Quick comments and thoughts on our TF2 server...
1) I am amazed and very happy at how many new players we have met through our TF2 server, and I am thrilled by the number of unique players we have had in our server in the last 4 weeks... Tracking 5,512 players
2) We have two maps that work great for us every time, Badwater and Goldrush, but for us at least Dustbowl is always a mixed bag. It seems more of the players we get here want to play pl (cart/bomb) maps rather than CP maps. I'm still fiddling with the map rotation trying to find the magic sequence and maps that will keep us busy.
3) Spawn Times. The first few days of the server we had default spawn times, and frankly 26 seconds is simply too long to wait to spawn. Then I tried the "disable respawn times" variable which made both teams spawn in about 7 seconds (no we never had instant spawns) but the problem was RED could win very easily simply by respawning very close to the capture points on most maps, and it was very, very hard for BLU to win any rounds. A few weeks back I installed a plugin that lets me very the respawn times of BLU vs RED and also lets me make custom config files to change spawn times by each map. We started out with RED 10 secs and BLU 3 seconds, but that was not quite enough so the default is now RED 11 secs and BLU 3 seconds, but some maps have different spawn times. Hoodoo is 12-3, Dustbowl is 12-3 and Gravelpit will be 7-7. I played a lot of games this weekend with the newly adjusted spawn times and BLU won a bunch of rounds which encouraged more BLU players to "PUSH the CART!!" and it made some fantastic games. So if you are wondering why BLU seems to be winning more, it is because they have an additional second now they did not have last week, and on some maps 2 additional seconds.
4) HlxStats-CE. Those things are amazing, everyone should thank Sirex for getting them working so well. The things they track are incredible, be sure to click everything you see, you will find more and more details.
5) We have made many new friends through our TF2 server. I am very happy that many of you decided to join our Community, a big shout out to: Red Thunder, Queen B, Romex, Ogah, Superman, p000q, Madwh0redegon, Aessassen, FunkySquid, grow a pair and many, many others.
Once again Welcome to Cain's Lair !!
1) I am amazed and very happy at how many new players we have met through our TF2 server, and I am thrilled by the number of unique players we have had in our server in the last 4 weeks... Tracking 5,512 players
2) We have two maps that work great for us every time, Badwater and Goldrush, but for us at least Dustbowl is always a mixed bag. It seems more of the players we get here want to play pl (cart/bomb) maps rather than CP maps. I'm still fiddling with the map rotation trying to find the magic sequence and maps that will keep us busy.
3) Spawn Times. The first few days of the server we had default spawn times, and frankly 26 seconds is simply too long to wait to spawn. Then I tried the "disable respawn times" variable which made both teams spawn in about 7 seconds (no we never had instant spawns) but the problem was RED could win very easily simply by respawning very close to the capture points on most maps, and it was very, very hard for BLU to win any rounds. A few weeks back I installed a plugin that lets me very the respawn times of BLU vs RED and also lets me make custom config files to change spawn times by each map. We started out with RED 10 secs and BLU 3 seconds, but that was not quite enough so the default is now RED 11 secs and BLU 3 seconds, but some maps have different spawn times. Hoodoo is 12-3, Dustbowl is 12-3 and Gravelpit will be 7-7. I played a lot of games this weekend with the newly adjusted spawn times and BLU won a bunch of rounds which encouraged more BLU players to "PUSH the CART!!" and it made some fantastic games. So if you are wondering why BLU seems to be winning more, it is because they have an additional second now they did not have last week, and on some maps 2 additional seconds.
4) HlxStats-CE. Those things are amazing, everyone should thank Sirex for getting them working so well. The things they track are incredible, be sure to click everything you see, you will find more and more details.
5) We have made many new friends through our TF2 server. I am very happy that many of you decided to join our Community, a big shout out to: Red Thunder, Queen B, Romex, Ogah, Superman, p000q, Madwh0redegon, Aessassen, FunkySquid, grow a pair and many, many others.
Once again Welcome to Cain's Lair !!
just messing. thanks for the shout out! Keep up zee sweet server!!!
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