{"id":3535,"date":"2009-06-01T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2009-06-01T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:16:05","slug":"team-fortress-2-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3535","title":{"rendered":"Team Fortress 2: Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning on letting the poll<\/a> run for a few days, but there doesn’t seem to be any point in doing so. While the votes continue to roll in, the overall results haven’t changed in over 24 hours. There is an unmistakable trend here:<\/p>\n

(not pictured)de_dust had a score of over +1 million, and it wasnt even on the poll.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Assuming that playing a map you hate is worse than not playing a map you love, I scored it so that each positive vote is worth +1 and each negative vote against a map is worth -1.5. I wanted seven maps, but it looks like there are only six that have an overall favorable rating. (And granary is pretty borderline.) It’s amazing how little the overall shape of this chart changed as the day wore on and more people voted. <\/p>\n

Note that while 2fort had the lowest overall score, it was actually #4 in the “love” list. Granary is another controversial map, and the ratio of fans-to-haters remained very close to 3:2, which kept its score near zero. If we ignore the hate votes, then the top scorers are:<\/p>\n

1) cp_gravelpit
\n2) cp_dustbowl
\n3) cp_badlands
\n4) ctf_2fort
\n5) cp_granary
\n6) cp_steel
\n7) cp_well<\/p>\n

Yesterday I was trying to get on the server, but having no luck. It was at maximum capacity all day. After waiting in line for half an hour, I did the only reasonable thing I could: I used the remote console to boot someone<\/del> signed up for a second server. There are now two servers: Twenty Sided: Lawful<\/em>, and the new one: Twenty Sided: Chaotic<\/em>.
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I think Lawful should remain pure, vanilla, and with the broadest possible appeal. I’ll keep the payload maps (I might<\/em> remove HooDoo, as someone reported it’s heavier than the other maps on slower computers) and use the five maps with large positive scores. <\/p>\n

Chaotic can be our server for community maps and controversial stuff like 2fort. I don’t want to go crazy with the community maps, but one or two popular ones (I’m still liking the look and sound of payload “Swift”) would be nice.<\/p>\n

Lawful is the priority. If the end of the month rolls around and there is enough money, I’ll renew both. If not, I’ll just renew Lawful and make up the difference myself. So, if you donate<\/a>, keep in mind this priority. Hopefully the two servers will give us enough room so that we’re not all stuck waiting. Also keep in mind these things are only $30 a month each. You can see the balance here<\/a>. It’s backwards, though, so negative values are better. Again, no pressure. I don’t want to do the public television thing and make you feel guilty if you don’t pony up. The thing is there to be played. Log on and do your part for the team.<\/p>\n

Also, I have a few people in mind to be mods. I’ll be emailing those folks over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was planning on letting the poll run for a few days, but there doesn’t seem to be any point in doing so. While the votes continue to roll in, the overall results haven’t changed in over 24 hours. There is an unmistakable trend here: Assuming that playing a map you hate is worse than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}