I think my choice for next week would be Arrow, Dwarf Blood! and New Moon.

Here is the new slection (which should be live)

Map pool - Week 15

3 New Maps
"Elite-Eazholme by   Filo
" elite - Zowoe by   BiGINoZz
"Elite: Such a nice place by   ericsn

3 Previous Maps
"Elite - NO VACANCYY by   Shhook
"Elite - Nijura by   sleepw_lker
"?Elite - Wøppa by   Jodebra

Map saved by Karma vote
"[Elite] Sunrise by   Snake55wildcat

Thanks Langbardr for doing the selection this time

MrA says:
(which should be live)

... which is not the case... Who´s surprised?^^"

But now to a different topic...

Since it´s more like the map pool is changed every 2 weeks at the moment I wondered if it wouldn´t be possible to add 4maps per turn so that there is a total number of 9 maps on the server. This time at least in my opinion there were like 5 or 6 maps which would have deserved their run on the server and under normal circumstances (new maps every week) they all could have been played on the server...

I´m not talking about changing this forever but until there is the normal rythm again (until maniaplanet 3 is finally finished^^) it might be a good idea... what do you guys think?

Please advise if its live now.

On the point of 4 maps every two weeks, it would just make a risk that we see the update only every 3 weeks ... So I think we must keep working harder to get weekly updates done.

Thats not to say we cant talk about the format used for the map rotation to make it better, but whatever the format, we will require the server update being made successfully at the right time, or it falls behind.

It's not yet live.

MrA says:
On the point of 4 maps every two weeks, it would just make a risk that we see the update only every 3 weeks

I think you got me wrong here... I also would prefer a weekly update and I wouldn´t change trying to get this done but until it regularly works (and now don´t tell me that never is regular as well ) I would increase the number of chosen maps from 3 to 4. As soon as the weekly update worked let´s say 3 times in a row we could go back to 3 maps per week.

MrA says:
So I think we must keep working harder to get weekly updates done.

So what would you suggest? As far as I know the testers do their work and tell you the maps they chose so that you can tell NADEO. Then one week nothing happens and then the server is updated... Let me know if I´m wrong here cause I don´t want to draw any wrong clues but if it is the way I described then there is nothing we can do about it except expecting that it will happen exactly like this again until NADEO got a little more time for us again. So my way of expecting the same again would be to try to get a weekly update but with 4 maps instead of 3. So in the worse case it´s at least 4maps every 2weeks. Not as good as 6 would be but at least better than 3...

Edit: I shall add that I don´t want to blame NADEO here. I can totally understand that they are in stress and got more important things to think about. It´s just that we have to deal with that unsadisfacting situation and I just wanted to make a solution.

Edit: Another solution might be to ask NADEO whether the testers here could make the final choice for the maps. So NADEO would save some time because they wouldn´t have to look at each of the maps. If they really test the maps in detail it should take at least an hour to have a look at each map and to compare them afterwards (maybe even longer... depends on how exactly they look^^). But I guess they won´t agree to that...

the elite mapppol got updated^^ but the lobby maps still weren´t ..

Livert says:
the elite mapppol got updated^^

Well that's something, I have just sent the new selection for next week and made special mention of the lobby maps being replaced with three new ones.

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"Lobby - Atlantis by   Franny
"Lobby - DawnRaid4 by   MrA

Only one problem with your idea Livert, and that is that it requires us to suggest to Nadeo that we want to make a change to the map choices because we are expecting them to fail ... you could draft the email for me, it will start with "Dear Nadeo,"

On that basis, when I say we need to keep working harder at getting the update done correctly, I mean mainly them, because we are managing to produce a selection of maps so far every week (except where we had to skip weeks).

Lets stick with it, and if we have to, then we will make your suggestion, or come up with a plan which requires an update every 2 weeks rather than every week (which halves the server admin work and means a missed week is half of the time).

MrA says:
Only one problem with your idea Livert, and that is that it requires us to suggest to Nadeo that we want to make a change to the map choices because we are expecting them to fail ... you could draft the email for me, it will start with "Dear Nadeo,"

Well we are all grown-ups, aren´t we? ... Facts show that during the last 2-3months (I´m not quite sure for how long this goes on now) it was mostly a 2 week rythm in which the server maps were changed. Or am I wrong on this one? Is there anywhere noted when the different mappools were uploaded exactly? So if we would argue that we just want to make sure to get more new maps onto the server I could still imagine they might not like the idea (although I wouldn´t know why) but if they would be pissed because we "criticise" them that would be a little kiddy style, wouldn´t it? It just needs to get through that we except them to have other priorities at this moment but that we are unsadisfied with the current situation...

I think it would be wise to stick to the original plan and to insist that 3 new maps are uploaded every week.

I do not have any background informations, but if you look at the population figures of the server I would venture the guess that it is not as successful as Nadeo hoped it to be, so I can see that they do not bend over backwards to update the server at the moment if they have important things to do.

But let me say that I am convinced that the server can be successful and that there already were weeks when it was successful and had a steady population of about 20-30 players. But this demands a steady flow of new and good maps (lobby-maps included).

Speaking of lobby-maps... "Disctrict 36" is live since many weeks now and the problem is that the map simply does not work. It is too big and the railguns are too powerful. It is just no fun to play and I personally think that it has a negative impact on the popularity of the server. Therefore I really really really hope that we get an update on Tuesday.

In order to not repeat the debacle I had anew close look at Seestadt and Secret Garden and made some changes to the latter and I invite everybody to have a look at the maps and to make suggestions.

Best regards,
Franny