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Metaguardian
15-05-2008, 12:29
GET YOUR ****ING SERVERS OFF ****ING DOTF 24/7.

I don't give a damn if this sound blunt or rude or obnoxious. All you are doing is perpetuating the DOTF 24/7 phenomenon and it is really killing the mod. People are long since tired of playing DOTF every ****ing time they want to play a game on Open mode and not FA mode. And because your stupid servers are on DOTF 24/7, all the new players to Mb2 are getting brainwashed into playing DOTF 24/7 and thinking that this is the way Mb2 is meant to be played. IT ISN'T. There are loads of great maps out there, not just DOTF. I'm bloody sick and tired of seeing mb2_dotf on the server list again and again and again and again. And every time I go on the abysmal dotf servers, it's always 'zomg let's go main, zomg let's do honor duelz in the gen, zomg let's try and camp throne, zomg lets spam something! zomg dotf!'. It's terrible.

So to all you server owners out there, GET RID OF DOTF 24/7. Let's go through you all:

AOD Pandemonium: For the love of God, you guys were the ones who evolved the DOTF 24/7 concept from being a mere novelty to being the phenomenon it is now. When I interviewed Dakorian for the tournament interview, he claimed that AOD is a 'great map because there's so many ways to play it and it's a great map'. Agreed, DOTF is one of the best maps in Mb2's history, BUT NOT FOR 24/7 PLAY FOR FOUR BUILDS. You also told me that 'we would put AOD on a rotation but we are scared that after DOTF 24/7 for so long, people won't come to our server anymore'. Well how about instead of being scared cowards who are scared of change and scared of anything other than your little DOTF 24 hours, 7 days a week, how about you take the initiative and put it on a damn rotation. Trust me, if people somehow can stand that idiotic admin called KidA, they'll still flock to your server even if it's on a rotation. Hell, you'll find loads more players coming back there if they see it's on exotic maps like OMG corellia or even better TATOOINE or LUNARBASE or let's be really really deviant and play KORRIBAN!

NS Mb2 server: Your server is disgustingly laggy, but people still seem to go there. What's your excuse for having DOTF 24/7? When your server first came up it had DOTF 24/7, why keep it that way? Why not put it on a rotation?

Elite Warriors Mb2 server: Your server is exactly the same as all the rest. DOTF, DOTF, DOTF, DOTF, DOTF, DOTF. Why not do something interesting and put it on another map once in a while eh?

Rogue Squadron: Wow, I really do admire you RS. You stand as the bastion of light! The torch shining some sanity in the face of the darkness and misery that is DOTF 24/7 on 99% of all other servers. You have a rotation of DOTF AND lunarbase!:eek: What I love is how the server fills up on Lunarbase and when it switches to DOTF everyone whines and says 'damn no dotf again'. Isn't that clue enough to all you idiotic server owners out there? The people want LESS dotf and more CORELLIA, THEED, KORRIBAN, TANTIVE, TATOOINE, DEATH STAR, COM TOWER, DUST 2, PRISON, MOUNTAIN KEEP, and the list goes on and on and on and on.

And while we are on it, what the hell is with this new idiotic obsession with Jedi Temple duel on Open mode. I have no idea what crack AOD were smoking when they decided Mb2_duel_jeditemple would be an awesome map to have 24/7 on AOD perdition. I mean honestly, out of ALL of the mb2 maps why the **** would you choose something as stupid as A DUEL MAP. And now Rogue Squadron has followed the trend and put up Jedi Temple duel to their 3 map rotation. It's bloody pathetic.

Other villains include MB Universe, IS server, and the list goes on. The only servers that actually have a rotation and get people are the Full Authentic 24/7 server (the FA mode/map rotation concept that WE went out and split our blood and guts to make popular), DG server, dV[8] server and a few other randoms.

So to reiterate. STOP WITH THE DOTF 24/7. It is killing the mod and anyone who begs to differ is a fool who is burying their head in the sand and pretending nothing bad is happening to the mod. For all of you servers who have maps on DOTF 24/7, TAKE IT OFF DOTF 24/7 and put on a bloody rotation. Over the next few weeks I am going to badger you all on your forums, on your xfire, and in-game because I for one, forgetting of course most of the mb2 community who I'm sure agree, are SICK of playing the one map ALL THE TIME. I love FA mode, but until new maps get released it is somewhat limited at the moment. I want to play Open. I want to play all the wonderful maps that are out there. So does the other couple of hundred Mb2 players.

Please, PLEASE, take your servers off DOTF. It isn't hard, just set a new rotation. If all of the major servers did this, you would have another renaissance of Mb2. Don't be lazy bastards. Don't be scared little cowards. Don't be selfish server population hoarding brats. Do something for the good of the community and for the good of the mod.

PS: I know this is expletive-ridden and hell I might even get banned for this post, but someone needs to say it, seeing as the rest of the community doesn't have the guts or the willingness to take action.

MAS
15-05-2008, 12:41
Emo! 6characters

Metaguardian
15-05-2008, 12:46
How about you have a rotation that starts off with DOTF and then have about 5 or 6 good maps like the following:

DOTF
Lunarbase
Corellia
Theed Streets
Star Destroyer
Korriban

And the rest is up to you. Other great maps are Prison, Tantive, Dust 2, etc etc.

omegacloud
15-05-2008, 12:46
Rogue Squadron: Wow, I really do admire you RS. You stand as the bastion of light! The torch shining some sanity in the face of the darkness and misery that is DOTF 24/7 on 99% of all other servers. You have a rotation of DOTF AND lunarbase!:eek: What I love is how the server fills up on Lunarbase and when it switches to DOTF everyone whines and says 'damn no dotf again'. Isn't that clue enough to all you idiotic server owners out there? The people want LESS dotf and more CORELLIA, THEED, KORRIBAN, TANTIVE, TATOOINE, DEATH STAR, COM TOWER, DUST 2, PRISON, MOUNTAIN KEEP, and the list goes on and on and on and on.

And while we are on it, what the hell is with this new idiotic obsession with Jedi Temple duel on Open mode. I have no idea what crack AOD were smoking when they decided Mb2_duel_jeditemple would be an awesome map to have 24/7 on AOD perdition. I mean honestly, out of ALL of the mb2 maps why the **** would you choose something as stupid as A DUEL MAP. And now Rogue Squadron has followed the trend and put up Jedi Temple duel to their 3 map rotation. It's bloody pathetic.




Actually our rotation is as follows

Dotf (it is the best map)
lunarbase
cloudcity
jeditemple_duel
kamino



We have these maps because WE like them as a clan, not because we want to folow or please others.

Ty

Metaguardian
15-05-2008, 12:47
Actually our rotation is as follows

Dotf (it is the best map)
lunarbase
cloudcity
jeditemple_duel
kamino



We have these maps because WE like them as a clan, not because we want to folow or please others.

Ty

As it stands, Rogue Squadron is the only American server with some semblance of a rotation that gets players other than FA 24/7 server. Although JT and Kamino duel are really stupid on open, it's worth it having Lunarbase and Cloud City on rotation at least.

Aéró
15-05-2008, 13:56
I think every Mb2 map deserve it to be played by us ,there are enough Dotf 24/7 servers.And playing Dotf all the time would be boring after a while .Some servers need a change ,they should bring in some Cmp or Movie maps in the rotation! (just a propose)

Palin
15-05-2008, 13:58
How about you have a rotation that starts off with DOTF and then have about 5 or 6 good maps like the following:

DOTF
Lunarbase
Corellia
Theed Streets
Star Destroyer
Korriban

And the rest is up to you. Other great maps are Prison, Tantive, Dust 2, etc etc.

All these are good maps except Star Destroyer, SD is boring.

UL-532
15-05-2008, 13:59
Meta, it really is pointless to complain on the forums. I guarantee that most of the server owners of the servers you specified don't come here. We all know DOTF 24/7 is one of the biggest problems with the mod, but in reality about 80% of players don't care either way, they just want to play.

Whining about it here won't do any good.

Metaguardian
15-05-2008, 14:01
If you read my post, you'll see that I stated I'm going to try and take action myself. I'm going to speak to many of the popular DOTF 24/7 server owners as I have them on xfire or know their forums. I'll give it my best shot at convincing them to give rotation a go on their servers.

Entity
15-05-2008, 14:03
How about you have a rotation that starts off with DOTF and then have about 5 or 6 good maps like the following:

DOTF
Lunarbase
Corellia
Theed Streets
Star Destroyer
Korriban

And the rest is up to you. Other great maps are Prison, Tantive, Dust 2, etc etc.
Tried, noone seemed to care about maps other then dotf, people left on corellia, either becouse of not having the patch or simply not liking it, the majority thinks lunarbase sucks ass obviously, not to mention theed which isn't played at all @ europe, and noone's up for playing "that retarded huge map which blows". As for Destroyer, crap fps. Korriban, a welcome change, but not to be played in rotation by opinions of many.

GoodOlBen
15-05-2008, 14:04
As long as there are people who don't really need any sort of variety and just hop onto the DOTF 24/7 servers they've frequented for ages, we won't see all the servers going away from the DOTF24/7 approach.

There's really no solution out of DOTF that doesn't require a massively massive bulk of players to actually choose a noncrowded nondotf server over a crowded dotf server.

As long as I can always go play on DG server and have it fill up in a matter of minutes any time I please, I'm fine with others wallowing in their giant hamsterwheels I like to call DOTF24/7 servers.

UL-532
15-05-2008, 14:07
If you read my post, you'll see that I stated I'm going to try and take action myself. I'm going to speak to many of the popular DOTF 24/7 server owners as I have them on xfire or know their forums. I'll give it my best shot at convincing them to give rotation a go on their servers.Trying to reason with 12 year olds is like trying to reason with a suicide bomber to not martyr himself because it'll stain the carpet. While I agree with the thesis, going all Michael Moore on them won't help.

ACiDuS
15-05-2008, 14:10
I'm going to speak to many of the popular DOTF 24/7 server owners as I have them on xfire or know their forums. I'll give it my best shot at convincing them to give rotation a go on their servers.

Good luck with that, its clearly the way to go and I hope you manage to change people's minds on rotation.

However flaming clans or servers on the mb2 forums is pointless and is just gonna make more work for mods when the people you rant at reply in kind.

I dont disagree with your underlying point, but you're clearly in the middle of a hissy right now, so I suggest you take the day away from mb2 forums to calm down and get a little perspective. (at the moment its a suggestion, make another rant thread and it wont be).