The New Map Rotation

[The Mighty Gerbil]

Our old rotation is...

ctf_moonwalk_v2
cp_woodshed_b2
pl_goldrush
cp_rocket_v3
ctf_chaos
cp_steel
ctf_2fort
cp_gravelpit
ctf_turbine
cp_fastlane
ctf_mach4
cp_dustbowl
pl_dynamite2
cp_granary
ctf_impact2
cp_well
pl_badwater
cp_labor
tc_hydro
cp_badlands

I am suggesting this as a new rotation...

pl_goldrush
ctf_moonwalk_v2
cp_gravelpit
ctf_2fort
pl_cranetop_b6
cp_dustbowl
pl_hoodoo_b5
ctf_turbine
pl_badwater
cp_fallout

I am at odds with myself here. On one hand certain maps seem to clear the server even if they are official ones (badlands, well) but on the other hand if we only played the most popular maps we would be playing the same maps over and over. I suggest we keep the actual rotation lean and mean with mostly popular/new maps and have admins do map votes for some of the other maps we have (if they will show in mani without going into the rotation :/ ) . Hopefully we will have some good new maps on our next custom map night so I will change it out then to keep things fresh. The proposed rotation has the game types alternating along with the customs alternating with the official maps. <note> I am going ahead and putting this up but I will alter it if it is unacceptable </note>

 

[Luvdiscgolf]

The list looks quite reasonable to me.

 

[Tek7]

Looks good.

I say we take the rotation through its paces tomorrow for TF2sday.

 

[Elihu]

I'd have to agree Gerbil. Looks good!

 

[shadetaker]

I'd personally like to see cp_steel and ctf_mach4 in there somewhere, but othewise it looks fine to me.

I am of the opinion that we need better map voting options for when we are lacking an admin, currently the only option, or at least the only commonly used one, is rtv, and that only makes available the original maps. It would be nice to have access to our whole selection when calling a vote

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

It looks like I am going to have to alter it anyway :/. While you can change to all the maps in mani it does not let you build map votes with maps not in the rotation. I have no idea why it sees it in one menu but not in the other. I'll get back to this in a few days.

I'd personally like to see cp_steel and ctf_mach4 in there somewhere, but othewise it looks fine to me.

Me likey Steel, easily the best of the non-Valve made maps made official (and quite frankly better than some of the Valve maps too) I just figured wrong in that I could do a map vote for it and mach :/

I am of the opinion that we need better map voting options for when we are lacking an admin, currently the only option, or at least the only commonly used one, is rtv, and that only makes available the original maps. It would be nice to have access to our whole selection when calling a vote

I'll put it on the bottom of my to do list but the list is quite long already

 

[Tek7]

It looks like I am going to have to alter it anyway :/. While you can change to all the maps in mani it does not let you build map votes with maps not in the rotation. I have no idea why it sees it in one menu but not in the other. I'll get back to this in a few days.

Might be time to switch to Sourcemod. Or upgrade to the latest version of Mani Mod. It's been a while since I served as Interim Server Operator and there's likely been a few updates since I first installed Mani Mod.

 

[Bakey]

Or you guys could run a vanilla server and learn to use the few rcon commands

We have far less weird server problems that way on our server, and you only need to learn a handful of commands.

rcon_password
rcon sv_password
rcon status
rcon kickid
rcon banid
rcon changelevel
rcon sv_alltalk

etc.

 

[Tek7]

We have far less weird server problems that way on our server, and you only need to learn a handful of commands.

Trouble is, we probably have to ban a lot more people than you guys do. Christian servers are griefer magnets, so we need to be able to ban them quickly.