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[Ihlrath]

I thought that map was voted to appear less? I've seen in more in the past week than I have in months.

[Phil Myaz]

It does. I've played it only a couple of times in the last couple of months. If the players you're dropping with keep voting that map, it must be more popular than you think it is.

[feeWAIVER]

Phil Myaz, on 03 October 2023 - 06:35 PM, said:

It does. I've played it only a couple of times in the last couple of months. If the players you're dropping with keep voting that map, it must be more popular than you think it is.

I've seen it twice, maybe three times since the patch.. and that does feel like more than I've seen it in months prior to the patch.
And no, it's not more popular. People are generally pretty miserable playing it.

[Ihlrath]

Phil Myaz, on 03 October 2023 - 06:35 PM, said:

It does. I've played it only a couple of times in the last couple of months. If the players you're dropping with keep voting that map, it must be more popular than you think it is.

Snipers love it.

[feeWAIVER]

Ihlrath, on 03 October 2023 - 07:21 PM, said:

Snipers love it.

Alpine can't exist without a pretty hefty vote multiplier.
It's a pretty good example of equity-based social programing making a bad time for everyone else.

[1Exitar1]

Ihlrath, on 03 October 2023 - 01:52 PM, said:

I thought that map was voted to appear less? I've seen in more in the past week than I have in months.

I've only seen this map once in the last 4 days. Granted, I haven't played as much as I would like, but I still got in a couple of hours a day.

[Joanna Conners]

I love Alpine and I'm not a sniper.

[epikt]

feeWAIVER, on 03 October 2023 - 07:34 PM, said:

Alpine can't exist without a pretty hefty vote multiplier.

It also needs to appear in the map selection, and I feel Alpine shows up much more than Hellebore (the other map which appearance was reduced).
I mean, I love Hellebore, I build and keep my multiplier just for this map, and it almost never shows... yet I've seen Alpine multiple times.

PS: also, strange to have include this map on the pool for the FP event.

[SafeScanner]

more like people tried to pad their voting power and by cruel fate more than 50% of players voted for the same map

[martian]

epikt, on 03 October 2023 - 11:26 PM, said:

It also needs to appear in the map selection, and I feel Alpine shows up much more than Hellebore (the other map which appearance was reduced).
I mean, I love Hellebore, I build and keep my multiplier just for this map, and it almost never shows... yet I've seen Alpine multiple times.

It seems to me that the Alpine Peaks map has been offered less and it is chosen even less by players since the last patch, while the Hellebore Outpost map appears more often on the voting screen and it is actually selected quite often.

[TheCaptainJZ]

SafeScanner, on 04 October 2023 - 05:28 AM, said:

more like people tried to pad their voting power and by cruel fate more than 50% of players voted for the same map

I mean, that's what I do. I vote for the map and mode I think is less likely to win to see how high I can get my score multiplier. Every so often I get to play on the maps less trodden.

[Lanzman]

Meh. Alpine is actually one of the better maps, if people would just realize that there's more to it than The Valley of Death (where the Domination point is). Now, Frozen City . . . that's a map I'd like to see a lot less of.

[martian]

Lanzman, on 04 October 2023 - 02:34 PM, said:

Meh. Alpine is actually one of the better maps, if people would just realize that there's more to it than The Valley of Death (where the Domination point is).

The problem is that many players go to the same spot like lemmings, even if they are playing Skirmish, i.e. game mode with no Domination Circle. They go there even if they can see enemy snipers lining up above them.

[Joanna Conners]

martian, on 04 October 2023 - 08:41 PM, said:

The problem is that many players go to the same spot like lemmings, even if they are playing Skirmish, i.e. game mode with no Domination Circle. They go there even if they can see enemy snipers lining up above them.

Right. Which is why well made maps like Alpine go to the wayside and every single match people just rush to the center to play rock 'em sock 'em robots. Infuriating for designing levels.

[martian]

Joanna Conners, on 05 October 2023 - 02:08 PM, said:

Right. Which is why well made maps like Alpine go to the wayside and every single match people just rush to the center to play rock 'em sock 'em robots. Infuriating for designing levels.

There are some places on Alpine that are almost never visited.

[kalashnikity]

Would be nice if the domination point had semi random spawn points, dynamic changes to these maps would make them a lot more interesting. Like maybe start the teams in A1 and G7, with the domination point at A7, etc. Have at least 5 possible spawn points, and vary the drop locations to suit, force people to use different sections of the map, fair or not.