This is an attempt to figure out what kind of custom maps people would like to play, and what type of server setup to play them on. It got several categories of questions, and you can check multiple alternatives for each.
Not sure how this will work anyway, but let’s see what answers we get :infiltrator:
Edit: Thanks Salteh for poll question fix 
I was always curious how will it go if one of the popular ranked server goes unranked and has a large campaign of vanilla maps mixed with custom maps.
damn i’m willing to get a server with all vanilla maps + custom maps without a mod like qwta or etqwpro. But hey SD did us the favor to let this good game die before time!
Not SD’s fault IMO, activision is to blame there and the ranked VS Unranked thingie 
LAck-o-Vision isn’t much problem honestly but they ended killing the etqw community website as soon as SD decided that patch1.5 was enough!
Activision cut support, removed community forums with no warning and decided ranked servers and in game ads would be good idea.
I welcome any new custom (balanced) map. For the downloads, I guess it depends on the download speed. I know there is a full download package of 1 GB on this forum, but having a central place to download each map manually would be great (and get a alert when an file is added or updated). It sometimes amazes me why there aren’t 200+ customs maps for ETQW already (and having really sick/freaky/twisted maps <-- in a good way). But, to be honest most of the maps that are available are very good and a few of them could easily made it to the official game.
oO’ oh… well never seen one of those add in games… though, i don’t play much custom maps.
Well there are GDF/Strogg posters/wall art spread out in the game. I gues they figured out afterwards replacing those artworks with ads would look terrible.
One place where you can see an ad is on the billboard outside of the GDF spawn on Refinery, although ad’s are always on the billboards.
They’re not in custom maps…
How long have you played ET:QW? They have been ingame ads on the billboards since day one.
I didn’t really mind ingame ads tho. (I must admit I’ve only seen them twice or so…)
But they were placed in the appropiate places and they didn’t disturb me. It actually kinda looked cool that it was even possible to have random ads in a game without having to download .pk4’s
Would be cool to know how they did that (prolly through the master server?) Cause it would be awesome if the community could use this feature to announce new cups coming up for ETQW 
Was streamed from some where, was all done through Massive, an in game ad solution provider.
[QUOTE=.Chris.;376892]They’re not in custom maps…
How long have you played ET:QW? They have been ingame ads on the billboards since day one.[/QUOTE]
This may come as a surprise to you, but the first time I saw an ad in ET:QW was October last year. That was 3 years after the release.
You can block the ads by editing your hosts file if you’re using Windows, btw.
Dr. Funkenstein
[QUOTE=DrFunkenstein;376937]This may come as a surprise to you, but the first time I saw an ad in ET:QW was October last year. That was 3 years after the release.
You can block the ads by editing your hosts file if you’re using Windows, btw.
Dr. Funkenstein[/QUOTE]
Did you block them?
[QUOTE=Crytiqal;376912]I didn’t really mind ingame ads tho. (I must admit I’ve only seen them twice or so…)
But they were placed in the appropiate places and they didn’t disturb me. It actually kinda looked cool that it was even possible to have random ads in a game without having to download .pk4’s[/QUOTE]Same here. They aren’t as in keeping with the game as something like Quake Live or Wipeout but they never bothered me.
Would be cool to know how they did that (prolly through the master server?) Cause it would be awesome if the community could use this feature to announce new cups coming up for ETQW
Good idea. Or server admins could use them for message-of-the-day type stuff.
Edit: I don’t suppose there’s any way to hack this in for non-ranked servers?
Yep. I hate ads :mad:.
Like I said, editing the hosts file is a simple way to stop them from being shown.
Dr. Funkenstein
