So there has been a rookie FFA server up for a while now at XS4ALL (in The Netherlands) which never really worked out so far. Now that I made it work properly again (Reppie told me it got stuck at one map which was true ) I was thinking of what map you would like to see on that server. Some of you rookies have been participating in the thursday evening ffa event (Kenya maps, where the wild things are) and probably have a good idea of what maps were successfull and what maps weren't. And above all, what maps you enjoyed playing on and which were tasteless pieces of shitmaps.

You can find the server at the following IP:
194.109.69.75:27501 or :
quake.xs4all.nl:27501

I hope this will get off the ground and rookies can pew pew in a pro-free environment, now I need a way to perm-ban 1337z0rs .

PS what settings should I use fraglimit 50 and timelimit 10 ? as well as player limit 8 ?

awesome!
I'm from Holland too and I'll check out this server now and then
thanks!

well dont now whether anyone cares, but in my opionion for ffa: fraglimit 75, timelimit 15, playerlimit as you said 8 (or up to 12)

sincerly, oRe

Can't seem to get quad working :/, might change fraglimit to 75.

// staff

Keep it english!

i wonder what the hell reppie was doing on the rookie server

hehe, yeah

teaching rookies how to get quad

simple mappool of not too many maps and a timelimit of 10 minutes. Longer can become boring when there aren't many ppl playing. And a fraglimit is not a good idea, because good players often don't care about rookies, so when ppl are playing, they'll come alright, and frag the shit out of everyone, reaching a 75 fragcount very fast. I've seen it happen. And it's not that strange since decent ffa servers are hard to find, so I don't blame ppl for wanting to play. And the mappool on the regular xs4all server is just too big imo with lot's of maps that only few ppl like. Take Elvis FFA as an example - all solid maps, small mappool....just really bad ping (for me). The mappool of Elvis could be an excellent example for a Rookie Server. Ofcourse I do realize that ppl have different desires and it's hard to please everyone. It just totally sucks that people can't VOTE for maps, that might avoid a lot of disconnections.

The Rookie mappool shouldn't be to hard to learn or too big, so I suggest maps like:

dm2
dm4
dm6
ultrav
headshot
pkeg1
buffy
skull
four
aerowalk
rwild
genocide
ztndm3
ztndm4
ztndm5

I've thrown in some maps that are not on Elvis, but who cares

i agreee on ultrav rwild and headshot, but not on skull :/

Ok, u can take that one out then

dm2
dm4
dm6
enraged
aerowalk
ultrav
efdm3
dm1ex
a2
naked
misdm10
exdm1
shine
head-shot
del1
four
pdm18
bsdm6
qtdm3
skull
ztndm3
ztndm5
ztndm6
buffy

I was thinking of the rookie server to be a test server for new maps and thus maps which people don't know/like at first butmight like after a while so I like a mix of unknown maps and popular well known maps. I agree on the small maps aspect, small maps are easier to learn. I'll think about the fragcount limit.

ow this looks perfect for a first timer like me gonna check it out as soon as this nquake thingy has installed.

this server rocks, thanks i didnt get spanked like i did on the other xs4all server. altho at one point there was this guy who joined that clearly wasnt a rookie and just dominated. he had like 90 frags and the rest of us had 20.

Yea, that's very likely too happen when someone wants to 'have fun'