Thread: Map Rotation

What happen to the old map rotation one day it was fixed and great. The next day it turns to the crappy map rotation... And I'm trying to see if there was a vote I missed since TPG makes votes for BF2 maps each month and its not like TPG to change the rotation half way through the month without the rest of the tpg community knowing about it....

the map rotation on tuesday was 100% better than Current Rotation....

Wednesdays rotation was horribly one sided....I decided to stop playing because the opposing team wasn't putting up a fight and it wasn't as fun as I hoped... I'm a guy who gives players a chance to grab a flag and make a game of it... but when one team is down 100 tickets and they are at there uncap dodging tank rounds and bombs then ya its just not TPG anymore...

I'm basically asking if TPG can put a vote up again and fix the problem ... I just don't see this rotation lasting very long...

The rotation changes so everyone at some point in time can play the maps they like. Some like myself like wake yet it doesn't come into play until 1 or 2 in the morning. So really there is no problem.

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Plus one.... Gulf of Oman, enough is enough ! i would like to see the City maps first,it is the best way to atract european players on the server,everybody loves city maps ,just look at infantry only Karkand servers always full ,day and night

me personally would like to see road to map be used as a priming map....

And thanks dex for explaining the problem.. I just thought someone wanted to play idiot and mess with the rotation....

But yeah wednesday was just horrible..From what dex said the server never was restarted and there goes the priming mission because it was on that one sided quarry map...As much as I love to base rape I rather have the opposing team actually try to get flags and keep them so that way it makes our Special forces squads alot easier to take out the assets and become a bigger pain in the ass...

I just hate the fact that the opposing team were just taking the rape in there uncap and they didn't have a flag to even get off the uncap..you guys got to admit if the other team is struggling with getting a flag and can't even get off there uncap do you guys think maybe tpg needs to do something about it.. map wise?

Agreed infantry maps are one thing that will keep the server dead. No one wants to hang around and wait for enough people to start a game when you have nothing to goof around with.

I agree with the infantry maps would be bad to prime with.. One thing that seems very obvious to me is that we have the same player base night after night at the same times. Thinking that changing the map rotation or the priming maps to change the player base just isnt going to happen.. This game is dying.

What if we had a vote on the top 7 maps and we played those maps more than once in the rotation? The thing that sucks about the rotation now is we play the same maps at the same time every night and to be honest most of the time it seems to be alot of peoples least favorite maps that are being played when the server is full..

I mean come on can we not figure out that having clean sweep and stale mate come up every night, night after night during the popular hours just isnt working?
So far with the new Rotation every time I play I usually play clean sweep(I've been disconecting and coming back after its done) stale mate and kubra dam every night. I havent played sharqi in a long time and havent played road to jalalalalalalalabad with a full server in a long ass time too..
To me it seems, that we get 90% of the same people playing at the same time every night so the priming thing is kind of a moot point.. we need to make sure we are playing more of the popular maps during the popular times.. I think the easiest way to do this and keep a full rotation server is to put some of the more popular maps( the ones that will bring in fresh meat) into the rotation more than once. If your gonna play clean sweep during the populated times then lets play a popular map before it and after it and not have a boring map even close to it. I keep hearing and reading of this full rotation buisness and thats awsome I personally love that but when was the last time anyone played a full rotation of the maps on TPG? lets keep it full rotation but lets make sure we are playing the good maps when the server has full population I think this could help the server out more with getting new players or at least keeping the ones we have playing.

Originally Posted by dex71

The problem is that we have tried the infy maps as primers......and they don't work for shiite. It has been proven many times over that the only effective maps to prime with are ones that have toys (jets/choppers) and uncaps.....like Oman and Dragon Valley (which has also been tried too many times to count). It seems like nothing we try works out nearly as well as Oman (which, btw is another EXTREMELY popular 27/7 map globally). My biggest beef with it is that on a full server,Oman is a fun map, and it has to be used as a priming map.....but it is the only one (around these parts) that we have had any success with. It's not that we aren't willing to try different things, it's that many of the suggestions have been tried,and proven to not work nearly as well.

You've probably tried it hundreds of times already, but I've seen Dalian Plant used with lots of success before.