Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
Would it be possible to automate resetting of the map pool around like 9:30pm EST each night? I'm asking because a number of popular maps, such as Arctic Junkyard Randomizer, are always unavailable for the duration of the time in which the server is most active. Thanks!
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Re: Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
Resets aren't usually meant for that.
However, here's where the issue is the Map Repeat Limit, its the number of maps to be played before a map can be played again.
Currently its set to 12.
So it looks like the early birds are voting this map: https://www.omnipotents.com/utstats/mapstats.php?map=8
We play around 9-10 maps a night 7ish to Midnight.
The idea was to avoid playing JY, Minus, JY, Minus, wash rinse repeat, but I understand what you want, as AJY-Rando hasn't been played later in a while.
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So I'll leave this to the community, and we had a poll a while back. However it was more of a split decision, some wanted more variety, some wanted the same 4-5 maps, as new ones are too hard to learn.
One compromise, is we reduced the limit to say 5 or 6, but expect some of the admin's to exercise "Admin's choice" and force a less popular map for variety maybe even once a night.
Its funny how maps take a while to become "favorites", as the primary map editor it does take about 5-10 revisions to fine tune the map, however we've had several that intially weren't well received that over time became much more popular (NVM-YEAHHHHHHH comes to mind).
However, here's where the issue is the Map Repeat Limit, its the number of maps to be played before a map can be played again.
Currently its set to 12.
So it looks like the early birds are voting this map: https://www.omnipotents.com/utstats/mapstats.php?map=8
We play around 9-10 maps a night 7ish to Midnight.
The idea was to avoid playing JY, Minus, JY, Minus, wash rinse repeat, but I understand what you want, as AJY-Rando hasn't been played later in a while.
viewtopic.php?p=9916&sid=239022369c5a82 ... 005a#p9916
viewtopic.php?p=7880&sid=239022369c5a82 ... 005a#p7880
So I'll leave this to the community, and we had a poll a while back. However it was more of a split decision, some wanted more variety, some wanted the same 4-5 maps, as new ones are too hard to learn.
One compromise, is we reduced the limit to say 5 or 6, but expect some of the admin's to exercise "Admin's choice" and force a less popular map for variety maybe even once a night.
Its funny how maps take a while to become "favorites", as the primary map editor it does take about 5-10 revisions to fine tune the map, however we've had several that intially weren't well received that over time became much more popular (NVM-YEAHHHHHHH comes to mind).
- pooty
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Re: Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
Ok I thought about it and set repeat limit to 6. For those of us that want variety we can vote it, or get one of us admins to force something different.
I will say when less played maps get forced, please play, and provide feedback. If the maps are really shitty, I'll remove them.
I will say when less played maps get forced, please play, and provide feedback. If the maps are really shitty, I'll remove them.
Re: Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
I totally agree with this sentiment -- I remember about 8 years ago where an entire evening was MTMU maps with Desert Junkyard variations. It gets stale quickly.
I definitely support less-played maps getting forced once in a while. Thank you for the prompt action.
Re: Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
What if we had a thread where we could see pictures of map layouts? We'd be able to study them w/o having to play them, and we'd be able to make suggestions on how to improve said layouts.pooty wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 11:10 am So I'll leave this to the community, and we had a poll a while back. However it was more of a split decision, some wanted more variety, some wanted the same 4-5 maps, as new ones are too hard to learn.
One compromise, is we reduced the limit to say 5 or 6, but expect some of the admin's to exercise "Admin's choice" and force a less popular map for variety maybe even once a night.
Its funny how maps take a while to become "favorites", as the primary map editor it does take about 5-10 revisions to fine tune the map, however we've had several that intially weren't well received that over time became much more popular (NVM-YEAHHHHHHH comes to mind).
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- pooty
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Re: Nightly Reset Of Map Pool
Just download them and play them. Either someone has to do that already to screenshot them, whether its the map/layout/nodemap, then save them name them and upload them. Seems like it'd just be easier to download them.What if we had a thread where we could see pictures of map layouts? We'd be able to study them w/o having to play them, and we'd be able to make suggestions on how to improve said layouts.
If it makes life easier I can zip up all the current maps into one big bundle for download.