10 Jan 12, 06:58PM
(11 Nov 11, 06:34PM)Bloodsport Wrote: Douze being played constantly is just a symptom of players' desire to play on maps that are reasonably open, allow some fast paced sniping skill, and aren't dominated by shotgunners. Since the map restrictions were introduced, Douze is the only map that people can play on if they want that type of gameplay. This leads to the two obvious solutions:
1) AC shouldn't allow that kind of gameplay, so limit douze to no more than about 4 players, and lose all the people who like that type of gameplay.
2) relax the map restrictions so that there will at least be some variety in the open, arena-like games that the majority of casual AC players seem to like (curse them and their free will).
Well, I didn't read the whole thing actually, but this one cought my attention, as it's way too funny. We should relax the restrictions to get more variety of maps like ac_douze, a map which obviously works despite map restrictions. *cough*
Sorry for probably running off-topic, but that pretty damn well displays the misunderstanding of the restrictions all together. Everybody still can make maps like ac_douze. This guy just said himself, though seemingly not being aware he actually did.
On-Topic:
I agree with everybody who came to the conclusion, that there seems to be no sane solution to this.
Besides that I kind of give up trying to understand what "this community" wants or needs. When its about map restrictions everybody screams up like the spanish inquisition was acoming, now one by one is considering restricting voting and whatnot would be the golden way. I don't get it...