Buying XP with SpaPoints? Then again I personally hate servers that favour regulars in any way when it comes to gameplay

Ehm.. today I realised that a lot of the official maps cannot be bought via SpA points. This includes 2fort, egypt and hydro. I know there are a lot of reasons not to include these maps into the regular cycle, but I'd like to be given the option to buy them. Could that be made possible?

Egypt = dont know about that, i miss it to

egypt just has a poor design

Basically you have to build uber to have a chance at reaching the top

No, they got removed :p

Hydro = empties the server faster than you can say "wtf"
Egypt = dont know about that, i miss it to
2fort = Serious?...NO..

Last 2 times we got Hydro (and as an aside, I can buy it with SpA points so WTF?)on the server it didn't empty. That map is much maligned as it is VERY easy to rape the points if even half of the team is not paying attention. Removing maps simply because players suck is just the sme as banning classes because people refuse to adapt and play the game properly. Hydro has always been one of my favourite maps because of the variety it offers.
Egypt - as someone said above has received some TLC from Valve and is now quite a bit better - sure you can still get stuck but, as was also said above, you just build a couple of ubers and take it. Again, people failing to understand how to playthe game.
2Fort - It has its charms - I don't like it because it empties the server and has, imho, silly class limits. Also I prefer the Original Map from QW:TF, but that is a different argument...

We had Hydro in the cycle a long time, it simply kills the server.

Fair enough but you have not had it in rotation in a very long time and on the few occasions it has come up it didn't empty out. Not saying we had great matches as a lot of people had apparently never seen it before so were very confused, but there we are.

Also, its worth pointing out that many things that were deemed to "kill the server" have since been proven to do no such thing (Engies <cough>). Just saying

Not really that bothered about Hydro as I think people got sick of it anyway but Egypt surely wasn't that bad? I don't recall there being any mass exodus when it came around.

Hydro's a fun map but also a very poorly designed map that tends to only allow for 2 types of games, a steamroll where one team completely overwhelms the other, or a stalemate where both teams just end up stuck for the entire match until it goes to sudden death (the map with the death pit is rather prone to this), and sadly neither of these are particularly fun to play.

hydro... personally, i have a tendency to look back at it with rose tinted specs. it's fun enough, on occasion, but if it's in constant rotation then it gets old fast. it seems like the sort that SpApoints were made for - playing it every so often for old times sakes.

Main problem I had with hydro is that you play 3 stages 90% of the time, rest is almost forgotten. And map is really badly designed, just like dustbowl, where you fight in the same corridor for weeks before sudden death/time runs out.

I do miss Hydro though, and it would be nice to see how the new engi (and upcoming poly count weapons) fair on it.

Egypt was a good map but was pretty biased against the attacking team (though this doesn't seem to stop dustbowl or gold rush from being popular ), but the new changes supposedly made it a lot better so maybe its time to bring it back on a trial basis.

Hi all im Rj on the TF servers

i play the spa servers for a while now.

I try too link my forum with my account so i can gather some spa points, but it keeps saying wrong username or password in the console.

im wondering if you guys can help me so it does work.

thanks for your time.

Dustbowl doesnt work well at all, most of the time on dustbowl people camp in left tunnel for ages ( stage 1 ), right tunnel ( stage 2 ) or just keep spamming behind the corner ( stage 3 ) until time runs out ;]