I mean, we could do a 32 player size levi map, that was my initial suggestion to Shark. Ghost town has everything too and can be very annoying as well if you have a weak team against a strong one.
Iron gator is at least same popular as Ghost Town, most players like the map.
And I wouldnt exchange Levi with Night flight, but simply add it. The new rotation i would suggest is:

Warlord
Ghost town
Iron Gator
Mass destruction
Night flight
Warlord
Ghost town
Iron Gator
Surge
Leviathan

because warlord and ghost town are most popular maps in sf. the last active servers were ghost and/or warlord only servers.


night flight is simple map with 5 flags, no tanks(except weak apc), no helis just cars and inf.
leviathan has everything and its easy to lock down mec in mainbase if US has players that know how to use tank and heli. Mecs start with transporst heli, mobile aa and apc only. US has everything. levi has 8 flags.

but ok, maybe change night flight with levi.

Yeah, lets try playing leviathan please.

So i personally like Leviathan, and I know from others that they like it too and would like to play it. Its never worse than night flight at all. Definitely put Iron Gotor in a second time, I cant see a reason why we should play Ghost town twice but Iron Gator only once.

That is correct, I always pay attention to the ticket bleed, it can get crucial to win the match at times. Well, as I said the discussion must be held on the Forum, with everybody. So if this person is not going to bother to come here and discuss it with all of us (telling us why 45 minutes would work better than 60 minutes for everyone, not just for him/her), then we are not going to bother about discussing it.

For the people who are reading from this page, we are discussing whether to add or not the missing 2 night maps: Leviathan and Devil's Perch; and also if Iron Gator deserves to occur two times in the rotation or not (current rotation here, we also discussed Iron Gator on the prev. page too).

Kind regards and thank you very much for the feedback!
Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

weekends are going well, maybe add devils and levi for one weekend and see what happens?
maybe wait for more players and try it later? if its not working out you take them out again and restart server.

no please dont change the timer. if the rounds take time then its good fight with lots of flagchange and battle.
it sux to lose a round because time runs out and tickets are 50:100 but you are about to win and bleed the 100enemy tickets.

We are discussing exactly that! (adding the 2 missing night maps).

Also, somebody asked me on Discord if we could lower the match time from 60 minutes to something like 45-50 minutes. What do you think?

Regards,
Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

Leviathan is the worst SF map, most ppl dont like it.

Surge is my fav map btw.

@SW03_Carbon I will store your suggestion safely. As previously stated, let's try and build a constant playerbase first; it's been less than a month since we started looking deeply into the Special Forces server and paying close attention to it.

In these weeks we have tested the old rotation deeply and came out with a new one, which we shall test for some weeks again too. After that, in the new year, we may do a poll about favorite maps or about inserting the missing maps in the rotation, and decide what to do based on the result and general state of the xpack mod / server.

@Imperial_Toaster as dsghsdf says, unfortunately the missing maps are night maps and they are not enjoyed by everyone. New players frown upon them very much, apparently. It is already a bit difficult to retain new players on Night Flight, mainly because they are totally unaware about number '7' being the key binded to night vision goggles!

We try to help the people that stay in the server, by telling it to them, and usually the result is good and they stay.

@dsghsdf No unfortunately what you suggest is not possible with Battlefield 2 (or rather, with BF2CC), as far as I know. An admin would be needed to be constantly in-game to monitor the situation and skip those maps if it's not a good time to play them. About setting them as 'next map' no, you can only set maps that are in the current rotation, or change to a map that is in the current rotation.

Noted on the Iron Gator feedback, thanks. We'll see if it is possible to add it sooner than the other maps we are discussing it. If anybody wishes to give further feedback regarding Iron Gator, you are welcome. Mainly we are trying to discuss Leviathan and Devils Perch right now.

Kind regards,
Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

Leviathan and Devils Perch are missing right now.
many people disconnected in the past when they came up.
is it possible to enable them manualy on the server? set them as next map if they are not in active rotation?

i would say iron gator was/is 3rd most popular map in sf. the last server were ghost/warlord only.
iron can be a killer too if mecs cant get off the island but that didnt happen in the past on LS.
add it a 2nd time, i wouldnt mind.