Over the past few months the HH2 server is only full for about 1 or 2 hours tops in the evenings. People are joining later around 8 and leaving at 9:30. From talking to the regs i know its mainly because the stock maps are getting boring, check the hl-stats to see what i mean. People have their favourite stock maps but when a bad map comes on a % of players leave which creates a cascade effect and before you know it the server dry's up. I'd like to see some of the poorer stock maps removed and some good custom maps added, castle, redstone etc to spice it up a bit. Appreciate this would mean some new users would be downloading maps from the server but most nights it is 90% full of regulars who would have those maps.

Any other suggestions welcome, I know a couple including myself who might be looking elsewhere a couple of times a week for a change but its difficult to find a server with such good players and team play.

I seem to remember someone tried to get more custom maps on the server multiple times a while back and was shot down. Don't bother yourself.

Quickplay era.... at the time HH2 was the Quickplay server. Custom + Quickplay = Not Quickplay.

HH1 had most of the previously suggested custom maps.

Please provide download links to proven, popular custom maps.

Honestly i don't see much of quickplay players on HH2 and those coming leave soon. But in my opinion HH2 is slowly running towards HH1 situation (deserted).
We played only 2 maps yesterday where we were full and then server just died...
So my main question is, besides the new maps (which would be nice to have), can we do something about it?

I really enjoy playing on HH2, it's where the cool kids hang out but lately the maps are getting very stale, I play nearly every evening but I'm joining later and leaving as soon as an overplayed map comes on.

Some new maps would definitely keep me playing.

Castle is fun so is Warpath, and I quite enjoyed Jailbreak. Will have to have a think which others I've played in the past.

Belated Happy Birthday Joe Pinball

Cheers Frog, here are a few suggestions...

cp_labor http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/37889
cp_redstone_b2 http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/50608
cp_egypt_v2 http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/54003
cp_warpath http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/39398
cp_castle4 http://www.gamershell.com/download_26472.shtml

a couple i havent played but look ok...
cp_switchback_b5 http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/44242
cp_shock http://tf2.gamebanana.com/maps/41389

I'm sure some others may have some ideas.

Also Frog, do you know if any maps can be nominated maps in the next vote rather than us being forced to choose from a list?

Oh, warpath! Classic.

i was literally talking about this on the server when this forum was made

We would really appreciate a proper 'Nomination' function on the server.

A bit of rapid googling suggests that SourceMod 1.1 has nominate as a function built in (disabled by default). Otherwise, Map Chooser Extended?

I'd be very keen to avoid the map votes on many servers that are bound to the default weapon keys and pop up while playing - that's really amazingly annoying. I couldn't tell from reading the description whether Map Chooser works like that.

Map suggestions:

koth_pro_viaduct_rc4
Wiki: http://comp.tf/wiki/Viaduct
Download: http://etf2l.org/maps/koth_pro_viaduct_rc4.zip

cp_Sunshine_rc2
Wiki: http://comp.tf/wiki/Sunshine
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84556731/sunshine/cp_sunshine_rc2.bsp.bz2

cp_Croissant
iirc Valve added a non-final version as the official?
Info: http://etf2l.org/forum/maps/topic-17877/
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/282 ... t_final.7z

koth_Coalplant
Wiki: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Coalplant_%28competitive%29
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3492731/Ashville/koth_coalplant_b7.bsp

cp_metalworks_rc5
(we might already have this one?)
Wiki: http://comp.tf/wiki/Metalworks
Download: http://www.etf2l.org/maps/cp_metalworks_rc5.zip

(these are all played competitively, so while they might or might not play fantastically with 24 players, they're at least not crap in design)