24/7 servers or full rotation. What's best?

[Buttoneer]

I see quite a lot of servers running limited maps, which results in a fair few maps just not appearing very often.

When was the last time you played Verdun Conquest, for example?

So what I see most often are Titan only servers, and after that it is city maps only and after that a few FoB or Camp Gib 24/7 servers. Lots of clan servers will often just miss a map or two that are considered least favourite.

Personally, I like to see full totation: all maps all modes, one round per faction. But I just don't see it that often. In fact even our clan servers are Titan based because I think most users consider BF2 to be a better conquest game.

So what are peoples preferences? And if there are any servers doing a full rotation, what are they and where are they based?

[The 13th Raptor]

Partial rotation

Those are the best, chuck in a bunch of city maps, then every once in a while Verdun or something. But i tend to stick with 24/7's and take my business elsewhere when i get bored, cause my fav servers are dead. :(

[Spuddy]

When was the last time you played Verdun Conquest, for example?

Dunno, but I swore it was the last time I ever would. :laugh:

Personally, I don't mind say Sidi (Titan), Camp G and FoB as 24/7, but beyond that I prefer the rest in rotation.

[=50k=MadMac]

I have found that partial rotation or 24/7 specialising in Infantry based maps only, or armour based maps only - works best. Full rotation servers rarely stay busy through the entire rotation...

[NKDeus]

I have found that partial rotation or 24/7 specialising in Infantry based maps only, or armour based maps only - works best. Full rotation servers rarely stay busy through the entire rotation...

I agree 100%
Our servers are titan only full rotation, and once they fill up, they stay full.
It's pointless having a server that you are going to struggle to populate all the time.
And Titan certainly seems to be the favourite, it has the best of both game types.
Unfortunately, it also has the most problems.

[=50k=MadMac]

Yeah Titan servers are deffinately more popular for us too - maybe it has something to do with all those lovely Titan Attack/Defend/Gun/Repair points ;)

[Buttoneer]

But isn't the 'partial rotation' issue part of the reason why people complain about lack of maps? You can play Titan on a few big maps, or conquest on a few tight city maps. but for some reason the Titan maps played as conquest are very difficult to find in rotation. They're pretty good armour maps overall and have different centres of activity too, which keeps them fresh and different. In my opinion.

[TheRealWolfgang]

Personally I prefer playing on a server that runs all maps, like the EA official servers did back in BF2 (even though they generally crashed after the second or third map and then started back at Wake again anyway :rolleyes: ). I pretty much like all types of combat and all the maps in the game so servers that roll through them all are my faves. That's just as as player, though. As an owner, well, 24/7 servers will probably stay full, like others have mentioned.

~Wolfgang

[DeltaDeuce]

Our Conquest Only/City Maps stays populated the most. Our Titan only server only fills up in the evening and is empty by the morning. We also have a 16 player alternating Titan/Conquest server. That will always fill once the first person joins. I like the alternating server. It breaks it up nice. And it dies have a 16 player Minsk Conquest map.

[TheRealWolfgang]

^I played on your NAMBLA server with a couple of buddies this weekend (although at the time there was only like 20 people on). The NAMBLA part made me laugh. ;)

~Wolfgang

[Raidyr]

The thing I find bad about 24/7 is that you usually have one team filled with clans and elite players and the other filled with idiots. I myself prefer full titan rotation, even if I dont like Verdun or Taiba...

[Stemnin]

I prefer Titan for vehicles, camp g, cerb for infantry fights, personally, belgrade is my fav map.

BF2 is the conquest king.

[Buttoneer]

The thing I find bad about 24/7 is that you usually have one team filled with clans and elite players and the other filled with idiots. I myself prefer full titan rotation, even if I dont like Verdun or Taiba...

That's why I steer clear. I've been on the multiple-winning and multiple-losing sides of a camp gib/Tunis server and it was pretty soul destroying regardless of which side I was on. Even winning I just found a 5-10 minute round pretty...rubbish.

I normally enjoy those maps but a side which is pwning can make the game a pretty **** experience for both sides.

[[TW] Alixsar]

My favorite servers are ones that have a titan map, and then a conquest-only map (Tunis/Gibraltar/Cerbere/Berlin, but not so much since I don't like Berlin). Titan is fun, but it can get really old if that's all you do. A titan/conquest mix is great, but I hate playing any of the titan maps in Conquest mode. They're just not the same. Conquest Verdun is one of the worst maps I've ever played.

[Buttoneer]

Alixsar;267801']Conquest Verdun is one of the worst maps I've ever played.

True but it is different to the Titan map and takes different tactics to prevail in it. Surely that's a challenge in itself?

[Ezekiel]

Verdun conquest is just a armour whore map

[Relmar]

Verdun conquest is just a armour whore map

Yeah, enough vehicles for everyone to be in one at the same time. Pretty lame. Hardly any infantry combat at all.

[SaintShowa99]

Verdun conquest is just a armour whore map

Same goes for any of the titan maps run on conquest, unless you have a 64 person server thats full. Suez canal and Verdun (or any of the others) are pretty fun if you get a full server.

[Buttoneer]

Isn't an armour whore map just another way of saying 'Pilum target practice map'?

Sounds great to me.

[[TW] Alixsar]

Verdun conquest is just a armour whore map

A lot of the titan maps in Conquest mode are like that. Verdun and Shuhia Taiba are probably the worst ones. Engy is my second favorite kit though, so it doesn't bother me too much. I had an awesome round on Shuhia Taiba Conquest last night, actually.

[Strike1.Tango]

I remember playing on rotation servers where I fought on Minsk and Shuia Taiba conquest in the very beginning. Seems like those servers just died.
I also remember reading that servers crash when you change map, don't know if that's true though......

[Durutti]

I love my addicted-2-games 24/7 Suez Canal Conquest 64 player it is my fav server. Besides that I love the Make a Wish/NAMBLA sleepover server it rotates all conquest maps and only plays each for one round so things change up often, which is great. The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't include Belgrade in its rotation. If it did it would be the perfect server.

[FPS[VT_NERD]]

The most popular servers are (and have been since BF2) 64 slots with city map rotations. They are probably the easiest to fill and the easiest to keep filled IMO.

I prefer infantry combat so I stay away from "armor-whore" maps. There certainly is a whole different skill-set for using armor to it's potential, but I have more fun perfecting my infantry combat skills.

Titan is fun and for a while we ran a mixed rotation of city maps with Titan every 4th round. Titan caused the server to crash 2+ times every single day so we dropped it. We will probably run a 32 slot all maps or Titan or maybe even booster pack server sometime soon, but our city maps server will not be going anywhere.