I was wondering others thoughts on changing up the map rotation. Maps like prodigy tend to kill the server if its not a full server, and even when it is full, gets changed with a map vote. Its the most one sided map in the rotation.

I was thinking what people thought about replacing the map or adding other maps people enjoy and aren't so ct sided, like seasons, corruption, or vertigo.

I'll agree with that. Care to propose a new rotation Das? I think de_winter_dust2 should be in rather than traditional dust2, everyone loves it.

im not prepared to give up d2 or prodigy

D2 of course not

I can see leaving Prodigay but I think there are other maps that should leave before Prodigay is taken out.

Prodigy can burn in hell with whoever created it.

Prodigy needs to go, that map is bullfuck.

Thats really my only complaint.

I dislike prodigy and train. The only person that would QQ about the loss of prodigy would be astros... and maybe mossy.

And me, I would QQ about the loss. And Train is my favorite map of the originals, sorry Strange.

You're never in there anyway so why do you care?

Actually, I've been playing every day since I got back online after having no internet for 4 months.

I agree that prodigy should go. With rtv not working, it really sucks to be stuck on that map for 20 minutes and have no way (if no admins are in-game) of changing it.
Train, however, I like. Plus I don't think we could say that it's too one-sided. Not on a prodigy level anyway.

What about this rotation:
de_dust2
de_nuke
cs_office (Since there aren't many that don't like it)
de_train
de_inferno
de_cbble
de_season
de_cpl_mill
EDIT: de_aztec (For reborn :) )

With, even other maps like
de_contra
de_cpl_strike
de_forge?
de_rush?
de_russka?
de_cpl_fire

It's just maps like, chateau, prodigy, piranesi that kill the server at like 2,3 am and during the mid aftertoon hours. Just a thought, for a potential map list.

There is no Counterstrike without Aztec.

Is there a way that we could create two rotations and run one after the other?
That way we keep prodigy/piranesi/train but run different maps in their place with the second rotation?

Rotation 1.....(Rotation 2)
dust2..............(dust2)
piranesi...........(mill)
nuke...............(nuke)
office.............(office)
train...............(aztec)
inferno............(inferno)
cbble..............(cbble)
prodigy...........(season)

I'm still trying to re-learn these old maps...

I don't think 2 rotations is possible, maybe with some extra scripts, but on each map load the server resets/reloads a lot of settings like mapcycle.txt

or you could just add the two rotations together and make one!

QFT

Emop's list is good, just remove mill. It alternates the most popular maps with the less popular but still good maps.

The problem with having the even less popular maps in rotation at the bottom of the list is once you get to the bottom of the list those maps kill the server. Alternating the way Emop suggested allows people to "tolerate" playing a map that is ok, because they know the next map is good. I think we did something like this before, and it worked good. People just got tired of the order at some point.

Piranesi has never killed the server while I've been in there. You have no proof that it is a bad map. It's actually easily my favorite. Chateau is also one of my personal favorites. We need to look at server attendance throughout the day on specific maps. By saying I don't like this map we're not eliminating bias.

For example, I F*CKING despise prodigy and train with every fiber of my being. They are easily the shittiest maps in the game, but I have no proof to back up the fact that they kill the server.