Declined RIP Dodgeball - New server proposal

Hello there! I just noticed that the Dodgeball server has been taken down (RIP) and replaced by a Trade/Idle.

I want to suggest to replace this new Trade/Idle server by either restoring the old Dustbowl server (I know a few people that miss it, including myself) or replacing it with a Payload server (*).

There are a few reasons why I'm proposing this:

1. n0:name recently posted that Trade was "rather dead recently" (https://forums.f-o-g.eu/threads/map-on-trade-temporarily-changed.13782/), so I don't think that two Trade/Idle servers are needed.
2. This community only has two standard game mode, ctf on 2fort and plr/tdm on hightower.
3. Payload is the most played mode in tf2 and this kind of server can potentially bring new people to this community.
4. Dustbowl, despite being one of the most controversial maps, is still appreciated by the community.

I was thinking about this for a while now but I didn't want to suggest to shutdown any working server, but at this point I believe this new Trade/Idle is quite expendable.

Thank you for the attention. See you in game.


(*) For the payload server I'd like to have different "standard" maps in the rotation (upward, badwater, barnblitz, borneo and so on) and some community maps too (see https://tf2maps.net/downloads/categories/maps.2/featured)

 

I can agree to have seen quite some succesful payload servers and I too think it would be great if we had a populated one.
But the problem is the population, because I believe it's as n0name says that it's very hard to bring forth new tf2 servers.
Either way, probably better than trade #2.

 

Afaik Valve really wants to exterminate vanilla TF2 community servers.

 

I don't think this will happen, because I'm sure that will be the day tf2 will lose most of its players.
Where did you hear that?

 

Vanilla servers with official valve map's just simply does not work due to how neat it is to just click 3 buttons instead of having to navigate through the server browser, and most people who is using the server browser is probably just trying to find a whacky x10 randomizer !rtd server

 

It takes at least 10 minutes to find a server with more than 10 players, with a map that has more than 5 seconds remaining.

 

I miss it

I would be glad to play in a payload server.

 

Idk if you are stuck with the first version of the queue from MyM or just unlucky. For me it takes about 1-2 mins to find a payload game that has about 12v12 players

 

There are downsides but anything is better than the minecraft trade server so i'd say give it a shot

 

Yea why not giving it a try. It won't hurt.

 

Well i dont think you could have any populated standard community server as n0 said 2fort is dead most of the day and is the most popular community map.
As for putting pl maps there i think the server would be dead 90% of the time as pl maps arent popular in the community servers (check yourself in the server browser), the people playing on pl maps mostly play on valve servers.