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Randomize map rotation ever x weeks

Discussion in 'Suggestions Box' started by ratchet, Feb 28, 2021.

  1. ratchet

    ratchet Head Administrator Staff Member

    I'm not sure how easy it would be to integrate with the map rotation system we have but would it be possible to mix things up a little and randomize the map rotation order every week/couple of weeks or something?
     
  2. timkit

    timkit MG Donor

    hm, which would you mean by the map rotation system, the one used for the COOP maps or the Custom COOP maps?
     
  3. ratchet

    ratchet Head Administrator Staff Member

    Ahh I was thinking both normal COOP and Custom COOP really :)
     
  4. timkit

    timkit MG Donor

    hm, I see...

    Here's my thoughts for the idea:

    It might not be a bad idea, I mean people could get used to being able to get to a favourite campaign/map quicker on the normal COOP/Custom COOP server without needing to map vote for it. But there are downsides to this:

    Players who return to mgftw or don't play often may be confused as to suddenly why x map now transitions to y map instead of z map as usual. This is also true for Custom COOP if said player may not also own the campaign that's needed to be downloaded. So those players would need to be reminded about the map rotation.

    In terms of quests, this could make it easier/harder to complete them in terms of being able to get to the specified map/campaign to get the required quest items/do a task on the given map. depending on how active the given player is for doing these quests.
     
  5. Vakarlan

    Vakarlan MG Donor

    My view on this, I believe the idea of rotation is good but I suggest to only implement it on Custom coop.

    The reason being is that players are trying to get to X map in vanilla coop for quest items and such especially dormant tank runs. If bad rng hits, that person might be soft locked for many many hours or days (example: a player needs fake blood but the rotation refuses to land on no mercy map).

    The last thing we want is the votefmc/dono voting spam to be back. But I 100% support this for custom coop.
     
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