Is there ANY way?

[onion pistol]

Every time I log into CE, i see about 50 servers with Coldsnap or hugeass or Extinction. Now, i like these maps, but to play them ALL THE TIME just gets boring.

Is there any way at all we can get people to play different maps? What happened to the custom of custom edition? :mad:

[STLRamsFan]

There isn't any way at all. Sometimes there are game nights were we have a REAL game of Halo Custom Edition. Plus people are too entertained by getting one shot kills and thinking they're awesome at the game because of it. :downs:

Prime example of an awesome game night: http://halo.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11422

[Higuy]

Make a dedicated server with aueosme maps. :3

[FRain]

Not everyone has a decent amount of bandwidth to host a server, I remember when I set up my dedi I was lagging up the internet all over the place, not just on my side, but my mom's and my brothers.

[Inferno]

Every time I log into CE, i see about 50 servers with Coldsnap or hugeass or Extinction. Now, i like these maps, but to play them ALL THE TIME just gets boring.

Is there any way at all we can get people to play different maps? What happened to the custom of custom edition? :mad:

I find it ironic that the guy making extinction 2 is telling people to stop playing maps like extinction.

[Higuy]

THE IRONY!!!

[FRain]

I find it ironic that the guy making extinction 2 is telling people to stop playing maps like extinction.

'twas going to say that too, but I didn't want to seem like a shitbag.

[Evil_Monkey]

aueosmePlease spell it correctly as awesome. The way you spelt it just looks like a bunch of letters you stuck together.

On topic, I agree with the same maps being played continuously gets boring. There are a lot of servers in CE that never get players. Who would want to waste their money on hosting when no one plays on their server. Something needs to be done, but unless you get your own server there isn't really much that can be done except send them a request to add a map to the rotation

[Apoc4lypse]

I really think itd be aeusome is ppl played other maps...



Comaplin about my spelling I dare you...
:eek:
bitches don kno bout mah internet but iz serius, serius businezz

[Kaishounashi]

Every time I log into CE, i see about 50 servers with Coldsnap or hugeass or Extinction. Now, i like these maps, but to play them ALL THE TIME just gets boring.

Is there any way at all we can get people to play different maps? What happened to the custom of custom edition? :mad:


I'm just gonna repeat what most people know already, so everyone else disregard .

Yes, there's quite a few custom map servers out there. Freelancer just put his up and my clan has one too (though I only load the maps on fridays).

As for getting people, that's also a task. The average halo ce userbase only cares about being able to fly a pelican/jet/scarab. If you go to halomaps you have to wade through all the crap/gimmick maps just to find the really good ones. Also, those that might be interested are sometimes too computer illiterate and/or lazy to install the maps. I hate to see halo fade away in such a crappy manner, but most people have moved on to (maybe) bigger/better games by now.

As far as doing anything to try and remedy this... well the only thing I can think of is just using word of mouth to let people know about awesome maps and trying to clear up any misinformation about how to install them. Personally, i'm trying to direct any users for my server to use the self extracting map pack we have up for d/l. It might not be much, but I think it's helped me get a few more (non-oldtimer) users on friday that I wouldn't have otherwise. It might be worth a shot to try for others.

[sdavis117]

The main issue is that the more maps you put in your map folder the longer it takes for Halo CE to start-up. If you were to put every decent and/or good map in your map folder it would take 30mins for CE to start. Most people decide to put the half-decent maps that are commonly played over the good maps that they'd be lucky to find any server for, and even then they'd have to be lucky to find people in that server. I wish it was where everyone played the good maps, and it probably would be that way if CE didn't have to check every single custom map everytime it starts up.

[Cortexian]

Make a dedicated server with aueosme maps. :3
Done.

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10998