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Possible Halloween Server

Post by belak » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:50 pm

It's that time of year, the time the screams resound from the battlefield and both red and blue set aside their differences (at least for a few minutes) to fight the evil ghosts rather than each other.

With the official Halloween event coming up, would there be interest in turning one of our not quite so used servers into a Halloween server (forced into holiday mode and running the previous event maps) for the time being? Perhaps TV3, our 24/7 beta server?

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by LonelyTentacle » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:19 pm

With the upcoming Halloween patch at the end of the month, it would be nice to have a server running the koth_harvest map for the ghost/achievement event when its released. Until then a Halloween server will just be filled with cobwebs since nobody would likely play there.

I'd actually be more in favor of adding mannor to rotation for now, and having harvest replace it when the event is released. At least then, people would be around to play them!
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Rumps » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:03 am

LonelyTentacle wrote:Until then a Halloween server will just be filled with cobwebs since nobody would likely play there.

I'd actually be more in favor of adding mannor to rotation for now, and having harvest replace it when the event is released. At least then, people would be around to play them!

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by M's » Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:24 am

When the All Hallows event map is released, we have always dedicated a server to it.

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Plinko » Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:18 am

Ideally, I'd like it if we could do two servers, one dedicated to the new event map 24/7 (assuming there is one) and another one running the old ones in rotation. As I usually have to be overseas for Halloween every year, I still haven't done all the maps all that much before.

It might be heresy, but it might be nice to QP them (if we can do two).
They're always a madhouse of crazy anyway and QP will probably help keep both of them running full pretty well.
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Zork Nemesis » Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:14 am

Plinko wrote:It might be heresy, but it might be nice to QP them (if we can do two).
They're always a madhouse of crazy anyway and QP will probably help keep both of them running full pretty well.
Can't have quickplay if we use reserve slots though from what I understand. With the server filling up fast from QP stragglers, server supporters such as myself would be understandably annoyed to not be able to join on the server I pay for on a whim.
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Plinko » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:58 am

Valid concerns, but I can suggest two alternatives to consider - one is that it seems to me a lot of places break the rules already and if we create two servers for Halloween, then cancel them after the event - the worst case is that two servers we will never use again get blacklisted. Big deal.

The second would be - that if we play to the QP rules and add two servers without supporter slots, it's not as if TV2, 6, 7 and 8 would need to lose those slots so you have lost precisely nothing of what you're supporting.
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Stevo » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:40 am

Sorry, we can't do Quickplay.

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Snidely Whiplash » Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:40 pm

cool, we could advertise it on VI and VII to help populate
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Stevo » Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:05 pm

TV3 is looking kind of spooky... Connect to it if you dare!

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Boss Llama » Fri Oct 17, 2014 3:18 pm

You're awesome, Stevo :-D
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by The_Reaper » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:14 pm

The Halloween rotation lingers too long on each map, Mann Manor in particular. Speeding up the map changes would help keep it full.
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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by Stevo » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:40 pm

Alright, I shortened the limits on the maps. Thanks for the feedback.

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by black_and_blue » Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:08 pm

The_Reaper wrote:The Halloween rotation lingers too long on each map, Mann Manor in particular. Speeding up the map changes would help keep it full.
Stevo wrote:Alright, I shortened the limits on the maps. Thanks for the feedback.
It's a tough balance, because people tend to leave when the map changes. If it's too short, there isn't enough time to build the player base back up.

I also tend to think that, without quickplay, what is making people find the server is the desire to play a specific map, since quickplay currently only allows a choice of the 2013 Halloween map or all Halloween maps. If someone wants to play Mann Manor specifically, they have to use the server browser to find a server running that map.

Anyway, let's give the new times a try and see how it goes.

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Re: Possible Halloween Server

Post by LonelyTentacle » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:39 am

I also think a lot of random frequenters get spurned off by Koth_harvest on tv3. Not that its a bad map, but because there are no boss events which most users are looking for.
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