Red

I was just bored and looked at game monitor when camp gibraltar was running on our server. I saw that the map was 32 player map. So after investigating the maps I saw that all the infantry only maps are suppose to be for 32 player. No wonder they feel so crowded.

Would it be possible if we one or two days a week reduce the size of the ranked server to 32 or maybe 40 and only play these maps.

I think it might be more fun to play these maps with 32 playes than 64. Quality over quantity. Or maybe temporarily switch over our titan server to do this just for test.

Just an idea.

Barracuda_Magoo

I may have regained a little faith in the Dice map makers. There's no way they could have thought those would play well with 64 people. Though, I'd have more faith in them if they had created 64 player versions.....

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That would be interesting to try. Maybe the overflow will hop on the titan server. I think 40-48 would be a nice number to try out.

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jepzilla

I've seen a lot of 48 player servers that alternate between infantry maps and Titan maps.

experiment626

The admin are discussing changing the population to 48 people max fior the maps.

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Tempus

I find all the 2142 maps to be overcrowded with players. The short rounds, crowded playing field, and painfully slow (or non-existent) bleed makes the games feel like simple death-match to me.

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Zoopy

I find 32-48 player maps to be the best. In the BF2 days I usually always played 32 players (which were usually 32-64 player sized maps)

Telorn

What? DICE in all their wondrous ability did not create 64 player maps? We're just not running 32 player maps with 64 players allowed? They actually did not create a map designed for 64 players? Most companies don't take a step backward in technology when releasing a newer product.

But I do agree the infantry maps do get crowded and pretty much all you are doing is spawning and dieing. I find the vehicle maps OK. I figured TG was actually running 32 player maps with a 64 limit because many times I'll see sections of the map, including modeled buildings (like a watch tower) that's outside the fighting zone. And they just seemed so small.

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DirtyLude

I agree with moving to 48 players. 64 players, especially on the infantry maps is too many.

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Calun

id agree with this change, i think it would cut the zerg tactics down alot and allow people to actually spawn without instantly dieing

DrJOnes666

48 players, I agree too...
This might populate server 2 faster when server 1 is full...

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jepzilla

I think the only map which is a constant insane firefight all the time is Camp Gibraltar. It's actually kind of fun, and there's lots of ways to move around that map so I don't mind it too much... it's Mashtuur on steroids.

The other ones tends to reduce to having a really tough bottleneck somewhere and aren't so bad once you've broken through. Most of the time my squads manage to break through the bottleneck and get to a back flag... although you still get people spawning and rushing the chokepoint, rather than spawning at the back flag and moving from there. So yes, the maps are pretty broken at 64 players, but the problem is severely exacerbated by people more interested in a big fragfest than in teamwork and winning the round. I think things are slowly getting better as more tactically minded players are starting to gravitate to our servers. And yes, that is very subjective.

TheFatKidDeath

Good idea. I think it would have a positive impact on rounds. Some of the maps are fragfests and perhaps a 48 cap may direct the gameplay more towards the TG way.

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Red

Yes my point is that I think less player will promote the TG way to play more that the chaos of the 64 player maps.