FCF: June 5, 2009 @ 7PM CDT

Party Host: Cold Justice
Host Connection: Cable - 20Mbps down/2Mbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

Big news below the horizontal break, but first this:

This week is Mapmakers’ Choice week!  I have contacted several of our regular FCF map makers and asked them to pick 2 of their maps to be played this week.  Note that this is by invitation only.  If you didn’t get contacted, please don’t send me “submissions” – I need to limit the number of maps and this is how I’m controlling that.  But never fear, this is the first of many Mapmaker’s Choice events, and I’ll be spreading the wealth around.

The map makers for this Mapmakers’ Choice event are:  Broken Piggy, CrazyUncleDave, PolishFreak8 and Empires Rayge.

We also will be looking at some new maps, just to keep it fresh.  :)

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There will be a big change in how we work our lineup this week and I will be looking for your comments: I’m going to try and do away with the small map/big map sessions.  The plan is to work things like this:

The first map of the night will be the first map from the small maps list.  That map will always be a small “warm-up” map that can accommodate 4-16 players in Deathmatch or TDM.  (We have a number of these: Barge Battle, Ilanesia, Jaynes Oasis, Dark Knight and several others.)  After that, the host will evaluate the size of the room and then take the next map from the small map or large map list as he sees fit.  Maps will still be played in order from their respective lists – but the selected list will change to conform to the dynamics of the room.  This does mean that a small map may get flooded from time to time, but we’ll deal with that as it occurs.

I’ll also be listing more maps than we can get to in our five hour schedule, since I need to overload both the small and large map lists for this to work.  If a map is listed toward the bottom of a list, there’s a high liklihood it will not get played unless the room stays a certain size or we play for an extra hour or two.

I would really appreciate your comments on how well this works compared to segregating out the room as we have in the past.  I really liked having the small map session, but I’m much less fond of the idea that I might be frustrating people who want to play when I have the bandwidth available to host a full room.

Key Session Settings:
	Friendly Fire:	No	Join in Progress:	Yes
	Balance Teams:	No	Voting:	Yes
	Time Limit:	10 mins	Dedicated Server:	No
	Weather:	Map default	Map Sharing:	Yes
	Time of Day:	Map default	Starting Rank:	7
	Respawn Time:	10 secs	Hardcore Mode:	Yes

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New/updated maps submitted for approval:

Gamertag	Map Name	Preferred	Status
Mikk Q	RIVER FACTIONS	CTD/Uprising	Accepted.
Mikk Q	RAILYARD	CTD/TDM/Upr	Accepted.
Hilbillee	Shock a Zulu UPR	Uprising	Reviewed – requires minor changes regarding occlusion blocks
Empires Rayge	Yodas Refuge UR	Uprising	Accepted – spawns could use some rework/expansion

Small Maps:

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
The Govener	City of Echoes	New	S-M	All	CTD/TDM
Empires Rayge	Far Cry Football	Old	S-M	All	CTD
Cold Justice	Jaynes Oasis	Old	S-M	DTU	Uprising/TDM
The Govener	Ilanesia	Old	S	D	Deathmatch

Medium and Large Maps:

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
Mikk Q	RIVER FACTIONS	New	L	All	CTD/Uprising
Empires Rayge	Yodas Refuge	New	M-L	TU	Uprising
Hilbillee	Shock a Zulu UPR	New	M	TU	Uprising
Mikk Q	RAILYARD	New	S-M	All	CTD/TDM/Upr
Broken Piggy	Factory Fight	Old	M	All	CTD/TDM
PolishFreak8	Waterside SE	Old	M	TCU	Uprising
CrazyUncleDave	Doom Dome	Old	M	All	Uprising
Broken Piggy	Chemikill Plant A51	Old	M-L	All	CTD/Uprising
PolishFreak8	Khardi Uprising	Old	M-L	All	Uprising
CrazyUncleDave	Valley Ho	Old	M-L	All	CTD