It's just that people aren't configuring the respawn times for payload and attack/defend cp maps properly. Our 24/7 goldrush server has 'fast respawn', with the blue team respawning in 3 seconds, and red in 13. Slightly faster than the normal map respawn values, but with enough of a difference in team respawn times that the map still gets a pretty even 50/50 distribution of wins by red and blue. We have a special config set up specifically for goldrush, and assuming we were on a rotation, we could set up a special config for each individual map.
I would imagine that a lot of the fast respawn servers you get sent to were set up by admins who didn't take the time to make sure the times playtested well. Some of them probably even just stuck the plugin on the server and didn't bother to change the config file it generated. Mike O'Laughlen wrote: > And yet... It takes the Blue team 15-20 seconds to make it to the cart on a > Payload map. There's a reason for why the respawn time is the way it is. > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Michael Krasnow <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> well first of all most people dont like to wait 20 seconds to respawn... >> >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Mike O'Laughlen <[email protected] >> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Why is it that my Valve map quick list always directs me to idle servers >>> and >>> 32-player/fast-respawn drivel? Sadly, even the traditional server list >>> >> is >> >>> composed 50% of 32-player server (with their >20 choke) and 25% fast >>> respawn >>> (breaking all payload maps). >>> >>> Where are all the vanilla servers on the East coast? I can't say it's >>> Valve's fault. All of you take part in breaking a well-designed gaming >>> experience. >>> >>> Some of you may reply "filter for a vanilla server." Sadly, the tags >>> aren't >>> truthful. !increased_maxplayers consists of false negatives. Lots of 32 >>> players still remain in the server browser. >>> >>> I've looked at the Vanilla steam group ( >>> http://steamcommunity.com/groups/VTU), >>> but most of the servers are empty. Am I the only gamer that wants to >>> >> play >> >>> the way the developers intended it to be played? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
