Still beta stage braw. Plus i would imagine it's fucking hard to get a centralised world-wide map concentration system (or whatever) if there are so many anonymous faceless servers.

In q3, if u had root access to your server, you could upload whatever the fuck you wanted and put the map on rotation and keep callvoting it. With QL premium accounts, (from what i saw/gathered), you will be assigned a random server (from your chosen location i hope) every single time. So unless map comes with one of those weekly global updates, i can't see many other options.

Definitely would be much better with more maps thought!
Overkill and few ospra3 maps for CA, and quite a few popular cpm maps (and out of unpopular, cpm8, that shit rocks for 1v1) for 1v1/tdm would definitely make it much more interesting

yes, it's beta (yeah, I know many sayit isn't, whatever) but the whole point of an open beta is an exchange of information between players (and possible future customers) and the maker of the game.

This does happen from the gamers direction, and there are some changes being made from id which reflect the input.
And to be fair they also did deliver some new or ported maps, ztn being the most prominent.

But since they there has been no new information, except syncerror saying method is working on rage.
That is not sufficient action from id's part, they could at the very least issue a state how they are planning to handle this.

plus for the first paragraph

ID thinking with asses..
add 2 duel maps, add 2 tdm maps, add 2 ctf maps ,add 2 ca map. and player base will increaet 1/2 in 3-4 month. but now its will decrease 1/2 in 3-4 month.. so from etc:now 5 000 active players ,will be 2 500 and could be 10 000+ !
If id would let us add new maps to ql, i would donate 100euros for QL MAP CONTEST , imo more players would do same, so with decent 1000 euro prize , we could get realy good few maps just in month.. !

look at the prices they were willing to give away at quakecon, 1000$ really shouldnt be the problem
reminds me of http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1721038#pid1721038

Even if they promoted map-making, it's been tried in Q3, and the scene isn't active enough. Players/tournaments will just run dm6 forever anyway. =/

after 5 years dm6 we wasnt ready for new maps, but now after 10 years imo comunity is ready for new maps!

We weren't ready for maps just a year ago, so what difference does that make?

Ready enough for t7.

id is NOT pronounced "idea", it's the "id" ffs! Why don't people get this? Idiots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego

Also from the id Software wikipedia article:
"The name of the company is currently written with a lowercase id, which is pronounced as in "did" or "kid", and is presented by the company as a reference to the id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of the reference can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's Id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.[16]

However, when working at Softdisk, the team that later founded id Software took the name "Ideas from the Deep" (a company created by John Romero and Lane Roathe in 1989), attributing themselves as the "IFD guys". Since "id" can be seen as a shortening of IFD to "ID", some have been led to believe that it can be pronounced "eye-dee". The logo was originally capitalized, but was made lowercase with the release of Doom. It has never been the mixed-case "iD"."

GET IT?!

nerdbanger

VoO told me it's written iD, and afaik he's a member of the well respected tdm clan iC.

v0o?

4) put the only mapper available at id on Rage

this :( gg.

its not EYE DEE
lol what a nub

DEE DEE ftw

I was on the server the other night and one guy asked if a feature was ever going to be implemented, to which another responded "ye probably, its still in beta", to which the initial guy said "that's true, QL is awesome". I couldn't believe what I was hearing, then again, finding such dull and gullible players on the same server isn't hard these days, its probably the only game they can afford.

I too was worried about the players leaving due to the lack of maps. ID brought ztn into the game but since I am a TDM player, I tried to get the status on bringing more TDM maps into the game. Here's what I did / heard:

- Akuma from clan 2K has created a map for 4v4 with Q and BS that looks very nice. People at 2K tried to talk to the id guys but until now it seems they did not get any positive replies.

- TTimo said there won't be ANY more maps in QL until the private server / premium account thingy gets thrown in.

- I found an email address of the author of OSPDM5. I wrote an email and actually got quite a happy response: He'd be glad to contribute his maps (ospdm5/13/14/15) to QL and if id wanted it he'd even do the necessary polish and advertising field stuff for them. I then wrote an email to SyncError last friday but until now there was no reply from him, neither to me nor to the author of the osp maps.

- A skilled TDM player (don't wanna tell names here) asked SyncError for new maps and got a reply in query, saying something like "it can wait".

Most this I only "heard", so no offense to SyncError or TTimo if people told me things you had never said. But the thing with the osp maps I started myself so I can definitely tell it's true that the author wants to contribute his maps. Maybe SyncError simply gets too many emails as to write a reply within a week.
An official statement, telling us what id's attitude towards getting new/old maps into the game is all we want for a start... :(

If all that is true. Then it's sad. =´(

Good effort for sure! :) Need more people like you who do something rather than sit on their ass and whine!

However I am against any old map currently and there for don't fully agree with you! :<Y

13/14 have pretty much had zero playtime.
15 has had minimal playtime.

All are good.

Well, PURRI, I am a not a premiership player but I play TDM in lower divisions against teams like ashlen, 7th art, 2K or AOS. I guess you don't know any of those, but they have been around in q3 already, just like me.
There's just plenty of people that have fun playing the game (been having fun for years already) who just don't have the talent that you have, for example. ;)

Almost all of those people know OSPDM5 from q3 times. There are hardly any teams that started with QL without having played q3 before. -- Bringing OSPDM5 is therefor _fair_.

The maps that are currently played are old maps as well, so there is no reason to not put more old maps in. ospdm5 was very popular in q3 tdm and is therefor _popular_.

right now, we have three old maps and with dm20 one new map which is not playable. Creating playable maps for TDM is not that easy imo. We're therefor stuck with three maps + designing new maps is hard + id's mapper is working for rage, not for QL. Therefor, more _fair_ , _popular_ , _playable_ maps are needed. Personally, being stuck (but somewhat happy at least) with three old maps, I dont care if the _needed_ maps are new or not.

Imo, we just need more maps that fulfill the given constraints, no matter what, or this game will die.

Teddy's cool

A mind is a terrible thing to waste