Europeans: Custom FFA maps ...

[Baker]

European NetQuake guys:

Some American players want to have an FFA tourney. Rather than ask the masters (you guys) what the FFA maps are that are the most fun, they are doing the old "hit and miss" and trying different maps.

You guys have been playing 150 maps for years. You know the answers. What are the answers.

Thanks in advance!

[badaim]

So far we've picked..

Nowhere.bsp
Cleaver.bsp
Asylum.bsp
Slopy.bsp
reinc3.bsp
rf2.bsp
x-pulse2.bsp

[metchsteekle]

rcdm7!
efdm9!
toilet4!
and umm.. all those other maps that i forget their names and they come on and i say "oh ya, this map is fun"!

[=peg=]

Well.. all depends on how many players will play.. the maybe-not-so-obvious pitfall is that people want to play their favorite map, based on their 1 vs 1 or 4 to 6 players FFA experience.
For example, maps like aerowalk, ultrav, ztndm3 are all great maps, but playing with 10 or more players, the game turns into a complete spawn-frag-fest, which is no fun at all... (but then again, "fun" is a highly subjective thing)

Problem is, since it rarely happens that there are more then 10 people playing FFA on any given server, the maps that would suit this kind of game-play don't get a lot of playtime, so it's kinda hard to pick some good ones based on experience..

Having said that.. I would go with:

Large maps (10 or more players):

baldm1
baldm3
bsp
cmt1
cmt3
crdm2
croctear
damaul7
dazdm12
dranzdm6
dranzdm7
efdm12
fragtwn7
gmdm1
kikdm3
klzinsanity
omdm1
q1_q3dm13
q1dm17
q1edge
q3dm6qw
qtdm1
toilet4
ukpak3

Medium size maps (5-10 players):

a2
ac4
alk08dm
baldm4
bovine
bsdm7
bsdm8
castlex
chesdm1
cleaver
dakyne
dm7
dmfdm1
dmfdm2
domus
dranzdm8
efdm10
efdm9
exdm5
ferrum
fij1
fort01
gendm1
imp1dm6
kikdm6
klzdazdm1
klzvob
lundm1
mk
mncrdrug
p3a
pain-giver
qtdm2_ffa
qtdm3
rcdm10
rm
sanity
schloss
spd
summer
trimp
xl1dm3
xl1dm4
xl1dm5
zed2

All maps can be found on bigfoot.quake1.net/maps


(Obviously the 10 player divide line is kinda arbitrary, since the point where a map becomes less fun when you add more players to the mix, depends on all kinds of factors, but you get the idea..)

[dfsp_spirit]

Thanks for the list, I didn't know all of these (and there are too many maps on the servers and in my Quake dir to try them all)!

And yeah, having to many players on a FFA map definitely sucks imo (see QuakeLive). Some people seem to like it for unknown reasons though...

[foq]

dm3.bsp

[JPL]

wtf ! My THF map is not listed !!!

[badaim]

Those who have tested the map rotation have agreed to these maps.

Nowhere.bsp
Asylum.bsp
Slopy.bsp
reinc3.bsp
rf2.bsp
x-pulse2.bsp

I'll start setting this up and the games will be played at westside.quakeone.com. I'm thinkin the winner of the FFA will get $100 via paypal. Frags will be totaled up at the end of all 6 maps in 30 min matches per map.

[Baker]

Those who have tested the map rotation have agreed to these maps.

Nowhere.bsp
Slopy.bsp
x-pulse2.bsp

For convenience, I added those to the auto-download depot.