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Weird that when I asked players on the hospital server today if they like the change. The majority was against the decision and only a handful approved it. Looks like an awful lot of bridge players voted on this... And Bollie with 16 accounts

After all, EliZ has the power to change the game, not you

This summarizes the problem very well. Eliz became a dictator, who changes maps because he can.
Ofc, there are votes before that, but that votes are meaningless.

150 ppl wanted that the map stay in original mode.. they were for the 203. whats with them?
anyway. i stop playing on hospital. i dont want to play on a stunted map. i play a bit longer on some other maps then i think about stoping to play AAO again. maybe u win some new players, but u also will loos some old players. u earn what u seed.. the next step is a vote against rpg in CSAR, or a other changing. only pistols.. no medics... dont know where they wanna go with such a extreme act. for me it became lesser interesting. AND for me spaming is not interesting. i used it, cause i had it. i also killed a lot with a IF gun. i dont need a C gun to kill. sometimes i used sniper or i also like RPK. so spaming is not the point. i used it against the hardcore camper. and they shoot out of the earth like mashrooms now. they start to play with C gun in singlemode. cause they dont need burst anymore, when there are 3 buguser on roof camping. they use pibod with singleshot. thats not the sense of this map. u can go to mountainpass or recon... anyway..for me the days on AAO are counted.CU

widow, that's great that you don't like spamming. I wish many more players were like you. The sad fact is, many players do spam to get cheap kills without any skill. That is the problem we are trying to address. The simplest way to do that is to remove the weapon that can be spammed. That is a solution, and the one being used right now but it's not the best solution. Personally, I would like to see global spam settings that prevent grenade/203 spam for 15-20 seconds at round start (maybe longer, we have to test).

We're not trying to dumb down the game or ignore people and do what we want. We're trying to make the game better. You don't do that by sitting still, that's how things die. Just like in life, you learn and improve. We're trying to fix issues inherent in the game that the original devs did not bother with due to time/budget constraints. These ARE problems, we just need to find an elegant way to solve them to keep everybody happy.

ELiZ isn't a bot. I agree that voting should be done and we should hear from the users but it shouldn't always be the rule. We should take this information and consider the feasible options. ELiZ (and Killa for that matter) saw a way to fix the issue that took mere seconds and implemented it because the majority wanted it. There's nothing wrong with that. Quick solution to please the majority of people. The issue that remains is pleasing all the people. That will take some time to discuss and figure out.

After Bollie said that, ELiZ asked me about the code. I looked into it and fixed the issue of duplicate votes. There aren't many duplicate votes in the poll.

Eh, it's a minor thing and we didn't specifically say only vote once.

Good to hear that you check it.

But what about those who were trying to abuse the system? If you punish players for things like teamkilling and mouse macros, shoudn't you have punished Bollie for cheating on voting system? It is a serious matter.

You cant do crap. I used 3 different computers and different isp to vote from.