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by makkE on 07/10/2006 21:40

Why not?

I do appreciate freedom as well. But on the other hand, if I wanna play insta 1v1 only, and there´d be an insta 1v1 only server, I´d join that one. Someone else out there might want the same and join. Guess it would piss you off more if you´d join a server and the guy who´s master simply changes to modes you don´t want to play, than reading the server description and know what to expect.
"FFA 20 clients.. nope. capture/forced teams 8 clients.. hell yea." (sorry had to mention forcede teams yet again)
Imho better than having to hope you get to play what you want all the time, or force it onto others when you´re master.

If you´re saying :"vote insta then.." okay. That´s a vote.That´s democracy. Should work fine, either adapt or leave. But in reality, you´ll always have some people around who haven´t figured out voting yet.
I´ve always been for a "usual"(as seen in almost EVERY fps out there) voting system. Someone calls it, then press f1 or f2. Imho there´s nothing wrong with such standarts, it would simply make playing easier, because a lot more votes will actually be DONE, no matter the outcome. It´s rather frustrating to see the vote fail just because it´s not intuitive to vote in cube/sauerbraten.
maybe that one or two novice players would love to vote for it too..

Anyhow, I think people that host and decide to donate their bandwidth to the players (some even pay extra to do so) should be given the right to be in fair control of what they offer. I think you´d still find a lot of servers that have no restrictions and simply use the current setup.
To me it just sounds a bit unfair to say "you can host, cool, tnx, but now obey to sauer/unnamed coz he accidentally got master."
There are people out there who like to customize their game to a certain extend. Think of clan-servers, 1on1 servers, capture servers, whatever. It could simply help make it more attractive imho.

I don´t think a server admin will want no people on his server all the time, so if he sees that his maprotation/choosen gamemoder or whatever settings aren´t considered good by the players, he´ll simply change em. That way players would be voting too in a way.. of course we have a bit few players atm for this to be effective, but maybe we´d have more servers too if admins could try out stuff.

And in most other games, people´s favoutite server isn´t decided by ping only, but for such things as max clients, maprotation, frag or timelimit, etc. The best times in gaming I had was playing on servers that had a certain setup, so you´d meet and fight the same ppl every night, who liked just the same stuff about the game, wich is much more fun than just hop on a random server and meet anyone, just because it doesn´t matter at all what server you choose (even moreso with cube/sauer´s brilliant netcode), and maybe not get to play what you like best bout the game.

Err sorry for the rant hehe. Just my 2 cent.