TOPIC: Map Change/Addition

Ezeh wrote:
This is completely true and I agree, playing downtown gets old, and theres really only 2 places that provide a good basing location in my opinion (ele and warehouse), most other buildings are super small and the map is small itself. New players get dragged into these little small bases because the two big ones are taken most of the time, and they get raided instantly and lose the printers/items they had down and ultimately get upset because they cannot do anything. Rockford and Evocity are huge maps compared to downtown and they have way more bases and a I personally wouldn't care if air drops, drug runs, the casino, and events were taken out of s3 for one of the old maps to come back.

I also feel like another interesting thing to add is that not every map *needs* to be equal. People will complain that it's not equal to server 1 or server 2, but if you put specific things on separate maps then you're likely to get a good balance of players playing on both maps. As it stands, all you're really saying is that

1) You want American players to have a server they can play on too without a high ping. Now, I never heard that many players complain about this. Hell, I get a high ping on certain days. I think it's just down to connection and the like. Of course it helps when you have American servers, but a lot of the time, a good portion of players stick to Server 1.

2) You want an experienced, capable, trusted mapper to come aboard like Patrick to assist with a new map if there was one to be made - as Patrick is currently very busy. Understandable, but if that's the case, and this is an extreme solution - why not think about hosting a booster or donation event to hire on a temporary mapper to design something? Of course that carries with it the problem of having to pay them to design the map every single time you want to update it for a season or something.

3) You believe that you'd have to strip the other map of things like airdrops, casino, drug runs, etc.
Again, understandable, but some players are legitimately willing to make that sacrifice and come online to the main server to do those things if they want to.

I stick to my guns here when I say how vital it is that people are given a say in these things. If we had a post from you guys laying out some viable map options, we'd vote, and we could go from there. At least it's a start, right?