XXLpeanuts wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:57 am
I would also like to add to this, I generally play in evenings after 5pm, UK time and on Fridays till late or saturday afternoons. Almost always the map being played or next map is Yeho and I only ever get to play as a UK/US/CAF faction verses Russia, I cant remember the last time I saw insurgents or Militia on our server, but those maps never show up and if they do its a layer with Russia or MEC instead.
As someone (and I know not everyone feels this way) that much prefers the asymetric gameplay of Blufor verses insurgent factions, playing on our server is often annoying for me despite my love for the clan and community and our rules etc. I often join, find out its Yeho again and the next map is Godorok and quit, checking back in a couple of hours hoping an ins map is on the way, or at least something without Russia (honestly so bored of them as a faction and the maps they are on).
I keep hearing the rotation is random, which either means there are just way more Yeho/Godorok etc layers than any other, or the "random" is always bunching these maps together. I have never once seen it go from Yeho/Godorok to something like Fallujah ins, or even Al Basrah (one of the only maps I ever get to play INS on our server). Is it just that at the times I play the server is always guaranteed to be on Yeho or Godorok etc and if I would play at 10-11pm maybe I would get lucky?
MIL and INS maps have the fewest occurences in the current layout of the maps, this is not something we can control. Maps where versing INS was the standard is now MEA. For other game modes such as TC, Destruction, Insurgency there is more of them, however these game styles are not popular and often kill the server, which is a shame.
US and Russia are the most common match up, so you will see them often, and in making the rotation, I do my best to try and limit how often someone can play a faction in a rough 5 round night.
Maps like Yeho, gorodok, mutaha, show up on our server more, because people love those maps, they are the most popular ones. so within any 10 maps in the rotation, there will be Yeho, gorodok, narva and mutaha, not always, but as the point of start on the rotation is random, i try to put it up becuase people will leave if they dont get to play those maps.
In Making the rotation, I think of, What maps follow good after one another, to keep intrest up, what factions are playing and to create diversity, making sure there isnt to many AAS maps or RAAS maps one after the other, and sprinkle some invasion in there. but there is only so much I can do, when the community wants big maps as standard, dislikes other maps and kills the server, and when OWI changes the factions on layers. For MIL there is only 20 possible layers out of 251 layers that allign with AAS RAAS, asnd INV. INS is 32 possible layers. compared to RUS US UK CAF it is significantly less. until there are more Factions in the game, they will be dominated by US RUS.
GB 21
USA 35
INS 5
RUS 46
MIL 12
CAF 19
MEA 24
is the current frequency out of an 80 map roation.
Al Basrah 5
Belaya 4
Chora 4
Fallujah 4
Fool's Road 4
Gorodok 6
Kamdesh 4
Kohat 3
Kokan 3
Lashkar Valley 3
Logar Valley 2
Mestia 2
Mutaha 5
Narva 6
Skorpo 3
Sumari 2
Tallil Outskirts 3
Yehorivka 7
Manic 4
Goose Bay 3
Anvil 4
is how many times that map appears in that roation.
all of that is based on community feedback on what they want on our server, what keeps people on our server and joining.
It sucks, but we are trying hard here.