Thread: Server Restarts and Map Sequence

Today during the Jalalbad map the server was restarted and as usual we had to do the Oman map. That would not have been so bad but the admin didn't even return us to the Jalalabad map after Oman was over. During the first round of Daging I began to ask for admin assistance just like this "ADMIN>>>>> Can we please return to original map sequence to the point it was restarted >>>>>ADMIN". I flashed that intermittently throughout the round and through the next round and into the first round of OCS in hopes that the admin would at least respond. The admin finally responded "WARNING....AKA_LUMP6, ADMIN HERE, WHAT CAN I HELP YOU WITH" with 10 freaking tickets left on the map. I didn't even have time to type my request by the time the round ended. At the beginning of the next round I requested the Admin move the map to Jalalabad again in the same manner as before. At this point I lost all sound and my mic to the game (I am sure it was just my system glitching) and being very frustrated that the admin would not even take a second to at least acknowledge my request I logged. While I am pretty irritated that the admin didn't or wouldn't do anything and especially would not respond in a reasonable amount of time my main issue is what exactly is the standard for server restarts?

I really would like to know because if every time we have a server restarts (which is almost daily and sometimes twice a day) we have to start the entire map sequence again then I will just log out for the day. I play a ton of hours and I enjoy playing through all of the maps even though I do not like Daging and OCS (playing those maps once a day for me is enough). Can someone please answer this for me? Thanks

Lump the standard for server restarts is ANY TIME there is a situation that would have the potential to disrupt teamplay. Those instances would always be when there is a squad bug when a substantial amount of the players can neither join or create a squad. At the time there was a squad bug where less than half of one side was able to create or joint a squad. Did you miss that? It was not on our side, but the other

As far as whether the map starts from the beginning of the map rotation or it is set for the next map after the issue, it is normally set for the next map in the rotation. If one round has already been played in a map and then the bug hits at the beginning of the second round the server would not be reset for that same map as that would make it 3 rounds on the same map.

I can tell you that I restarted the server for the time you had in question and would have changed it, but I had a computer issue right after that didn't allow me to change it like I normally would have.

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Thanks for your reply chosen, I figured you guys were busy as you're (the admins) usually right on; and thanks for your (the admins) efforts.

Thanks for the explanation. I was aware of the reason for the restart (squad bug) I just could not understand why we started the whole rotation over again from Gulf of Oman. Once again thanks for the explanation and thanks for the job that you and the others admins do.

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so when's the next actual worthwhile release coming out eh !?

where's the new levels!?...

and give those poor console people these extra levels for free to, just like us pc folk!