Feedback to server owners instead of the game. Cooldown map

We've talked about this a lot, that empires needs some cooldown after a massive game, 25 v 25 chain for example. Next game more than half just spec to chill a bit before diving in after 10 minutes.

How about we have a cooldown map in between.
What I propose is any infantry map ( district eastborough what ever ) but its instant sudden death. So you can only spawn once and then you die.

Pros
cooldown for some players
excitement of sudden death
fast infantry maps get played on large pops

cons
some people hate infantry maps
? coding? plugins?

 

Another thing I was thnking about, you know lordz his minigames? Why dont we do one of those in between large games, tweek the map so you only play 1 minigame randomly selected from the many.

 

Sudden death is awful and the main reason I hate district because you end up camping one end of the map all the time, where as the old ticket drain versions encouraged people to push back or lose faster.

As for intermission maps frankly they don't suit any set time in empires, most people who require a break can usually wait 20-30 mins for any old map to pass or just join in progress.

I have made a few spazzy trap/experimental/teamwork based maps in the past, they are entertaining but you don't want to play them for long and not everyone will want to even play them so you can lose players from the server. I get sick of my own maps after a few short rounds and frankly those kind of maps are better for short round based games like CS and gmod.

 

does jeep race still exist?

 

also rainbowroad with only jeeps, you cant build anything, no turrets no nothing first one to push other comm of the map wins

did I just come up with the best idea ever?

@Kidpaler can you make this for me

 

District really just needs to have a frequency limit to revives. Otherwise its just a shootout in one place until sudden death, which in that case isnt very sudden, but quite the opposite.
It can be fun when both teams push back and forth. But thats not gonna happen with this revive rate, at least with high number of players.

 

The ideal map would be, not super competetive.
10 minutes, to win you need skill and some luck.
ideal for any pop size, but favorable for high pop size

 

instant sudden death!

also I dont get why district doesnt work? If you do instant sudden death your tickets will drain at 1 per second. So if both teams have like 300 ticket to start thats atleast 4 minutes ofgameplay without sudden death, then another x with and gg

 

District doesnt have sudden death.
District has Hide and Seek.

....or more like Hide and Hide XD

 

I think a cool down map is a good idea..Lordz maps do not work anymore because it uses Lua and empires doesn't support it anymore. Yes jeep race still exists and works so does empirescup afaik.

Empirescup would be fun for a cool down map.

a cool down map would need to be on manually by an admin though.

 

Hey, good news. He remade minigames, or sorry, he made a new minigames.

 

not every round is massive and long, I read this thread to mean only after those types of rounds.

 

If you are interested in race maps, my brother made a bunch many years ago.

http://gamebanana.com/maps/41112
http://gamebanana.com/maps/63273
http://gamebanana.com/maps/61722

He doesn't have the source files because the old HDD died and he didn't recover them. So you would need to decompile to edit the vmf. However, the maps have been compiled with a protector so I'm not sure how you should do it.

I think all the maps were made for EP2 single player, but they have worked in Gmod for me as most of his maps. Still needs a lot of editing for Empires obviously.
Also notice that Empires doesn't use EP2 content so it would have to be included in the map, increasing the map size.

He said you are free to do watafak you want with them.

 

You can always get around those silly map protectors with a lil effort, and I would NOT recommend packing game content into maps since it is technically illegal and against the eula and will bloat up map size more, its better to re texture or use other models.

 

I'm finishing up the 2017 version of it now.. Will poke Vicki with it tonight or tomorrow.