ONS-MINUSTANKMEUP: Poll/ request: to ADD another version

[ApeX]

Hi everyone,

After speaking to many tagged and non-tagged SVAs, it seems that a vast majority of us would like to play MINUSTANKMEUP more often than merely once a day on Spam Vikings. Currently the map comes up in rotation (based on another SVA's observation) about once every 12 hours.

So, here is the offical poll/ request to ADD another version of the map we love to the rotation. :cheers:

The version I would suggest adding is the MinusTankMeUp EE version. It is exactly like the Gorz version but without the hammerheads (flying tanks).

Other ONS servers have on average 2 to 3 versions of MINUS-T.M.U. in their rotation. And considering that Spam Vikings has multiple versions of other maps, why not add a second version of MINUSTANKMEUP which most of us LOVE? :bounce:
Having both the GORZ and EE versions of MINUS.T.M.U. would only make SV more popular! :drunken:


Other multiple versionson Spam Vikings: Dria: 3 versions
Redplanet: 3versions
Severance: 2 ver. (3 if you count Maelseverance)
Dawn: 2 versions
Dreamus: 2 versions
Frostbite: 2 versions
Primeval: 2versions
Torlan: 2 versions
Adara: 2versions
As you can see, some of these hardly ever get played.

VOTE! AND VOTE FOR ADDING ANOTHER VERSION OF TANKMEUP!

Cheers!

APEX.

[Bandito]

Sorry, i can't go with you on this one - tankmeup is not a good map - i think it is overplayed as it is (so are the dreamus maps, bitch slap, spambox, death dome & a few other spam maps)

But out of all of those, the only map that gets me to disconnect & find another server to play on is tankmeup

Bandito :cherry:

[Urtho]

HAHAHA, oh wait you aren't joking? Um... ok.

NO

Playing this POS now and then and having to listen to the near constant whine of a small slice of players continually beg for an admin to force it when an actual good map somehow slips thru the voting gauntlet and comes up for play is bad enough. Having to endure potentially back to back games of that type of stupidity is not something I want to see.

On the other hand, the following does bring up an issue that should be addressed.

Other multiple versionson Spam Vikings: Dria: 3 versions
Redplanet: 3versions
Severance: 2 ver. (3 if you count Maelseverance)
Dawn: 2 versions
Dreamus: 2 versions
Frostbite: 2 versions
Primeval: 2versions
Torlan: 2 versions
Adara: 2versions

This is a good point and should be an easy place to start your pruning Toxic. There is no reason to have all these versions of the same basic map. Pick and choose between the ece and non versions (ece on only the bigger ones I'd say but ask if you're not sure as a quick list is simple enough) and if you have a custom -32p version of a map like the Torlan one that I see than dump the original. Nostalgia is nice but original Torlan is a like a case study of how not to do 32 player maps. Anything of the -gorz persuasion could also be dumped as they are imbalanced and some of the modificatoins tend to cause lag issues. I'd rather play original choke node Severance than his edited version of it anyday.

[DW_Hornet]

His severance is a good start, but the fast building nodes are poo. We dont need another thread about his vehilces.

[ApeX]

[quote="Urtho"]HAHAHA, oh wait you aren't joking? Um... ok.

NO


Lol no and I wasn't joking about the number of people who're constantly asking for it either. I pretty much can name those of us who have and will vote NO to this and yes, I knew right of the bat you'd be amongst the first. But thats ok. What may not be reflected in this poll is that most untagged and tagged SVAs are not in the forums. Thus you may not see it truely reflected of what Toxic and other DW admins constantly hear when they're online. In anycase, let the poll run its course and see where it lands.

And btw GORZAKk, just incase you're reading this, I like most of your maps. Thanks for all your efforts. If it werent for reinvention that Gorz and other mappers do, this game would be dyin a much faster death.

As for people having technical problems like maps causing lag... particularly Minus, I'm not sure why but my 5.5 year old radeon 8500 with 64 megs of ram hasn't had a single problem with ANY version of MINUSTANKMEUP. Yet. So, me and my 1.4 ghz atholon have yet to experience this lag. Can anyone suggest why?

In anycase, Cheers! And thx for voting!

APEX!

[DW_WailofSuicide]

I like TankMeUp, and it seems like a lot of other people do as well. My only concern is that adding another version would not alleviate the problem -- People would just vote the second map immediately after playing it the first time. That's not what I want a second version of this map for, but I don't know if there's a way to prevent that.

[DW_ToxicWaste]

I have to vote no as well.

Minus is unique and adding several versions of it will just water it down. When it first came on the server, I would force it once in a while but in the last couple of weeks, I have stopped that. And I would prefer if the other admins not force it as well.

Not everyone loves it. And you will get tired of it the more you play it. And TBH, it will keep people around waiting for it to come up for vote again.

Rich (TW)

[Cams]

I don't think Minustankmeup is a bad map. I actually like it a lot. But playing it once a day is more than enough, and if I don't get to play it on any given day that's ok too. I just try to make the most out of it whenever we play it.

I agree on removing the original Torlan, as the 32p has a better link setup and more vehicles.

As for the other Gorz maps, I prefer most of them over the originals except for Maelseverance, which I consider a really really bad map. Thanks for the great work on the others tho.

[Zax_Gentoo_Box]

I have a special vote for 'Yes', not because it's really good, but because I hardly ever play it. Why, you may ask? I only play Saturday's and Wednesdays, so all this 'play it back to back too much' stuff doesn't really affect me, and I'd like to see the Hammerheads go and perhaps a Cicada or two go in their place.

~ Zax

[DW_e_aLpHa]

- AM I allowed to HAte? .. Because I will hate that Freaking map Until the day the players on foot get a weapon capable of taking a tank down in 2 shots and infinite amo wich at the same time... won't damage another player , wont damage the nodes or the power cores - TMU as the way it is now you might as well remove the nodes and powercores -put it all inside a big room .. and just fight for hours everyone inside a tank just killing each other with a score goal to reach .. wait thats DM .. VDM ?