CRAGGY-ISLAND MAP VOTE

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY-ISLAND IRISH BF3 Server

We are setting up a running vote to keep track of people's favourite maps.

Initially it will be a simple top choice.

When we learn our lessons, we can evolve it to keep track of names so that we can dynamically modify map choice depending on who is playing.

http://app.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/ancapaillmor/craggy-server-rotation/

Here is the current status:

sink

Everything bar Metro conquest - that map sucks!

ShadowHearth

voted for:

grand bazaar conq.

sienna crossing conq.

caspien boarder conq.


i dont know about map sizes though.

i played for a bit, but it was always around 20 people on 64 map. it was more trolling points in conq. then actual warfare.

is it possible to do switching? like rush 32 when server is emptyish and 64 when **** hits the fan?

SniperPaddy

ShadowHearth wrote: »

voted for:

grand bazaar conq.

sienna crossing conq.

caspien boarder conq.


i dont know about map sizes though.

i played for a bit, but it was always around 20 people on 64 map. it was more trolling points in conq. then actual warfare.

is it possible to do switching? like rush 32 when server is emptyish and 64 when **** hits the fan?

That is what we are adopting now. We will get better at that

MajesticDonkey

Why on god's name would you get rid of metro? 64 player metro conquest FTW!

I voted for all maps/modes.

Blazer

yeah love Metro....me, myself and F2000 went through the enemy last night like a hot knife through butter
Metro is a great map for conquest.

ShadowHearth

Sc@recrow wrote: »

yeah love Metro....me, myself and F2000 went through the enemy last night like a hot knife through butter
Metro is a great map for conquest.

It depends what you looking for in game. If you want cheap kills and lots of kills, then yeah - great. If looking for some sort of tactical game - not so much.

Burgo

Voted for Seine, Firestorm and Kharg all Conquest.

jackoire

Sc@recrow wrote: »

yeah love Metro....me, myself and F2000 went through the enemy last night like a hot knife through butter
Metro is a great map for conquest.

Shotgun and Feletche ammo on Metro is more fun :P

SniperPaddy

sink wrote: »

Everything bar Metro conquest - that map sucks!

Lol that's cos there are no tanks !!!

SniperPaddy

SOME INTERESTING VARIATION IN CHOICES.

Ponster

done

jonski

Done

but I went unconventional ...... seen as how it is battlefield and a 32 player server .... I went for all 32 player conquest maps

AnCapaillMor

Ok so looks like seine and caspian conq are definates. Then grand bazaar conq, kharg rush and conq and firestorm conq followed by damavand rush.




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yankinlk

i still didnt bother voting since i hardly evar remember the names of maps anyway. Good job engaging the users to pick maps... server seems to be busy once 4 of us join up sides.

Seifer

Good server, empty a lot of the time though. No idea why Seine Crossing is so popular, absolutely terrible map.

SniperPaddy

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Ok so looks like seine and caspian conq are definates. Then grand bazaar conq, kharg rush and conq and firestorm conq followed by damavand rush.




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Thanks for the voting, lads. Interesting results. It looks like Damavand Peak and is the only map where Rush is definitely preferred to Conquest.
We will run this map rotation for the moment. Please don't spam the vote; it's an honest effort to give the majority what they want, not the selfish few.


Caspian Border - Conquest
Seine Crossing - Conquest
Grand Bazaar - Conquest
Kharg Island - Conquest
Damavand Peak Rush
Firestorm - Conquest
Tehran highway - Conquest
Metro - Conquest

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY-ISLAND: TARGETED MAP ROTATION

******************************************************************************************************************
WE ARE NOW LOOKING AT PROFILING THE INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS' CHOICES TO DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZE THE MAP ROTATION TO SUIT WHO IS ON AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME.

WE ARE DOING THE VOTE IN THE CRAGGY-ISLAND PLATOON. THE MAP VOTE TEMPLATE IS BELOW.

REPLACE THE '#' WITH YOUR ORDER OF CHOICE AND POST IT IN THE CRAGGY-ISLAND PLATOON.
(Favourites map start at '1'. Stick in a zero if you absolutely hate a map).

I WILL COLLATE THE DATA IN AN EXCEL FILE AND POST THE MAP CHOICE RESULTS.

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MAP VOTE 26-11-2011
#,Caspian Border,
#,Damavand Peak,
#,Grand Bazaar,
#,Kharg Island,
#,Noshahar Canals,
#,Operation Firestorm,
#,Operation Metro,
#,Seine Crossing,
#,Teheran Highway,

Jonny7

Any way you can make it 2 player start? (or has that changed since patch)

Hard to get it going

SpannerMonkey

6. ,Caspian Border,
4. ,Damavand Peak,
7. ,Grand Bazaar,
1. ,Kharg Island,
6. ,Noshahar Canals,
2. ,Operation Firestorm,
3. ,Operation Metro,
5. ,Seine Crossing,
8. ,Teheran Highway,

SniperPaddy

Jonny7 wrote: »

Any way you can make it 2 player start? (or has that changed since patch)

Hard to get it going

We have a way around that issue on Craggy :rolleyes:

We also took steps to stabilise the server and it seems to be working so far.

SniperPaddy

SpannerMonkey wrote: »

6. ,Caspian Border,
4. ,Damavand Peak,
7. ,Grand Bazaar,
1. ,Kharg Island,
6. ,Noshahar Canals,
2. ,Operation Firestorm,
3. ,Operation Metro,
5. ,Seine Crossing,
8. ,Teheran Highway,

Cool. Put it here OR in the Craggy_Island platoon.

ShadowHearth

had good 3 games just now. 2xmetro and bazaar.

in metro our team was just raped, but we turned it around twice! trolololol!

last game was alright, but our team was strugling and people started leaving etc... ah well.

good games lads.

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY

ShadowHearth wrote: »

had good 3 games just now. 2xmetro and bazaar.


in metro our team was just raped, but we turned it around twice! trolololol!

last game was alright, but our team was strugling and people started leaving etc... ah well.

good games lads.

Some spanish plonker (Sebas87_esp) decided to base rape with a mortar despite repeated requests to cease & desist.
He won't get another chance again

karma_

SniperPaddy wrote: »

CRAGGY




Some spanish plonker (Sebas87_esp) decided to base rape with a mortar despite repeated requests to cease & desist.
He won't get another chance again

Was that on Tehran Highway?

Last night, the US team forgot to defend their flags and were pushed back to their main. So I started to mortar the guys camping and sniping on the top shelf. I see no problem with this at all to be fair, got themselves into that position, can't be showing mercy and allowing them an easy route to the A flag.

Now I can understand not allowing tanks to drive up the hill and I think that did happen once in that round but the reason that there was no breakout was because no one bar one or two players actually even tried to come down the hill, so mortars it was.

In that round, teh US team only managed one decent breakout, near the end of the round when it was already too late.

In that situation, mortars are definitely not base rape.

ShadowHearth

SniperPaddy wrote: »

CRAGGY




Some spanish plonker (Sebas87_esp) decided to base rape with a mortar despite repeated requests to cease & desist.
He won't get another chance again

love to see, that you looking after server.

now can you do me a faivor? BAN everyone with IRVN OR USAS . my hole still sore after last night

SniperPaddy

karma_ wrote: »

Was that on Tehran Highway?

Last night, the US team forgot to defend their flags and were pushed back to their main. So I started to mortar the guys camping and sniping on the top shelf. I see no problem with this at all to be fair, got themselves into that position, can't be showing mercy and allowing them an easy route to the A flag.

Now I can understand not allowing tanks to drive up the hill and I think that did happen once in that round but the reason that there was no breakout was because no one bar one or two players actually even tried to come down the hill, so mortars it was.

In that round, teh US team only managed one decent breakout, near the end of the round when it was already too late.

In that situation, mortars are definitely not base rape.

He was mortaring an uncap. That's a no, no.

SniperPaddy

ShadowHearth wrote: »

love to see, that you looking after server.

now can you do me a faivor? BAN everyone with IRVN OR USAS . my hole still sore after last night

IRVN's on M50's really piss me off. They can outsnipe snipers at long distance and with support on a hill can project disproportionate power.
To be more realistic, a soldier with an .50 should only run at half speed. FFs, it weighs 50 kilos and is supposed to be tripod mounted.

USAS are the spray&pray for console kiddies.

Blazer

SniperPaddy wrote: »

He was mortaring an uncap. That's a no, no.

It's a fair point and I agree with Karma, if a sniper can sit safely in the uncap and snipe he's fair game whether using a sniper gun or a mortar.

SniperPaddy

Sc@recrow wrote: »

It's a fair point and I agree with Karma, if a sniper can sit safely in the uncap and snipe he's fair game whether using a sniper gun or a mortar.

I tend to agree at that point. If he just sits in the uncap, using it as diplomatic immunity then bomb the **** out of him, I say :eek:

However, simply using that as an excuse to saturate an uncap as a high probability kill zone is a major no, no.

Not many people will persist in sniping from an uncap so the admin can deal with that on a case by case basis.

The issue splits on players abusing that reason from both sides. Levelling the uncap and "accidentally" scoring easy points with "collateral damage" is too much of a temptation, and risks annoying a lot of players.

Smartest course is to alert the admin first. An admin warning that they will be kicked just before the end of the game is sufficient for most pi$$ takers.

MR DAZ

Last night things got a bit heated

At the end of the day its a game... however when asked by an admin of server to respect server rules then .. it has to be adhered to.

I see both for and against on this , but when your spawning and dying at the same time it gets frustrating and then there's no chance to even get out of the spawn point.

We got locked in the base by not acting quickly enough and try for the same stupid flag ( C) then vbefore we knew it - ye had all the flags and we were confined to the base spawn point.

On a different note regarding the Guns

The F2000 will probabley get nerfed at some stage - far too much moaning done about "Oh he killed me with a ..blah blah blah"

Its part of the game .. if you dont have the said weapon - then get it and fight fre with fire

It would put you off joining TS listening to all the moaning about it .. :-) not looking at anyone in particular

SniperPaddy

MR DAZ wrote: »

It would put you off joining TS listening to all the moaning about it .. :-) not looking at anyone in particular

LOL. I think we can mute HIM !!!! :pac:

dr strangelove

Yeah, was frustrating last night, alright.

On one hand it's our own stupid fault for not protecting our own bases, or organising a proper breakout. But if no-one runs down the hill with ya, there's shag all you can do about it.

On the other hand though, it was depressing to see almost all the other team were [TiG] - especially on on Tehran Highway and Seine Crossing.

....and i hate being a newbie again..... :mad:

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY

dr strangelove wrote: »

Yeah, was frustrating last night, alright.

On one hand it's our own stupid fault for not protecting our own bases, or organising a proper breakout. But if no-one runs down the hill with ya, there's shag all you can do about it.

On the other hand though, it was depressing to see almost all the other team were [TiG] - especially on on Tehran Highway and Seine Crossing.

....and i hate being a newbie again..... :mad:

What would ye think about spreading the love by splitting large clan groups across the teams to avoid polarizing a match ?

My reasoning is that it balances a game better and allows people to get to know each other better.

Jonny7

ShadowHearth wrote: »

had good 3 games just now. 2xmetro and bazaar.

in metro our team was just raped, but we turned it around twice! trolololol!

last game was alright, but our team was strugling and people started leaving etc... ah well.

good games lads.

Yup that was a great turnaround.. we did it twice in a row, teamwork > all

dr strangelove

What would ye think about spreading the love by splitting large clan groups across the teams to avoid polarizing a match ?

My reasoning is that it balances a game better and allows people to get to know each other better.

Makes sense - as a team, if you cap all the bases and spend the rest of the game puréeing anyone silly enough to try to get out of the uncap - must be pretty boring, no? And you're not really learning anything.

Blazer

TIG are pussies I've so many tags at this stage from them they're falling out of my pockets
Bring em on I say...

MR DAZ

:eek: Dear god what have you done?:eek::D

Joeface

TiG all on one side and ye lost .

Ye must not have be using enough F2000's or TS must have been empty.

I also notice all the ppl who don't squad up . Ye are useless to the cause.


PS as a one time original member of TiG i am allowed a pass on a taunts ....right .

Blazer

Joeface wrote: »

TiG all on one side and ye lost .

Ye must not have be using enough F2000's or TS must have been empty.

I also notice all the ppl who don't squad up . Ye are useless to the cause.


PS as a one time original member of TiG i am allowed a pass on a taunts ....right .

you are,...unless you join some bunnyhopping spawncamping clan...oh wait..you did

Joeface

Sc@recrow: Look I'm sorry the game takes into account your actual weight and the space bar doesn't work for you , but I have no need to bunny hop. what your seeing its ppl in game running .

anyone bunny hopping should take a look at the kill cam view of someone doing it. I can't even think of an insult to describe it

jonski

SniperPaddy wrote: »

CRAGGY


What would ye think about spreading the love by splitting large clan groups across the teams to avoid polarizing a match ?

My reasoning is that it balances a game better and allows people to get to know each other better.

No idea how TiG would feel about this but I know that when BTC are on we are on to play with each other and have the craic on TS , when we are split up TS has the taunts but it does tend to go quiet and we usually end up either swapping back or switching servers . Having said that BTC can't even dominate our own TS ( are we are the only ones on it ) not to mind dominate a server .

Shiminay

I don't have a problem with any clan playing as a group tbh, it's how to practice and have a bit of craic, esp if there's a TS server where they're all talking. I had good fun there last night - TiG on one side and CI on another and stragglers like me making up the numbers. I think both groups are fun to play with too.

I didn't realise I wasn't in a squad for ages - I was used to the auto-squad stuff (last night was my first game since the patch - was too busy with Star Wars and Assassins Creed to play before) so mea culpa on that, I'll keep an eye on it in future.

The real killer is the lack of chat in between rounds to try and organise teams tbh - you could cut out a lot of stress that way. When the game starts, people are keen to get stuck in rather than faff about with switching sides and getting a Death on their score.

But I'll keep coming back to Craggy Island, always a good game to be had there - cheers lads.

ShadowHearth

Jonny7 wrote: »

Yup that was a great turnaround.. we did it twice in a row, teamwork > all

We will try it again.

I just received my parts for new pc, spent all day putting It together. Installing windows.

If everything okay, them madcownipple will come over tonight for a few kills!

TheFairy

Last nights games :

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/8089482/1/238074451/

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/8091700/1/238074451/

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/8093906/1/238074451/

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/battlereport/show/8095744/1/238074451/

Yes a few of us were playing on one side, 5 I think, but there where as many [CI] players on the other sides. I bought the game mainly for the quality team play it offers. The only way to do this at the moment is via TS3. If you have players on each side on the same TS then it takes away from the fun imo. Out of TiG there are a few good players. The rest of us are decent enough, however we had the medic train going last night on the inf maps, and being honest it was a game changer.

Shiminay

GG this evening folks, DapperGent & I made for an accidentally fearsome helicopter pairing

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY

Fair enough. However I get very worried whenever I see kittenrescue, sink, mickfitz and madcownipple on the same side. It might be fair to put the other 60 on the other side. :cool:

SniperPaddy

CRAGGY - Private server

We got the 16-slot private server set up. We can use it for practise and challenges. I haven't tried it yet but we'll definitely have a go at everything unlocked.

I took off the password for the moment and will lock it again at the end of the week..
If you are a regular Craggy head and you want to use it on a permanent basis, post up in the platoon. I'm not sure if we can PM in platoon but I can always poke the password to you in out TS.

"i3D.net - CRAGGY-ISLAND PRIVATE BF3 SERVER"
31.193.138.137:25530


PS: If you know of any way to PM in platoon, please let me know; it will be very useful.

SniperPaddy

Shiminay wrote: »

GG this evening folks, DapperGent & I made for an accidentally fearsome helicopter pairing

In fear of each other ???

SeantheMan

I've always thought there should be a config option to randomize teams between maps if wanted

SniperPaddy

SeantheMan wrote: »

I've always thought there should be a config option to randomize teams between maps if wanted

It can be scripted.
The alternative is waiting for auto balance to work and then disable manual team switching.

A few of the guys would prefer to work together but if there are 8 or 10 of them, it might be more interesting to move a squad to the other team