And that's still not a good reason not to "try" and implement the map changes on one of the other servers. again there is absolutely no harm in giving it a go.

There is harm in terms of the effort made to implement this by the people who are able to do it, who often have more important things to be doing. And then they have to figure out how the success of this would be measured, and then measure its success.

If you really want to play a specific map, you can join the regs, hop on HH5 and use the admin abilities every reg gets to choose maps you like and invite people on.

If by effort you mean using a mapcycle.txt and disabling the mapvote plugin the server is using....

And to measure the popularity you just have to look
here here here or here

Vier, over the years we have tried dozens of different server types, including PL only, CP only, crits on, crits off, stock rotations, new maps only (a long time ago like when Egypt came out) and others that I can't even think to remember.

Right now we have reached a stage where the maps that come up have been voted for by the players on the server, both past but including a weighting to those online at the time.
There are limits on what maps come up in the vote list, and they can't come up too often, split between official / custom etc.

I'm not sure why you've posted link to the gametracker stats, if its for the percentile rember that the IPs are new and that affects our ranking, we were close to the top - the IP move may also have impacted the current server levels as we had expected some notice and instead got 5 mins warning!

But with the release of free to play the flavor has changed the influx of new players may not see the ideal game play the same as say someone who has played since beta
and I can honestly not see how changing one of the 3 "regular" servers would effect the people that love their 5pointcp in any way other than the possibility of taking away players. And I linked to gametracker stats as that's what is posted on the front of the HH website and its a clear way of seeing how servers fair against each other.

I don't think many F2Pers come to our server at all tbh.



Wha?

durp

Again why is this coming up against such a wall of negativity the only possible downside is it not working and being changed back to default after a few weeks of testing. Its not like all three stock servers are full at the time and it would some how be taking a server away from the "hardcore" players they would still have two of the three servers free as well as the regular server.

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Doesn't add anything. Just removes it. And yes it does cost something, effort on behalf of the person doing the set up.

Don't really see any real benefit here at all sorry.

1. change mapcycle.txt to this http://pastebin.com/11tJP6Hy
2. disable the mapvote plugin
3. restart server < is this even needed anymore

hard work done.