Forum - DDraceNetwork

Many of us had the first experiences with DDRace on the DDracemaX servers.
It was the best DDRace server for a long time. But now it's dead. And I'm sure some of you miss it.

I won't lie - I was hoping for "end of summer 2014", "end of year". But in 1 week we have April 2015 and still nothing happened (ok, only a few posts from time to time making false hope). I hear so many people saying DDmaX will never come back.

At the beginning we had to say 'no' to every DDmaX map. We wanted to offer another type of maps and DDmaX was online. Then we started to slowly add more and more maps from them and they seem to be doing well so far.

I think we waited enough for New DDmaX. It's just quite sad that all those maps are just gone. Many of them were good, well tested, popular, maybe unique. Now you can't find them anywhere.


So the idea is to make a new 'category' (just like Novice, Solo, Brutal...) called DDracemaX. Just bring the servers and all(?) maps back, in more countries. Many players never had the possibility to play them because of high ping.

I think we can't say it's 'stealing' since we keep credits and make a new separate server instead of mixing our and DDmaX maps together (we already have over 800 maps on those 5 servers, it would be too messy). I'm thinking about this step only because DDmaX is down and Tsins, admins, mappers, testers, players hard work is wasted.

So my question is: should we make it?

Why we can't place ddmax maps to our categories called novice,moderate etc.. ?

Because they are special, it was one big server and people recognize its name.
And I would like to bring all maps back, not only those better ones that fit in our server, after many fixes, mostly without asking.
Even before this idea we were thinking about making a new category to make other categories not so full.

Good idea, even if Tsin told us about return of DDracemaX, we should put somewhere those maps. DDRacemaX died around 1 year ago, so yee, new type of server on DDNet called "DDracemaX" will be good

I dont know about adding all maps becouse some are really bad

Ama wrote:I dont know about adding all maps becouse some are really bad

I agree.
But we can't say that or else we will hurt the mappers feelings.

Lady Saavik wrote:Many of us had the first experiences with DDRace on the DDracemaX servers.
It was the best DDRace server for a long time. But now it's dead. And I'm sure some of you miss it.

I won't lie - I was hoping for "end of summer 2014", "end of year". But in 1 week we have April 2015 and still nothing happened (ok, only a few posts from time to time making false hope). I hear so many people saying DDmaX will never come back.

+1
There's nothing to add.
I loved ddmax, played (or at least tried to play :p) many great maps there and eventually fell in love with the gametype cause of those servers.
As time passed, ddmax more and more fell apart. DDnet raised and Tsin always wrote about a newer ddmax, 'even bigger and better than ddnet'.
Sadly this never came and probably will never come D:
Tsin, you dreamed big. So don't disappoint us, we are still waiting :3 :'((

Anyways. Yes, we should definitiely add most of the old maps to an own server category. There were really good maps and with a few minor fixes almost all maps should be playable and rather popular now. Of course there were a few bad maps as well, not all of them were fun. But as Zgokee wrote, we can't really deselect certain ones, it will hurt the mappers feelings :'(
So, maybe we should release almost all ddmax maps with some minor fixes if they are needed.
That surely is a lot of work and it will take some time but it's imo worth it <3

Since when the decision about map releases is about emotions?

Yes Index, that's what I exactly wanted.
I don't want to spend days and nights on testing 500 maps and fixing them. Just really fast look at them, maybe fix the biggest bugs I can see in one run and release.

kamillentee - I'm just thinking about restoring the original DDmaX servers, without selecting maps. Just to keep them online somewhere. Nothing related to DDNet.
We can't name it only "DDracemaX", because we are DDNet ._.

So it's also not in the point system or how you imagine the server-structure?