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Spam only affects one type of player. Rusher, Camper are only killed with spam once in a while. I never had a problem with ppl just walking with 203 out of any where Its different for different types of player.

I actually dodge the spams by rushing fast enough over the right places, However when I rush to underpass with ar I always get blown up by somebody who is waiting with 203 out.

The campers are the one who are not influenced by this, yet dropshots might stop them.

the most popular tournaments for aa2 are here to find:

http://www.desbl.de/index.php?page=Portal

They are not per se popular, you could better say that they are the only one who still survived.
Their ruleset are in my opinion still not fitting with competitive format in general (spamrules, too high roundtimes, etc).

But they are not bad either, I just think it could be optimized more. The problem with that tournament is that there are too many ways to get cheap rounds by the rules. For example shooting in setup round will give round to the opponent (well, that's definitely a round they deserve...?)

You can not expect from us to force players to play on the way we want. If they like their maps, so be it. But we can try to encourage them to play other maps as well.

For the rotation part, I actually like that idea. But forcing people to play other maps against their will is a no-go for me.

Calling it a resignation from our side is a bit too easy said imo. It's just the problem that we have to be careful with our decisions as well, I still remember a decision in the past with good intentions that almost shut down the whole project. And I don't want to lose anybody from the current playerbase either, since there are many players which still enjoy this game daily the way it is now.

Another question I would like to ask, why would the project die when the same maps are being played, and how would providing more maps to be played stop the game from dying? What is the relationship between these 2? Because I don't see it. I see most of the younger audience as people who do not like waiting a lot. What would cater them is respawns, fast rounds, run & gun, and I do not see that fit with this game either. How would more long distance maps save the game when most people do not have the patience to play that map in a decent way?

I would like to see some arguments with that instead of loose suggestions because the game will die otherwise.

Sure, you're right but the major case people don't play longrange anymore is round times set hilariously long combined with lack of knowledge of the map and open area behaviour. Time goes on and you can hardly meet someone who knows things, who raised and learnt the game on those maps when level was so much higher than nowadays. Problem lays in psyche of people, they join open area map, get killed pretty fast, that happens few rounds, the guy gets bored and leaves the server after 30 min. Doesn't surprise me to be honest. Main problem is Hospital and acog4x raised community, people who have never learnt how to control M16 and M249 recoil, people who are amazed that you shoot in one point when you have 100% health and cem. Pity that you can't do much about it Bart

I'm for minimizing round times to the logical maximum. On pub or matches, doesn't matter. As for me on publics, I prefer to play assault, it's easier to score heavy imho, faster rounds, more action, more movement, more kills, more fun. As for competitive gameplay, I've played 'a few' matches... In this game nothing works better than good organized rush, in cqb or open area, it just doesn't matter. Of course you know that very well , but I mean long rounds have no sense at all. 95% of maps in aao are one sided, so it comes down to good rush, 0 or 1. I've always laught even at good teams trying to play slow eg. at JTRC Farm Raid and got picked one by one 6 rounds in a row not trying to change anything. It's a state of mind...        

You are totally correct about this, and I see it the same way as you with the way people currently play, and indeed roundtimes should be adapted to what is logical, however I also think that without making roundtimes long enough, players will not have the chance to play more tactical as well, and the level will always remain at the current point.
I also agree main problem is in the fact lot of people got spoiled with an acog and 203. And if there are newer players they usually come from the CoD era where run and gun is the mentality.

I really like that PUF server is on border for example, but the reason I do not play it, is because it is on sf mod.

I like m16 more, especially on the distance maps.

The only time I do obj. Is when I am up against an out an out camper tunnel rat. I am not the best at Killing rats.
And some rats are exceptionly good. So I play my game an do obj. Just to expose them as camper full of fear , that would rather lose than be killed coming out. Same with urban. Dont play to there strength, play to yours.

Exactly.

Once in the past, there was a deathmatch ladder on TWL.

Which meant that everybody was hiding at a random spot in order to get a kill because objective did not count anyways

Defense is not camping in a random spot, defense is covering objective. Without obj nobody got any reason to move.

Ill be in the stryker