New map added to IO server

[wihadmin]

Over the past several weeks, many of you have been talking and asking about adding a new map to the IO map cycle. It culminated in a poll which resulted in Songhua Stalemate being the map that the majority of the people liked.

After some "red tape", as one person put it, Songhua have been added to the server in a trial basis. It's location in the rotation is right after Karkand. We will be watching the server to see if there are drastic decrease in population over the next 3 days. In the mean time, enjoy the map!

[Ragan]

I loved playing today (Friday) I had a ton of fun with the jungle fights, and was able to earn my knife badge off the snipers hiding in the bush. I say this is an excellent addition to the rotation. Thanks to all at the WiH administration!

[lamah]

it's different

you can actually camp on this map and not be spotted

not sure if that's a good thing :D heh

[Multiplex]

I enjoy the new map, it's pretty fun to play however the server pretty routinely drops to about 40 players whenever it comes around in the rotation.

[wihadmin]

we've been noticing the same thing too. Pretty big drop in players whenever it comes up. Still got another couple of days to see how it goes.

[papasan9]

ive played it a couple of times and it was fun for me. played out nicely as far as fun factor.

[SnaKe]

Yeah I'm surprised it would drop! It was a lot of fun!

[Spectre_Lanc]

let's see then

[S.R.Heath]

The drop really surprises me too. It an excellent map vBF2 an IO. I hope the people that leave when the map comes up come to their senses and realize it's awesome! Hope it stays for good.:thumbsup:

[kilroy0097]

People aren't used to this map with IO. The public doesn't like change and will immediately bring forward the worst memories of Shongua they have and logout. It's only once they play it a few times and train their meager little minds to think otherwise that it will start to grow in popularity.

The probably is no one running IO servers gives the other maps any chances. IF they even try it in the first place they give it very little time to prove itself before removing it. That's not fair IMO for a map.

[wihadmin]

That's why we're trying it for 3 days. In our experience, that's about the right amount of time. Less and it's not enough, more and it'll kill the server.

[lamah]

agreed

i'm still gotta memorize where all the spawn locations are

with the good fan base that wih has and the dedicated regulars, it should stay full (so far for me it's been full on that map) thru the new map bumps. that map comes after every 4 maps anyway, so it takes a good 2 hour to come around. good break from city maps after that time.

and the chinese type 88 is sweet :D

[ketito]

im sorry for asking this... is there a limit on how many maps in IO mode there should be? or is it because they are big/too big?

[lamah]

no limit

but keep in mind that the maps were originally made for vehicle uses, so some may not work