Open letter to Staff

[monster010]

"Dear" Staff,

I played assaultcube years ago, it has been a big part of my youth, but I think it's a pity what happened to this game. For me, a point has now reached where I have to get rid of my opinion.

Before anyone wonders who I am, my in-game name was MasterTT, also known as ~[CeW]~MasterTT or ~[CEA]~MasterTT. I also had other names, but listing them all would take too long.

Assault Cube has started as a great game and is now just a joke. I've been looking for a few posts from the forum, will quote them and respond to it.

My solution: have servers that have "bad" maps (like twintowers, camper but NOT simple edits of them) and servers that only allow official/"good" maps (like ac_village etc.)

What do you guys think?

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ac_magic-school
Sniper@camper
EzJemVill 
MEGA_HILL 
MEGATWINTOWERS_X3
call_of_duty_modern_warfare_4_map_by_(...)
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ASIAN_PORN
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ZOMbieZ
toyfortX7
Headshot-City(NEWYORK)!
HeadShot_City

And I  hope you didn't get triggered!

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I have gone back and forth for some time over the idea of restricting map choices in order to preserve the overall experience in our servers, and I decided I wanted to get some community feedback regarding this.

While I really like the idea of people having the right to freedom of choice, I know there are a lot of maps of questionable quality that get voted mid-game quite frequently.

Often these maps are passed to the dismay of many experienced players.

In light of this, I did some preliminary work to create a list of maps that seem to be revered by many players, and yet cause revulsion for many more.
The proposed list isn't yet used, and may not get used at all. But I figure I will share it here for server owners who may decide this is a good choice for their use, in any case.

Whether or not it is ever used, I wanted to invoke opinions from the community here to get a better feel for the potential response to additions to our map blacklist.

In times of old staff there appeared some "crappy" (bad quality) maps, like EzjemVille etc. Crappy maps were played by some, the same part of players, which played almost the whole time the same a few maps. So crappy maps competed with good quality maps and started to dominate over them. This situation annoyed old valuable players, which stopped to play AC and new players didn't come, because AC wasn't already attractive.

So old devs took a decision, that servers with crappy maps in maprot should be banned in master server. In short time that brought quick growth of players amount, what was caused by increase of playing good quality maps.

Later this practise was abandoned by newer staff, what among other things caused considerable decrease of players amount to current state. So high time to return to old, proven practice and ban servers with crappy maps in maprot. That needed rules change, what happened.

Related threads/posts:
http://forum.cubers.net/thread-3276-post...l#pid57004
http://forum.cubers.net/thread-3181.html

The problem is especially with these servers, which have up to several maps in maprot, where big part of them are "crappy" maps - such servers for sure will be banned. List of forbidden bad quality maps in maprot and servers threatened by banning is given in the first post - if their maprot won't be changed, they will be banned in master server.
Note: list of forbidden maps can be updated.

Bad maps?!
There are no bad maps, every player has the possibility to join server, if on the server a (for him) bad map is running, then he should leave the server. Most of the maps marked as bad maps have been the most popular maps of the game. At the time these maps were still allowed to play, Assault Cube had a lot more players. I recently looked into Assault Cube and found out that there were about 40 players who gambled and that almost exclusively ac_ Maps are played. To quote someone:

You had it and you destroyed it. A shame. If you could not do it right then you did not have to get into it.



The king's "friends" have never done a good job ... It's the main reason for the lack of new players ... for sure ...

You've banned maps that made the player play this game.

The old staff, as Grenadier said so nicely, knew the game and knew how to get players to play and recommend this game. The "new" or current staff do not have any plan of his work and build (in my opinion) only garbage and destroy this game more and more.

I believe I have made my point clear and I am sure that many of the old players are in line with my opinion.
I would be very happy if you steered the game back in the right direction, in the direction it went before you started to turn this game into a pile of garbage.

Best regards
monster010 aka MasterTT