The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

First I would like to comment on a wake only server run by the TOC clan, which I frequent. it's an excellent server and I wish all of you to go and check it out. Their IP is 70.86.77.253:16567.

Second, I wonder if there is a demand for Wake and Karkand ONLY server out there? I would love to see such server. I used to be a regular of TNT until they included sharqi in their rotation, personally I just can't get enough of Wake and Karkand.

I suggest admins to consider creation of a wake/karkand only server where there are 3 rounds of each, and I want to know how much demand is there for such a server. I especially wish if the TOC clan can make their dedicated wake server such server I described above.

[0wn4g3]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

Thanks for the good comments Hu. Glad we could provide a quality server to the public. Always a good feeling to see someone that appreciates the hard work that goes into making that damn server what it is.

Anyways to the topic at hand. TeamTOC has been running a 24/7 Wake Island server since the beginning of January, and it is very busy. Were talking for the month of February over 190,000 players cycled through our server.

I don’t know what it is that makes Wake Island such a popular map. Checking some of the player stats specific to our server I have noticed that our server is one out of maybe three servers some people play on. Others play on nothing but Wake Island on our server.

TeamTOC with the help of donations pays around $140.00 per month for the dedicated server. The BF2 instance is the only thing running on the box, thus why the server performs well under full capacity. TeamTOC is sick of Wake Island and thus we do not play in the server we pay for each month in regular intervals. So we have been toying with the notion to change the map rotation from wake only to wake/kharkand/mashturr/sharqi. However according to Hu there is a high demand for wake/kharkand servers.

We haven’t tried any new maps with the server because we are afraid it will lost its popularity and will shrink in size. So hopefully we can get as many of you guys to vote on this topic as possible to give at least myself and the teamtoc admins ground to change the map rotation.

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

My theory is that the high player flow of your server is exactly due to the fact that your server runs ONLY wake, which is an excellent map. However, adding of more than one different maps into your rotation may change the winning formula of your server (i.e, readily accessible wake rounds). However, addition of just one popular urban map such as Karkand will not have this effect (variety is the spice of life, and even the most picky player would welcome karkand). Meanwhile, addition of just one map (Karkand) will not alienate the hardcore wake players because wake will always cycle back in 3/2 rounds.

After all, who can say no to karkand?

[Boss_HoggHB]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

I really dont care what map is in rotation . I usually join a server playing Karkand or Sharqi and than i'll see where it goes .

[vbl]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

[All Chinese Maps except for Songhua Stalemate] + [Karkand, Sharqi, Mashtuur]

[imported_Jazza]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

The servers I visit host Wake/Karkand/Sharqi/Mash/Fly boys maps. Pretty good if you ask me :)

Australian servers though, but heres the IP's.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=internode&type=server&game=bf2&country=all

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=gamearena&type=server&game=bf2&country=all

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

I still think there should be some Karkand + Wake only servers

[vbl]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

I still think there should be some Karkand + Wake only servers

TNT no longer working for you?

[bloodbrood]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

First I would like to comment on a wake only server run by the TOC clan, which I frequent. it's an excellent server and I wish all of you to go and check it out. Their IP is 70.86.77.253:16567.

How many players are in this server? 64? Coz 64 would be awesome! And is there a ping limit?

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

TNT no longer working for you?

TNT added sharqi in their cycle. Don't get me wrong, I love TNT, but I really dislikes sharqi due to 1. heli whoring and 2. the dark building areas which can exploited by turning lightning down to low. I don't want to do that and constantly get shot by people in the dark.

[0wn4g3]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

How many players are in this server? 64? Coz 64 would be awesome! And is there a ping limit?

Generally the server is filled all the time. It is hard to get a spot on our server unless it's during the early morning hours or early afternoon hours.

There ping limit is set to around 275 ms. The server kicks people for idlers, and if your negative score reaches abour -13. TeamTOC admins the server as much as we can but we can not be there 24/7 as we have lives. Stop by sometime, if you can get a slot.

By the way I see all bf2 maps is in the lead. There is no way that will happen.

[Hu.Z_of_PLA]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

Generally the server is filled all the time. It is hard to get a spot on our server unless it's during the early morning hours or early afternoon hours.

There ping limit is set to around 275 ms. The server kicks people for idlers, and if your negative score reaches abour -13. TeamTOC admins the server as much as we can but we can not be there 24/7 as we have lives. Stop by sometime, if you can get a slot.

By the way I see all bf2 maps is in the lead. There is no way that will happen.

if you can take the second best result, and put only Karkand and wake in your map cycle.

Again, the main appeal of your server (to me at least) is the ability to play one map over and over again (think dust/dust2 only server in CS), and putting ONE other map in the rotation will not sacrifice that perk, while allowing more variety.

[markan dorka]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

well, "best infantry map" is subjective anyway, I generally like playing mashtuur and sharqi more than karkand.

I generally would like to see a server, which alternates between citymaps and then some of the more infantry-friendly "other" maps, something like ;

sharqi, wake, karkand, dragon valley, mashtuur, shonghua (repeat)

In reduced map cycle servers (such as citymaps) I kinda like the "switch teams at end of round" as well - it's like playing 6 different maps instead of 3. With larger map cycle, I'm not sure if that's needed though. 2 rounds / map is usually enough, any more than that gets boring.

i kinda like gamert.nl #1, think they have larger map cycle with some extra citymaps sprinkled in.

Problem with default mapcycle is not only precence of some boring maps (zatar, kubra, oilfields and clean sweep are often rather dull/slow paced), but that they come one after another - all the citymaps are very concentrated, you get all of them within like 4 maps, and same goes for some vehicle maps.

[sav112]

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Sad to say i look for Wake first when i get online. The more players on it the better. the 64 player wake is just madness but what a fire fight. Its got to the stage that when I play other maps its quite refreshing but i always go with wake first. I think its the fact its somthing to deffend or attack and not just a map dotted with both flags.

I've always wanted to have a map with just two bases to attack or deffend and a landscape to fight in.

[sidtherat]

Re: The Demand for wake & Karkand ONLY server

since when wake is 'best vechicle map'? while karkand might be arguably THE infantry map [i prefer sharqi tho], but wake isnt vechicle map by any degree imho

vechicle map are: dalian, kubra, daqing, zetar.. not wake, where are 2 tanks total, and one atack choper per side [and absolute plane rapefest, that lures some type of gamers i personaly hate]

i take daqing [boring for some] any day over wake, same with dalian and kubra..

and karkand.. how many times a day should i see lots of blue dots hovering around hotel flag?