Stupid Holiday Maps

[Dr. Phil's Charisma]

Wow, this April Fools Day holiday map sucks. I mean some maps suck but this is an all-time WORST. Thank you for keeping me from playing. I hate mods.

[soup]

yes yes true

Agreed

[Edify]

Meh it's OK

[project dragon]

April Fools is meant for your convenience.

[Veloce]

now that we're back on the pub discussion, can you mods PLEASE make:

one pub with levis OK, not flag timed, private freqs OK

and then a second pub with private freqs not ok, NO levis, and then a timed game (aka a basing with no levis)..

you could alternate these between the first and second pub, but at this point i dont really care which is which, can't the higher-ups just give us an explanation of your constant adjustments to the pub settings

[Jason]

staff totally cares about you and will certainly make effort to improve your gaming experience

[Nockm]

Uhh nevermind !!

[Mootland Farmer]

Everything we (Staff) do is a catch 22. The April Fools ship settings was just for bit of fun... guess not.

Anyway, the Public system as it stands; Top Public free of any restrictions. Second Public Pure. Same as before. This just means when there's one Public open, everyone can do whatever they want. I've been experimenting having 1/5th of the team able to Leviathan in Pure Public, but you guys are just adamant to have none of that carry on. Fair enough. I'm also working on getting the RoboBots to spawn to the right Publics, 'cause they wern't before... So I apologise for the recent chaos with the bots and recycles...

[kthx]

Try pub octobase style with the levi, highest points in pub gets to play the levi.

[Nockm]

Octobase idea sounds good.


It's nice that people put in work to make festive/holiday maps but I think too many are being made just for the sake of it. I can't think of many, or any that have actually improved the gameplay - I think that's what really counts. All it ends up doing is:

1. People just don't play pub and maybe just log off.
2. People grudgingly play pub, it's sorta fun but they'd rather be basing.


Basically, what proportion of players think "Oh that was a great map, I'm really glad they did that!"? I wouldn't be surprised if the last April Fools' map gets an awesome 1% - that proportion being the map maker himself stroking his ego. Oh and that's the whole point of something being 'just a bit of fun', it's meant to be fun. I don't mean to criticize but I'm just trying help the zone here and hope you can see the constructive argument I'm trying to put forward.