Are overplayed maps becoming an issue again? (My observances/your observances)

[chockadlad]

The map committee has been putting a great deal of thought into the overplayed map issue. Though we have found solutions for some of the maps listed to deal with this issue, but we still are discussing how to deal with all of the overplayed maps. Hopefully a full solution is found by the next big map update.

Any ideas would be appreciated, email [email protected] if you have any ideas you believe will help.

Either you can make the more popular maps less popular by nerfing tiers, or re-tiering them so tier2s are harder to find and get, or re-tiering the less popular maps so tier2s are easily find able (as in the more popular ones)

 

[Harris|DareDevilMan1]

I know people have different opinions for a "good map" , but it is really boring playing Valleyside University in every clan war we do. If we get lucky , we vote for Vida Cova.
P.S.

(Thanks to the person that had this image to their signature)

 

[WertQuadNine]

My idea is too add a few more maps that are great. People love Valley-side, sg4, and holiday because they're small(-ish), have a ton of different areas to fight in, have huge open spots for battles, have a ton of fair routes, and are just unique to play! ATM there is a few maps out that fit this theme nicely, if you add those we could have more variety and some would be over-played BUT there will be a lot MORE over-played maps, get what i'm saying?

Here's a few maps out that have the chance of being ''over-played'':
http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/zone-85-a-team-cloud-project.81502/
unique terrain, interesting theme, and tons of flat open areas.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alluring-isle.77784/
lots of awesome structures to have great fights in, and a sweet theme

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alaskan-village-discovery-works.75042/
would play a lot like chernobyl (which is a great map) but it has an entirely different theme.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/neighborhood-by-biffington.55180/
Is a bloody great map. but I think we missed our chance to get it :/

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/survival-games-snowkrill-island.15990/
HOW IS THIS NOT ADDED YET???? Sorry, but I played a clan battle on this (in the Hurricanes) and it's just way to great to let it slip away.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/moonlight-lake-2.46025/
A lot of people loved/hated moonlight 1, but this fixes most of its problems, while still keeping the parts we liked.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.c...-venue-community-map.46839/page-6#post-894790
play's like vallyside, but is still different.

OK, that's all the maps I know of that would be great additions to the servers.

 

[Iametal]

Idk about you but I played 0 games of holiday resort... And 4 games of tsg1 today..

 

[chockadlad]

My idea is too add a few more maps that are great. People love Valley-side, sg4, and holiday because they're small(-ish), have a ton of different areas to fight in, have huge open spots for battles, have a ton of fair routes, and are just unique to play! ATM there is a few maps out that fit this theme nicely, if you add those we could have more variety and some would be over-played BUT there will be a lot MORE over-played maps, get what i'm saying?

Here's a few maps out that have the chance of being ''over-played'':
http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/zone-85-a-team-cloud-project.81502/
unique terrain, interesting theme, and tons of flat open areas.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alluring-isle.77784/
lots of awesome structures to have great fights in, and a sweet theme

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alaskan-village-discovery-works.75042/
would play a lot like chernobyl (which is a great map) but it has an entirely different theme.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/neighborhood-by-biffington.55180/
Is a bloody great map. but I think we missed our chance to get it :/

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/survival-games-snowkrill-island.15990/
HOW IS THIS NOT ADDED YET???? Sorry, but I played a clan battle on this (in the Hurricanes) and it's just way to great to let it slip away.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/moonlight-lake-2.46025/
A lot of people loved/hated moonlight 1, but this fixes most of its problems, while still keeping the parts we liked.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.c...-venue-community-map.46839/page-6#post-894790
play's like vallyside, but is still different.

OK, that's all the maps I know of that would be great additions to the servers.

I don't think they want more overplayed maps, I think they (the map committee) wants all maps to be more balanced in play "statistics"

 

[Toast]

My idea is too add a few more maps that are great. People love Valley-side, sg4, and holiday because they're small(-ish), have a ton of different areas to fight in, have huge open spots for battles, have a ton of fair routes, and are just unique to play! ATM there is a few maps out that fit this theme nicely, if you add those we could have more variety and some would be over-played BUT there will be a lot MORE over-played maps, get what i'm saying?

Here's a few maps out that have the chance of being ''over-played'':
http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/zone-85-a-team-cloud-project.81502/
unique terrain, interesting theme, and tons of flat open areas.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alluring-isle.77784/
lots of awesome structures to have great fights in, and a sweet theme

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/alaskan-village-discovery-works.75042/
would play a lot like chernobyl (which is a great map) but it has an entirely different theme.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/neighborhood-by-biffington.55180/
Is a bloody great map. but I think we missed our chance to get it :/

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/survival-games-snowkrill-island.15990/
HOW IS THIS NOT ADDED YET???? Sorry, but I played a clan battle on this (in the Hurricanes) and it's just way to great to let it slip away.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.com/threads/moonlight-lake-2.46025/
A lot of people loved/hated moonlight 1, but this fixes most of its problems, while still keeping the parts we liked.

http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.c...-venue-community-map.46839/page-6#post-894790
play's like vallyside, but is still different.

OK, that's all the maps I know of that would be great additions to the servers.

We tried that method before, it's actually the reason that demons breeze and freeze we're added, to flush out the amount of times Breeze Island was played, obviously it didn't work.

 

[Deliciousfruit1]

Personally I think the current situation is still about a billion times better than the Breeze/SG4 era. Having 9-10 maps be played a lot is quite good, in my opinion. Sure, I do get my fair share of Valleysides and Holiday Resorts, but I also frequently get Moonbase, the Tewerans, Avaricia, Lobby Games, Chernobyl, Breeze/Demon's Breeze, Solar Frost, SG Highway, and Icarus. Not terribly common, but they show up. I rarely ever get the same map twice in a row anymore. And there's still the Classic and QQ maps. Of course, SG4 is still probably the most common, but I'm pretty sure that map is stuck here for eternity no matter what.

Then again, I don't even have a thousand games logged yet. Maybe I'll get bored of all these eventually, but right now I feel like a good variety of maps are being played.

 

[Captain Dak]

Idk about you but I played 0 games of holiday resort... And 4 games of tsg1 today..

Lucky...

 

[Lohlex]

Holiday and Valleyside are just adding to the madness. The only one of those I even like anymore is Valleyside.

Honestly you are right. Holiday Resort has come to whenever it is a choice it wins. We should take out all the overplayed maps on a certain week day ex. Thursday and make it impossible to play so people who never play the other maps get to experience it. Wish MCSG would make another thing like the PMC contest. Those were the days!

 

[ChargedPVP]

ok heres my opinion about this. maps are over played for a reason, usually because they are good. So to fix this remove all the under played maps and add new maps and then remove the new bad ones and so on till the maps balance out. I like a ton of the underplayed maps but if they don't get played then why keep them. Give the community something new such as one of the many great maps in the finished maps section.

 

[Lohlex]

I just think the only reason the well made maps ex. tsg1 are overplayed is because they are not tiered correctly

 

[Captain Dak]

I just think the only reason the well made maps ex. tsg1 are overplayed is because they are not tiered correctly

Yeah, that's true. Nobody is going to play a map without tier 2s. Unless it's Breeze. Or even SG4, I'd bet.