Limiting Roleplay Maps

[xXWaffleDudeXx]

Should we limit or completely remove roleplay maps? I'm getting bored these days because no one is competitive enough to play on deathmatch and team deathmatch maps, and I don't want my kd to be effected. Most players I've seen just want to roleplay even though Plazma Burst 2 was never made for it. There is just a very low population of people who know how to fight. Perhaps we should make it a requirement that the user has to complete at least 12 levels of the campaign in order to make maps and play on multiplayer?

[Kazy]

No.
It is up to everyone if she/he wants to play roleplay/saw/arena/whatelse maps.
I also don't see any points in limiting maps since that wouldn't necessarily make people play your "competitive" maps.

[Mirth]

No.
It is up to everyone if she/he wants to play roleplay/saw/arena/whatelse maps.
I also don't see any points in limiting maps since that wouldn't necessarily make people play your "competitive" maps.

Hah, good one. Yeah no.

Those maps make no sense to be honest, considering what kind of game this is.

[darkstar 1]

What kind of maps do you exactly mean? Base maps, house maps,... or coop missions with a story behind it?

[Tortoise]

It's not a good idea to try and weed out anyone who doesn't want to play competitively. Some people just like base maps and penalizing people for making/playing them will not change that.

[wreak]

I mean as far as I know, there isn't any rules that violates roleplaying. I always find it interesting how this game turned differently than expected. It's still good in my opinion besides those inappropriate ones.

[Syringe]

I love making elaborate and creative base maps. They aren't competitive but they're an art form and they're fun to play. If Plazma Burst was all about competition then there wouldn't be a section for non-approved maps.

[mrblake213]

As a map maker who mostly makes roleplay maps. FU--?

No because Democracy and Amurica'

[The Algerian Soldier]

What kind of maps do you exactly mean? Base maps, house maps,... or coop missions with a story behind it?

he mean them all.

[Ayano]

I myself don't enter Role playing maps.
But I see that there are some Competitive maps.
If you are referring to the Ranked ones, I don't really see that much People.
If you are referring to the Approved ones, I see alot of good competitive matches.
Unapproved maps will always be very lively.
*cough*they give different kinds of objectives depending on the map*cough*
But the activity of the "Competitive players" all probably falls into what Time you Play and what server as well.
So i would still keep those Role playing maps.
Its everyone's choice on what game they wanna join in.
[Note : I only play at Cali so please don't say "How about EU server or Wash?" ]

[xXWaffleDudeXx]

I never said to get rid of cooperative missions and saws.

[assasinguy]

The only limit we should have is one preventing inappropriate roleplay, aside from that there's nothing wrong with base maps or school maps.

[Dark Reaver]

Agree with assasinguy.
RP maps just 'exist'. They are neither good nor bad.

However if you said sniper matches my response would be different.

[xXWaffleDudeXx]

But, there's nothing to do on roleplay maps except running around and getting shot by the one invincible player. And, all of the roleplay maps I've seen are poorly made, with very few chances to interact with the map itself. There's no heists, missions, or anything. Base maps are horrible too, with the players locking you out of the base and killing you with modified weapons. Roleplay/school/base maps clog up the multiplayer server list and makes me lose my interest in playing with other players. When I do put up a map that does not fit into the three categories I mentioned above in this post, the players don't even want to fight. They just drop their weapons and start trying to roleplay even though the name of the server clearly states, "TEAM DEATHMATCH."

[mrblake213]

Well for me PB2 is kind of inactive right now.. So limiting roleplay maps would make the player count decrease hugely. Since most of the maps on PB2 are now roleplay maps.

[assasinguy]

Everything which you have said, WaffleDude, is your opinion, and I can't take away your opinion or degrade its worth, but you have to stand up against the facts.

Fact number 1: A large portion of the MP servers are matches on the maps you complain about.

Fact number 2: The maps you complain about usually have a lot of positive votes and high ratings.

Both of these point to one overall fact, that a lot of people enjoy these maps ... based on this we can make a judgement. That PB2 is better off with these maps, not without.

If it troubles you so much that most of the players "don't know how to fight", you can stick with those who do, ranked approved matches do have enough activity to be playable. We won't be removing roleplay matches just because you don't like that style of gameplay.

[xXWaffleDudeXx]

There's barely anyone playing ranked approved matches the last time I checked, like 5 minutes before I typed this. So, should there be more categories for multiplayer servers, since its hard to find servers that actually aren't roleplay?

Please do explain to me why these roleplay maps get good ratings, despite the fact they are just hangouts for trolls and little kids who love to sit around and say "no kill."

[ilijah999]

That was just a terrible idea. No offence.

[mrblake213]

There's barely anyone playing ranked approved matches the last time I checked, like 5 minutes before I typed this. So, should there be more categories for multiplayer servers, since its hard to find servers that actually aren't roleplay?

Please do explain to me why these roleplay maps get good ratings, despite the fact they are just hangouts for trolls and little kids who love to sit around and say "no kill."

Well as you just said.. there are many trolls and little kids in this community. (No offense)
So.. there will be many roleplay maps that are for "hangouts"

[xXWaffleDudeXx]

That was just a terrible idea. No offence.

What do you mean? I was suggesting that by making more categories, it would be easier to find saw maps, coopertive missions, etc. instead of having to scroll through the whole list.