1. What is your favorite map and why (in terms of gameplay)?
Personally, I love the Wilderness map significantly more than the Abandoned City. To be honest, they're both amazing in their own ways. The Abandoned City I love because it looks amazing! It just makes me scared to wander around it. However its downfall is that it is rather large... For example someone could hide atop any of the skyscrapers, put something down on the shift button and wait for the final deathmatch. But that's not always fun, because I know I've reached the cornucopia on it, gotten full iron and a diamond sword, and I just wanted to hunt people down! However there were 4 people left and they were all hiding. My biggest fear was that if they saw me with that gear they'd mark me as a priority and all mob me. Then there is also the fact that whoever reaches and camps that second spawn cornucopia pretty much wins the game as the gear is epic. Anyway, the Wilderness map is awesome because it feels more like the Hunger Games. The gear is more scarce, and the winners are sometimes people with just leather armor and stone swords! That seems more survival-ish to me. Plus, I feel like when I play it I have to decide where I'm going to go, where I'm going to stay during nightfall, and where people will most likely be to find/avoid them.
2. What is your best tactic when you play (on both of the maps)?
I first pick one of my routes (I have a specific chest route on the maps) and get ready. The second the game starts I run to the chests, and if I find a weapon I will generally look around, and kill the people with good gear. This way I stockpile good gear at the beginning of the game and eliminate some of the other competitors. I then rush to my route, hitting 5-10 chests along the way, and then return to the cornucopia. I there hollow out a tree, and hide until nightfall. I quickly rush to the chests, grab everything I can, craft whatever I can (usually and iron sword or better tier of armor), then, if its Wilderness, I head to the boat and get everything I can from there. Then I just stay close to the cornucopia and kill anyone that comes by. If its Abandoned City, I run in circles on the outer edge of the tree line looking for people, and kill them accordingly.
3. Is there something you would like to be changed in the vanilla version of SG (on the map itself , not these servers)?
I think that Wilderness is great, however there is a scarcity of chests, and that sometimes many players, even when they're alive and away from other tributes, feel as though they are just going to lose because after their first run all the chests were emptied and they had no armor or weapons. Then for Abandoned City, I would take out the forest part, because frankly it's too big. The whole city in ruin feel is very fun to play in, but not when you can't find anyone to fight.
4. Is there something you would like to be added to SG, and why?
I would love for these to occur, but they're mainly little things that help make it more like the book. It would be really cool if when you're on the platforms at the beginning, you don't get teleported back if you try and move but you either blow up or just die, to make it more of a consequence. Of course spinning around and jumping would be fine, but if you left the block you would die. I also think that there should be events, that entice players to go to certain parts of the map at random intervals, at major landmarks. For instance in SG1, a message would go out saying that there is a chest with your number labeled on it, that has good gear for you! It's waiting at the boat! Now the boat could be filtered out with the bridge, cornucopia, tower, and tons of other landmarks players might know. This would increase the competition, and increase the PvP, because instead of camping a specific set of chests and fishing, you would need to go to these chests in order get an edge on the other players. Plus it would be a spot where you could definitely find players.
Anyway, those are my thoughts but over all I think you have done an amazing job with everything! I love the server, maps, and the game itself! Thank you for creating a wonderful Minecraft experience!
-epicwin324