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Roofuz - have you downloaded the map pack? You said you had to wait one hour at first... =)
Ah - sorry, I see now. Rapidshare was giving you problems. ^^
A few additional words from me.
So far the attendance rate is pretty good and everything is working fine HOWEVER I'm very, very annoyed by some people who start to whine about a map after like 5 minutes because it's new (remember when you first played TF2? Did you know all the maps like, genetically or instinctively?) and hence they don't know it or are too dumb or stubborn to learn it properly. I don't have the time to argue with everyone on the server, so please, please post the comments HERE where they can be evaluated properly - it's not that your opinion doesn't matter, quite the opposite, but there's a time and place for everything and we won't be tracking in-game comments, especially ones that have no merit to them...
One example. cp_science - it doesn't matter what I or anybody else thinks about this map BUT a certain player, let's call him esOb (he, he) spent like the whole map whining on the voice-comm because he couldn't find his way on it even though it has HUGE FUCKING arrows (I have screenshots - they change dynamically, by the way), labels and even dynamic map signs!
Another thing is that Valve will probably release custom maps in the next class pack - perhaps even one we prepared on our servers, who knows - and then suddenly everybody will praise them. Wow! New maps! Valve is awesome! etc.
Guess what - cp_badlands, ctf_turbine, cp_fastlane - they all started out as custom maps but now everybody takes them for granted as standards (well - turbine might be an exception). How did they become so good? So widely accepted? Through hours and hours of tweaking and testing and because people seem to like things coming directly from Valve...
The Custom Map Weekend is meant both as a fun alternative - remember you STILL have 2 other European servers and one USA server running only standard maps to choose from - AND a way of testing the maps so they may be made available in the SpA-shop. I have bent over backwards to make the weekend an enjoyable experience. I found a map rating plugin so that the player opinions can be easily kept track of, we have a forum topic, I have tested DOZENS of maps both on custom map servers and solo (e.g. to test running times on CTF maps), compiled a fucking map pack with an automated installer and spent literally several days to prepare it all. You can already see that ctf_moonwalk didn't receive high ratings and guess what - I expected that because the lowered gravity in the center is a controversial feature BUT it might have been deemed awesome by many people, especially since the map is very polished, so it had to be tested. On our server it seems to have become instantly hated so it'll most likely not make it into any SpA-shop, map cycle etc. There, your opinion matters to us!
Trust me, if I hadn't picked maps that were at least SOMEWHAT playable, visually attractive and in my opinion needed further evaluation to confirm their value or dismiss it on our servers then you wouldn't believe what shit you would have had to wade through if I had e.g. picked maps at random - there are so many truly awful projects out there and I was forced to play on some of them so YOU wouldn't have to...
Hence - please excuse me if I'm kind of sensitive towards whining players etc. but I want to play on all the maps with YOU and TEST them, not listen to or argue with some people whining like 2 year-olds in a sandbox, especially if they can simply rate a map with a low score, post something on the forums or join Server #2 and Server #3 and play cp_dustbowl or pl_goldrush some more (not bad maps by any means but some players, e.g. me, get bored if they are played too often!).
Appreciate the time both I and demm have invested in this event and don't spoil the fun for some players. I mean - if you look at the ratings it becomes apparent that not EVERYBODY finds certain maps THAT bad and it's only due to some especially vocal and whine-y individuals that they become virtually unplayable for the team (at least for me - I get annoyed very quickly).
You WILL get silenced on the server sooner or later if you stay on it and only bash the map all the time instead of leaving or posting on the forums. Most certainly if I'M playing at the same moment...
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