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Team Fortress 2 - The Official Discussion Thread

Most custom maps are instant server-killers. I'd advise against using too many. People clear out as soon as they see a map download or name they don't know.
 
Resum said:
Also does anyone want more 3 point cp maps like gravelpit and do they know of any other than glacier and furnace. (and i've never played glacier before)
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The only other one I know of that's been considered for competitive use is cp_silvertrail but it seems to be relatively unknown at this part. When talking about potential maps for the upcoming ESEA season, furnace was mentioned more than once but silvertrail never came up. I'd recommend against putting it on the map rotation.
 
I'd be up to messing around with 6v6 tonight with you guys.
The issue is that I end up missing when people are actually playing, despite Kiku's prompts. Reason being is that I leave steam on the gaming system while I spend time on my laptop, so a steam message isn't much of a heads up.

I'll try and keep an eye out for the server having a few people!
 
One issue we were having is that map voting starts when there's a minute left on the map, and sometimes games end with two or three minutes left on the clock meaning that people don't get to vote on the map. This is a problem when the next map up happens to be a custom that nobody cares to stay around for. Resum said he's fixing it so that map voting starts with five minutes left instead so hopefully this shouldn't be an issue in the future.

How does everyone feel about scheduling events to get more people on the server? Scheduling group events for Friday evenings telling people "Join the server for some badlands action" might help to remind people of its existence, hopefully after that people would stay to see more of the map rotation.

I myself will be leaving tomorrow and I can't say for certain when I'll be back, but don't expect me any earlier than August 18th (I might pop in before then but in all likelihood my activity would be directed at the forums, not the server).
 
Create an Unofficial Smogon.com steam group perhaps, so you can schedule events via it and have everyone in the group notified?
 
A lot of the arguments leveled against the Sniper here have revolved around an 8v8 game. I'd be curious as to what was said when this was switched up to 12v12.
 
Sunday said:
Create an Unofficial Smogon.com steam group perhaps, so you can schedule events via it and have everyone in the group notified?
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Like this one?

Several outsiders have commented on the server's name. Could we possibly get the blessing of the administration to remove the "unofficial" part of the server name?

Also, now that we have a server I think it would be good to do two things: edit the thread title to mention that we now have a server, and add the following to the beginning of the OP:

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We now have our own Team Fortress 2 server!
68.232.172.173:27015
If you have Steam running, you can click here to join (clicking this link will launch TF2 if you don't already have it running)

It's a competitive-themed server, so it has 16 slots and runs mostly push maps.

Join our Steam group so that we can pester you with announcements to join the server when we get a game joining!

Here's a list of the maps in our rotation. (You can automatically download the custom maps from the server when you join, but this list also includes download links for people who want to install them ahead of time)

cp_badlands
cp_granary
cp_well
cp_fastlane
cp_gravelpit
pl_badwater
ctf_turbine
arena_lumberyard
arena_sawmill
cp_freight (which is not the same as cp_freight_final)
cp_follower
cp_waste
cp_furnace_b3
cp_yukon_rc3
cp_gullywash_rc6
cp_generator_b4b
ctf_pro_bball (this isn't part of the map rotation but we sometimes play this map when there are fewer than 6 people on the server and we're waiting for more to join)


If you'd like to donate to help cover the server bills, you can do it here.

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im really not a big fan of arena tbh :/

cant comment on most of the custom maps except freight since i havent played them but supporting freight for sure
 
I might of only played for a few minutes (and those few minutes weren't exactly my finest moments), but it was a blast playing with you guys!

I've yet to play many of the custom maps in rotation, but I do like what I've seen so far. Waste is a very quirky level albeit a bit a tad confusing
 
Can a few of the regulars get admins. Its such a pain in the ass nominating, rtv, waiting blah blah blah/kicking idiot Aim-botters like earlier today.

P.S. I got raped by Scouts all day
P.S.S. fuck the FaN
P.S.S.S. lets do a pickup game soon
 
If anyone wants to set a time for a good fun badwater game, let me know and I'll try to be there.
 
About admins, I'll add the 3 steam group admins and maybe some others if I see people on constantly when I check the sevrer info. Sorry I haven't been on, I've been scriming with some friends and subbing for their CEVO team. So could Mr. Esc and stoo pm me their SteamIDs?
 
mresc and stoo are mresc and stoo on steam :>

though i dont know anything about server maintenance so theres not much point appointing me there - better left to kiku imo
 
silly stoo <3
you get the steam ID from typing status in the console while in a game.

If anyone would like to play sometime soon, SgtWoodsy and I are on. I'm sure we could get some others as well.

Oh, and it was fun playing with you, OBSTL!
 
Lets try and get some matches going on the server tonight! Sunday is usually a good time for most people when it comes to TF2, I've noticed. Hopefully a lot of you are free.
 
Oh my god it's finally Valve time again! I played Offblast and I think it's an okay map and the new Heavy hat makes up for the failure which is the Football Helmet (it just doesn't fit...).
 
Rofl, at least 18 new hats will (hopefully) mean 3 times the chance of getting a hat. But seriously, if Valve add any more arena maps I'll blow my stack.
 
surely its too early for any of the tf2 beta stuff to be in here...right?

also custom arena maps hardly excites me but its only day 1, really hoping to see that dynamic map they were talking about and hopefully something to come close to badlands in game style and quality

(ps fuck new hats all i need is my batters helmet <3)
 
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