Without a doubt we will all have a different take on what maps we like or dislike. The difficult issue about creating a perfect map vote poll is the limitation of the polling feature to only allow a maximum of 15 choices per poll. There is no way around it. That is the max allowed.

If I recall correctly, there are 33-34 POE maps right now. That is why I had to come up with a way to divide them. I would agree that some people would vote all 10 in infantry or conversely all 10 for air/vehicle maps. To appeal to all players, that is the best thought I had at the time to cover both sides. Approximately the same amount of maps fell into each poll.

The end result was that it forced players to make some hard choices to try and boil it down to their absolute favorites on each side. Just because some maps did not get votes does not mean that they are not liked, just not in a player's top 5. The end result: you can look at both polls and see the "POE player's top 10 maps" (5 infantry and 5 air/vehicle) that are common to all the players that voted in those particular polls.

The interesting thing was that all of those maps were already playing in the rotation at that time along with others. That is why I understand what Khaerus said about adjusting the maps on the fly at times based on server population. Even if we find the "perfect mix" of maps it will get old after a while for those of us that play them all the time. Tweaking them more frequently may help.

Ticket count is another tough one. You could argue both sides of that one. It usually is a problem when we are on the wrong side of the war and they cannot get lost fast enough. It may also be more noticeable with low player counts. I have not thought much about our count on POE because it always seemed like enough to account for the attack/defend counterbalance of the many battles that make up the war. A team has to cumulatively play well to win, not just one or two random acts. The other side of that is too few. Some of us have been playing AIX here and there and the rounds seem to be over before they ever get going. Strategy and tactics seem to have nothing to do with victory. When teams are reasonably balanced our POE ticket count seems OK, IMO.

We are all in the same boat on this one. We want this mod to continue to thrive. If anyone has thoughts on how to do a better map poll based on the 15 choice max, feel free to PM me. I can discuss it with the Admin team and we can see if there is another way to capture the likes/dislikes of the loyal player base.