want better map rotations, without the extreme amount of mods on once good vanilla maps. Almost every map now seems to be an air map. On normal weekend player count, there should be no modded Irving or Ia Drang maps. It kills what the essence of this server is being Allmaps. The fun and nostalgia is playing the original maps as they were designed, not a spam fest of random helos and jets added.

You are of course entitled to your opinion but that's a separate issue and having map vote enabled has been a recurring request by a lot of regular players and the map rotation has recently been revised to provide a more balanced mix between air and ground maps. Besides, even if the modded maps were something that a lot of people complained about (which I don't see being the case) these things aren't mutually exclusive, meaning for now we'll focus on the map vote issue and this topic is only meant for discussion pertaining to that so let's try to keep it on topic, please.

We've also recently found a way of patching the server to increase the cooldown time between votes so if everything goes according to plan map vote spam will no longer be an issue in the future and in the long run we could even consider enabling map vote permanently (again, only if a majority of people agreed this was the right thing to do)