I'd hate to post my first rant thread, but here goes...
Has anybody else been coming across certain maps, especially Nuketown, frequently recently? What's left of the MP community seems to be obsessed with it. There's countless recreations of it too. Some of them lazily done with minimal effort. And I seem to remember when it wasn't played so often to the point where I see it daily. If I see a Nuketown map, I almost always leave, attempt to join another server, but then get placed back into the same server or join a different one only to see that server play Nuketown.
There are plenty of MP maps out there that deserve attention, yet I often see the same maps. Literally every time lately when Nuketown is available for voting, it always wins over other (and usually better, imo) maps. I've actually never seen it NOT win the most votes. What about maps like Green Valley, Paris Boulevard, British Rail, Lakeside National, Tombstone TDM, Chop Suey, Terminal COD, Land of the Brave, Suburban Warfare, and Dust? Lots of maps there and so much more that I didn't even mention that I don't see as often anymore.
Really gets me ticked that we have this enormous library of maps that people can play, yet the same maybe 2 or 3 are constantly played. Rats & Roaches and DM_BloodDragonArena are some other maps I see far too much.
Probably one big problem is that when you're at the multiplayer menu, you can only choose between playing either suggested maps (and only have 2 map pickers), or playing the arcade hero and most likely play poorly designed maps. There should probably be a third option where each person chooses a map and afterwards a map is randomly picked, but instead we're stuck with only those two.
Hopefully in FC6, we can get a far superior multiplayer system. So many flaws with the one in this game.
TL;DR rant over.